Desert rock
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Desert Rock is a term given to several bands that hail from the Californian Palm Desert Scene. Often labeled stoner rock, the music might also contain heavy Latin influences, repetitive drum beats, and/or elements of psychedelia. Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age once coined the term robot rock to describe the music of that band.
The term was previously applied, in the 1980s, to a kind of psychedelic country-flavored punk music generally evocative of the desert's dry open spaces, often characterized by epic instrumental passages and lyrically populated with drifters, eccentrics and other people living on the margins. This generation of desert rockers was centered largely in Arizona, particularly Tucson, though most bands had strong ties to the Los Angeles scene (most notably to the Paisley Underground, or its remnants), and some relocated there.
[edit] Notable first-wave desert rock bands
- Yawning Man
- Giant Sand
- Green on Red
- The Sidewinders
- Naked Prey
- Thin White Rope
- The Meat Puppets
- True West
[edit] Notable contemporary desert rock bands
- Queens of the Stone Age
- Barfinkle
- Kyuss
- Brant Bjork and the Bros
- Orquestra Del Desierto
- Masters of Reality
- Eagles of Death Metal
- Fatso Jetson
- The Desert Sessions
- Nebula
- earthlings?
- Che
- Unida
- Fu Manchu
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