Grunge-influenced Wavves and Mudhoney diverge

The Wavves move forward with 'Afraid of Heights' while Mudhoney digs in on defiant 'Vanishing Point.'When Nathan Williams promises, "Still I'll be your dog," on the new album by his L.A. fuzz-punk band Wavves, he's nodding of course to "I Wanna Be Your Dog" by perhaps the greatest fuzz-punk band of them all, the Stooges. But Williams seems also to be invoking the memory of Mudhoney, the long-running Seattle outfit known to cover "I Wanna Be Your Dog"; its sludgy-but-sweet guitars are all over "A...

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