Baby Wave
Nashville’s Baby Wave got the night started in high gear with an energetic opening set that included their dreamy single “The Scene Has Changed” and another song that interpolates “Take Me Home, Country Roads” to great effect. (Both will appear on the band’s forthcoming debut album on Saddle Creek.)
Their sound and Swapmeet’s complement each other nicely, and the two bands bonded on tour this fall. “They’re freaking awesome,” Medlyn says. Before taking the stage in Brooklyn, Baby Wave’s Gardner Gottsegen (pictured here on drums along with Jakob Bibb, book NOT brooke, and a touring guitarist) gifted each member of Swapmeet a small bottle of maple syrup from his family’s farm in Vermont. “Waffle House is going to be our last stop on the tour, and I think we’re going to bust it out then,” Doherty adds.
