Fat Possum is a fascinating little label, best known (by me at least) for being the current home of the Black Keys. My crackerjack wikipedia skillz tell me the label’s based in Mississippi, & they (the label) got started by seeking out and signing the local blues talent. Big shock, right? A label that signs local talent? Whatever. It’s Mississippi, it’s blues, and I think that’s cool. They had a fancy music critic on board that helped them weed through the “talent” to find the good stuff. Like I said, that was all blues stuff. Now, I’m not sure what the label’s current drill is, as they seem to have branched out a bit from MIssissippi blues, but they have another band on roster called The Wavves. Wavves is/are fronted by a fella named Nathan Williams, and are California based (san diego, los angeles). They have a happening punk rock / surf sound /artnoise thing going on. Below is a cool video into the recording of their latest record at a Mississippi studio called “Sweet Tea.” Note the Fender Mustang. I’m a sucker for insider studio stuff like this. If the embed doesn’t work, click here to watch.

WAVVES @ SWEET TEA from Pete Ohs on Vimeo.

I’d also like to introduce a statistic I’m lovingly calling the Weezerdex. I wrote a valuable utility that fetches a band’s number of myspace friends, and divides it by Weezer’s number of myspace friends. The result gives you an idea of the band’s, um, “fame,” compared to Weezer’s. The Wavves register a 2.4 on the Weezerdex. That means they’ve got about 2.4% the number of myspace friends that Weezer has. (14,231 vs 570,852). Statisticians of the world: you’re welcome.

The Band: Wavves
Label: Fat Possum
Located: Southern California
Weezerdex: 2.4
last.fm/music/wavves, myspace.com/wavves

Btw - you can download the Wavves’ MP3 featured in that video here.

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