Desert rock music

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Dreaming of bigger stages — and sometimes appearing on them — these six Greater Palm Springs bands give the desert music scene its distinctive vibe.

Space STONER ROCK

In their illustrated Beginner's Guide To Doom And Stoner Rock, Lelo Jimmy Batista and illustrator Naga Wika map the connections in a tangled web of musical ties. The family tree was originally published earlier this year in the Villette Sonique edition of the Academy’s Daily Note newspaper. Scroll down for the English translations of each entry.

Lo Sound Desert (2015) - Lo Sound Desert is a documentary about the Californian Desert music scene, which gave birth to bands like Kyuss and Queens Of The Stone Age. What basically started by revolving punk rock kids - hidden from narrow-minded authorities of suburban desert communities in the early 80s, became a vibe over the years. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4150988/?ref_=tt_rec_tt

KYUSS DESERT ROCK A cult favorite if there ever was one, Kyuss is also a very important band that influenced the whole stoner scene. Yet, they were in a league of their own. This band smells of dust and gasoline, never compromised yet established themselves as a driving force in this new scene we now call stoner rock. Certainly, the influence of bands such as Black Sabbath or Blue Cheer can be noticed in their music but they infused their sound with a unique blend of heavy psychedelia that…

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Stoner-rock icon reveals his 25 favorite pedal-to-the-metal jams