Today, Texas-based underground indie music collective The Wheel Workers are excited to premiere their latest single “Suck It Up” with The Big Takeover. See here for the premiere. The single will be officially released this Friday, May 20 on all streaming platforms. On Sunday, May 29, The Wheel Workers will be doing a live video shoot for the “Suck It Up” music video at Axelrad, located at 1517 Alabama St., Houston, Texas 77004. The show is free and open to all for everyone 21+ and starts at 7 p.m. There will be free pizza while supplies last and the first 50 people will receive one free drink. “Suck It Up” is the third single from their upcoming album “Harbor” which will drop on Aug. 26, 2022 via Sinkhole Texas Records. The official album release show will take place the evening of Aug. 26 at White Oak Music Hall, located at 2915 N Main St., Houston, Texas 77009. More details TBA.

“This new single was written while I was extremely frustrated about not having played a show in well over a year during the pandemic,” said band frontman Steven Higginbotham. “It’s sort of an ode to the indie/punk dive bar show experience—the sweaty, DIY, grungy, electric vitality that only comes from seeing a good show in a small venue with bands who play every note like it might be their last. So ‘suck it up’ here means to enjoy the moment, because you never know when it will all end.”

The music and lyrics for the new single were written by Steven Higginbotham. Also contributing and performing on the track are Craig Wilkins, Kevin Radomski, Erin Rodgers and Zeek Garcia. The track was recorded by Steven Higginbotham, Josh Applebee and Dan Workman.

Back in March, The Wheel Workers premiered the title track from their new album, “Harbor” with the Houston Chronicle (see here for the premiere) and it was officially released on March 25. The single release followed closely on the heels of a video debut for “S.O.S.” with VENTS Magazine back in January. Directed by T Lavois Thiebaud, the “S.O.S.” video is a stop-motion and digital animation piece about an unlikely group of humans who come together to build a giant transmission device (mirrored after the Tower of Babel) to send an S.O.S. signal into space in hopes of reaching any empathetic extraterrestrial life. See here to check out the video.

The Wheel Workers first two singles, “S.O.S.” and “Harbor,” have been excelling on college and non-commercial radio stations. “S.O.S.” had over 30 leading stations supporting the single, many which placed the song in their Top 30 charts. “Harbor” garnered half a dozen stations charting the single in their Top 30 charts.

The title of the new album, “Harbor,” communicates the yearning for comfort, love, and relief a lot of people have felt during these past few years; years filled with relentless chaos, covid, political tribalism, and so on. In their own lives, they’ve gone through a difficult, tumultuous season but have found harbor from the world's seemingly endless storms in the music and in each other.

The forthcoming album was produced by Dan Workman and Steven Higginbotham and recorded at Studio WheelWorks in Houston by Higginbotham, Josh Applebee and Workman. It was mixed by Dan Workman and mastered by Dave McNair at Dave McNair Mastering.

The Wheel Workers 2022 upcoming shows:

5/29: Axelrad - Live music video shoot for “Suck It Up” / Houston, TX

8/26: White Oak Music Hall - Official “Harbor” release party / Houston, TX

9/22-25: River Revival Music Festival / New Braunfels, TX