Epic meltdowns and busted wrists be damned- Wavves has announced a fall tour with Ganglians, stretching from the end of August through mid-October, from California to the East Coast and back again. Massages will be few and far between.

Tour dates are as follows:

08.28.09 San Diego, CA @ Street Scene
09.05.09 Los Angeles, CA @ FYF Fest presents: Save Our State Parks @ LA Historic State Park
09.06.09 San Francisco, CA @ Rickshaw Stop
09.13.09 Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge
09.14.09 Denver, CO @ Larimer Lounge
09.15.09 Lawrence, KS @ Jackpot Music Hall
09.16.09 Minneapolis, MN @ 7th Street Entry
09.17.09 Grinnell, IA @ Gardner Lounge, Grinnell College
09.18.09 Champaign, IL @ Pygmalion Music Festival
09.19.09 Madison, WI @ Forward Music Festival
09.20.09 Chicago, IL @ Chopin Theater (Early All Ages)
09.20.09 Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle (Late 21+)
09.21.09 Detroit, MI @ Majestic Café
09.22.09 Toronto, ON @ El Mocambo
09.23.09 Montreal, QC @ Friendship Cove
09.24.09 New York, NY @ Santos Party House
09.25.09 New York, NY @ Todd P Show venue TBA
09.27.09 Boston, MA @ Great Scott
09.29.09 Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church
09.30.09 Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar
10.01.09 Washington, DC @ Rock and Roll Hotel
10.02.09 Chapel Hill, NC @ Local 506
10.03.09 Athens, GA @ 40 Watt Club
10.04.09 Atlanta, GA @ The Earl
10.06.09 Oxford, MS @ Proud Larry’s
10.09.09 Dallas, TX @ Pastime Lounge
10.10.09 Austin, TX @ Emo’s
10.15.09 Phoenix, AZ @ Rhythm Room
10.16.09 San Diego, CA @ Casbah
10.17.09 Los Angeles, CA @ Echoplex

Two days after Nathan Williams shattered his wrist and only a few hours before his brain-melting set at Bowery Ballroom, we treated he of Wavves notoreity to a rubdown in Chinatown. So it came to be that Nathan christened our new series, The Rubdown, and chatted with us about his wrist, his thoughts on Barcelona, and his new grunge project with Hella drummer Zach Hill. Things are looking up. And they sound awesome.

As you may have read, Wavves‘ Nathan Williams took a tumble while skateboarding last week. But after toughing it through a cast few shows, including comeback sets at New York’s Bowery Ballroom and the Pitchfork Festival in Chicago, the San Diego noisemaker is going under the knife: on the 22nd of this month (tomorrow) Williams will be getting screws in his wrist instead of playing a skatepark benefit at the Smell in Los Angeles. To make amends for the cancelled show, however, Williams provided fans with an Animal Collective-tinged track on his blog. Although he claims, ”This was a demo that I never ended up coming back to and probably wont end up doing anything with but jam on it n-e-wayz.” Download “Mickey Mouse” here.

Ever since Wavves aka Nathan Williams had a little mental breakdown on the Pitchfork-curated stage at the Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona a few weeks ago, the music site has taken a not-so-subtle negative stance towards Williams whenever it sees an opportunity. It began with the actual news story of Wavves bad Primavera show, which Pitchfork founder Ryan Schreiber himself began with this little cat scratch directed at the Best New Music-earning band…

Over the past six months, the San Diego no-fi outfit Wavves has notoriously made a better bedroom project than live band.

… and finished with a suggestion that Williams and drummer Ryan Ulsh might kill each other before they even made it to Pitchfork’s own music festival on July 18th. The latter bit of blood lust has proven itself to be untrue with the passage of time, but the former seems an odd assertion considering Schreiber is presumably the one who booked (or approved the booking of) Wavves at both Primavera and the Pitchfork Festival. We’ve also seen Wavves several times in venues both large and small and he’s never failed to be pretty awesome, if not more accessible than he is on record.

So what are we to make of Pitchfork’s recent Wavves-bashing editorial direction, which culminated today in a post that quotes Black Lips’ Jared Swilley talking wildly about Williams in a Norwegian radio interview, crescendos (yeah, blog posts crescendo) with “it should be noted that this is not the first time a band has talked shit about Wavves” (yes, clearly should be noted) and mentions both bands will be at Pitchfork’s festival and ends with “Feel the drama!” (really?)?

We’d like to hear what you think in the comments section. Has Wavves one bad show earned the ire of music’s biggest critic? Is Pitchfork just trying to pump up its festival’s ticket sales? Or is Pitchfork just being a dick? Let’s hear it.

First it was the meltdown in front of thousands of people. Then came the apology, which was focused on the level of stress Nathan Williams has endured since starting to tour extensively in February. Now comes the solution (or one solution we should say).
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