Dustin Krapes, doing business as Habits, put out one of the better under-the-radar albums of the year back in March. Now he’s taking to studio alchemy, remixing songs from five of the artists playing this Saturday’s Desert Daze festival at Sunset Ranch Oasis near Mecca. Habits does a ghost-in-the-machine number on songs from Deap Vally, […]
Those $30 early-bird tickets that were on sale before Christmas are looking even more like a bargain now. Blonde Redhead and the Raveonettes will join the previously announced Liars and Autolux at the top of the bill for the one-day Desert Daze festival on April 26 at Sunset Ranch Oasis near Mecca, 25 miles southeast […]
Is it too early to think about April in the desert? Never. Desert Daze, the one-day, Coachella-close festival that relocated to an oasis last year, has announced that Liars and Autolux will headline this year’s edition, scheduled for April 26 at Sunset Ranch Oasis near Mecca, 25 miles southeast of Indio. Early-bird tickets are $30 […]
OK, just to itemize … It’s 4/20. It’s Record Store Day. There’s a festival in the desert. There’s a smaller festival in the desert. And there’s a smaller festival yet downtown. One, two, three … break: ‣ Tinariwen, Warpaint, Chelsea Wolfe and Fool’s Gold highlight the Desert Daze festival near Mecca. Details here. ‣ The […]
The upstart Desert Daze festival, offering a Mojave-perfect lineup headed up by Tinariwen, Warpaint, Fool’s Gold, Chelsea Wolfe and the Entrance Band, has announced set times for Saturday’s event. The festival, mounted by the same folks behind the psych-rock-friendly Moon Block Party events, is being held at the 160-acre Sunset Ranch Oasis in Mecca, about […]
Coachella, you’ve got company. Desert Daze, a by-the-bootstraps festival that debuted over 11 days last year in Desert Hot Springs, today announced a hallucination-inducing lineup headed up by Saharan rockers Tinariwen and L.A.’s Warpaint. The one-day event on Saturday, April 20 – opposite the second day of Coachella’s second weekend – also features Chelsea Wolfe, […]
