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Joshua Tree • 6/29 • 7pm Daytime Moon • Joshua Tree Saloon Bar & Grill 61835 29 Palms Hwy, Joshua Tree, California 92252 • Outside on the patio!! With special guests Aaron Aviculan

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Pioneer Town • 6/28 • 8:30pm The Trashcan Sinatras • Pappy & Harriet's 53688 Pioneertown Rd, Pioneertown, California 92268 • Get tickets here! https://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/1651262?utm_medium=bks tickets are general admission and non refundable Indoor Show A ticket to this show does not guarantee a seat. This is a non-seated show. Which means, there will not be chairs on the Dance Floor, just the tables for dinner only. Sometimes we move all the tables out if it is a well sold show. call for dinner reservations 760 365 5956 Set Times are Subject To Change The Trashcan Sinatras were formed in 1987 in the coastal town of Irvine, Scotland, by John Douglas, Paul Livingston, David Hughes, Stephen Douglas and Francis Reader. Quickly signed to esteemed British indie label Go!Discs, the group used its label advance to set up their own recording studio, Shabby Road, in nearby Kilmarnock, where they settled in to create three critically- acclaimed albums. The first of these, Cake, was released in the summer of 1990. Produced by John Leckie, it featured debut single "Obscurity Knocks" and its follow-up “Only Tongue Can Tell”, both of which became alternative radio hits in the USA, and introduced the group to what has become a loving and loyal fan base around the world. Their beloved second album, I've Seen Everything, produced by Gentle Giant’s Ray Shulman, came along in 1993, preceded by the lauded single “Hayfever.” The group’s next album, 1996’s self-produced A Happy Pocket, featured four singles, including the band’s much-loved cover of "To Sir, With Love". After leaving Go! Discs in 1998, the group kept a low profile for a few years, playing sporadic shows and releasing the odd single, until the release of their fourth album, Weightlifting, in the autumn of 2004. Extensive touring in support of that album followed, with shows in the UK, Europe, USA, Japan and Australia.

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Palm Springs • 6/28&29 The Blank Tapes - 2 Nights at Ace Hotel Palm Springs • 701 E Palm Canyon Dr, Palm Springs, CA 92264 • The Blank Tapes are playing 2 nights in a row at the Amigo Room at Ace Hotel & Swim Club. New album 'Candy' comes out June 29, too! + Thursday at 9pm w/ Dirdy Birdy & DJ The Blank Tapes & co. + Friday at 10pm w/ Wyld Snapper & DJ Blank Tapes & co.

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Pioneer Town • 6/25 • 7pm Open Mic with guest host Nick Barnett • Pappy & Harriet's 53688 Pioneertown Rd, Pioneertown, California 92268 • Open Mic with guest host Nick Barnett at Pappy & Harriet's FREE! We Open For Dinner at 5pm Sign Up at 7pm Performers get 3 songs Please bring your own instruments.

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Palm Desert • 6/23 • 8pm Desert Rock Radio's 2 Year Anniversary Party! • The Hood Bar and Pizza 74360 CA-111, Palm Desert, California 92260 • Come celebrate the Two Year Anniversary of Desert Rock Radio and 100 episodes of the radio show Sweet Sludge. 5 Bands! No Cover Charge! Featuring some of the best bands in today's desert rock/desert punk genres. LVNGCRVSHER : a relatively new band destroying ears with their own very heavy take on the Sabbathy-side of DESERT ROCK. SUPER HEAVY!!!! Great new band! Sleazy Cortez : heavy ass Clutch-style band, improvisational, funky, white boy blues. ASS SHAKEN FOR SURE!!!! Playing songs from their new album "Trailer Trash Blues". BigPig : This infamous two-piece features Dino Von Lalli and Benny Macias are from L.A. but with very solid roots in the desert. They produce a gigantic cacophony of Melvin-esque rock with just guitar, vocals, and drums. Great band, great songs, roots from Fatso Jetson. THROW THE GOAT : Desert punk/hardcore ala Motorhead meets The Bronx. Great new album out right now called "The Joke's On Us." Pure, heavy punk n' roll. Gotta love these guys!!!! Dali's Llama : Twenty-five years and still going. These long-time desert rollers have released 13 albums and are heading back in the studio this summer to record their 14th. Mixing stoner rock, garage rock, punk, etc. to create their own brand of desert rock n' roll.

