Hailing from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Crank Stallion pushes the boundaries of what a three-piece band is capable of and thrives in the spaces between genres. Seamlessly blending the chaotic brilliance of avant-garde rock with the groove-laden textures of Jazz, Cuban, funk, Hip Hop, Cumbia, and Psychedelia, the band conjures sonic landscapes that defy time and expectation. Their sound is as if Captain Beefheart, Tom Waits, Marc Ribot, and a jazz organ trio collided with Missy Elliot. 

The band’s lineup—Jon Dowse, a commanding keyboard and Moog player, Wes Lambe, an 8-string hybrid guitar-bassist who holds down basslines while painting shimmering leads, and Ben Maschal a drummer whose solid break-beat-steady rhythms drive the chaos—creates a dynamic soundscape that

 "sounds entirely from another time without being able to ascertain if that time is the past or the future."

Jon Dowse - Keys / Bass

Ben Maschal - Drums / Bass

Wes Lambe - 8 string Guitars / Bass

 krangk NOUN

  A bent part of an axle or shaft or an arm keyed at right angles to the end of a shaft by which circular motion is imparted to or received from the shaft or by which reciprocating motion is changed into circular motion or vice versa 

  stal·lion[ˈstalyən]   NOUN

An adult male horse.