Portland heavygaze trailblazers Blackwater Holylight and Palm Springs locals The Holy Corrupt join the lineup for next March’s Mojave Experience, and the narrative of the festival digging in for its second year remains strong. Blackwater Holylight were out with Elder until that tour got canceled last week following Elder bassist Jack Donovan‘s hospitalization with pneumonia, so it seems likely that whether they’re touring in March or not they’ll be itching to get back out on a West Coast stage.

Meanwhile, I hadn’t heard The Holy Corrupt until putting this post together, but checked out a few of their tracks on Bandcamp, and that’s part of what festivals do too: expose people to things they haven’t yet heard. Their 2024 single “Hate” streams below under Blackwater Holylight‘s 2026 album, Not Here Not Gone, and you’ll find its garage metal residing between styles as the fest info hints. Good fun. Also my first exposure to Muut, who for sure remind of desert rock of yore on their newest single “Ridin’ 62.”

The update, as always, came from socials:

Mojave Experience – March 19–21, 2027
Joshua Tree Lake, California

Blackwater Holylight

BLACKWATER HOLYLIGHT joins Mojave Experience 2027.

Formed in Portland, Oregon, Blackwater Holylight have spent the past several years carving out their own place between psychedelia, doom, shoegaze and post-rock. Their music can be delicate and almost weightless one moment, then turn dark and immense without warning.

There’s a patient quality to what they do. Songs stretch out, guitars build in layers and vocals drift through the spaces between them. The heaviness is there, but it isn’t always the first thing you hear.

Across their records, the band has continued to push further into atmosphere and texture while keeping the riffs firmly underneath it all. It’s a sound that can feel beautiful, strange and slightly ominous at the same time, and one that should take on an entirely different character as the daylight fades and Blackwater Holylight settles into the Mojave night.

The Holy Corrupt

Coming out of Palm Springs, The Holy Corrupt joins Mojave Experience 2027.

Born in the Coachella Valley and shaped by the desert around them, this two-piece brings a dark, atmospheric edge to the weekend. There’s weight in their sound, but plenty of space too, with guitars that stretch out and songs that feel right at home under an open desert sky.

We’re always glad to have bands from our own desert community represented at Mojave Experience, and The Holy Corrupt will be making the short trip up from Palm Springs to join us March 19–21 in the Mojave Desert.

Muut

MUUT joins Mojave Experience 2027.

From Yucca Valley, MUUT plays heavy, atmospheric music with a distinct desert sound. Thick guitars, hypnotic passages and plenty of weight give their music a feel that fits naturally with the High Desert.

They’re part of a growing group of bands making original heavy music right here in the Morongo Basin, and we’re excited to have another local band represented at Mojave Experience.

Heavy. Atmospheric. High Desert.

See you March 19-21, 2027

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Artists Playing:
Clutch
Corrosion of Conformity
Fu Manchu
Red Fang
Blackwater Holylight
Fatso Jetson
Nebula
Sasquatch
Brant Bjork Trio
Big Scenic Nowhere
Mondo Generator
earthlings?
High Desert Queen
Black Moon Cult
Heavy Temple
Deathchant
Yawning Balch
Unida
Sons of Arrakis
Warm Uncle
Magick Potion
The Holy Corrupt
20 Watt Tombstone
Muut

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Blackwater Holylight, Not Here Not Gone (2026)

The Holy Corrupt, “Hate” (2024)

Muut, “Ridin’ 62” (2026)

I mean, god damn. It was clear from the start that Mojave Experience was doubling-down for its second year in 2027 after a successful initial outing earlier this year, but look at that bill. C.O.C., Fu Manchu, Nebula, Red Fang, Fatso Jetson, Sasquatch, on and on, all killer. Put Clutch on there and it moves even further into the realm of the epic. And it’s not just the big bands. Fatso Jetson-offshoot Warm Uncle are added here; a literal example of the next generation of desert heavy.

The emergence of a US festival culture is, for my money, the best thing to happen in the North American heavy underground over the course of this decade-so-far. The fact that events like this even exist is testimony to the fandom infrastructure supporting it, and I hope Mojave Experience goes for a long time almost as much as I wish I could be there in March to experience it.

From social media:

Mojave Experience – March 19–21, 2027
Joshua Tree Lake, California

Clutch

CLUTCH IN THE MOJAVE.

Some bands seem made for certain places.

Clutch in the middle of the Mojave Desert is one of those combinations that just makes sense.

