The reunited Thursday are on tour now, having just played Nashville last night (4/5). Since reuniting, the band has invited some younger musicians to join them on stage for “Understanding In A Car ...

Hether Fortune has presence, and not simply because she’s usually one of the tallest people in the room. As the founder and leader of the Oakland post-punk band Wax Idols, Fortune has become well ...

Wax Idols is making an appearance at Glob on Friday, October 23. The band has long been the outlet for songwriter and lead vocalist Hether Fortune, who started the band while she was living in the San ...

Thursday began their run of full-album shows which sees them doing two nights in each city, with Full Collapse in full on night one and War All The Time in full on night two. The run began at Slim’s ...

Fortune says she's not interested in being mysterious. After being kicked out of a few too many bands, Heather Fedewa transformed herself into Hether Fortune and launched Wax Idols, a pop-punk outfit ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hether Fortune, leader of the Oakland-based postpunk band Wax Idols, used to play in White Lung. But that really gives no ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Oakland-based band Wax Idols have been releasing music since 2010, and their sound has matured significantly, going from ...

Last year, the Oakland punk band Wax Idols went on an indefinite hiatus, which has allowed its leader Hether Fortune to focus on her own material, which so far had just amounted to a couple of stray ...

Hether Fortune’s punk daring has long been in the tension and held release, with lyrics intentionally (and tastefully) choked by post-punk gloom. On Wax Idols’ thematically empathetic American Tragic, ...

Wax Idols, an Oakland post-punk band with a national following, announced on Facebook Tuesday that they’re taking an indefinite hiatus due to “personal issues.” The band is canceling their upcoming ...