Desert Drone, Tucson, AZ (2025)

02/20/2025

Welcoming Gabby Isaac to Tucson on Friday, February 21st, at Pidgin Palace.

Gabby Isaac is a computer musician from Phoenix, Arizona. She has a background in classical piano and personal interest in DIY music. She studied digital sound and received both her B.A. (2016) and M.A. (2018) from ASU's School of Arts, Media + Engineering. Isaac's current work employs her laptop as a feedback loop, sound source, and physical instrument.

02/19/2025

Briartronics making their Desert Drone debut Friday, February 21st, at Pidgin Palace Arts on S. 6th Ave. Doors open at 7:30.

This incarnation of briartronics (Micah Sage, Eidan Shachter-Brooks, JC Chiraguayo) melds ethereal oscillations, quantum rhythms, and allegedly subliminal messages into a hypnotic and surreal sonic landscape. This will be the first incarnation of briartronics to feature additional instrumentation, a selection of written material, and elements of theatre.

02/18/2025

Thursday, March 20th, at Slow Body, we welcome Mind Mirage and 55CASTLES. Mind Mirage from Oakland, CA, the solo electronic creation of producer/musician Ana Cuevas, joined on tour by 55CASTLES, the darkwave duo from Oakland. They'll be supported by locals Ren and Dollblood.

This is a free show with donations encouraged to support the locals. Music will start at 7:00pm sharp.

02/13/2025

Denver-based doom/sludge metal band Oryx returns to Tucson on April 26th at Wooden Tooth Records. They'll be joined by locals Manguera and Black Baptist. We're excited to have our longtime friends back in Arizona.

Oryx is comprised of Thomas Davis (vocals, guitars, synth), Abigail Davis (drums), and Joshua Kauffman (bass). ORYX is a monolithic force, characterized by thick, suffocating riffs, pulverizing drums, and vocals that seep into the listener's psyche like a toxic sludge

02/10/2025

Friday, March 14th, at Wave Archive, we welcome Mitchell Keaney to Tucson. Mitchell is an artist and musician based in Berlin by way of Phoenix. He works with hardware electronics to collage various sound sources into recorded music and live performances.

He'll be joined by Beck Rose and Skincage. 7:00PM doors, $12-$20 donation.

01/30/2025

Super Bloom day 2 featuring Claire Rousay, Karima Walker, Zack Hansen, Tommy McPhee, and Myles Kellerman, Sofía Matus Cancino, and Kylar Gardner.

The Super Bloom festival 2025 was a two day drone and ambient music festival at the ASU West Valley campus. The festival highlighted local musicians from Arizona and celebrated our state’s unique contribution to the Southwest experimental music scene.

01/29/2025

Thursday, January 30th at Wave Archive, Deep Stay and Zack Hansen join Lightning White Bison for a night of experimental music.

Doors open at 7:00 pm, music starts around 7:30, $10 - $20 no one turned away from lack of funds.

Lightning White Bison will be performing a live musical score to Jason Pappariella's visual documentary video "An Observance of Absence", which documents interior and exterior places left vacant and dilapidated by the abandonment of Central Pennsylvania's anthracite coal-mining region, juxtaposing them against similarly neglected sites in industrial Eastern Europe. Adam Parks (Lightning White Bison) will perform a live musical accompaniment on manipulated analogue four-track using sounds recorded and collected on-site in both locales.

Photos from and .eppley

01/28/2025

Photos from night one of Super Bloom, featuring Steve Roach, Tsone, Maiiuwak, Jean Howard, Edward Sullivan & Ty Parker, Addison Hill, and Ro Shaker. Thank you to all the artists and attendees who made the night so special.

Stay tuned for night 2.

01/24/2025

Pleased to announce our first show at Pidgin Palace Arts on February 21st! We've put together an all Arizona lineup featuring Compersion, Gabby Isaac, Julio Lopez, and Briartronics.

Friday, February 21st, at Pidgin Palace Arts. Doors 7:30pm Music 8:00pm 21+ $12 at the door.

01/15/2025

Super Bloom, Friday January 17th and Saturday, January 18th, a two day drone and ambient music festival at the ASU West Valley campus. The free event features local and national experimental and electronic musicians who work in the genre of drone music. Minimalist and immersive, drone explores longform and slow arrangements of acoustic and electronic tones, chords, and other subtle sounds to build durational ambient soundscapes. The festival will especially highlight local musicians from Arizona to celebrate our state’s unique contribution to the Southwest experimental music scene.

SUPER BLOOM is curated by Charles Eppley, Assistant Teaching Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts & Performance, in collaboration with local experimental music curator Desert Drone.

Link in bio for RSVP.

01/12/2025

Appearing Tuesday, January 14th at Wave Archive in downtown Tucson, we welcome Kelby Clark to Desert Drone.

Kelby Clark (K.L. Clark) is a composer, improviser, and banjo player from Georgia. He is inspired by the old-time music of his home state as well as drone, free improvisation, ragas and many other forms of music from around the world. His playing draws from clawhammer banjo traditions as well as sitar, sarod, tanbur, flamenco guitar, and classical guitar techniques. Clark has released work on labels such as Vaagner, Working Man Lay Down, Garden Portal, Tentative Power, Amulet of Tears, Eastern Nurseries and Audio. Visuals. Atmosphere. He has also scored several independent films such as She Drank Vinegar from the River (2023) and Sometimes I Hear the Light Leak in Through the Corners of My Room (2023). He is currently based in Los Angeles."

