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Sonoran Desert showcase for ambient/drone/noise/experimental artists.

12/13/2025

We're thrilled to be announcing that Karima Walker will be joining Midwife and Amulets for the Tucson stop of their "Happy Wife, Happy Life" tour at Solar Culture in Tucson on February 5th.

February 5th Solar Culture
7:00pm doors 8:00pm Music
$15 adv $17 dos
Tickets at bestlifepresents.com

12/11/2025

Support announced for Midwife in Phoenix on January 28th at The Rebel Lounge. Excited to have the incredible Rotting Yellow join the bill alongside tour support Amulets.

Tickets available now at therebellounge.com

12/10/2025

We're excited to announce our first show of 2026, join us at Wave Archive on Wednesday, January 7th to send off our friend Cecyl Ruehlen on his solo tour.

Cecyl is touring for the release of his upcoming LP "A Moving Stone That Bends" slated to come out on early in the year, and he'll be playing his latest hand built instrument The Cosmic Füga.

Feral Claw, mmra, and Zack Hansen will be rounding out the night.

Doors 7:00pm Music 7:30pm
$10-$20 no one turned away for lack of funds
All ages entry

12/07/2025

The Sine & Symbol fundraiser was a huge success and we wanted to thank all who attended and helped us raise money for Tucson's only DIY experimental intermedia arts festival!

We especially want to thank Wooden Tooth Records for their support and our friends Emily Xander, Greg Saunier, Cecyl Ruehlen, Kari Treadwell, Jerrick Lee Tsosie, and Ricky Tutaan for playing and donating their time and beautiful music!

Sine & Symbol 2026 takes place March 12th-15th and we're really excited for next year's lineup. More info soon!

12/04/2025

We are absolutely ecstatic to announce two shows for San Francisco based experimental sound artist Victoria Shen (A.K.A. Evicshen) at Wave Archive in Tucson and Linger Longer Lounge in Phoenix.

Victoria will be joined by Algae & Tentacles on April 30th in Tucson and Lauren Sarah Hayes in Phoenix on May 1st. Tickets on our website desertdrone.org

Evicshen is a sound performance alias by Victoria Shen who manipulates records and materials of all kinds. Her sounds oscillate between moments of restraint and swells of frenetic and confrontational movement. Eschewing conventions in harmony and rhythm in favor of extreme textures and gestural tones, Shen uses what she calls 'chaotic sound' to oppose signal and information, eluding traditionally embedded meaning. Her personal identity, her body, is the space her work utilizes to restructure sonic meaning. In her live performances, she proposes an exploration between meaning and non-meaning through the physical activation of noise tropes. The appendage-like instruments and objects she makes, exemplify Shen’s ability to embody through sound her interest in the tension created by opposition: control and chaos, the unique and the mass produced, the practical and the absurd.

12/01/2025

Saturday, December 6th at Wooden Tooth Records downtown, we welcome Yellow Moon Temple. They'll be playing as well as MaiiuwaK and Deep Stay for our Sine & Symbol fundraiser.

Yellow Moon Temple is Kari Treadwell and Cecyl Ruehlen. This is one of many projects the duo has collaborated on since 2011. Their work haunts the body with ecstatic lunar energy, finding pleasure in warbling repetitions, cloud-like tones, and sounds within sounds. The kernel of their practice contains a deep interest in the drone-continuum, somatic trance, and a love of new age deep cuts.

Cecyl and Kari both played in the 2025 Sine & Symbol, participating in the group improvisational night and performing with their trio Bolt Of Void, and we're so happy they're helping us raise money for the 2026 festival.

11/30/2025

Join us Sunday December 28th for the last Desert Drone event of the year. We present "Ambient" Matinee at Slow Body Beer from 2pm-5pm. Come join us for a pleasant afternoon of experimental sounds and celebrate the end of another year of Sonoran Desert music.

Featuring:
Christopher Alagna
Clay Camero
Filtercreed

This is a free event with a suggested donation for the artists. Music starts 2:30pm on the Slow Body patio.

11/29/2025

The Sine & Symbol fundraiser show is a week away and in the meantime, we wanted to explain what exactly it's all about. The fundraiser show featuring Yellow Moon Temple, MaiiuwaK, and Deep Stay is at Wooden Tooth Records on Saturday December 6th.

The show itself is $10 entry, but you also have the option to spend $30 and get into the fundraiser show plus a Sine & Symbol early bird pass! That's $20 for the full fest.

All the money raised at the fundraiser show goes towards the Sine & Symbol festival happening March 12th-15th. It helps pay artists and gives us a base to work with going forward.

11/23/2025

Unfortunately Raquel Denis has had to drop off the December 6th Sine & Symbol fundraiser show, however, our good friend Deep Stay has agreed to help us out and jump on the show. Thank you Emily!

Reminder this is a $10 show with the option to also throw in an extra $20 and secure an early bird all festival pass. You get 5 shows for $30 with this pass (this show and 4 Sine & Symbol shows). After this, the pass goes up to $40. It's a great way to show a little support for our DIY intermedia arts festival.

11/20/2025

Through A Glass, Darkly LP release show. Sunday November 23rd at Yucca Tap Room in Tempe. They'll be joined by Rotting Yellow, The Living Receiver, and Bright, Bright. Doors 7:30pm music starts at 8:00pm. $15 at the door.

They'll have copies of their new 12" on sale along with shirts and long sleeves from the recent pre order.

The record is getting rave reviews so far! Come see it live.

11/17/2025

Tuesday, November 18th at Wave Archive. Cantati, Britt Warner, and Jeff Greinke perform. Doors 7:00pm, $12 all ages entry.

Tasya Abbot is a multimedia artist, musician, and material scholar based in Berkeley, California. Her expansive work centers on spatial mapping in sound and string. She sings a lot. She holds a degree in performance design from Hampshire College, writes nonstop, and works in specialty textiles. CANTATI is her ethereal choral project that brings ancient trance vibes. Tasya builds waves that mutate over time, using her expansive voice to craft cavernous live-loop soundscapes and devised devotionals.

11/15/2025

Our next show coming up is Tuesday November 18th at Wave Archive, and Britt Warner is back at Desert Drone, she'll be performing as well as CANTATI from the Bay Area and Jeff Greinke.

Doors 7:00pm
Music 7:30
$12 notaflof
All ages

Britt Warner is a singer, songwriter, and producer from Los Angeles. She moved to Tucson in February 2025 and has been performing ethereal vocal improvisations around town with a looper following the January release of her album in a similar vein, "The Portal."

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http://desertdrone.org/

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