POWERMAN 5000 KEEPING IT UNREAL WITH “NOBODY’S REAL” AND ROCKETS & ROBOTS TOUR 2000

POWERMAN 5000 KEEPING IT UNREAL WITH “NOBODY’S REAL”
AND ROCKETS & ROBOTS TOUR 2000

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 11, 2000 – Some people like to keep it real. Not POWERMAN 5000, currently on the road headlining the Rockets & Robots Tour 2000. Spider One (vocals), Adam 12 (guitar), M.33 (guitar), Dorian 27 (bass) and Al 3 (drums) prefer to keep it unreal.

Witness POWERMAN 5000‘s latest radio track, “Nobody’s Real,” from their platinum album Tonight The Stars Revolt! (DreamWorks Records). As Spider One sings: “Scary monsters and super peeps/The more you dream the less you sleep/Life as you know it has gone away/Unbound, unwound, who’s here to stay.” Presently logged at #20 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and at #23 on the magazine’s Modern Rock Tracks chart, “Nobody’s Real” also appears on the platinum “End of Days” soundtrack (which hit the Top 20 of Billboard’s Top 200 album chart).

Spider One elaborates: “Non-reality is my reality. From ‘The Day The Earth Stood Still’ to ‘Night Of The Living Dead,’ from ‘Jaws’ to Jawas, from Stan Lee to Bruce Lee – it’s all in the music.” PM5K‘s songs are soundtracks to the bizarre scenes playing out in Spider One’s hyperactive imagination. Guitar One magazine commented: “Overflowing with spooky narratives, howling vocals, chunky guitar grooves and an assortment of noise effects, POWERMAN 5000‘s second full-length album, Tonight The Stars Revolt!, plays like a 21st century comic book that’s musically come to life” (March 2000). Tonight The Stars Revolt! has, in fact, received widespread critical attention:

“Tonight’s best moments come from the new wave side of the list. Form and function fuse with clipped, mechanized riffage and Kraftwerkian assembly-line electronics on the Asimovian ‘Automatic.’ The natural choice for a second single, ‘Nobody’s Real’ begins by making music out of factory parts, raining rivets on a hard-wired synthesis of robo-futuro metal-machine machismo, stripped-down melodic economy, and pulsing stroboscopic bass.”
– Boston Phoenix, July 16, 1999

“The group’s new CD … is a furious blast of metal that has more punches than a speed-bag workout. The disc’s lyrics may be sci-fi, but the music is closer to the work of gut-bleeding writers like Thom Jones or Chuck (‘Fight Club’) Palahniuk than Robert Heinlein or Ray Bradbury.”
– Alternative Press, October 1999

“Powerman 5000 straddles the line between grinding riffs and disco-inflected rhythms.”
– Guitar World, October 1999

“This album is the hottest thing to crash through space since Haley’s Comet. The sophomore release from Powerman 5000 harnesses the philosophical sound and vision of debut Mega!! Kung Fu Radio, lacing it with an epicenter of dual guitars and drum- and bass-powered fury and sprinkling in the sweet snarl of Spider’s sanctimonious squalor. The results are riveting, a transgalactic joyride through hard rock dementia and ‘Phantom Menace’-inspired phantasia. If there’s a CD custom made to usher us into the next thousand years, Powerman 5000 have sculpted it. Tonight The Stars Revolt! – thank the heavens above that we can revel in the soundtrack before the madness begins.”
– Metal Edge, November 1999

“Powerman 5000 crafts songs that rock and leave a lasting impression, the kind of melodies you hum long after you’ve turned the stereo off.”
– CMJ New Music Monthly, September 1999.

“Amid Powerman’s gore, the band has spun some melodies you can hum.”
– New York Daily News, Aug. 9, 1999

The Rockets & Robots 2000 Tour, which kicked off Jan. 28 in Seattle and runs through a March 21 show in Salt Lake City, marks Powerman’s first headlining theater outing. The band is supported by Static-X and Dope. Powerman 5000 themselves were recently openers on a nationwide tour with Kid Rock, about which Los Angeles Times reviewer Steve Appleford reported: “At the first of two nights at the Palace [Feb. 2], the quintet shook the capacity crowd with thundering beats, screaming guitars and leader Spider One’s anthemic vocals.”

Fans can catch Powerman 5000 in action at the following stops: POWERMAN 5000 ROCKETS & ROBOTS 2000 TOUR

DreamWorks Records is a division of DreamWorks SKG, which was formed in October 1994 by its three principal partners – Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen – to produce live-action motion pictures; animated feature films; network, syndicated and cable television programming; home video entertainment; records; books; toys; consumer products; and interactive entertainment.

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FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
The Mitch Schneider Organization
(818) 380-0400
Kristine Ashton: ext. 233
kashton@msopr.com
Amanda Cagan: ext. 234
acagan@msopr.com
Marie Dominguez: ext. 229
mdominguez@msopr.com
FAX: (818) 380-6525

DreamWorks Records
Bryn Bridenthal: (310) 234-7903
bryn@dreamworksrecords.com
Curt Burich: (310) 234-7904
cburich@dreamworksrecords.com
FAX: (310) 234-7950

POWERMAN 5000 HOME PAGE: www.powerman5000.com
DREAMWORKS RECORDS HOME PAGE.www.dreamworksrecords.com

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