Formed in Germantown, Maryland in 1991, Neil Fallon, Tim Sult, Dan Maines and Jean-Paul Gaster have spent more than three decades building one of the most distinct catalogs in American rock. Thirteen studio albums. Thousands of shows. And remarkably, the same four musicians who started the band are still at its core today.

From the strange, heavy groove of Spacegrass and the mythology of The Elephant Riders, through Blast Tyrant, From Beale Street to Oblivion, Earth Rocker, Psychic Warfare and 2022’s Sunrise on Slaughter Beach, Clutch have never stayed in one place musically. Blues, hardcore, funk, heavy rock and something entirely their own have all found their way into the mix.

But Clutch has always made the most sense live. Fallon’s stories and cryptic characters. Sult’s unmistakable guitar. Maines and Gaster locking into grooves that can turn a song into something completely different once it hits the stage.

Now put that under an open desert sky.

We have wanted this one for a long time

The Mojave Experience welcomes CLUTCH to the desert.

Warm Uncle

WARM UNCLE joins Mojave Experience 2027.

Cooked to order in Los Angeles, Warm Uncle came out of Big Pig and the DIY San Gabriel Valley music scene, with Dino Lalli of Fatso Jetson on vocals and guitar.

The band describes what they do simply as “Deep Fried Jams.”

There’s post-rock and desert rock in the mix, but it comes with a punk mentality and plenty of room for the songs to move. Warm Uncle can lock into a groove, stretch it out, pull it apart and take it somewhere unexpected before bringing everything back around.

The post-rock influence comes through in how tightly everything is put together. Massive drums drive the songs while the guitars build, shift and layer around them, moving between riffs, melody, noise and extended instrumental passages. Even when the band stretches things out, there’s a sense of purpose and structure underneath it.

Four uncles. Amplifiers turned up. Deep Fried Jams served hot in the Mojave.

See you March 19-21, 2027

Tickets on Sale Now: Mojaveexperience.net

Artists Playing:
Clutch
Corrosion of Conformity
Fu Manchu
Red Fang
Fatso Jetson
Nebula
Sasquatch
Brant Bjork Trio
Big Scenic Nowhere
Mondo Generator
earthlings?
High Desert Queen
Black Moon Cult
Heavy Temple
Deathchant
Yawning Balch
Unida
Sons of Arrakis
Warm Uncle
Magick Potion
20 Watt Tombstone

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Clutch, “The Drifter Returns” lyric video

Warm Uncle, “Corpulent Man” live in L.A.

I mean, yeah, duh, right? Nebula and Fu Manchu at Mojave Experience? They were the most ‘desert’ bands who didn’t actually live in the desert when they first got going in the 1990s, so it seems only fair that both acts would partake of the celebration next March. Legends of fuzz with an intertwined history, and all. Makes an awful lot of sense.

What I don’t know is how many more lineup additions Mojave Experience 2027 still has to unveil. I mean, they’ve already broken out C.O.C. and Nebula, the Fu, Red Fang, Brant Bjork and Fatso Jetson, and not that there aren’t a ton of other additions they could make — there are always more bands — but even for a three-dayer, the bill is starting to look pretty packed. I’ll keep an eye out, but so far it’s been a pleasure to watch this one shape up as it has.

From socials:

Mojave Experience – March 19–21, 2027
Joshua Tree Lake, California

Fu Manchu

Some bands belong in the desert.

Fu Manchu is one of them.

Emerging from the ashes of the Southern California hardcore band Virulence in 1990, Fu Manchu took a different path. The tempos changed, the guitars got thicker, and over the next three decades they developed a sound that would become instantly recognizable.

Albums like In Search Of…, The Action Is Go, Eatin’ Dust and King of the Road became essential records of the heavy underground. Fuzzed-out guitars, huge riffs and a deep groove became the foundation of a sound that has influenced generations of bands.

Their legendary status wasn’t created overnight. It came from decades of records, relentless touring and staying unmistakably Fu Manchu through all of it. More than thirty years later, very few bands can hit those first few notes and be identified immediately.

And they aren’t living on the past. In 2024, Fu Manchu released The Return of Tomorrow, their first studio album in six years and their first double album of new material. The record splits its 13 tracks between the massive fuzz and riffs they’re known for and a second side that stretches into slower, more spacious territory. More than three decades in, Fu Manchu are still finding new ground without losing the sound that made them who they are.

And there is something about this music that makes sense in the Mojave.

