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 ...

Geologists studying ancient desert rocks have stumbled on a microscopic tunnel system that looks uncannily deliberate, a ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

City Times caught up with Natalie Teperdijan, the director of public relations and marketing of Centre Stage Management (CSM), the organisers of the music festival to know more on the much-awaited ...