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desert rock

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noun

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

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These legendary musicians helped establish the desert rock scene and put it on the map with bands like Kyuss and Queens of the Stone Age.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026

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

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

Keyboards figure, where desert rock traditionally has none.

From The Guardian • Mar. 31, 2013

A storm of wild huzzas burst forth; desert rock and sand, plain and mountain, echoed the conquest of their terrors.

From The California Birthday Book by Various