PLASTIC CRIMEWAVE SOUND - ProfilesArchive

About Me

4 piece spacepunk unit lauded in Mojo, Wire, Julian Cope's head heritage, etc. Plastic Crimewave also does the Galactic Zoo Dossier mag, Secret History of Chicago Music strip and radio show, Million Tongues Festivals, sits in with ensembles like Scarcity of Tanks and DRMWPN, yadda yadda. Mark Lux was in the formative Temple of Bon Matin and twiddles knobs with Folk and Violence. Nick Myers also heads up street toughs Vee Dee. Lawrence Peters does everything, including swell country bands like his own Lawrence Peters Outfit.RELEASES: "Flashing Open" (eclipse LP and rocket CD), "No Wonderland" (eclipse 2LP, Prophase CD), split 12" with Oneida (brah/jagjaguwar), debut 45 'grade ceased" (captain spazz) and split w/michael yonkers 45 (capt. spazz) upcoming in 08: LP on Eclipse, CD on A Silent Place.....TOURED WITH: Acid Mothers Temple, Oneida, Simply Saucer, the Ponys, Comets on Fire, Josephine Foster and the Supposed, Pearls and Brass, Gris Gris, Miminokoto....Played more shows with: Zolar X, Dead Meadow, Bardo Pond, Danava, Spectrum, Sky Saxon and the Seeds, The Creation, Trad Gras Och Stenar, Michael Yonkers, Wolf Eyes, Kinski, Sunburned Hand of the Man, Up-Tight, Kevin Coyne, Fursaxa, Espers, Charalambides, Black Dice, Six Organs of Admittance, No Neck Blues Band, etc.

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Member Since: 2/5/2007
Band Website: plasticcrimewavesound.com/
Band Members: Plastic Crimewave (Steve Krakow): Chopper Guitar, bellows. Mark Lux (Raspberry Kidd): Broke ass Bass. Lawrence Peters (Skog Device): Drums & mediation. Nick Myers (Baron Von Echo): Fiery leads and smokes. reserves: Andy "Panic" (Lord) Ortmann: electronische.
Influences: Velvets, Flipper, Debris, Syd’s Floyd, the Deviants, the Stooges, Motorhead, Stackwaddy, The Birds, Michael Yonkers Band, Simply Saucer, the Up, Crime, Pink Fairies, Edgar Broughton Band, T.Rex, early UFO, Can, Purple Image, The Monks, Status Quo, High Rise, Yo Ho Wha 13, Chrome, SRC, the Move, Loop, The Dicks, Dead C, Tractor, the Dicks, Hawkwind, the Wipers, ESP records, AMM, Les Ralliez, the Godz, Slowbone, the Misunderstood, St. Anthony’s Fyre, Fushitsusha, Neu!, Canned Heat, Cromagnon, Fang, Schizo, Goblin, George Brigman, Garbage and the Flowers, Rocket From the Tombs, Gravitar, International Harvester, Skullflower, Blossom Toes, Crushed Butler, Section 25, Swell Maps, John’s Children, Mars, Skip James, Pharoah Sanders, Third World War, Butthole Surfers, The Gordons, Sonic’s Rendevous Band, Electric Eels, Granicus, Schizo, Captain Beefheart, Eno and JPT Scare Band.
Sounds Like: a biker war in space
Record Label: Eclipse, Brah, Rocket, A Silent Place,Capt. Spazz
Type of Label: Indie