This post will be about a band called WAX. They formed in LA, existed from the early to mid nineties, played a type of punk rock one might deem alternative and eventually rose to moderate fame through a somewhat controversial spike jonze video and subsequent airplay on the mtv. Their major label debut was called Thirteen Unlucky Numbers and saw a release through Interscope well over a year after the actual recordings. Major label records that clock in under half an hour are by definition great (reign in blood) and this one is no exception. It rages through 10 songs of a somewhat unique PIXIES/DESCENDENTS hybrid and awkwardly ends with three tracks of 6-second silence respectively called 'thirteen', 'unlucky' and 'numbers'. A cute gimmick that may serve as a statement to the rest of the album being devoid of any filler. Singer Joe Sib went on to form the SideOneDummy label who signed bands like PIEBALD and GASLIGHT ANTHEM and drummer Loomis rose to fame in the early noughties by lighting some fireworks out of Steve-O's ass crack. I lol'd. One of their last achievements as a band as well as a career highlight was their performance in a Pauly Shore vehicle called Bio-dome. That guy is so blatantly unfunny it's surreal but I watched it anyway.
Peace.
