WAX - Hush (directed by Spike Jonze)

What this video is

Released in 1992, "Hush" arrives at the precise moment when Spike Jonze was transitioning from skateboard film culture into music video direction. WAX was a Los Angeles pop-punk band whose song "Hush" (from the album What Else Can We Do) was later cited by Rivers Cuomo as an influence on Weezer's "Say It Ain't So," underscoring the band's quiet significance in the West Coast indie-punk ecosystem that would feed…

Why it matters

Represents an early node in the Spike Jonze directorial lineage, predating his defining 1994 work. Situates WAX within the Los Angeles pop-punk underground that bridged the skate-punk and alternative rock scenes of the early 1990s. The video's DIY aesthetic and rapid editorial rhythm foreshadow…

The director

Born Adam Spiegel on October 22, 1969, in Rockville, Maryland. Began career photographing BMX and skate culture, co-founded youth magazine Dirt, and produced the influential skate film Video Days (1991). Entered music video directing in 1992. Became one of…