Open ground. Mountains in the distance. The last light disappearing from the sky. Then that wall of Fu Manchu fuzz moving across the desert with nothing around to contain it.

This is music born in Southern California finally getting the setting it deserves.

Fu Manchu in the Mojave Desert.

You need to be there for this one.

Nebula

NEBULA is coming to Mojave Experience 2027.

Anyone who has seen NEBULA live knows the records only tell part of the story. Eddie Glass can take a song and stretch it until the whole room seems to move with it. Riffs drift into long psychedelic passages, the guitars get buried in fuzz and feedback, and then somehow it all finds its way back to the groove.

There’s a strange energy to a NEBULA show. It can feel loose and almost out of control one minute, then completely locked in the next. That unpredictability is a big part of what makes seeing them live such an experience.

NEBULA came out of the late ’90s California underground and built their own place where psychedelic rock, blues, garage and massive guitar fuzz all meet. More than 25 years later, they still sound like NEBULA. Nobody polished the edges off.

This is a band that belongs and needs to be heard in the desert.

See you March 19-21, 2027

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Artists Playing:
Corrosion of Conformity
Fu Manchu
Red Fang
Fatso Jetson
Nebula
Sasquatch
Brant Bjork Trio
Big Scenic Nowhere
Mondo Generator
earthlings?
High Desert Queen
Black Moon Cult
Heavy Temple
Deathchant
Yawning Balch
Unida
Sons of Arrakis
Magick Potion
20 Watt Tombstone

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Fu Manchu, Live in New York, Sept. 13, 2025

Nebula, Live in Västerås, Sweden 2026

Hard to get more desert-weirdo than earthlings?, but the lineup for Mojave Experience 2027 has shown multiple times over at this point that as much as the experience is about place, the musical reach is less limited to landscape. That is to say, Corrosion of Conformity are many things, and generational heavy rock pioneers among them, but they’re not a desert band and nobody here is saying they are. They’re saying you can go to the desert and see them, and honestly that sounds really, really fucking good to me.

They and the aforementioned earthlings? are the latest additions to the fest next March, but don’t skip on Ohio’s Black Moon Cult either, who are a bright spot of an up and coming heavy psych rock outfit that would also be touring as the backing band for Mojave Experience curator Patrick Brink‘s band, Volume, on their upcoming tour (dates here), but I’m pretty sure that got canceled this week, with Black Moon Cult stepping in to fill the slot alongside Norway’s Kal-El.

I rarely use the word “epic” in the modern, ‘this is gonna be…’ sense of the word, but look at this bill:

Mojave Experience – March 19–21, 2027
Joshua Tree Lake, California

Corrosion of Conformity

For more than four decades, Corrosion Of Conformity has carved its own path, from the hardcore beginnings of Eye for an Eye and Animosity to the Southern, blues-soaked sound of Deliverance, Wiseblood and In the Arms of God.

But C.O.C. has always been a live band at heart. Pepper Keenan and Woody Weatherman’s guitars are huge onstage, but it’s the groove underneath them that makes the songs hit. “Albatross,” “Seven Days,” “Clean My Wounds” and “Vote With a Bullet” were made to come through loud amplifiers, where you can feel the space between the notes as much as the riffs themselves.

They also arrive with new music. Their 2026 double album Good God | Baad Man adds another chapter to a catalog that has never stayed in one place for long, moving between crushing riffs, Southern rock, blues and the stranger edges that have always lived inside C.O.C.’s music.

And there may be no better setting for it than the Mojave. Open sky, mountains on the horizon, the temperature dropping after sunset and that unmistakable guitar tone rolling across the desert.

This is one of those sets where the place matters.

Black Moon Cult

Black Moon Cult has emerged as one of the most ambitious new bands in heavy psychedelic rock. Formed in Toledo, Ohio, the trio has built a sound that reaches well beyond traditional stoner rock, weaving together crushing riffs, progressive songwriting, expansive psychedelic passages, and a cinematic sense of atmosphere.

Their debut album, Ophidian Future (The Children of Yig), released through Black Doomba Records, has drawn praise across the heavy underground for its fearless songwriting and immersive concept, earning recognition as one of the standout debut releases of the year. Rather than following a familiar formula, Black Moon Cult pushes into new territory, balancing towering grooves with intricate arrangements and moments that reward repeated listens.

See Black Moon Cult at Mojave Experience 2027.

earthlings?

earthlings? have been part of the California desert music scene for more than three decades. Born out of the creative atmosphere at Rancho De La Luna, the band has always followed its own path, blending desert rock, psychedelia, blues, and improvisation into a sound that’s unmistakably their own.

