Hotwire's members met atNewbury Park High School. After recordingdemos, they began opening forWill Haven,Strife,Hoobastank, andAudiovent but also garnered large support at the Troubadour in Los Angeles with an extended residency spanning six months.[1] After signing withRCA Records in December 2000, they continued to tour taking slots supporting diverse acts such asMogwai,Ben Harper,Iggy Pop and The Stooges,Björk,Darkest Hour,Bloodlet,As Friends Rust,Wu-Tang Clan,Poison The Well,Killswitch Engage,The Dillinger Escape Plan, andAtreyu.[2][3] They released a four-track EP in 2002 before issuing their full-length album,The Routine in the summer of 2003. They followed the release of the album with a slot on theOzzfest tour that year as well as making time for the Fuji Rock Festival in Japan.[1] A single from the album, "Not Today", became a minor success on American rock radio, peaking at No. 40 on theBillboard Mainstream Rock chart.[4] The band broke up soon after the Ozzfest tour despite accumulating much new material, citing both mismanagement of funds by their management and personal reasons.
Gabriel Garcia - guitar, vocals - Formerly in Countervail since has released albums under the monikers Transfatal Express, St. Malaclypse and as himself. He has also produced and engineered theTrim album for Deadbirds as well as several songs for The Soft Hills'Painted World EP. He later scored music for several experimental films as well as collaborated on soundscapes/sound design for the Los Angeles Natural History Museum's Collapse Exhibit andDaft Punk's Electroma.
Rus Martin - lead vocals, guitar - Formerly with Eyelid, Chlora, Leisure, now in Skyscraper Frontier, Beware the Idols and Fake Figures (the last one, a band composed with members ofAtreyu andScars of Tomorrow)
Dan Hartman - bass guitar - Formerly in The A.M. Project, The Foundation AD
Chris Strauser - bass guitar - Formerly in Countervail
Brian Borg - drums - Formerly in Stuart, Insurgence, Deadbirds, WarWidow
Jon Peloso - guitar - Formerly in Blue Equals Expired, Go Empire!, Deadbirds, now in WarWidow
Kyle Hollinger - drums - Formerly in Crazy Town
Gabriel, Rus, and Brian are now under Coming Home Records and all participate in their respective projects.
Gabriel also owns Everyday Heaven recording studio.
There was also a never released version ofThe Routine album, which was recorded during sessions in 2001/2002 and was to be released in 2002. The release of this version of the album was canceled because of creative differences between the label (RCA), producer (Dave Jerden) and the Band. Only four songs from this record later appeared on the Band's releases:
Re-recorded version of songClone appeared onHotwire EP.
Re-recorded versions of songsTweaked andNeuro Girl in various versions appeared both onHotwire EP andThe Routine album released in 2003.
SongProsthetics of Steel has appeared on Japan version ofThe Routine album released in 2003 as a bonus song.
All other songs were turned down and whole album was re-recorded in late 2002 with a different tracklist and then released in 2003.
