Southern Arizona’s Powered Wig
Machine, (a.k.a) PWM, began crafting heavy, stoner-flavored desert rock in 2006.
PWM is essentially a band of musical jokesters, using tuned-down classic-rock
riffs, humorous lyrics, and killer jazz inspired percussion grooves to deliver
pure American desert man rock. Their oddball name spawns from track seven on
Josh Homme’s (Queens of the Stoneage) The Desert Sessions Volume 9 album.
And…no these guys don’t jam tunes about ladies hair pieces or the art of wig
manufacturing. When you listen to their style of music, the name just seems to
fit like a codpiece with leather pants ensemble.
PWM’s influences include
modern-day stoner rock bands like Clutch, Queens of the Stoneage, Eagles of
Death Metal, Monster Magnet, and Fu Manchu. They also have a tendency to derive
ideas from the haunting chants and melodic rhythms of Tool. Mixing the distinct
sounds of all these influences has been a sure fire way to cook up a recipe for
a badass band like PWM.
PWM’s lineup includes lead
singer/guitarist Wayne Rudell, guitarist Brian Gold, bassist Joey Rudell, and
drummer Daniel 'the ranchero' Graves. These dudes are all Arizona natives and
have been playing together as a group since 2001. PWM is what happens when a
UPS Driver, Engineer, Network Administrator, and Concrete Mason get together in
a room with a few beers and a couple guitars.
Their debut EP, Bearded Goddess
(released Jan 31, 2009)…is a cocktail of classic-meets-hard rock, metal, with
punk aggression lit up with comical lyrics and solar-plexus-punch vocals. Much
of the entertainment is in the lyrics, which indulge in tales of macho,
red-neck, mullet laden men racing camaros and boxing with Superman,
time-traveling gunslingers shooting at mobs of zombies in parallel universes,
executing killer wrestling moves on ninjas while finding a Korean Jesus, and
women so sexy their beauty kills like Steven Segal. The song titles: “Mullet
Man”, “Led Masquerade”, “Death By Suplex”, “Recipe For Badass” and "Uhh Sexy,”
are in themselves strange, amusing, and laced with testosterone.
At present, the band is in the
studio finishing up the remainder of Bearded Goddess planned for release
in the summer of 2009. The full length album will include new tracks “Sister
Fister”, “Bearded Goddess”, and “Bang Your Head to Odd Meter.” This album is
sure to be a strange, category-evading rock record, a disc chock full of meaty,
manly grooves that grind. Look for it soon on iTunes and CDBaby.
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