About: Wheels on Fire (band)

An Entity of Type: agent, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

Wheels On Fire are an American garage-pop band formed by John Garris (guitar, vocals), Susan Musser (organ), and brothers Michael (guitar, vocals) and Matthew Chaney (drums) in Athens, Ohio, United States. They have toured the U.S. and Europe extensively and have released records on Chicago's Trouble in Mind, Mississippi's Fat Possum Records, and Germany's Alien Snatch. Currently the band has released three full-lengths and four singles. The band gained notoriety when Jack Oblivian of The Oblivians fame championed them and got them signed to Fat Possum records in 2008 and subsequently toured with them. Their sound has been referred to as mixing the power pop of Elvis Costello with the current garage sounds of Greg Cartwright and his The Reigning Sound outfit.

Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • Wheels On Fire are an American garage-pop band formed by John Garris (guitar, vocals), Susan Musser (organ), and brothers Michael (guitar, vocals) and Matthew Chaney (drums) in Athens, Ohio, United States. They have toured the U.S. and Europe extensively and have released records on Chicago's Trouble in Mind, Mississippi's Fat Possum Records, and Germany's Alien Snatch. Currently the band has released three full-lengths and four singles. The band gained notoriety when Jack Oblivian of The Oblivians fame championed them and got them signed to Fat Possum records in 2008 and subsequently toured with them. Their sound has been referred to as mixing the power pop of Elvis Costello with the current garage sounds of Greg Cartwright and his The Reigning Sound outfit. (en)
dbo:activeYearsStartYear
  • 2005-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
dbo:genre
dbo:hometown
dbo:recordLabel
dbo:wikiPageExternalLink
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 33469404 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 4875 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1105553510 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:currentMembers
  • Michael Chaney (en)
  • John Garris (en)
  • Matthew Chaney (en)
  • Susan Musser (en)
dbp:genre
dbp:label
  • Kind Turkey Records (en)
  • Rosa Records (en)
  • Fat Possum Records/Big Legal Mess (en)
  • Squoodge (en)
  • Trouble In Mind Records (en)
dbp:name
  • Wheels On Fire (en)
dbp:origin
  • Athens, Ohio, United States (en)
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dbp:yearsActive
  • 2005 (xsd:integer)
dct:subject
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • Wheels On Fire are an American garage-pop band formed by John Garris (guitar, vocals), Susan Musser (organ), and brothers Michael (guitar, vocals) and Matthew Chaney (drums) in Athens, Ohio, United States. They have toured the U.S. and Europe extensively and have released records on Chicago's Trouble in Mind, Mississippi's Fat Possum Records, and Germany's Alien Snatch. Currently the band has released three full-lengths and four singles. The band gained notoriety when Jack Oblivian of The Oblivians fame championed them and got them signed to Fat Possum records in 2008 and subsequently toured with them. Their sound has been referred to as mixing the power pop of Elvis Costello with the current garage sounds of Greg Cartwright and his The Reigning Sound outfit. (en)
rdfs:label
  • Wheels on Fire (band) (en)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
foaf:name
  • Wheels On Fire (en)
is dbo:wikiPageDisambiguates of
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License