At the center is David Catching, whose work with earthlings?, Eagles of Death Metal, Queens of the Stone Age, and Rancho De La Luna has made him one of the most influential figures in the desert scene. Alongside him is Pete Stahl, best known for his time with Scream and Goatsnake, bringing one of the most recognizable voices to ever come out of underground rock.

With Adam Maples, Mathias Schneeberger, Jonathan Hischke, Ben Alleman, and Clint Walsh completing the lineup, earthlings? is made up of musicians whose resumes span decades and whose connection to the desert runs deep.

Every earthlings? performance has its own character. Songs stretch, evolve, and take unexpected turns, making each set a unique experience. If you’ve never had the chance to see them live, this is one you won’t want to miss.

March 19–21, 2027
Joshua Tree Lake, California

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Artists Playing:
Corrosion of Conformity
Red Fang
Fatso Jetson
Sasquatch
Brant Bjork Trio
Big Scenic Nowhere
Mondo Generator
earthlings?
High Desert Queen
Black Moon Cult
Heavy Temple
Deathchant
Yawning Balch
Unida
Sons of Arrakis
Magick Potion
20 Watt Tombstone

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Corrosion of Conformity, Good God / Baad Man (2026)

earthlings?, “High Five” (2021)

Black Moon Cult, Ophidian Future (The Children of Yig) (2025)

Two more killer acts for the Mojave Experience 2027 lineup, which is the same story it’s been for the last however many weeks. But with Deathchant, next year’s edition of the Joshua Tree-based festival (it’s the second one) hits a new level of aggression in sound, as the Los Angeles outfit are wont to thrash and a force onstage. This while Baltimore’s Magick Potion highlight a vintage ’70s-heavy style to bring no less of an individualized perspective to the lineup. This is how it’s gone the whole time. You can see the full lineup below.

I looked at the calendar with The Patient Mrs. for next March and she was like, “well as long as it’s not the weekend that it is, you’re fine to go,” which means that, unless her thing doesn’t come together — a trip taking students to Greece over her Spring Break; I can’t even begrudge something so rad — I won’t be able to be there for this. That’s a huge bummer, regardless of the validity of the circumstances. I’m keeping my fingers crossed something changes between now and then, not the lead as the bill gets radder and radder.

From socials:

Mojave Experience – March 19–21, 2027
Joshua Tree Lake, California

Deathchant

Somewhere between the endless highways, worn amplifiers, and the wide-open spaces of the Southwest, Deathchant found its voice. Their music carries the swagger of classic heavy rock, the hypnotic pull of psychedelia, and the weight of doom without leaning too far into any one corner.

Since forming in Southern California, the band has earned a reputation for live shows that feel as loose as they are precise. Twin guitars weave together over driving rhythms, stretching songs into something that feels alive from one night to the next. Albums like Deathchant, Waste, and Thrones have made them a favorite among listeners who appreciate heavy music with depth and atmosphere.

Deathchant joins the Mojave Experience lineup with the kind of set that was made for the desert. Expect towering riffs, winding solos, and the feeling that, for a little while, the outside world has fallen away.

Magick Potion

The road from Maryland to the Mojave isn’t a short one, but some music seems destined to find its way to the desert.

From the outskirts of Baltimore, Maryland, Magick Potion channels the raw spirit of late ‘60s and early ‘70s heavy rock into something unmistakably their own. Inspired by bands like Blue Cheer, Budgie, and The Amboy Dukes, the trio leans into towering riffs, thick grooves, and flashes of psychedelia without sounding like a nostalgia act. Their self-titled debut, released through RidingEasy Records, put that approach on full display and introduced the band to a much wider audience.

On stage, the songs stretch out and breathe, fueled by roaring guitars, relentless rhythm, and the kind of chemistry that only comes from a three-piece locked into the same current. It’s heavy rock with dirt under its fingernails and enough swing to keep the whole thing moving.

From Baltimore to the Mojave, Magick Potion adds another layer to the landscape at Mojave Experience 2027. When those first notes roll across the desert, the distance between the two won’t seem very far.

