Moreland was a founding member of Wall of Voodoo, which had its roots in Acme Soundtracks, an unsuccessful film score business started by vocalist-keyboardist-harmonica player Stan Ridgway.
Acme Soundtracks' office was across the street from the Hollywood punk club The Masque, and Ridgway was soon drawn into the emerging punk-new wave scene.
[citation needed] The band had a Billboard Hot 100 single in 1983 with the song "Mexican Radio", which received considerable play on the newly aired MTV.
I didn't think a thing about it until one day, Marc came in with this little one-minute (demo tape) sketch of that great guitar lick and him singing, 'I'm on a Mexican radio,' kind of mumbling it.
"[3] In 1995 Moreland met vocalist-guitarist Sheldon Ferguson and keyboardist Frederika in Las Vegas.
They released an album titled Plan 9 From Las Vegas and had moderate success[clarification needed] both in the US and in Europe.
The album was released on California-based Kitchen Whore Records, and featured contributions from PJ Harvey's John Parish and Jean-Marc Butty.
Marc Moreland died of renal failure following a liver transplant on March 13, 2002, in Paris, France, at the age of 44.
discusses Moreland's role in both the formation of The Skulls and Wall of Voodoo, and features archival photos of him performing in 1977 at the Los Angeles punk club The Masque.