{"id":889,"date":"2011-01-30T20:00:51","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T04:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.slowburningcar.com\/?p=889"},"modified":"2011-01-30T20:00:51","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T04:00:51","slug":"live-review-the-brixton-southbay-11-20-10-by-charlie-steffens-knac-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slowburningcar.com\/?p=889","title":{"rendered":"Live Review: The Brixton Southbay 11-20-10 by Charlie Steffens (knac.com)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Slow Burning Car<\/p>\n<p>Live at the Brixton South Bay (11-20-10)<\/p>\n<p>Redondo Beach, CA<\/p>\n<p>By Charlie Steffens (of KNAC.com)<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles quartet fronted by singer\/bassist Troy Spiropoulos, played an impressive set of songs from <em>Blowback<\/em>, their debut, and the recently released <em>Vol. 2 &#8212; The Scattering<\/em>. 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 \u2013 intimacy &#8212; with his keyboard playing. Under it all, drummer Mike Zimmerman holds propels the songs with a rare touch appropriate to both the harder and more relatively softer songs in the band\u2019s life set.<\/p>\n<p>The titanic, salubrious\u00a0 sound of Slow Burning Car, though well-contained in the small club at the foot of the Redondo Beach Pier, ought be unharnessed to run wild in a larger venue or arena and heard by the masses.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slowburningcar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/SBC-The-Brixton-Nov.2010.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-890\" title=\"SBC - The Brixton Nov.2010\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slowburningcar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/SBC-The-Brixton-Nov.2010-115x115.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"115\" height=\"115\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"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 &#8212; 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 \u2013 intimacy &#8212; with his keyboard playing. Under it all, drummer Mike Zimmerman holds propels the songs with a rare touch appropriate to both the harder and more relatively softer songs in the band\u2019s life set. The titanic, salubrious\u00a0 sound of Slow Burning Car, though well-contained in the small club at the foot of the Redondo Beach Pier, ought be unharnessed to run wild in a larger venue or arena and heard by the masses. \u00a0","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slowburningcar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slowburningcar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slowburningcar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slowburningcar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slowburningcar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=889"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.slowburningcar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":892,"href":"https:\/\/www.slowburningcar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions\/892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slowburningcar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slowburningcar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slowburningcar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slowburningcar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}