Wavves Concert History

Nathan Williams, under the name Wavves, is a noise pop musician based in Los Angeles, California. He released his self-titled debut LP in 2008 and has since gained notable media attention from the internet, and other areas including Pitchfork and ABC News. After gaining recognition, Ryan Ulsh was enlisted as a touring drummer and Wavves embarked on their first US and European tours. Originally signed to Fat Possum Records, he released his second full-length album Wavvves with them in 2009 and his third album...

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Wavves Tours & Concerts (Updated for 2026) (Page 41)

Date Concert Venue Location
Sep 21, 2009
Wavves / Ganglians Majestic Café Detroit, Michigan, United States
Sep 20, 2009
Wavves / Ganglians Chopin Theatre Chicago, Illinois, United States
Sep 19, 2009
"Forward Music Festival" / Garaj Mahal / Pronto / Fruit Bats / Wavves / Joe Pug

Forward Music Festival

The Orpheum Theatre Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Sep 18, 2009
Pygmalion Music Festival
"Pygmalion Music Festival" / Wavves / Autolux / The Antlers / Pomegranates / Maps & Atlases / Jookabox / BLK JKS / Ganglians / Zach May and the Maps
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Canopy Club Urbana, Illinois, United States
Sep 17, 2009
Wavves Grinnell College Grinnell, Iowa, United States
Sep 17, 2009 –
Sep 20, 2009
Forward Music Festival 2009
Andrew Bird / Ra Ra Riot / Wavves / The Antlers / Low / YACHT / Fruit Bats / Maps & Atlases / Salem / French Horn Rebellion / Das Racist / Between The Trees / Megafaun / Princeton / Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band / BLK JKS / Solid Gold / Karl Denson's Tiny Universe / Richard Buckner / Pomegranates / Farewell / Ganglians / Dávila 666 / Pale Young Gentlemen / Problem Child / All Tiny Creatures / Sleeping in the Aviary / Excepter / Laura Barrett / Delta 9 / A Night in the Box / Cedarwell / Purple Crush / The Atomica Project / Juniper Tar / Rory Kane / Blake Thomas / The Gentleman Loser / GGGOLDDD / Glassghosts Show all bands
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Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Sep 16, 2009
Wavves 7th St Entry Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Sep 16, 2009 –
Sep 19, 2009
Pygmalion Music Festival 2009
Iron & Wine / Phantogram / STRFKR / RJD2 / Ra Ra Riot / Wavves / The Antlers / Low / William Fitzsimmons / YACHT / Skream / Japandroids / Margot and the Nuclear So and So's / Lucero / My Brightest Diamond / Maps & Atlases / The Books / The Hood Internet / Company of Thieves / Autolux / Joe Pug / Paper Route / Owen / Brooke Waggoner / Princeton / Headlights / Maserati / BLK JKS / Lymbyc Systym / Solid Gold / Mazes / Empires / Pomegranates / Denison Witmer / Ganglians / The Village / The 1900s / Oceans / Curses! / Now, Now Every Children / Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band / Mason Proper / Jookabox / Elsinore / The Life and Times / The Daredevil Christopher Wright / Rock Plaza Central / Early Day Miners / So Many Dynamos / Pet Lions / Light Pollution / Drew Danburry / Decibully / Gazelle / Brighton, MA / Girls Next Door / Santa / Marmoset / So Long Forgotten / Liz Janes / Gentleman Auction House / Take Care / Ohtis / New Ruins / Bob Nanna / You & Yourn / Cameron McGill / The Common Loon / Deelay Ceelay / Angie Heaton / DJ Belly / Withershins / Good Night & Good Morning / The Horse's Ha / The Horns of Happiness / The Hathaways / Peninsula / Jiggsaw / Butterfly Assassins / Morgan Orion / Tractor Kings / DJ Czo / Ryan Groff / On Again Off Again / Lonely Trailer / Porno Galactica / Tina Sparkle / delta kings / DJ Mertz / My Dear Alan Andrews / neoga blacksmith / Zach May and the Maps / World's First Flying Machine / The Duke Of Uke / Scurvine / Pamela Machala / Sunset Stallion / Matt Wagemann / DJ Kosmo / The Number One Sons / Alpha Mile / Tracey and Tricia / Lucknow / Mordechai in the Mirror / Kilroy, Et Al. / Tyson & The Friction / jips / Post Historic Show all bands