01/11/2025

Full lineup announcement for Super Bloom, happening January 17th and 18th in Glendale, AZ at ASU West Valley campus in the Kiva Lecture Hall. This event is free to community, RSVP at the link in our bio.

01/10/2025

We have a special show at Wave Archive on Thursday, January 30th. Lightning White Bison will be traveling around the southwest, performing a live musical score to Jason Pappariella's visual documentary video "An Observance of Absence".

"An Observance of Absence", by Jason Pappariella, documents interior and exterior places left vacant and dilapidated by the abandonment of Central Pennsylvania's anthracite coal-mining region, juxtaposing them against similarly neglected sites in industrial Eastern Europe. Adam Parks (Lightning White Bison) will perform a live musical accompaniment on manipulated analogue four-track using sounds recorded and collected on-site in both locales.

They'll be joined by locals Deep Stay and Zack Hansen. Doors 7:00pm, $10-$20, no one turned away due to lack of funds.

01/09/2025

January 30th at Wave Archive, we're bringing together two out of town acts, Mad Kate all the way from Germany, and Lightning White Bison from Virginia. They'll be accompanied by locals Deep Stay and Zack Hansen.

Mad Kate is an electronic producer and performer who began working the Berlin performance club scene in 2004, expanding their unique identity-queering, genderfcking and sexpositive performative work throughout music, theatre and film.

Lightning White Bison will be performing live musical score to Jason Pappariella's visual documentary video "An Observance of Absence").

"An Observance of Absence", by Jason Pappariella, documents interior and exterior places left vacant and dilapidated by the abandonment of Central Pennsylvania's anthracite coal-mining region, juxtaposing them against similarly neglected sites in industrial Eastern Europe. Adam Parks (Lightning White Bison) will perform a live musical accompaniment on manipulated analogue four-track using sounds recorded and collected on-site in both locales.

Doors 7:00pm Music starts at 7:30pm, $10-$20, no one turned away due to lack of funds.

01/04/2025

LANA DEL RABIES returns to Desert Drone and her desert homeland Saturday, January 4th, at Last Exit Live in Phoenix and Sunday, January 5th, at The Screening Room in Tucson alongside her tour mate God Is War.

1/4 Last Exit Live w/Terminal 11/Gabby Isaac
1/5 The Screening Room w/Sleep of Eons/Ren

Lana Del Rabies, conceived by artist Sam An, is a captivating force in underground dark electronic and fringe heavy music. Merging industrial, gothic noise, and metal with experimental elements, Lana Del Rabies explores the esoteric brutality of what it means to be human in a world consumed by the threat of apocalypse. She is known for her intense and immersing live performances that hold the audience in captive catharsis.

Her first two albums, "In The End I Am A Beast" and "Shadow World," released by Los Angeles label Deathbomb Arc, showcase Lana Del Rabies' futuristic goth sound, addressing American society's growing PTSD with a stark, spectral voice.

Her third album, "STREGA BEATA," on Gilgongo Records, has earned acclaim from The Quietus, Metal Hammer, DJ Mag, and more. Described as constructively destructive, Lana Del Rabies' music outcries from beyond with surprising melodic and melancholic moments emerging from the noise and anguish.

01/03/2025

Saturday, January 4th, at Last Exit Live in Phoenix and Sunday, January 5th, at The Screening Room in Tucson, we present God Is War, alongside Lana Del Rabies.

God Is War is the solo endeavor of Lebanese American artist Mack Chami. Formed in 2018, GIW set out to compose a much more aggressive, bright, glitchy and colorful approach to noise and industrial. Quickly gaining ground with sold out releases on No Rent, Industrial Coast, Phage Tapes, and Deathbed Tapes, it was clear the heavy impression the act had on the various noise and industrial scenes worldwide.

GIW continues to break more boundaries, more stereotypes, and more rules with every release. Never allowing an audience to dictate or influence, one could consider GIW an ever evolving chameleon or octopus blending into its surroundings yet still remaining itself.

12/31/2024

Too many amazing shows and memories this year to count so here's a random assortment of bad phone camera photos from the back of The Screening Room and Wooden Tooth.

38 shows in 2024, far surpassing anything we've done before, each one had something special. 2025 is already shaping up to be just as big. Thank you to everyone.

12/30/2024

First Tucson show of the year is Sunday, January 5th, at The Screening Room.

Los Angeles artists Lana Del Rabies (Gilgongo Records, Deathbomb Arc) and God Is War (Profound Lore Records) will be making an excursion through the west coast to bring their respective takes on industrial, electronic, and noise music to the masses. LDR is back touring the states after a vicious European run with Pharmakon and Kollaps. GIW is currently touring in support of “Boogeyman Inc” on Profound Lore Records.

Local support from Ren and Sleep Of Eons.

Doors 7:30pm $12 All Ages

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