You're about as likely to win three-card monte as see a major record label let a new band self-produce its debut. Then along comes Wheatus. "We wanted to make a record by ourselves," says Brendan B. Brown, the vocalist, the guitarist, the songwriter. And that's just what they did. So what makes Wheatus so damn exception-to-the-rule special?
Tunes, primarily. "Wheatus is about crafting pop-rock songs with punk/street credibility," says Rich Leigey, the bassist.