Plastic Pals with Flaming Lips
May 3rd, 2012
This is awesome news. Our single Leave it ´til tomorrow is on fine UK Americana blog Mad Mackarel´s Best of the Month list for April. And the fact that The Flaming Lips are on the list too is really cool.
A Plastic Viking in New York – Hawk with the Band of Outsiders
April 2nd, 2012
Saturday last weekend,March 24th Hawk visited New York for the first time. And friends from legendary CBGB´s and Max´s Kansas City combo Band of Outsiders had set up a gig at The Lakeside Lounge in Greenwich Village for a triplet guitar party.
Leave it ´til tomorrow – new single available
April 2nd, 2012
This Wednesday, April 4th, The Plastic Pals will release the first single from upcoming album April 4th – via all major digital music services. “Leave It ´Til Tomorrow” – available now for preview and pre-order via 7-digital – is heroin disco in the spirit of Velvet Underground and Bowie, according to pr company Birds will sing for you – that The Plastic Pals have partnered with for this release. Want your own copy? Just sign up for our newsletter and it´s just a click away.
Chris Cacavas (ex-Green on Red) to play with The Plastic Pals in Stockholm
January 8th, 2012
It´s a right honour for us Plastic Pals to welcome the man who´s basically played with everybody worth mentioning: Green on Red, The Dream Syndicate, Danny & Dusty, Giant Sand, Calexico, the list goes on… Chris Cacavas comes to Stockholm for the first time since the 80´s for an exclusive show with The Plastic Pals at Skål (near Hornstull) Saturday January 21 at 7 pm.
Christmas Party gig December 17th
December 2nd, 2011
Right people! Saturday December 17th The Plastic Pals will arrange a Christmas party at Walla Scen in Årsta, Stockholm. We´re sharing this night with our longtime pals Lars-Fredrix. Should be a good opportunity to kick in the upcoming Festive Season.
Festive season´s imminent – soon we´ll go All the way
December 2nd, 2011
Bells in the beginning of this new Plastic Pals tune makes it a kinda Christmas single. This is a track from The Plastic Pals new upcoming album, slated for release soon, very soon. Produced by Chris Cacavas (Green on Red, Calexico, Giant Sand, Steve Wynn) at The White Lodge studio, Ludwigsburg, Germany with Rainer Lolk as engineer.
Hope you´ll enjoy listening to it as much as we enjoyed recording it:
”Superb, quitely, brooding roots rock” – R2 Magazine, UK, on ”Miracles”
October 1st, 2011
One of the standout cuts is ”the superb, quitely brooding – and slightly Blue Öyster Cultish roots-rock of Miracles´ from Sweden´s own Plastic Pals.” That´s the verdict from UK´s best selling eclectic music magazine R2 – Rock `n´Reel – on Music From Home´s compilation ”Hymns from Home”, where The Plastic Pals´new tune ”Miracles” is included.
Miracles on the air – and we bareley haven´t started yet…
September 18th, 2011
“We barely haven´t started yet…”, Chuck Prophet sings kinda laconically in his breathtakingly beautiful tune “Age of miracles”. And it seems The Age of Miracles is on its way. Our new album is not released yet, but one of the tunes, called Miracles, is already getting airplay in Germany, Holland and Belgium. It´s included on the third compilation – Hymns from Home – from dedicated music pr guy Peter Holmstedt´s Music from Home, along with awesome bands and artists like Jack Tempchin, I See Hawks In LA, Keith Miles, Jude Johnstone and Elliott Murphy.
Up and running
September 10th, 2011
Hi! Nice that you could make it here. We are so happy and pleased this new website is up and running. In these unceratin times t´s good to get more permanent lodging somewhere. So most welcome to our new home, the official Plastic Pals website.
