Emulating the brash pop-oriented punk antics of the Ramones, wielding a wacky D.I.Y. attitude reminiscent of Daniel Johnston, and gleefully idolizing The Howard Stern Show and Mad Magazine, Queens, New York's the Beets stomped onto the indie circuit in the early 2000s thanks to a couple much-hyped releases on Brooklyn's Captured Tracks. Uruguayan transplant Juan Wauters (vocals/guitar) met Jose Garcia (vocals/bass) in 2004, when they were both enrolled in a community college art class. Their first release as the Beets, Spit in the Face of People Who Don't Want to Be Cool (the ...