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Pygmalion Music Festival Champaign, Illinois, United States
Sep 15, 2009
Wavves / Ganglians
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Jackpot Music Hall Lawrence, Kansas, United States
Sep 14, 2009
Wavves / Ganglians Larimer Lounge Denver, Colorado, United States
Sep 13, 2009
Wavves / Ganglians Urban Lounge Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Sep 06, 2009
Wavves / Ganglians Rickshaw Stop San Francisco, California, United States
Sep 05, 2009
FYF Festival 2009
"FYF Festival" / The Black Lips / Tim and Eric / Lightning Bolt / No Age / Lucero / Matt Skiba / Glass Candy / The Thermals / Wavves / Fucked Up / Mika Miko / Crystal Antlers / Woods / A.A. Bondy / Times New Viking / Peanut Butter Wolf / Avi Buffalo / Har Mar Superstar / Darker My Love / Telepathe / Dan Deacon / Kurt Vile / The Strange Boys / Dillinger Escape Plan / Converge / Torche / The Carbonas / Dios / Grabass Charlestons / Cold Cave / Japanther / Ninjasonik / No Bunny / Eat Skull Show all bands
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Los Angeles State Historic Park Los Angeles, California, United States
Show Duplicate for Sep 05, 2009
Aug 28, 2009
San Diego Street Scene
The Black Eyed Peas / Modest Mouse / Cake / Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band / Band of Horses / Girl Talk / Devendra Banhart / Chromeo / Donald Glaude / Mastodon / Shooter Jennings / Calexico / Nortec Collective Presents: Bostich & Fussible / Cage The Elephant / Matt and Kim / Deerhunter / Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue / Wavves / Dungen / Anya Marina / Extra Golden / Holy Fuck / Carney / Dirty Sweet Show all bands
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East Village / Imperial & 14th San Diego, California, United States
Aug 28, 2009 –
Aug 30, 2009
Leeds Festival 2009
A Place To Bury Strangers / Snuff / Wave Machines / Go:Audio / Player Piano / Horse Guards Parade / The Crystal Method / Two Door Cinema Club / Broadway Calls / The Aggrolites / Wintersleep / Hockey / PUNCH & THE APOSTLES / Skull Juice / Mystery Jets DJ set / Steve Gribbin / King Creosote / Transgressive Records / The Parks Dept. / Mystery Jets / Blood Red Shoes / The Big Pink / Martin Bigpig / Rockfeedback / Neat / Goldheart Assembly / L'amour La Morgue / Ellen and the Escapades / Jack's Mannequin / Chuck Ragan / Airship / Mixhell / Bear Driver / Chickenhawk / Surprise Fire / Jack Whitehall / To the Bones / Vitalic / Wonderswan / British Intelligence / John Berkavitch / Golder Silvers / Mark Olver / Leftöver Crack / Chipmunk / Polar Bear Club / The Joy Formidable / The Pictish Trail / Come On Gang! / Sarah Millican / Chase and Status Dj Set / Matt Read / The Ghost of a Thousand / Noah and the Whale / MSTRKRFT / Mark Lanegan / Bear Hands / Manhattan Love Suicides / Everything Everything / Telepathe / The Soft Pack / Kasms / Mumdance / Beth Jeans Houghton / Jon Mcclure / Pendulum (DJ Set) / White Denim / Markus Birdman / Fight Like Apes / Kids In Glass Houses / Fightstar / The Phantom Band / Master Shortie / The Ruling Class / Jessica Delfino / Detroit Social Club / Lady Sovereign / Minnaars / Youth Attack / Riverboat Gamblers / The Invisible / Stuckey & Murray / The Plight / Junior Simpson / The Soulsavers / The Angel Range / DJ Od / Carl Barât / Lethal Bizzle / Frontiers / Sonic Boom Six / Mariachi El Bronx / Magistrates / Wild Beasts / The Living End / Chase & Status / Golden Silvers / Dinosaur Pile-Up / Clint Boon / THePETEBOX / Our Fold / SCREAMING 66 / Casiokids / Soft Toy Emergency / Filthy Dukes / The Twilight Sad / Mad Caddies / Flatliners / Amazing Baby / The Cuban Brothers / Mik Artistik / The Old Romantic Killer Band / Holy State / Micachu & The