Powerman 5000 Announces Co-Headlining U.S. Tour with Hed P.E.
New album Builders of The Future arrives May 27
Powerman 5000 has announced an August co-headlining U.S. tour with Hed P.E. beginning August 1 in Sauget, Ill. Support on the run will come from Sunflower Dead. A list of all confirmed tour dates is below.
Powerman 5000 is currently gearing up for the release of its latest album, Builders Of The Future, out May 27 on T-Boy Records/UMe.
Pre-order Builders Of The Future now on Amazon.com, iTunes, and PledgeMusic.com.
Powerman 5000 has teamed up with Loudwire to premiere a brand new song, “Invade, Destroy, Repeat,” from Builders Of The Future; listen here.
Powerman 5000 has carved out a corner of the galaxy where its devoted supporters created a culture that’s bigger than music. New tracks like “How To Be A Human,” “Invade, Destroy, Repeat,” “Live It Up Before You’re Dead” and “Modern World” are turbocharged with the same futuristic, b-movie bite of enduring, electro-tinged Powerman 5000 anthems like “When Worlds Collide” and “Nobody’s Real.”
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“I never would have imagined that after all the albums, the band members, the ups-and-downs of the always changing music business, I’d still be here doing this, which is thanks to our most diehard fans,” marvels frontman, visionary and only remaining original member Spider One, who founded Powerman 5000 with a 4-track and a drum machine.
Armed with giant hooks and crowd-empowering choruses, Spider and the other Powerman 5000 superheroes have made a record wonderfully reminiscent of the style and quality of Tonight The Stars Revolt!, their commercial breakthrough which gave DreamWorks Records its first platinum plaque. Builders Of The Future delivers on the promise of 2009’s return-to-form Somewhere On The Other Side Of Nowhere.
Tracklisting
1. Invade, Destroy, Repeat
2. We Want It All
3. How To Be A Human
4. You’re Gonna Love It, If You Like It Or Not
5. Builders Of The Future
6. I Want To Kill You
7. Modern World
8. Live It Up Before You’re Dead
9. I Can’t F**king Hear You
10. Evil World
Spider One and the band’s early lineups melded together a love of sci-fi, horror, comic books and b-movie culture. Despite passing trends and shifting business models, Powerman 5000 remained relevant thanks to tracks like the Top 10 Rock radio hit, “Free,” and the MTV2 staple “Wild World.”
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“We’ve replanted our flag as the weird, sci-fi, electronic band,” announces Spider. “This is what we are. This is what we do best. This is clearly what people like from us the most, too. So I’m going to love it like they love it. We’re back. The fan base has really rallied around us again. The enthusiasm feels like it’s picked right up from the year 2000. The electronic-metal-dance thing, we’ve locked it down once and for all with this one.”
Builders Of The Future is the first release through Powerman 5000’s partnership with T-Boy Records, a co-venture with Universal Music Enterprises founded by veteran rock manager Andy Gould. T-Boy releases include Rob Zombie’s Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor, Megadeth’s Super Collider, and the self-titled debut album from Kobra and the Lotus.
Stay tuned for more information on Powerman 5000 and Builders Of The Future…and make sure to get to at least one stop on the upcoming tour!!!
Powerman 5000 w/ 9 Electric
5/23 – Orangevale, CA @ Boardwalk
5/24 – Pomona, CA @ The Glass House
5/27 – Hollywood, CA @ The Viper Room
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Powerman 5000 w/ Hed P.E.
8/01 – Sauget, IL @ Pop’s
8/02 – Lawrence, KS @ The Granada Theater
8/03 – Omaha, NE @ Sokol Auditorium
8/04 – Des Moines, IA @ Wooly’s
8/05 – Ringle, WI @ Q & Z Expo Center
8/06 – Turtle Lake, WI @ St. Croix Casinos
8/07 – Fond Du Lac, WI @ The Shack Event Center
8/08 – Kokomo, IN @ Centerstage Bar and Grill
8/09 – Birch Run, MI @ Birch Run Expo Center (Dirt Fest)
8/10 – Mishawka, IN @ Smith’s Downtown Tap and Grill
8/12 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Altar Bar
8/13 – Rochester, NY @ Main Street Armory
8/14 – Poughkeepsie, NY @ The Chance
8/15 – Hartford, CT @ Webster Theater
8/16 – Worcester, MA @ The Palladium
8/17 – Portland, ME @ Asylum
8/20 – Patchogue, NY @ The Emporium
8/21 – New York, NY @ B.B. King Blues Club
8/22 – Hagerstown, MD @ Hard Time Cafe
8/23 – Columbus, OH @ Alrosa Villa
8/27 – Jacksonville, NC @ Hooligan’s
8/28 – Winston-Salem, NC @ Ziggy’s
8/29 – Newport, KY @ Thompson House Newport
8/30 – Grand Rapids, MI @ The Stache