With just a confirmation for the final evening’s headliner to go, I feel pretty comfortable putting Planet Desert Rock Weekend V squarely in “sick lineup” territory. There’s a great mix of old and new bands, and with eight international acts, it’s not the same show you see everywhere else or just the usual-suspect bands who happen to be on tour. It’s curated, and pieced together to be exactly what it is, and whether it’s bringing Omega Sun from Slovenia for a return appearance, pulling from one side of the US with Mos Generator or the other with Solace, the blend of styles around a heavy rock foundation is no less striking than the geography. I’d go in a heartbeat.

Unida are the second headliner to be announced behind Fireball Ministry. There’s one more to go, and as organizer John Gist unveils below, there’s a five-band Sunday show that I assume will serve as kind of the comedown day, help people transition back to real life, and so on. Interested to see who’s playing that, but either way, if this doesn’t already have you looking at flights, it should.

From the PR wire:

Planet Desert Rock Weekend V — Jan. 30 – Feb. 1

Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/planet-desert-rock-weekend-v-in-las-vegas-jan-30-31-feb-1-2025-tickets-873750791137

FB event: https://facebook.com/events/s/planet-desert-rock-weekend-v-j/1399556780734695/

Vegas Rock Revolution is fired up to have Unida as part of Planet Desert Rock Weekend V! Unida recently have rejoined together without John Garcia who has given his blessing to play live shows again. VRR has witnessed first hand on 2 VRR shows the amazing vocal prowess of Mark Sunshine who has played not only with Patriarchs in Black but also with Riotgod who featured Bob Pantella and Garrett Sweeny of Monster Magnet/ Atomic Bitchwax. These classic desert rock songs deserve to be played live and Arthur Seay on guitar always brings the riffs and energy. Arthur and Mike Cancino’s other band House of Broken Promises not only played VRR’s first show ever but have also played PDRW v2. On bass is a beast of a rocker Collyn McCoy from The Ultra Electric Mega Galactic and others. He performed at PDRW v2 with Sasquatch as well.

Unida will be headlining open night of PDRW V on January 30, 2025 at world famous Count’s Vamp’d which is owned by TV personality Danny Koker of the History Channel show “Counting Cars’ as well as vocalist for Count’s 77. We have one remaining band to announce for PDRW V and it will be the headliner for Night 3. In addition be on the lookout for a Sunday show that weekend that will be aptly named “Last Call”. We will have five carefully selected bands for this evening which will be held in a venue in The Arts District of Las Vegas. Most of the bands have been decided and one will be a very outside the box band that is sure to excite the well versed VRR PDRW crowd! More on that soon! That will be a separate ticket.

We also have got more great news as Joey Ruddell will be doing posters and shirts for PDRW V. If you didn’t snag shirts for PDRW IV here is the link to snag one of these badass designs: https://5b9ac2-77.myshopify.com/

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Planet Desert Rock Weekend V preview playlist

Tags: Las Vegas, Nevada, Planet Desert Rock Weekend, Planet Desert Rock Weekend V, Unida

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