Desert Daze

Welcome to the official Desert Daze information super-highway! This year’s Desert Daze takes place on Saturday, April 20 @ Sunset Ranch Oasis in Mecca, CA (2.5 hrs SE of Los Angeles, 25 min SE of Indio, near the Salton Sea). Moon Block Party is proud to present an amazing lineup of music featuring: Tinariwen from [...]

TINARIWEN

TINARIWEN Origin: Kidal, Mali (Africa) Bio: Tinariwen are poet-guitarists and soul rebels from the Southern Sahara desert. Their music expresses the aspirations of their people, the Kel Tamashek or ‘Touareg’ of the southern Sahara desert. The guitar is their weapon. Simplicity is Freedom. Facebook Website Bandcamp Videos:

WARPAINT

WARPAINT Origin: Los Angeles, CA Bio: Warpaint is an all-girl quartet from Los Angeles. They weave intricate guitar lines, hypnotic vocals, and driving post-punk rhythms into gorgeous, sprawling songs that skirt the line between the soundscapes of psychedelia and intimacy. Onstage, Warpaint’s disarmingly authentic package can shake a room into a dance frenzy, while simultaneously [...]

CHELSEA WOLFE

CHELSEA WOLFE Origin: Los Angeles, CA Bio: Northern California native Chelsea Wolfe’s sound is best described with broad strokes: elemental, intense, radiant, ancient yet modern, intimate yet expansive, dark and sparkling. Hues of black metal and deep blues inform her ever-evolving electric folk—a warm force that wraps itself around the listener, encouraging uplift, seeking triumph. [...]

FOOL’S GOLD

FOOL’S GOLD Origin: Los Angeles, CA Bio: Fool’s Gold is a Los Angeles collective that weaves together Western pop aesthetics with African rhythms and melodies. The group started as a side project of musicians Luke Top (a vocalist and bassist) and Lewis Pesacov (lead guitarist), who set out to explore their shared love of various [...]

THE ENTRANCE BAND

(photo credit- Amanda Zazi Charchian) THE ENTRANCE BAND Origin: Los Angeles, CA Bio: “The Entrance Band’s new music is the most alluring and, yes, entrancing vibe I’ve yet to experience in this new age. A soundtrack for the new groove.” -Thurston Moore Facebook Website Videos:

NIGHT BEATS

NIGHT BEATS Origin: Seattle, WA Bio: Night Beats currently hail from Seattle but as two of the three members are originally from Texas, it’s not hard to pick out the influence of golden age TX psych idols such as the 13th Floor Elevators, Lost and Found and Golden Dawn. Facebook Videos:

MINI MANSIONS

MINI MANSIONS Origin: Los Angeles, CA Bio: If pure sound had the capability to project images on a blank wall, Mini Mansions would be worthy projectionists. On a break from Queens of the Stone Age, Michael Shuman melded heads and locked arms with longtime friends Tyler Parkford and Zach Dawes in a dusty room in the San [...]

LUMERIANS

LUMERIANS Origin: Oakland, CA Bio: From sub-orbit the horizon curves; what was future becomes past and then back again. Four structures take form, indicating the shape of things to come, somehow familiar. A long-fused charge of anti-apocalypse rock. Change is not the end. Life persists. The world is not ending, but YOU are. The notion [...]

COSMONAUTS

COSMONAUTS Origin: Fullerton, CA Bio: “Their raucous set was like if the Velvet Underground had turned to the MC5 at their Boston Tea Party concert in 1968 and, instead of insulting them, had turned and made love to them—and that was how Lou Reed wound up wearing that dog collar. I couldn’t make out a [...]

GOLDEN ANIMALS

GOLDEN ANIMALS Origin: Brooklyn, NY Bio: Golden Animals are an American Psychedelic Rock Duo formed in Brooklyn in 2007. The band is: Tommy Eisner on guitar and vocals and Linda Beecroft on drums and backing vocals. Tommy is a native of Baltimore who moved to New York and studied painting for a time before the [...]

J E F F E R T I T T I ‘s N I L E

J E F F E R T I T T I ‘s N I L E Origin: Los Angeles, CA Bio: Like the curvaceous, bountiful river in Egypt, J E F F E R T I T T I ‘s N I L E is an ever-changing, flowing sonic stream with twists & turns at [...]

DAHGA BLOOM

Dahga Bloom Origin: Fullerton, CA Facebook Website Videos:

MATT BALDWIN

Matt Baldwin Origin: Monterey, CA Bio: Upon release in 2008, Matt Baldwin’s debut album, Paths of Ignition, was anointed by Julian Cope as Album of the Month on his Head Heritage website. In his review, Cope predicted the evolution that is heard now on Night In The Triangle: “From the very first moment I dragged the [...]

INCAN ABRAHAM

Incan Abraham Origin: Los Angeles, CA Bio: Incan Abraham is a NY State founded and LA based four piece specializing in a unique brand of world infused psychedelic pop. Like their name, their music evokes faraway dreams, while confronting you with the immediacy of life today. Facebook Website Bandcamp Videos:

JJUUJJUU

JJUUJJUU Origin: Los Angeles, CA Bio: JJUUJJUU is an astral union, an arcane ritual, and above all, a conversation. Harnessing an unspoken energy, the pairing (Andrew Clinco + Phil Pirrone) have exponentially blossomed from a sonic experiment to a forceful, telepathic dialogue of distinct-but-aligned vibrations. Releasing this dynamic on an expanding spiral of planned and impromptu live [...]

DEATH HYMN NUMBER 9

DEATH HYMN NUMBER 9 Origin: Fullerton, CA Bio: Formed out of the murky Louisiana Swamp, these four denizens of somnambulance and limited brain power were a former backing band to Motown’s greats, until abandoned at a routine gas stop in Baton Rouge in August 1965. In an act of brazen post-mortem activity, the band soldiered [...]

FEEDING PEOPLE

FEEDING PEOPLE Origin: Bio: “At one level, this is garage rock … But the music on Peace, Victory and the Devil breaks out of those constraints, not as if it’s struggling but as if it’s shrugging off any concern for rules, as if it’s easy to pioneer a new sound. Whether [Jones] is channeling spirits, [...]

CGAK

CGAK • (((aka Chris Tsagakis))) Origin: Long Beach, CA Bio: I am a drummer, songwriter, and artist living in Southern California. Over the last 15 years I have worked as a touring and studio drummer with RxBandits, The Sound of Animals Fighting, Laura Roppe, Love you Moon, Big Sir, Vital Emcee and many more. I [...]

THE DOWNTOWN TRAIN

THE DOWNTOWN TRAIN Origin: Los Angeles, CA Bio: You can find this LA Blues band playing in clubs, alley ways & garage parties across the city. They have a tone that takes you back to 1950′s Chicago yet their sound is uniquely hip modern Los Angeles. Fragments of streets, skylines and love add color & [...]

BLACKFEET BRAVES

BLACKFEET BRAVES Origin: Los Angeles, CA Bio: Horizons, time. The sad truths of society’s most accepted emotions. Dreams, insignificance. Events leading up to epiphanies, spells easily creating what should be. Stars sweeping across your soul with ideas of what the night will eventually hold, fears. The freedom of summertime, easy going lifestyles. Grooving beneath the [...]