What is "pbm"

PBM may refer to:

• Johan Adolf Pengel International Airport, IATA airport code
• PBM Mariner, a flying boat by Martin
• PBM (band)
• Palm Beach Marg, Navi Mumbai
• Personal Broadband Mobile, the gaming, multimedia, entertainment, and communications that individuals can access via the Internet while mobile
• Pharmacy benefit management
• Pingat Bakti Masyarakat, the Public Service Medal awarded by the government of Singapore
• Play-by-mail game
• Portable bitmap format, a monochrome version of the Netpbm format (a collective term for various related image file formats)
• Protein-binding microarray, a microarray in high-throughput biology
• Poultry by-product meal

PBM is an American rock band based out of Detroit, Michigan. Founded in 1997 by lead singer Nate Castle and trumpet player Tom Torrento, PBM (Poor Boy Music) has released two full-length albums - Overview (2003) and One Sip at a Time (2006).

Between 2003-2007, PBM performed more than 500 shows nationwide and traveled approximately 250,000 road miles on their tour bus, aptly named "The Beast."

PBM has been profiled in the following periodicals:

-Six Degrees Magazine
-Billboard Magazine Online
-TV Guide
-The Detroit Free Press
-The Detroit News
-The Macomb Mayhem
-The Oakland Press
-The Daily Tribune
-The Oakland Post
-Real Detroit
-C&G Newspapers
-The Herald Dispatch
-The Daily Dispatcher

PBM has appeared on the following media outlets:

-The Mitch Albom Show (WJR-AM) -WDIV, Channel 4 -Fox 2 News Detroit -NBC's America's Got Talent

PBM has shared the stage with prominent musicians including The Recycled, Gavin DeGraw, The Presidents of the United States of America, Blessed Onion of Souls, The Verve Pipe, Cherry Poppin' Daddies, Paul Rodgers (of Bad Company), and Tommy James and the Shondells, That Mustache Feeling, among others.

They have focused much of their energy developing a grassroots style fan-base of college students and indie-music fans, and have been showcase performers at APCA and NACA conferences.