Wheels

"Boo! You don’t scare me. Wheels are from Yellow Springs, which sounds beautiful, I’m from Preston (Say that in a broad northern accent). I stumbled onto their music via Bandcamp’s new discover tab, a wonderful new addition to a new music adventurers backpack, and what a wonderful surprise. This is music with soul and emotion, the words work up a frenzy in the mind with each different component adding something different and special." - Daniel Thomas, Independent Music News

“If Brian Wilson had started the Beach Boys in 1930's Kentucky, they would have sounded like Wheels. The Yellow Springs folk prodigies possess a maturity and depth far beyond their years. They sing songs of love lost and nostalgic ballads for sweet home Ohio. Hearing them, you’d think they’d been playing bluegrass their whole lives.” - Benjamin Dale, Dayton City Paper (May 17, 2011)

"When I first arrived at Canal Street Tavern Sunday, May 29, I could barely believe my eyes. We were there to see the group Wheels for the second time in less than a week so I was expecting a decent crowd. But the last time I saw a crowd like this at Canal Street was at the last Werksgiving a year or two ago. I kind of said to myself, “I wonder how many of these people are family?” But the closer I looked the more I realized that it wasn’t just family; people were leaving other events to come here and see the young quartet from Yellow Springs, Ohio. There was no shortage of young girls there either, all of them anxious to see Wheels perform songs from their newly released CD Fields on Fire." Continue via link to full article. - Jimmy Cummings, Buckeye Music Magazine

"Wheels: Ohio's hidden gem that won't remain hidden for long.

Last night at Canal Street Tavern in Dayton, Ohio a young, local (Yellow Springs native) four piece band called Wheels played to one of the most receptive crowds I've ever been a part of. Every song was met with loud applause and cat calls, some of which addressed the band members by name, or nickname.

This band has been well known in Yellow Springs for a while now. If you’ve been on Xenia avenue in the last year there’s a good chance you’ve them playing in front of the store windows or in Toxic Beauty Records (220 Xenia Avenue, second floor). And now the word is starting to spread about this precocious quartet with the release of their first CD entitled "Fields on Fire."" read full article via link provided. - Jeffery Wood, Examiner

“After selling 1,000 copies of their 2011 debut album ‘Fields on Fire’ and often playing two to three shows per weekend, Wheels has slowed down in recent months and returned to the studio to work on its second full-length album, ‘Big Feeling.’ Band members used Kickstarter to raise the $6,000 for the album, and have cloistered themselves in the physical plant office on the Antioch campus over the last few months to self-produce the record. The result finds the band evolving, Salazar said. ‘It’s more complex, more emotional, more creative.’” - Megan Bachman, Yellow Springs News