Much as its name suggests, desert rock is a subgenre whose roots can be traced to the Palm Desert scene of the late 80s and early 1990s. Ostensibly an offshoot of stoner metal, desert rock nonetheless ...

In the halcyon days, young music fans would drive out into the middle of the barren desert, park their cars strategically for a fast getaway if the cops came, get drunk or stoned, and just bask in the ...

Generator parties, which spawned a genre of desert rock music shaped by the harsh local wilderness, have long held a "Lord of the Flies"-type fascination for international pop culture fans. They were ...

While desert rock originated in, well, the desert region of western the United States, its influence has migrated east, to the opposite side of the country, and even beyond American borders. It seems ...

Formed in La Quinta, California (“the Gem of the Desert”), in 1986, Yawning Man are largely considered the fathers of the desert-rock movement. The band’s now legendary “generator parties”—all-night ...

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As music festivals jockey to stay afloat among rising production costs, one party in the desert simply won’t dry up. Planet Desert Rock Weekend, a riff-heavy fest born out of a love for stoner rock, ...

This weekend’s Desert Trip festival has been aggressively marketed as a once-in-a-lifetime event: the first — and presumably last — opportunity to see half a dozen of rock and roll’s formative acts on ...