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.

[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.

[4] "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".