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The Wires

can you hear the chains?

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Member Since: 6/15/2005
Band Members: jordan, kyle, andy.
Influences: the third bardo, the savage resurrection, the index, the open mind, wilkinson tri-cycle, lollipop shoppe, the bees.
Sounds Like: stoned pendleton cavemen
Record Label: fun+boring records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

local cut article

Channeling Rock's Glory Days with the Wires[EDITOR'S NOTE: William Walker now lives in New York, but he hit the road with the Wires back when he lived in Portland, and writes about his experiences her...
Posted by The Wires on Sun, 17 Jun 2007 08:06:00 PST

1000 free beers later

  first: check out will's essay thing about a weekend we spent in washington a while back at: http://localcut.wweek.com/2007/05/31/channeling-rocks-glory- days-with-the-wires/  we think this ...
Posted by The Wires on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 10:19:00 PST

dead moon night

   goddamnit. saturday night at the funhouse was one of the best nights ever. jordon geeked out heavy, jake beamed like a school girl, and beren kicked so much ass it was almost uncool. &n...
Posted by The Wires on Tue, 27 Jun 2006 05:51:00 PST

win a pony!!!

  okay, listen up chumps: time to wipe the crusties from your eyes and take part in this amazing opportunity to win a pony. that's right: we're giving away a pony to anyone that "requests" us for...
Posted by The Wires on Sun, 14 May 2006 07:30:00 PST

jake on the "midwest"

in response to jordon calling colorado part of the midwest, jake penned this emotional screed:first, the states we are touring is NOT THE FUCKING MIDWEST!!!!! THERE IS A HUGE FUCKING DIFFERENCE!!! WE ...
Posted by The Wires on Wed, 12 Apr 2006 03:47:00 PST

new songs / west coast tour

New Songs! These are taken from our live KPSU radio performance on February, 17. You can hear the whole radio show at KPSU.org. Our old songs are still available somewhere; if you want them let us kno...
Posted by The Wires on Wed, 22 Feb 2006 12:58:00 PST

recording 1

jake brought the voodoo day-olds in a plastic bucket and i forgot my guitar strap. dave was sleepy and then got a parking ticket. mark at the board told us a story about his band beating the soni...
Posted by The Wires on Sun, 29 Jan 2006 08:54:00 PST

press

From the Nov. 9th Willamette Week: [GARAGE ROCK] The Wires are a shining example of the potential for garage rock to shake off its trappings and sound urgent and unusual rather than maintain the stat...
Posted by The Wires on Wed, 09 Nov 2005 03:43:00 PST

beating the shit out of their heads

an introduction to dave--or junior, as we like to call him--is long overdue. dave is our new drummer. he plays in something like 40 other bands, but he likes the wires because we sneak him into the c...
Posted by The Wires on Tue, 25 Oct 2005 08:18:00 PST

the grange

we just played the grange hall in mcminville. it was swell. everyone was a farmer... punk-rock farmers. we hope their crop was good this year. it was nice playing an all ages venue. people were so sta...
Posted by The Wires on Sun, 25 Sep 2005 10:29:00 PST