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desert rock

British  

noun

  1. a type of heavy-metal music that has strong country-rock and folk influences

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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He served as a vital connector between grunge and desert rock when he briefly joined Queens of the Stone Age, whose lead singer, Josh Homme, had been an adjunct member of Screaming Trees.

From Washington Post • Feb. 23, 2022

The desert rock band Queens of the Stone Age maneuvered closer to pop music for “Villains,” which was co-produced by hit-maker Mark Ronson.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 27, 2017

Las Vegas’s many golf courses may seem wasteful, but their water use is strictly rationed: greens remain grassy, but golfers who fail to stay on the fairways find their balls in desert rock.

From Economist • Aug. 6, 2015

It also, clearly, means a lot to Arctic Monkeys on their fifth studio album, “AM,” which was recorded at the studio in Joshua Tree, Calif., that’s the epicenter of desert rock.

From New York Times • Sep. 9, 2013

Unfortunately, the one picture Adamski had to show was so out of focus the scout ship looked like a desert rock.

From The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects by Ruppelt, Edward J.

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