Eight-time Houston Press Music Awards nominees show personal
side on new LP. Hear Dead
Kennedys, The Clash, Pixies-influenced “White Lies”.
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The Wheel
Workers (L-R): Craig Wilkins, Kevin Radomski, Erin Rodgers, Steven
Higginbotham, Zeek Garcia. Photo Credit: Allison McPhail / 5AM Creative.
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“Successful political art foregrounds the artistry
while making a statement that isn’t just applicable for a limited time.
Musically and lyrically, it extends far beyond the political heat of the
moment.” – The A.V. Club on “White Lies” by The Wheel Workers
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The Wheel
Workers – Live
Tickets on
sale now for The Wheel Workers on
Nov. 16th for the post-truth
record
release show at Houston’s White Oak
Music Hall!
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The Houston based five-piece political rock band The Wheel Workers isn’t so political on
its upcoming new album post-truth (out Nov. 2nd, 2018.) Now, the band’s lean and quirky Dead Kennedys, The Clash, and Pixies-influenced
style shoves real life in front of our eyes.
Following up an astounding eight nominations at the Houston Press Music Awards in 2015 for
its previous album Citizens, which was also called “a true masterpiece” that year
by Free Press Houston, post-truth’s opening cut “White Lies” was first released in
November of 2016 just before the Presidential election.
“White Lies” and the title post-truth relate to the increasing fragmentation
where a lot of people only believe information they want to hear, information
that often tells them they are the victim of some other group or ideology,”
explains The Wheel Workers leader Steven Higginbotham. “I’d really like
to see us get back to thinking of each other as fellow Americans, or even
better, fellow human beings.”
As for the impact of the song on Higginbotham nearly two years later, he reveals, “I was personally
caught up in the horror many liberals felt at the time. But after all the
personal difficulties the band has faced since then, I’m not sure I would write
that song the same way today. Two of our members had houses flooded during
Hurricane Harvey,” Higginbotham continues,
“and they have spent the better part of a year coming back from that.”
Higginbotham goes on to explain, “I went through an intensely
hurtful break-up that put me in a dark place. But the band supported each other
through it all. Some of the people that were most supportive and kind during
our difficulties were people I would probably disagree with politically, but
the decency and love they showed in helping us rebuild our lives is so much
more important than whether we agree on this or that issue.”
“I’m definitely still socially conscious,” Higginbotham concludes, “But now I
think problems are best dealt with the way we do in our personal lives, with
the people we genuinely care about, supporting and loving one another with
understanding and forgiveness.”
post-truth,
the latest album by Houston-based band, The
Wheel Workers arrives on Nov. 2nd,
2018, preceded by the single “Desire”.
The band headlines a record release show at Houston’s White Oak Music Hall on Nov.
16th.
Members of The
Wheel Workers are available for interviews. Contact Josh
Bloom at Fanatic for
more information.
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The Wheel Workers – In The Press
“Painfully catchy.” — MAGNET
“Sincerely progressive and catchy as hell.” — Space City Rock
“Sociopolitical consciousness with a memorable hook.”
— The Big Takeover
“New Wave synth stylings meet sharp lyrics.” — PopMatters
“Houston’s brightest hope. Damn. Seriously righteous.”
— BLURT
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The Wheel Workers
post-truth
Nov. 2nd, 2018
(S/R)
Track Listing:
02. Desire
03. Doesn’t Really Matter
04. How Did I Go So Wrong
05. Games We Play
06. Burning
07. Nothing To Say
08. Sing
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The Wheel Workers Links
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Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion
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