Shapes / Single File / Kutosis / Grammatics / The Bronx / Thursday / Dave Twentyman / Pendulum / Passion Pit / Dan Nightingale / Brendon Burns / Matthew Hardy / Spinnerette / The Mae Shi / Delphic / Tom Stade / Middle Class Rut / Male Bonding / Daniel Townes / Baddies / Stephen Grant / Atreyu / Rout & Sgt Rolfy / Holly Walsh / Placebo / Bring Me The Horizon / Funeral for a Friend / 3OH!3 / TEETH / Lovvers / Fake Problems / What Makes You Beautiful / Rival Schools / The xx / Living Daylights / In Case of Fire / Joey Page / Gary Delaney / The Chapman Family / Kinch / Jamie Kilstein / Milk White White Teeth / This Is Spinal Tap / Tubelord / Middleman / Titus Andronicus / Cursive / Crystal Antlers / Dekker / Boney Black / A Plastic Rose / Kevin Bridges / The Blackout / Plugs / A Wilhelm Scream / 65daysofstatic / The Computers / Screaming Lights / Smash 'n' Grab / Streetlight Manifesto / Alexisonfire / Abe Vigoda / Skint & Demoralised / Doc Brown / The Rumble Strips / Dag för Dag / Spın̈al Tap / Broken Records / The Qemists / Sixty Watt Bayonets / Kae Tempest / Cold War Kids / Friendly Fires / Kings Of Leon / Radiohead / Arctic Monkeys / Fall Out Boy / Vampire Weekend / Deadmau5 / Florence + The Machine / Yeah Yeah Yeahs / The Temper Trap / La Roux / The Prodigy / Rise Against / Bloc Party / Metric / Bombay Bicycle Club / Kaiser Chiefs / Crystal Castles / Deftones / Marina and the Diamonds / Metronomy / Gossip / AFI / Brand New / Faith No More / The Airborne Toxic Event / White Lies / New Found Glory / The Gaslight Anthem / You Me At Six / The Maccabees / Manchester Orchestra / Black Lips / Billy Talent / Them Crooked Vultures / The Horrors / Jamie T / Glasvegas / Maxïmo Park / Frank Turner / Lostprophets / Little Boots / Wavves / Enter Shikari / Eagles of Death Metal / Jack Peñate / Ian Brown / The Virgins / The View / Anti-Flag / Courteeners / The Bouncing Souls / Set Your Goals / Patrick Wolf / The Rakes / Gallows / Madina Lake / Vivian Girls / Lightspeed Champion / Marmaduke Duke / Municipal Waste / Dananananaykroyd / Future of the Left / Pulled Apart By Horses / Tim Minchin / The Hot Rats / Sweethead Show all bands
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Bramham Park Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Show Duplicates for Aug 28, 2009
Aug 14, 2009 –
Aug 16, 2009
Dockville Festival 2009
MGMT / Metronomy / Wavves / The Whitest Boy Alive / Black Lips / William Fitzsimmons / HEALTH / Bill Callahan / Patrick Wolf / Turbonegro / Wintersleep / Panteón Rococó / dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip / Miss Li / These New Puritans / Soap&Skin / Good Shoes / Chew Lips / Extrawelt / Bonaparte / Coma / Scroobius Pip / Crystal Antlers / Black Box Revelation / Frittenbude / Element of Crime / Kettcar / Blumentopf / Hundreds / Dan Le Sac / Indian Jewelry / Hjaltalín / Spectrum / Voltaire / Glint / Beat!Beat!Beat! / Turbostaat / We Are Enfant Terrible / Sonic Boom / Beta / Herrenmagazin / Super700 / Mediengruppe Telekommander / DJ Phono / Mikroboy / Vierkanttretlager / The Kabeedies / Locas In Love / Pascal Finkenauer / Dj Mad / Ghost of Tom Joad / Vincent Van Go Go / Jan / I-FIRE / Trashmonkeys / Dennis Lisk / GoldieLocks / Malakoff Kowalski / Goldie Locks / Sprout / Tilman Tausendfreund / Dancing Pigeons / Super 700 / I Am Austin / Junopilot / R.S.S. / JIM PANSEN / Nobelpenner / Fello / Misses Next Match / revolver club / Dan Treacy / Fickscheisse / MIO MYO / Estuar / Xrfarflight / Exits to Freeways / Terrible Eagle / Xochil / Electric Set / Sutsche / Andy Strauss / Raf & Superdefekt / Dancing Pigeons Like Ice Cream / The Haina / Sulaiman Masomi / Ratkat / Fickscheie / marcus carp / The Ricky Kings / Scufx / Pascal Finkenhauer / Same Teens / MOTORBOOTY! Show all bands
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Wilhelmsburg Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Aug 09, 2009
