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 ...

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, ...

Brant Bjork is the godfather of stoner rock. As the drummer and one of the chief creative forces in Kyuss, he helped put desert rock on the map in the early 90s. Even after his departure from the band ...