Pioneering, influential desert rock band Yawning Man (who helped influence bands like Kyuss and Queens of the Stone Age and eventually shared members with both) wanted to do something unique for their ...

Yawning Sons, the transatlantic collaborative project from desert rock pioneers Yawning Man and UK band Sons of Alpha Centauri, debuted with the album Ceremony to the Sunset in 2009, and now over a ...

Formed in La Quinta, California (“the Gem of the Desert”), in 1986, Yawning Man are largely considered the fathers of the desert-rock movement. The band’s now legendary “generator parties”—all-night ...

If any band deserves to have a 1,000 think pieces written about their influence on an entire music scene, it’s Yawning Man. The desert generator parties spearheaded by the band in the mid ’80s are the ...

Mario Lalli is known for throwing generator parties in the California desert the early '90s. The bassist led his Coachella Valley band Yawning Man and others out to desolate locations, where bands ...

Much as its name suggests, desert rock is a subgenre whose roots can be traced to the Palm Desert scene of the late 80s and early 1990s. Ostensibly an offshoot of stoner metal, desert rock nonetheless ...