Los Angeles ends at the Santa Monica Freeway, or at least it might as well. The fact is, you can always get people to drive up from the South Bay or the beach for a night of music in Hollywood, but almost no one has the gas to go the other way. Pity those poor Hollywood types. They are missing out on bands who are truly pushing the envelope; bands who are intelligent, bands who rock, bands like Slow Burning Car. This guitar-driven machine plays full-throttle rock like you seldom hear further north. Call them metal if you will, but this is metal that’s been tempered with the heat of passion, fun and the kind of intimacy that just...

Check out the interview with Troy Spiropoulos of Slow Burning Car with Robert Saul of Nightviews Radio. You can download the interview from either the ztalkradio.com  or nightviewsradio.com site

Slow Burning Car Live at the Brixton South Bay (11-20-10) Redondo Beach, CA By Charlie Steffens (of KNAC.com) A guitar-driven machine, known as Slow Burning Car, played full-throttle rock show with a fun, garage band attitude and great musicianship to a most appreciative crowd at the Brixton. The Los Angeles quartet fronted by singer/bassist Troy Spiropoulos, played an impressive set of songs from Blowback, their debut, and the recently released Vol. 2 — The Scattering. Guitarist Brian Butler plays with a passion, emotion, and intensity characteristic of the greatest axesmiths in rock. Victor Bishop adds a whole new element to the hard rock genre – intimacy — with his keyboard playing. Under it all, drummer Mike Zimmerman holds propels...

CD Review- Slow Burning Car- “Vol. 2 The Scattering “   Most the time when I put in a CD to review it can take days. (I like to listen while driving). Once the CD starts up each day I know exactly what band I had in the player. I can not say that for  Slow Burning Car. This band is influenced by many bands and genres of music. Some songs have a good hard rock beat, move into a jazzy rock sound and then like the song “Siren” had me thinking someone slipped a folk rock cd into my player. Let us start from the first song “Adama”. This songs starts the cd off with a great Toolish...

Slow Burning Car welcomes  Brian Butler a Southern California native who made his debut on guitar at The Brixton on November 20th