Rogue Wave is an indie rock band from Oakland, California, (formerly signed to Sub Pop, now to Brushfire Records), and headed by Zach Schwartz (a.k.a. Zach Rogue) who created the band after losing his job in the dot-com bust. Their first album was Out of the Shadow which was released privately in 2003 and re-released in 2004. In the fall of 2004 they went on a national tour of the US. Their second album Descended Like Vultures was released in October of 2005. Their newest album, Asleep at Heaven's Gate was released on September 18, 2007, though it was available one week earlier on iTunes.
Rogue Wave is featured on the Stubbs: The Zombie Soundtrack performing a cover of Buddy Holly's "Everyday". A live version of their Out of the Shadow track, "Every Moment", appeared on the soundtrack for the movie Napoleon Dynamite, but not in the movie itself. In addition, the song "Eyes" was featured in the movie Just Friends and in episodes of Heroes, Friday Night Lights, Scrubs and Chuck. They also had their song "Kicking the Heart Out" on an episode of Weeds on Showtime. The Fox show The O.C. has used "Publish My Love", "California", and "Interruptions" as well as included "Publish My Love" on Music from the OC: Mix 5, a collection of songs used in the show. Most recently the song "Lake Michigan" was used in an ad for Microsoft's MP3 player Zune. Also, the third episode of season five Nip/Tuck featured "California".
The current band lineup consists of Zach Rogue (vocals, guitar), Pat Spurgeon (drums, samples, guitar, vocals), Gram Lebron (keyboards, guitar, drums, vocals) and Patrick Abernethy (bass, vocals), who replaced Evan Farrell in 2007. Farrell himself had replaced original bassist Sonya Westcott in the fall of 2004. On the weekend of December 22-23, 2007 Farrell died in Oakland CA, suffering from "massive smoke inhalation" in an apartment fire caused by a space heater. display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003689491" target="_blank">http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003689491
Zach Rogue was previously a guitarist in the _Bay Area band The Desoto Reds. Pat Spurgeon has played with bands Antenna, Stranded at the Drive In, Ramona the Pest, Brando, Steve Kowalski, Lessick, and has also released solo work as The Phantom Drummer. Gram Lebron has been involved in the bands Long and Golden, Schrasj, Sad Like Crazy, Conundrum, Jessica Six, All Transistor and has also released solo work as Golden Gram. Evan Farrell has played with The Japonize Elephants, Mega Mousse, Amaldecor, Big Mule, Hunted Haunted Bazergahn Klezmorchestra, Grande Rouge, Kentucky Nightmare, Mama HooHoo. Patrick Abernethy was formerly a keyboard player with Beulah before joining Rogue Wave.
