Arthur Loves Plastic

Arthur Loves Plastic or ALP is the performing name of Washington, D.C.–based electronic music recording artist Beverley Joy "Bev" Stanton.

Biography Stanton was born in the Bahamas in 1966 and raised near Walt Disney World. She recorded ALP's first project, Sperm Warfare, in her basement, and it was released in Europe by Britain's T.E.Q. Music?. After T.E.Q. folded, Stanton has independently released most of her twenty one studio albums. Her early efforts at internet promotion prompted Keyboard Magazine to feature her in a cover story on indie-music promotion.

Stanton also plays bass in the Baltimore band The Window Shoppers and is an honorary Space Dot. ALP's part-time vocalist, Lisa Moscatiello, featured three ALP tracks on her latest solo CD Trouble from the Start.

Machine Heart Records Stanton is in charge Machine Heart Records, which is an independent record label run out Washington D.C.

Band name Stanton's performing name is taken from her cat Arthur's fondness for plastic grocery bags.