Desert Drone, Tucson, AZ (2025)

06/23/2025

Our next Slow Drone is coming up Sunday, June 29th! We have Jerrick Lee Tsosie as our next featured artist in our taproom lounge series taking place every other Sunday at Slow Body.

Jerrick is one half of illustrious Tucson duo Maiiuwak and he will bring the vibes to Slow Body from 6pm-8pm. Come see Jerrick and enjoy the sounds of Slow Drone while having a nice drink. Thank you to Slow Body for working together on this with us to bring you a cool place to vibe out during the hot Tucson summer.

06/21/2025

Desert Drone presents our first show in the main lobby of the Historic Y building. Join us for the tour kickoff for trio Bolt of Void, joined by Compersion and Tucson Duo Project.

We're excited to bring music to such a historic building at 738 N 5th Ave in the West University neighborhood of Tucson.

Doors are at 7:00pm, $12 entry fee but no one will be turned away. All Ages.

06/21/2025

Sunday, June 22nd Desert Drone and Nitecall present Yama Uba and Black Tapestry live at Pidgin Palace with Mijito (DJ). Doors 7:30pm $12 entry.

Yama Uba is a dark synth pop / post-punk duo that reaches into the depths of human experience and brings to light the range of emotion that makes us whole. The sonic palette of duo Akiko Sampson and Winter Zora expresses the complexity of the human spirit, from love to hope to rage, through a emotive vocals, shimmering guitar, and soaring saxophone atop explosive bass, velvet synthesizers, and machine beats.

Based in Oakland, California and Asheville, North Carolina, this duo just released their debut LP, Silhouettes, on Psychic Eye and Ratskin Records

06/17/2025

Coming up Friday June 20th, Desert Drone and Wave Archive present a special late night summer solstice event. On tour from Louisiana we have Hal Lambert and Mitchell Mobley, alongside locals Whorls, Hannah Joyce, Pineross, and coming down from Phoenix, Seth Kasselman.

Doors are at 10pm! $12-20 notaflof

Hal Lambert and Mitchell Mobley are a droned-out, expansive, and sound bathing, guitar’n’drums duo from Baton Rouge. The pair have released their recordings on Lambert's Tentative Power imprint. Reviews have compared the pair's music to the free rock of The Dead C, a mellowed out Orcutt-Corano duo, or Sonic Youth tuning up their guitars.

06/12/2025

We're doing something new on Sunday, June 15th! Introducing Slow Drone, our taproom lounge series taking place every other Sunday at our favorite brewery, Slow Body. This is the perfect opportunity to come down, support a local artist, and have some tasty beers, seltzers, and shrubs with plenty of n/a options available.

Our first artist up is Chelsey Lee Trejo, a regular Desert Drone favorite. Chelsey will bring the vibes to Slow Body from 6pm-8pm. Come see her and hang out for a little! Thank you to Slow Body for working together on this with us to bring you a cool place to vibe out during the hot Tucson summer.

06/11/2025

Welcoming back Raquel Denis to Desert Drone Thursday June 12th at Pidgin Palace.

W/Briana Marela
Britt Warner
Doors 7:30pm Music 8:00pm $12

Raquel Denis () is a singer songwriter, experimental musician, poet and artist living on Tohono O’odham and Pascua Yaqui land. Her practice is informed by her ties to the land, her matrilineal line, her multi-cultural roots and mixing meditation and improvisational practices.

06/09/2025

Britt Warner joins us at Pidgin Palace Thursday June 12th for her first Desert Drone performance. She'll be joined by Briana Marela and Raquel Denis.

Britt Warner is a multidisciplinary artist who recently relocated to Tucson after the fires in her native Los Angeles. As a musician, she has collaborated with artists such as Flea, Miike Snow, and Deradoorian on original songs and live performances. Her music has been featured in film, television, trailers, and promos, and she has released work under both her own name and the moniker October’s Child (with Jordan Waré).

Her latest album, The Portal, marks a shift toward raw, experimental vocal improvisations using only a looper, microphone, and the immediacy of emotion—embracing limitation as a form of liberation. In contrast, her previous release, The Ransom, is a layered, collaborative project shaped over time.

