Wheat (band)

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Wheat
Wheat (left-right: Scott Levesque, Luke Hebert, Brendan Harney), January 26, 2014
Wheat (left-right: Scott Levesque, Luke Hebert, Brendan Harney), January 26, 2014
Background information
OriginTaunton, Massachusetts, US
Genresindie rock, indie pop, lo-fi
Years active1996-present
LabelsSugar Free, Aware, Empyrean, The Rebel Group, Shorebird
Websitewheatmusic.com
Members
  • Brendan Harney
  • Luke Hebert
  • Scott Levesque
Past members
  • Ricky Brennan Jr.
  • Kenny Madaras

Wheat is an American indie-rock band, formed by Scott Levesque (vocals, guitar), Brendan Harney (drums, vocals), Ricky Brennan Jr. (guitar, vocals), and Kenny Madaras (bass) in Taunton, Massachusetts, United States, in 1996.[1]

History[]

Wheat's debut album, Medeiros, released in 1997 on Sugar Free Records, was recorded by Dave Auchenbach and mixed by Red Red Meat's Brian Deck. Madaras left the group—and was never permanently replaced on bass—prior to the release of their second Sugar Free album, 1999's Hope and Adams.[1]

After promoting Per Second in 2003 and 2004 by touring with Liz Phair, Toad the Wet Sprocket, and Blake Babies and performing on Late Night with Conan O'Brien and Last Call with Carson Daly, only to see the album sell an underwhelming 30,000 copies,[2]

Later that year, Wheat, now a duo, finished writing and recording their fourth album, Everyday I Said a Prayer for Kathy and Made a One Inch Square, with Rick Lescault at Electric Ali Studios in Fairhaven, Massachusetts. Preceded by the EP That's Exactly What I Wanted ... Exactly That in early 2007, the album was released by Empyrean Records in May. (Aware Records never officially dropped Wheat from its roster. However, it declined its option to release the follow-up to Per Second.)[2]

In June 2013 the band released another new song, "Black Days Away," as a free download on their website, and announced that their sixth LP was officially under way. Eleven months later they revealed that the multimedia company Shorebird would be reissuing their first album, Medeiros, on vinyl and CD in addition to releasing Wishing Good Things for the World, a three-part project that would include a seven-song EP, a feature-length documentary, and Wheat's first new album since 2009.[3]

However, by October 2014 the band had asked Shorebird to refund all preorders for the CD version of the EP, originally set to be released two months earlier, due to distribution-related delays; in its place, Wheat offered a free digital download to those customers of the EP's seven songs: "Rescue," "Finding Wings," "C'mon Song," "Love Is the Drug We Take," "62 Horses," "Two Dollar Bill," and the ten-minute "Wishing Good Things for the World." The band followed up in March 2015 with an offer to mail physical copies of the CD's planned artwork at no charge, while the digital version of the EP became available for purchase on Wheat's website that same month.[4]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Colin Larkin, ed. (2000). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Nineties Music (First ed.). Virgin Books. p. 424. ISBN 0-7535-0427-8.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Fritch, Matthew. "Wheat: Don't Look Back". Magnet magazine. Retrieved 2011-09-28.
  3. ^ "Wheat: Wishing Good Things for the World". Shorebird. Retrieved 19 July 2014.
  4. ^ "Wheat". Retrieved 11 March 2015.

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