KATE CRASH!

KATE CRASH is Future Punk! Launched on the streets of Tokyo in 2008 with a boom box full of beats and a pop'd out electric guitar, Crash became dubbed as "living anime" and "the most entertaining thing on earth!” by fans. After moving back to Los Angeles, Crash was discovered in a club by producer Nick Launay (Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs, Arcade Fire, Nick Cave, Kate Bush) who decided to take on the Future Punk artist on as a pet project. The two recorded several of her songs with dance beats, electric guitars and a big pop hooks fusing Crash's favorite styles of punk, dance, glam and pop. Soon after she met Mo $, a notorious pirate and a punk guitarist, and the two began performing her part choreographed, part performance art and all wild show as a duo with back up dancers.

However, the path to Crash's Future Punk began at an early age in Los Angeles. In her youth, Crash often felt she could not translate herself into the world. Often feeling disconnected with those around her, Crash sought refuge within the world of art and music and soon discovered the profound emotions of a Rachmaninoff concerto or a Basquiat painting could bridge the gap between her and all of humanities differences and misunderstandings. The arts allowed her to feel the core of existence and pure essence of what it meant to be human. Giving her the freedom to build herself and her world the way she wanted. With this realization taking hold early in life, Crash became a prolific poet, photographer, painter, and songwriter before reaching high school. Furthermore, her mother's lifelong dedication to civil rights has strongly influenced Crash’s work. She creates with the motive of changing the systems that be and uses her work to shine light on the nature of the causes we make and the effects these decisions have on other humans, species and the environment.

To further her understanding in social causes, Crash decided to live in a refugee camp in Palestine doing volunteer work with children. This experience allowed Crash to better understand the connection between war, American tax dollars, and global enterprise. She made friends with people all over the world and was exposed to a lot of interesting music and stumbled upon the underground punk scene in Israel and the Israeli gay anarchist group Black Laundry. After coming back home she delved into music composition and political art projects with EZTV, an organization created by the late John Dorr which collaborates and exhibits emerging digital media among other works. Her most recent collaboration with the organization spawned a multimedia documentary produced by Michael Masucci and directed by Crash entitled LA WOMAN which premiered as part of the Getty's Pacific Standard Time and was also featured at the Armory Center for the Arts.

Kate Crash is currently playing shows, composing music for film, working on an art/poetry book and gallery show with Hyphen Media and finishing demos for her first full-length album with producer Nick Launay. Furthermore, her original songs have received licensing success with placements on Jersey Shore, VH1 Brazil, CSI Mexico, Pineapple Express, and within Toyota commercials among many others

Crash's first EP, My Zombie Nation is available via digital download on all major retailers.

Official Website:katecrash.com

Facebook:facebook.com/katecrashmusic

Twitter:twitter.com/katecrash

Youtube:youtube.com/katecrashlive

Management:katecrashmgmt@gmail.com

FRIENDS OF CRASH:

NST:www.nst.org

NICK LAUNAY:www.launay.com

EZTV:eztvmedia.com

LA WOMAN:facebook.com/lawomandocumentary

ERIC ERLANDSON:akashicbooks.com/letterstokurt.htm