The Plastic Waste Band is an experimental rock band born from the jazz community of Montreal, Canada. This is a band in the truest sense: longtime collaborators who fly into psychedelic group improvisations on the wings of finely tuned compositions. Electric guitars, soaring saxophone, thumping acoustic bass, and big drums evoke Led Zeppelin crashing a gig with the John Coltrane Quartet.

Following the 2017 release of their self-titled debut album, they chose to donate all proceeds from the album’s sales to charities dedicated to environmental conservation. Their second album, “Crushed,” was released on Florafone Records in September 2019, exploring the challenge of creating art in the face of humanity’s destruction. “Revelations EP” (2020) expands on these themes. Their newest album “Trash Island” (2026), released on Elastic Records and Protomaterial Records, envisions a future where all of humanity has washed up on a floating island of plastic waste–the last inhabitable place on Earth.

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Current Lineup

John Buck – Drums
Ethan Cohn – Bass
Claire Devlin – Tenor Sax
Jean-Michel Leblanc – Guitar
David Lemyre – Guitar