Wheels On Fire

Get Famous!

(Big Legal Mess)

Record Review by Marcel Feldmar

This Detroit band hits out with a nice old-school garage rock groove, throwing down some slight Cramps twist within the vocals, but pushing out more to some Stooges mood. The keyboards flow all '60s in the background, occasionally hitting out with some Murder City swagger, and the drums keep it steady, thrown in the back of the grease stained garage.

It’s so hip and hot and retro that it just feels right. That psychobilly stutter, that dirt road highway wide rock ‘n’ roll. Hitting everything from the Sonics to the Makers to the Zombies to the Gun Club, but still pulling it all together in a sound that stands on it’s own. Yeah, not original, but done well. Tight and strong and secure in their beliefs and inspirations.

Sometimes it almost falls into an early Rolling Stones driving R&B rager, but with the jangle-pop guitar strum and high and tight snare hits, it doesn’t quite get all the way there, but slides with a wink back into Iggy Popped psychedelia. A few songs sound something like what you would get if you took the Replacements when they were in their prime and moved them over to the East Coast about 20 years earlier.

Catchy, and oh so hip. Dirty blues, whiskey, teenage lust, and driving the crowd wild, daddy-o.