Woman

'We're just five nerds looking to make music,' Scott Wheeler says of his carefree, you-just-can't-help-but-dance-to-it band Cuckoo Chaos. They're not nerds in the traditional, pocket protector poindexter sense, though. In the high school-like music scene of San Diego, where everyone knows each other but cliques are well-defined and accepted, the boys of Cuckoo Chaos are kind of like those cute quiet boys who could hang with the jocks sometimes, smoke behind the school with the freaks every once in awhile, play video games in a dark basement after school and kiss the cheerleaders at the party on Friday night.

Cuckoo Chaos has created a kind of hybrid sound, one part super hip, polyrythmic pop and another part rooted in a musical education with hippies at the helm. You might say, 'the message is in the groove,' and the thing that unites these parts in perfect harmony, is that you won't be able to stop moving your feet and shaking your hips, hours after the show has ended.