March 19–21, 2027
Joshua Tree Lake, California

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Artists Playing:
Red Fang
Fatso Jetson
Sasquatch
Brant Bjork Trio
Big Scenic Nowhere
Mondo Generator
High Desert Queen
Heavy Temple
Deathchant
Yawning Balch
Unida
Sons of Arrakis
Magick Potion
20 Watt Tombstone

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Deathchant, Thrones (2023)

Magick Potion, Magick Potion (2024)

The story has been the same pretty much every week for the last four or five that I’ve been posting these updates from next March’s Mojave Experience Festival 2027: good lineup gets better. Mondo Generator brings the Desert’s Nick Oliveri to the proceedings, which is only reasonable given his past tenure in Kyuss, Queens of the Stone Age, collaborating with Brant Bjork (whose band is also playing as you can see below) in Stöner, and so on, in addition to the likes of The Dwarves and Bl’ast, building not at all quietly the broadest-reaching pedigree of the Kyuss family tree.

Mondo Generator are joined in the announcement round by Austin’s High Desert Queen, who’ve quickly positioned themselves among the best times you can have watching a US heavy rock band onstage. Fronted by Ryan Garney, who doubles as the honcho/curator of Ripplefest Texas, the band deliver, period. Their songs are hooky and memorable, the performances nail it, and of the several times I’ve had the pleasure, I’ve never seen them that they looked like they wanted to be anywhere other than the stage they were on.

The festival posted the confirmations accordingly:

Mojave Experience – March 19–21, 2027
Joshua Tree Lake, California

Mondo Generator

If you’ve spent any time around desert rock, you already know what Mondo Generator brings.

Nick Oliveri formed the band in 1997, and it has remained a relentless force ever since. Records like Cocaine Rodeo, A Drug Problem That Never Existed, Dead Planet, Hell Comes to Your Heart, and We Stand Against You have earned Mondo Generator a loyal following by doing things the only way they know how: loud, raw, and without compromise. While Oliveri’s work with Kyuss and Queens of the Stone Age is part of rock history, Mondo Generator has written a history of its own.

Out here, music has a way of taking on a different shape. It echoes off the rocks, disappears into the darkness, then comes back sounding even bigger. Maybe that’s why bands like this have always felt right in the Mojave. There is no separation between the landscape and the music. One feeds the other.

We’re excited to have Mondo Generator play next year. This will be one of those sets where the volume comes up, the desert settles in around you, and everything else can wait.

High Desert Queen

Some bands arrive with noise. Others seem to rise out of the horizon like heat shimmering across the desert floor. High Desert Queen has that kind of presence.

Formed in Austin, Texas, the band has become one of the strongest names in today’s heavy rock underground. Their debut full-length Secrets of the Black Moon turned heads with its massive riffs, soaring vocals, and songs that carried as much feeling as weight. They followed it with Palm Reader, a record that pushed their sound even further while keeping the heart of the band intact. Along the way they’ve shared stages with artists across the heavy rock and stoner scene, building a reputation one show at a time.

If you’ve seen High Desert Queen live, you already know. The songs grow larger once they leave the studio. There’s a quiet confidence to what they do. Nothing feels forced. The room settles into the groove and before long everyone is moving with it. It’s the kind of performance that stays with you long after the last note fades into the night.

The desert has always had a way of drawing together wandering souls. This March, another path leads to Mojave Experience.

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Artists Playing:
Red Fang
Fatso Jetson
Sasquatch
Brant Bjork Trio
Big Scenic Nowhere
Mondo Generator
High Desert Queen
Heavy Temple
Yawning Balch
Unida
Sons of Arrakis
20 Watt Tombstone

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Mondo Generator, Live at Freak Valley 2022

High Desert Queen, “Time Waster” official video

Granted, we already knew Sasquatch would be at Mojave Experience 2027 from their hey-we’re-back announcement last week, but I’ve been doing these Mojave Experience updates with two bands at a time, and it didn’t seem fair to leave Sasquatch out just because I talked about them elsewhere. The L.A. trio are joined in this announcement by desert rock progenitors Fatso Jetson, who are an inevitability when it comes to just about anything in the genre/landscape. That is to say, you probably could do a desert-rock-minded festival in Southern California without having them take part at some point or other, but it would be ill-advised.

I really, really want to be at this next March, and I’m going to do my darnedest to make that happen. I was bummed to not see the inaugural edition this past Spring, and with the lineup they’re assembling for 2027, it feels very much like somewhere I need to go.

From social media:

Mojave Experience – March 19–21, 2027

Fatso Jetson

Some bands become part of a scene. Others help create it.

Fatso Jetson has spent more than three decades carving out a sound that could only have come from the desert. Formed in Palm Desert in the mid-‘90s by Mario Lalli, their music has never followed trends or stayed inside the lines. It is restless, heavy, unpredictable, and deeply rooted in the landscape that gave birth to desert rock.

