Wax (American band)

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Wax
Left to right: Dave Georgeff, Soda, Joe Sib and Loomis
Background information
Origin	Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Genres	Punk rock pop punk alternative rock
Years active	1991–1995, 2009
Labels	SideOneDummy Interscope Atlantic Shattered Caroline
Past members	Joe Sib Tom "Soda" Gardocki Dave Georgeff Loomis Fall

Wax was an American punk rock band from Los Angeles, California. Wax emerged during the pop punk resurgence of the early 1990s, and included Joe Sib, Tom "Soda" Gardocki, Dave Georgeff, and Loomis Fall. The band is best known for their MTV buzz clip video "California", directed by Spike Jonze.

13 Unlucky Numbers included the single "California", whose music video was later called "infamous" by NME^[1] and has been included on Artforum's website.^[2] The video depicted a man on fire running in slow motion, and was quickly banned from daytime airplay on MTV. It was included on a retrospective DVD of the director, Spike Jonze, where a still from the video was also shown on the cover of the collection.^[3] The video was also included in an episode of MTV's Beavis and Butt-head. The song became a moderate hit on American rock radio, reaching No. 28 on the Billboard Modern Rock charts in 1995.^[4]

• Joe Sib – lead vocals
• Tom "Soda" Gardocki – guitars, vocals
• Dave Georgeff – bass, vocals
• Loomis Fall – drums, vocals

"Hush" from the album What Else Can We Do was cited as an influence by Rivers Cuomo for the Weezer song "Say It Ain't So".^[5]

• I ^ The LP version was issued on Shattered Records.

• "Who Is Next" (1994) Side One
• "It Ain't Funny" (1994) Side One
• "Who Is Next" (1995) Interscope/Atlantic
• "California" (1995) Interscope/Atlantic
• "Hangin' On" (2009) Side One Dummy

• Mallrats (1995) MCA
• Saturday Morning: Cartoons' Greatest Hits (1995) MCA
• Bio-Dome (1996) Priority Records