Wavves Patterns Brighton, England, United Kingdom
Aug 04, 2009
Wavves Patterns Brighton, England, United Kingdom
Jul 19, 2009
Pitchfork Music Festival
Matt and Kim / Fucked Up / Cymbals Eat Guitars / Lindstrom / Wavves / Final Fantasy / The Dutchess & the Duke / The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
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Union Park Chicago, Illinois, United States
Jul 18, 2009
Pitchfork Music Festival
"Pitchfork Music Festival" / The National / The Pains of Being Pure at Heart / Fucked Up / Disappears / Plants & Animals / Lindstrom / Ponytail / Black Lips / Matt and Kim / Cymbals Eat Guitars / Bowerbirds / Owen Pallett / Yeasayer / Wavves / Beirut / The Antlers / The Dutchess and the Duke / DOOM / Vacations Show all bands
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Union Park Chicago, Illinois, United States
Jul 18, 2009 –
Jul 19, 2009
Pitchfork Music Festival 2009
The National / Final Fantasy / Fucked Up / The Flaming Lips / M83 / The Thermals / Blitzen Trapper / Beirut / Yeasayer / The Pains of Being Pure at Heart / Grizzly Bear / The Walkmen / Frightened Rabbit / Matt and Kim / Wavves / The Antlers / The Very Best / Japandroids / Pharoahe Monch / MF Doom / Cymbals Eat Guitars / Disappears / Women / Plants & Animals / The Bowerbirds / Mae Shi Show all bands
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Union Park Chicago, Illinois, United States
Jul 17, 2009
Pitchfork Music Festival 2009
DJ/rupture / The Pains of Being Pure at Heart / Dianogah / Cymbals Eat Guitars / Yeasayer / Plants and Animals / Disappears / Women / Lindstrøm / The Very Best / Pharoahe Monch / M83 / Frightened Rabbit / Beirut / Killer Whales / The Antlers / The Mae Shi / Black Lips / Final Fantasy / Japandroids / Grizzly Bear / Ponytail / The Thermals / Bowerbirds / The National / Blitzen Trapper / The Flaming Lips / Vivian Girls / The Walkmen / Mew / The Dutchess and the Duke / El Otro Yo / DOOM / Wavves / Michael Columbia / Matt and Kim / Built to Spill / Fucked Up / Tortoise / The Jesus Lizard Show all bands
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Union Park Chicago, Illinois, United States
Jul 17, 2009 –
Jul 19, 2009
Pitchfork Music Festival 2009
M83 / The National / The Flaming Lips / Grizzly Bear / Beirut / Yo La Tengo / Matt and Kim / Yeasayer / Built to Spill / Wavves / Black Lips / The Antlers / Blitzen Trapper / Frightened Rabbit / The Pains of Being Pure at Heart / Japandroids / The Walkmen / Pharoahe Monch / Mew / Tortoise / Lindstrøm / The Thermals / Fucked Up / The Very Best / Bowerbirds / Cymbals Eat Guitars / Vivian Girls / The Jesus Lizard / Plants and Animals / DOOM / Women / Final Fantasy / The Dutchess and the Duke / Disappears / The Mae Shi / Ponytail / DJ Rupture / Dianogah / Killer Whales / Michael Columbia Show all bands
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Pitchfork Music Festival 2009 Chicago, Illinois, United States
Show Duplicates for Jul 17, 2009
Jul 15, 2009
Wavves / Woods / Real Estate / Popo
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Bowery Ballroom New York, New York, United States
Jul 03, 2009
Roskilde Festival
"Roskilde Festival" / Oasis / Nine Inch Nails / The Mars Volta / Faith No More / Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds / Little Boots / Grace Jones / Analogik / Cola Freaks / N.A.S.A. / Amon Amarth / Röyksopp / Lulu Rouge / Socalled / The Soft Pack / Magnifico / Gang Gang Dance / Stella Polaris Sound System / Skambankt / Wavves / Rokia Traore / Shugo Tokumaru / Frightened Rabbit / Down / Friendly Fires / Glasvegas / The Deadly Gentlemen / Issa Bagayogo / Baddies / Mono / Mike Sheridan / Huntsville / Isis / Satyricon / Pablo Moses / First Aid Kit / Negash Ali / Gangbe Brass Band / Orka / Gojira / Nancy Elizabeth / August / La Coka Nostra / Katie Moore Show all bands
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