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Joshua Tree • 6/23 • 8pm Spankshaft and the B sharps • Beatnik Lounge 61597 29 Palms Hwy, Joshua Tree, California 92252

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Joshua Tree • 6/22-6/24 Joshua Tree Stonewall Remembrance Days • Art Queen 61855 29 Palms Hwy, Joshua Tree, California 92252 • Friends and family, join us this year for Joshua Tree Stonewall Remembrance Days! When: June 22th-24th. Where: The Art Queen in Downtown Joshua Tree. It’s going to be a weekend of live music, dancing, art, fashion, poetry and other fun-stuff. It’s a free event with donations accepted at door. We’ll also have food various food vendors to choose from. ........................................... Schedule of Events (Subject to change) 6/22 Art Exhibition Opening Reception 6:00 - 8:00 pm: Sara Swaty (AQ East Gallery), and Lois Bielefeld (Samead Library) curated by Eric Schwabel, refreshments and live music by JT Jazz Band. 6/23 Stonewall Remembrance Celebration: 6:00 pm: Opening Remarks, event co-organizer T. Hammidi. 6:15 pm: A Fun Fashion Show by Dusty Deserette. 6:45 pm: Stonewall Moments by Peter Bolton. Jack Angel (drag king) performs, Adriene Jenik sings. Shari Elf, singer, songwriter & entertainer performs. 7:45 – 10:45 pm: Live Bands/Dance Party - Jeff Halfer and the Wonder People, Teddy Quinn Band and Myshkin Warbler. 6/24 Free Outdoor Movie Night 8 pm: Movie TBA, popcorn, byo picnic.

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Joshua Tree • 6/21 • 7pm Art/Music/Food and Community at Joshua Tree Retreat Center Farm • Joshua Tree Retreat Center 59700 29 Palms Hwy, Joshua Tree, California 92252 • Join us for this free community summer solstice gathering at the Joshua Tree Retreat Center Farm, featuring the opening of the Desert Gallery and print shop, food by Nicholas Christensen's Fin du Monde, music by Faith and Tim Chinnock from The Adobe Collective, Tremble Weeds and Firebug. Come dance under the stars with your friends and neighbors as we usher in the longest day of the year.

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Joshua Tree • 6/21 • 7pm Art/Music/Food and Community at Joshua Tree Retreat Center Farm • Joshua Tree Retreat Center 59700 29 Palms Hwy, Joshua Tree, California 92252 • Join us for this free community summer solstice gathering at the Joshua Tree Retreat Center Farm, featuring the opening of the Desert Gallery and print shop, food by Nicholas Christensen's Fin du Monde, music by Faith and Tim Chinnock from The Adobe Collective, Tremble Weeds and Firebug. Come dance under the stars with your friends and neighbors as we usher in the longest day of the year.

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Joshua Tree • 6/21 • 7pm Art/Music/Food and Community at Joshua Tree Retreat Center Farm • Joshua Tree Retreat Center 59700 29 Palms Hwy, Joshua Tree, California 92252 • Join us for this free community summer solstice gathering at the Joshua Tree Retreat Center Farm, featuring the opening of the Desert Gallery and print shop, food by Nicholas Christensen's Fin du Monde, music by Faith and Tim Chinnock from The Adobe Collective, Tremble Weeds and Firebug. Come dance under the stars with your friends and neighbors as we usher in the longest day of the year.

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Joshua Tree • 6/21 • 7pm Art/Music/Food and Community at Joshua Tree Retreat Center Farm • Joshua Tree Retreat Center 59700 29 Palms Hwy, Joshua Tree, California 92252 • Join us for this free community summer solstice gathering at the Joshua Tree Retreat Center Farm, featuring the opening of the Desert Gallery and print shop, food by Nicholas Christensen's Fin du Monde, music by Faith and Tim Chinnock from The Adobe Collective, Tremble Weeds and Firebug. Come dance under the stars with your friends and neighbors as we usher in the longest day of the year.

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Yucca Valley • 6/21 • 12pm Brown Bag Lunch Lecture Coyote Hole Canyon Surprises • Hi-Desert Nature Museum 57090 Twentynine Palms Hwy, Yucca Valley, California 92284 • Presented by John Michael Rafter Coyote Hole Canyon is located near Joshua Tree Village, California, and just north of the north entrance to Joshua Tree National Park. The approximately 3,000-foot-long canyon stretches from south to north and rock art can be found on its east and west sides on granitic boulders. John was first introduced to Coyote Hole Canyon and its rock art in 1990. During his studies there he encountered several surprises involving its rock art, the likes of which he has not seen elsewhere. John reports evidence of several rock art alignments with significant solar events, including unique sunlight and shadow interactions with rock art. Recent findings revealed even more solar alignments, and one such alignment appears to be still in observance by someone or some group as recently as 2017. John Rafter has been interested in the study of rock art since 1975. He became Mr. Turner’s assistant field director in the Black Canyon rock art recording project and he used his artistic talents to properly record the canyon’s rock art. Ultimately, his study of rock art merged with his interest in archaeoastronomy, which then led him to sites he found to have astronomical connections in areas once occupied by the Luiseño and the Chemehuevi. This also led him to a fortuitous meeting with the late Carobeth Laird, author of “The Chemehuevis”. John inherited over 3,500 pages of Mrs. Laird’s ethnographic notes that contained rare information on the Chemehuevi’s vast knowledge of astronomy. Since 1981, John has been one of the guest speakers at the San Diego Rock Art symposium, all on the subject of his many archaeoastronomical findings. Bring your lunch, bring your friends, or just bring yourself to our Brown Bag Lunch Lecture Series once a month. Speakers will present topics of special interest for high desert residents. The lectures start at 12:00 p.m. Admission is $ 5 or free for Museum Members/Sponsors. Beverages will be served.

