desert rock

British  

noun

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

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Example Sentences

Three months ago, the grotto looked like a desert rock formation studded with pink Chiclets.

From New York Times

Unlike other such “desert rock” acts as Tinariwen and Tartit, Moctar makes music that’s less communal and collaborative.

From Washington Post

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

Tourism Minister Nayef al Fayez told Reuters the discoveries were a spectacular addition to Jordan's archeological gems, which include the city of Petra hewn out of the desert rock, the Roman city of Jerash, and castles from the Middle Ages.

From Reuters

And perhaps it is not surprising that now, toward the close of this plague year, when so many people have been besieged by varying degrees of isolation and illness and the numbness bred by television news, it is soothing indeed to contemplate a beautiful apparition rising out of desert rock, a moving affirmation of the triumph of the imagination over workaday reality.

From New York Times