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

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."

Photography .elena.studio

11/13/2025

We're excited to welcome back Tucson ambient legend Jeff Greinke to Desert Drone. Jeff plays Tuesday November 18th at Wave Archive alongside Bay Area act Cantati and recent Tucson transplant Britt Warner.

Jeff Greinke has been composing, recording, and performing his otherworldly musical landscapes since 1980. He has released 25 solo albums and has performed throughout the US and Europe, as well as in Canada, Mexico, China, Hong Kong and Macau. Jeff has a degree in meteorology and weather has remained a central theme of his heavily atmospheric work. Through a meticulous process of layering using various synthesizers, samplers, effects, and an assortment of acoustic sound making devices, Jeff creates highly evocative soundscapes conjuring a strong sense of place hovering somewhere between the exotic and familiar.

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

11/11/2025

Tuesday November 18th at Wave Archive, Cantati visits Tucson with Jeff Greinke and Britt Warner playing as well.

CANTATI is an ethereal choral ocean bringing ancient trance vibes from the Bay Area. Artist builds waves that mutate over time, using her expansive voice to craft cavernous live-loop soundscapes and devised devotionals.

Wave Archive 197 E. Toole
Doors 7:00pm Music 7:30pm
$12 notaflof all ages

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11/07/2025

Sine & Symbol is back in March 2026! The 4 day intermedia art and sound festival will take place in Tucson, AZ March 12th - 15th. We're warming up by hosting a fundraiser on December 6th at Wooden Tooth Records.

We're so pleased to have our friends (and 2025 S & S artists) MaiiuwaK, Raquel Denis, and Yellow Moon Temple play to help us raise preliminary funds for the festival. The show itself is $10 but you have the option to throw in an additional $20 to reserve a $30 early bird ticket for the festival, this option is only available at the December 6th show, after that the price goes up to $40 (+ online ticket fees) so make sure you come out! This is the easiest and cheapest way to support our independent DIY festival.

We hope to start announcing artists before the end of the year with many more artists to come along with venues and headliners.

11/03/2025

Another incredible Desert Drone at The Historic Y, this time in their beautiful courtyard. We're honored to be able to put on shows in such a cool atmosphere. Thank you to Jo and Kevin and the BCC Archives Commune for their help with these shows.

Dactyls and Compersion put on a great show and we're grateful to book bands and people like them. Our next show is November 18th at with and and we hope to see you there. A few more shows to come this year.

10/31/2025

Proud to once again present Tucson experimental chamber trio Compersion. An eclectic ensemble of marimba, upright bass, violin, and clarinet, this trio creates sublime grooves to help you hover just above the earth.

Sunday November 2nd The Historic Y Courtyard
300 E University Blvd.
With
All ages | $10 | notaflof
Presented with

10/29/2025

Sunday November 2nd Dactyls plays their first Desert Drone in The Historic Y Courtyard, they'll be joined by our friends Compersion to bring their experimental jazz sounds to University Ave.

Shoegaze with a jazz edge, a musical offering to the mathy stoner in us all. Tucson-based q***r indie jazz quartet Dactyls plays collaboratively written original compositions featuring electric guitar, tenor saxophone, electric bass and drums.

The Historic Y Courtyard 300 E. University Blvd

Doors 7:00pm Music 7:30pm
Dactyls
Compersion
All ages $10 no one turned away for lack of funds
Presented with

10/26/2025

We're still buzzing over here about the absolutely beautiful show at The Historic Y on October 22nd and we're gearing up to do it again on Sunday November 2nd. This time we have a 2 band bill featuring Dactyls and Compersion. If you missed out on the last show you definitely don't want to miss our first event in the Historic Y Courtyard.

The experimental Archives Commune is ongoing as well so feel free to check that out between now and then, they put together such a cool exhibit featuring Tucson's experimental past and present.

10/22/2025

Unfortunately, Dreamage has dropped off the bill for October 22nd at the Historic Y. We promise to bring them back in the new year when we can. We do have Karina Marcano opening the show now with a solo set and we're happy to have her performing. The show is now $10 as well. Still starting music at 7:30pm and we still have the experimental archives open from 6-7!

KarMar
The Listening Choir
Vulture Vault

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

Historic Y Main Lobby
738 N 5th Ave

10/20/2025

DREAMAGE - October 22nd 2025

Historic Y Main Lobby
Enter at 738 N 5th Ave
Doors 7:00pm

Vulture Vault
The Listening Choir

This is a special show and we're honored to be working with Chris and Jess, better known for their legendary band This Will Destroy You, a band we've been listening to here for 19 years. Side note, Desert Drone affiliated band North (playing this Friday at Dragoon Brewing) played a show in downtown Tucson in 2006 with This Will Destroy You at long-defunct art gallery/space 36 Chambers.

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