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Joshua Tree • 6/15 • 8pm Galaxy Quest - Into The Abyss! • Joshua Tree Astronomy Arts Theater 2601 Sunfair Rd, Joshua Tree, California 92252 • The thin Crescent Moon sets the stage for a dark night of Astronomy and Star Stories. New 3D debut show! Featuring never before seen images of Galactic Treasures! An early Moon Tour Highlighting the Apollo 11 landing site of the First Footprints on Luna!6 More! $5.00 please No pets please Drive slow to keep dust low please Bring your comfy stuff etc. Kids welcome

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Pioneer Town • 6/14 • 8pm Ginger Cowgirl • Pappy & Harriet's 53688 Pioneertown Rd, Pioneertown, California 92268 • FREE SHOW! https://www.gingercowgirl.com/ https://www.facebook.com/gingercowgirl Ginger Cowgirl hit the scene in 2015 after award-winning vocalist Stacy Antonel took a shine to some old country LPs. Already a working jazz and rock vocalist, country music was a new adventure but it paid off. Soon the new band was performing regularly throughout San Diego, from honky-tonk dives to the legendary Belly Up. In 2017 Ginger Cowgirl relocated to Nashville,Tennessee. The band features eclectic, multi-lingual vocalist Stacy Antonel, who in 2013 beat out hundreds of singers to take home the grand prize of $10,000 in Fox San Diego’s televised singing series “3 Minutes to Stardom”. She’s backed by a band composed of both young newcomers to the genre and seasoned musicians who’ve played with everyone from AJ Croce to Don Williams. The band's widely varying musical tastes and the unique quality of Antonel’s vocals combine for a fresh take on the classic country genre. After two years of garnering a strong following, the band is presently working on their debut recording, due in Summer 2018.

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Yucca Valley • 6/13 • 5:30pm Desert Bighorn Sheep: Wilderness Icon • Hi-Desert Nature Museum 57090 Twentynine Palms Hwy, Yucca Valley, California 92284 • Morongo Basin Historical Society’s 2nd Wednesday Lecture Series June 13 5:30-6:30 “Desert Bighorn Sheep: Wilderness Icon” presented by Mark Jorgensen, author and retired Superintendent at Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. Jorgensen will discuss the natural history of desert bighorn sheep, the bighorn's amazing adaptations to the desert environment, including their physical characteristics, distribution, behavior, predator relationships and diseases. Book signing to follow. The book has over 200 high-quality rare photographs by Jeff Young. Join the Morongo Basin Historical Society’s 2nd Wednesday Lecture Series which is held at the Hi-Desert Nature Museum Yucca Valley 57116 29 Palms Hwy. Lecture begins at 5:30. Donation is $5.00.

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Pioneer Town • 6/3 • 8pm KCRW Presents Dr. Dog w/ Steady Holiday at Pappy + Harriet's • 53688 Pioneertown Rd, Pioneertown, California 92268 • We will have tickets with No Service Fees available at the door. 100% Guaranteed $30 Doors 7pm Steady Holiday 745 Dr Dog 845 (set times are approx) THIS IS A NON SEATED SHOW Tickets are GENERAL ADMISSION and NON REFUNDABLE STANDING ROOM ONLY Outdoor Show No Outside Alcohol or food. Bags will be checked. All sales final, no refunds. Set Times are Subject To Change “I feel like I’m in a totally new band right now,” says Dr. Dog guitarist/singer Scott McMicken. It’s a bold declaration considering he’s been co-fronting the beloved indie outfit for a decade-and-a-half, but it cuts straight to the heart of the intense and transformative experience behind the group’s brilliant new album, ‘Critical Equation.’ The most infectious and adventurous collection Dr. Dog has laid to tape yet, the record was born from a journey of doubt and discovery, a heavy, sometimes painful reckoning that ultimately brought the band closer together with more strength and clarity than ever before. Call it an existential awakening, call it a dark night of the soul, whatever it was, it fueled one of the most fertile creative periods in the group’s history and forced them to confront that timeless question: what do we really want? “We’d been touring and making records for our entire adult lives, and I think we just needed to take a step back,” reflects bassist/singer Toby Leaman, who splits fronting and songwriting duties with McMicken. “It was important for all of us to figure out if we were actually doing what we wanted to be doing, or if we were just letting momentum carry us down this path we’d always been on.”

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Yucca Valley • 5/30 • 6:30pm Open Mic Variety Show! • Gadi's Bar & Grill 56193 29 Palms Hwy, Yucca Valley, California 92284 • Gadi's Presents Open Mic every Wednesday Night, hosted by Jason! This FREE event is open to Performers And Spectators! We welcome Solo Performers, Duos, Acoustic Acts, Comedians, Spoken Word Artists, Poets, Storytellers, Magicians, Jugglers, Dancers and others are all welcome!! Sign-up in Gadi's Entertainment Room at 6:30pm. Show starts at 7pm! ***Full bands are welcome but please RSVP with Jason as no Backline is provided at this time, but bands are welcome to bring their own.***