High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! 50 Foot Wave is an American alternative rock band, formed in 2003. The band is fronted by Kristin Hersh, who writes the group`s songs with collaborative efforts from the other group members in composing and arranging the music. The group`s name is a reference to both an illustration and the term for the 50-foot sound wave of the lowest F tone audible to the human ear. The band sometimes abbreviates its name as L`~, using the Roman numeral for 50.