In addition to music, Britt’s novella Swimming With Horses is now available online and locally at Exo Roast Co. She will be performing live at the Tucson Museum of Art on September 4th.

06/08/2025

We're so excited for Briana Marela to be in Tucson on Thursday, June 12th at Pidgin Palace. Brianna is celebrating the release of her latest album "My Inner Rest". She's joined by Raquel Denis and Britt Warner.

My Inner Rest is a collection of 12 electroacoustic songs performed live by Briana Marela in the Mills College concert hall. With her emotional vocal performance as the focal point, she carves out a minimal yet lush space for swirling and skittering synths, vocal sampling, and live processing to caress and accompany her journey of reconnecting with her creative spirit. Combating self-doubt while redefining her relationship to her artistic practice, My Inner Rest is a vital document in learning how to love and have compassion for oneself.

Photo by Jake Parker Scott, taken at Light Field at The Lab in SF, April 2023

05/28/2025

We present a very special late night summer solstice show at Wave Archive on June 20th. 10pm doors, music from 10:30pm - late!

Featuring Hal Lambert & Mitchell Mobley on tour, with locals Hannah Joyce, Pineross, Whorls, and Seth Kasselman from Phoenix.

05/21/2025

Announcing our newest physical release: Lana Del Rabies "Anne Boleyn/Queen of the Black Muses" 7" lathe cut record. Available on her upcoming tour with John Wiese and the Desert Drone bandcamp. Link to order in bio.

Lana Del Rabies is the uncompromising project of Los Angeles-based artist Sam An, known for her visceral fusion of industrial, gothic noise, and experimental metal. Hailed by The Quietus, Metal Hammer, and WIRE Magazine, her past releases have earned acclaim for their raw intensity and emotional depth. Her live shows are cathartic rituals — immersive, unrelenting, unforgettable.

In 2025, she returns with Le Temps Viendra (The Time Will Come), a bold EP named after a piece of writing by the infamous English Queen Anne Boleyn — a cryptic emblem of ambition and fate created during her rise to power in the English court, before her exile and ex*****on by her husband King Henry VIII. The namesake lead track, "Anne Boleyn", merges ghostly elegance with brutal force.

This exclusive lathe cut record from Desert Drone features two tracks from Le Temps Viendra, including Anne Boleyn, and the 2024 single “Queen of the Black Muses”.

05/20/2025

Our next show is happening at Pidgin Palace on Thursday, June 12th. We have Briana Marela, on tour from Oakland, in support of her new album. She'll be joined by locals Raquel Denis and Britt Warner.

Briana Marela is a Peruvian American composer, vocalist, and performing artist based out of Oakland, CA. Using her voice as a focal point, she makes use of visually engaging elements of tech augmented gestures and objects to compose and perform her music live. Her gestural and lyrical song performances draw from elements of both experimental electronic music and vocal driven pop music. Using a visual programming language and machine learning, she is able to make custom tools to create compositions with varying fixed elements that transition into moments of improvisation.

Her newest full length release My Inner Rest, is due to be released on June 6th via AKP Recordings. Marela has self-released past albums, as well as releasing records with Jagjaguwar, Surface World and PIAPTK.

05/16/2025

Welcoming back our friend Pineross to Desert Drone. Pineross will be playing Monday, May 19th at Pidgin Palace with toueing artists Jessica Pavone and Amy Cimini, and fellow local Miguel Urbina.

Pineross is the musical project of Kevin Larkin, a sound and multimedia artist based in Tucson, Arizona. Drawing on roots in Celtic, bluegrass, and world music, Larkin blends electronically manipulated field recordings with performance art to create immersive, atmospheric experiences. His genre-spanning career includes touring the Deep South in a bluegrass band, composing ballet scores with the art-folk ensemble Chimney Choir, performing suspended from trees at the Breckenridge International Festival of Arts, and developing an interactive sound installation as Artist-in-Residence at Great Sand Dunes National Park. Pineross' latest single, Under a Tree, was written for an experimental puppet show exploring artificial intelligence and puppetry that premiered at the Tucson Puppet Cabaret

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