Ivan the Wheel

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Name = Ivan the Wheel


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Origin = Mercer, Pennsylvania, U.S., Seattle, WA
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Genre = Rock
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Indie
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Years_active = 2006–present
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URL = www.myspace.com/ivanthewheel
Current_members = Jonathan Errett
Brian Ondich
Aaron Wachter

Ivan the Wheel is currently a Seattle based band formed in late 2004 that is originally from the sleepy hills of western Pennsylvania. Before adopting the name Ivan the Wheel founding members Aaron Wachter and Jonathan Errett played under various names and monikers that included Knife and Fork, Esquilax, Local Faggots, Tigris and Euphrates, and Fledging. It was at a late 2005 show in Pittsburgh while opening for the now nationally acclaimed experimental band Black Moth Super Rainbow, that the two first met Brian Ondich who had recently departed with his drumming duties in Buffalo NY's noise ensemble Doomsday Whistle. Wachter presented Ondich with a few of their demos as Ondich made preparations to jump a train to Portland OR. Soon after moving to Seattle, Ondich was contacted by Wachter inquiring to see if he would be interested in joining the band if the two of them decided to move to Seattle as well. Ondich agreed and they began working together as a three piece in the late summer of 2006.

Having their roots planted in the current Seattle indie-scene which is composed primarily of experimental rock and pop-punk bands, Ivan the Wheel has created their own territory in Seattle's underground rock community. The band is best known for their high energy, often chaotic live set that is gorged with overwhelming interludes of feedback and distortion.

The band has been reluctant to classify themselves musically. At a show in late 2007 a writer from Seattle's The Stranger inquired as to the bands genre and was answered with "we are nothing of the sort." Claiming to have been labeled as "art rock", "noise rock", "screametal", "post punk" and even "queercore", Ivan the Wheel has decided to lay low and allow whatever label people see fit to be put on them.

External links

* www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=474226&mode=print
* www.youtube.com/ivanthewheel