Their influence reaches far beyond their own records. Generations of musicians have drawn from the path they helped open, making Fatso Jetson one of the most respected and enduring names to come out of the Coachella Valley.

There are bands you listen to. Then there are bands you experience.

The desert has always remembered their name. This March, Fatso Jetson returns to where the dust still speaks.

Sasquatch

There are bands that stay in motion, and there are bands that leave an imprint, even in their absence.

For nearly twenty-five years, Sasquatch have carried the torch for heavy rock out of Los Angeles, forging a sound built on thick riffs, blues undercurrents, and the kind of songwriting that feels timeless rather than tied to any moment. From their debut through IV to Maneuvers and Fever Fantasy, their catalog has remained a constant presence for those drawn to the deeper corners of the underground.

It has been nearly three years since Sasquatch last stepped onto a stage. Long enough for the dust to settle. Long enough for the call to return to grow louder.

Now the silence breaks.

When Sasquatch arrives at Mojave Experience 2027, it marks the return of a band whose sound has traveled far and waited patiently for the right place to surface once again.

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Artists Playing:
Red Fang
Fatso Jetson
Sasquatch
Brant Bjork Trio
Big Scenic Nowhere
Heavy Temple
Yawning Balch
Unida
Sons of Arrakis
20 Watt Tombstone

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Fatso Jetson & Dali’s Llama, Legends of the Desert Vol. 3 (2023)

Sasquatch, Fever Fantasy (2022)

The more I see, the more I like from Mojave Experience 2027, but I’ll admit that was the case with this year’s inaugural lineup as well. Still, the second edition of the Joshua Tree-based, desert-minded festival is expanding outward in fascinating ways, offering, well, an experience that goes beyond the desert in geographic and stylistic terms while bringing something special from that region/aesthetic as well.

You may have seen yesterday the returning Sasquatch will appear. That’s only good news. The other latest adds to the bill are Portland magnates Red Fang and Wisconsin duo 20 Watt Tombstone, and so far as I know more are still coming. I’m just trying to keep up. That and figure out a way to get there for next March. I guess I’m trying to do two things. No wonder I feel so cripplingly overwhelmed.

Yes, that must be it. From socials:

Mojave Experience – March 19–21, 2027

Red Fang joins Mojave Experience 2027.

For nearly twenty years they’ve carried their own banner through the heavy underground, forging a sound that’s equal parts power, groove, and grit. Since emerging from Portland in 2005, they’ve built a catalog filled with massive hooks, driving rhythms, and songs that feel just as natural blasting from a van stereo as they do shaking the walls of a packed venue.

Their songs don’t ask for attention. They take hold naturally, settling in and staying there. Loud, unshaken, and unmistakably their own. Through records like Murder the Mountains, Whales and Leeches, and Only Ghosts, Red Fang has carved out a place that belongs entirely to them, earning a devoted following along the way.

Next March, those riffs will roll out across the desert and into the night, finding their place among the dust, the lights, and the gathering that forms each year at Joshua Tree Lake. Red Fang is on the horizon, and the picture keeps coming into focus.

20 Watt Tombstone

Since emerging from Wisconsin more than a decade ago, the duo has built its reputation the old-fashioned way, one show at a time. Their music draws from blues, heavy rock, outlaw country, and punk, but never settles into any one lane for very long. There is a grit to what they do that feels earned rather than manufactured, shaped by years spent on the road and countless nights in small clubs across the country.

Listeners first caught on with Wisco Disco, followed by Death Blues vs. The Dirty Spliff, the strange detour of Year of the Jackalope, and most recently The Chosen Few. Records like these have given 20 Watt Tombstone a loyal following among people who appreciate music that carries some weight behind it. Songs such as “Prophet Man,” “Bomb That Saved the Day,” and “Black Top Sorrow” hit with the kind of conviction that comes from a band comfortable being exactly what it is.

There is something fitting about their sound finding a home in the desert. It has the feeling of movement, of long stretches of highway, distant lights, and the sense that there is always another horizon waiting beyond the next rise.

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Artists Playing:
Red Fang
Sasquatch
Brant Bjork Trio
Big Scenic Nowhere
Heavy Temple
Yawning Balch
Unida
Sons of Arrakis
20 Watt Tombstone

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Red Fang, Deep Cuts (2025)

20 Watt Tombstone, The Chosen Few (2023)