When future music historians look back at the strong currents circulating between the Americas in the 21st century, they will find Los Lobos, Calexico, and a charismatic, lanky Missourian singing tight harmony with a Southern belle rattling the jawbone of a donkey. David Wax and Suz Slezak form the artistic core of the DAVID WAX MUSEUM, and together with multi-instrumentalist Greg Glassman, fuse traditional Mexican folk with American roots and indie rock to create a Mexo-Americana aesthetic. Combining Latin rhythms, infectious melodies, and call-and-response hollering, DWM was hailed by TIME for its “virtuosic musical skill and virtuous harmonies” and has built a reputation among concertgoers all over the U.S, Canada, Europe and China for “kicking up a cloud of excitement with their high-energy border-crossing sensibility” (The New Yorker). With the release of Knock Knock Get Up (September 2012), David Wax Museum has reached a level of cross-cultural integration and musical fluency that allows them to speak electrifying, heartfelt poetry with a tongue that is wholly their own, and are currently nominated for THREE Boston Music Awards this year - Artist of the Year, Song of the Year (“Harder Before It Gets Easier”), and Folk Artist of the Year. WXPN, the nationally-recognized leader in Triple A music and non-commercial radio service of the University of Pennsylvania, has named DWM as its November 'Artist To Watch'. Each month, the XPN Artists To Watch series “spotlights a different up-and-coming performer who has produced an album or body of work that demonstrates outstanding vision, creativity and songwriting ability”. Definitely a band to watch, and definitely on a big roll...