Want to spend an entire weekend just listening to a bunch of bands from all over the world you may have never heard before?
Desert Highways, the name behind festivals like Brewtality, is giving everyone that opportunity for no charge. No need to leave the quarantine of the living room to spend the weekend in a crowded paddock either – No Gigs Does Not Have to Mean No Music is a vast compilation that these legends are offering from Bandcamp for free.
And when we say vast, we mean fucking enormous. Because it’s a download, Desert Highways weren’t restricted by the size or the amount of tracks they could include, so they collected a ridiculous 205 songs from a worldwide list of bands. When we said you could spend the entire weekend listening to new music, that wasn’t a lie. Whether you are in the mood for Greek stoner rock, instrumental surf rock from Melbourne, death metal from Sydney, Kiwi sludge-core, Gothy acoustic stuff, psychedelia from Birmingham, oddball Spanish pop-rock instrumental music or a 40-minute Norwegian psychedelic stoner rock epic, this compilation has you covered. Of course, not every track is a gem and the 17+ minute long hidden bonus track serves no purpose, but just about everything is at least halfway decent and it’s tough to be too harsh on a free download, isn’t it?
Because it’s from Desert Highways, there’s a high percentage of desert and stoner rock/doom, but there’s also punk, metal, weird stuff and straight up rock and roll – if you like any sort of independent, heavily guitar-based music there’s sure to be plenty of tunes to dig here, and if there’s not well, as we’ve pointed out numerous times: it’s free. So spend an entire weekend checking it out. You could find your next favourite band.
- 100YearsWar – Dead Weight
- 1000mods – So Many Days
- Aberration – Nothing to Say
- Acid Mammoth – Tree of Woe
- Acoustic Foxx – Let Us Pray
- Albatross Overdrive – The Sleeper
- Alithia – Empress
- All of the Dirt All at Once – They Burnt My Car
- Alunah – The Hunt
- Annihilist – Against the Wall
- Apollo 80 – FFH
- Arthur Seay’s Death in Pretty Wrapping – Silver Spoon
- Atomsmasher – Social Construct
- Babymachine – In Leather
- Bagful of Bees – Bliss and the Abysee
- Bastard Nörth – The Wrong Band
- Beastwars – Omens
- Biff – America
- Birdcage – Snake Valley
- Black Cactus – Storm in an E Cup
- Blunt Shovel – Intoxicated
- Bongmoth – Illumination
- Boxmonster – Skyte
- Brent Wilson – Elkie Bear
- Bruce! – Hey Hey
- Bunyip – Powerball
- Camel Driver – Bazaar
- Captain Cheesebeard – Deadwood
- Captives – Tommy Gun
- Carcinoid – Rotting Beneath
- Chico Flash – Is There Someone Who Looks After You
- Coffin Wolf – Blackout
- Cold Ground – Ascended
- Cosa Nostra – Spanky Blues
- Cosmos – See the World
- Count Devious – The Virus Made Me Do It
- Crystal Ignite – Black Mamba
- Daemon Pyre – Red Sun Phenomenon
- Danny Leo – The Darker Side of Light
- Danny Walsh Banned – It’s Got a Note
- Dave Talon – Laze in the Sun
- Dawn – The Sun
- DEAD – Remorse
- DeadYet? – Early Crow
- Dendrites – Throwing Rocks
- Denizen – The Beast
- Desert Storm – Black Bile
- Diarchy – The Badger
- DickLord – Knuckle Girls
- Droid – Ant Queen
- Duneeater – Magical Hula and the Stabbin’ Cabin
- Dust Lord – The Bog
- Dyssidia – Thrive
- East Coast Low – Company
- Ecstatic Vision – Like a Freak
- Electric Frankenstein – Up From the Streets
- Electric Moon – Your Own Truth
- Envenomed – Metal United
- Falconio – Dawn Breaks
- Fatso Jetson – Dream Homes
- Fierce Mild – Acid
- Fifth Dimension – Black and Blue
- Fireball Ministry – Dark Descent
- Flaming Wrekage – Thrown to the Wolves
- Frayle – Darker Than Black
- From Beyond – When Forces Collide
- Fuck the Fitzroy Doom Scene – Murder
- Gary Lee Conner – It’s Only Revolution
- Geezer – Dig
- Glitoris – Spit Hood
- Glomesh – Pickup Lust
- Gnome – Jebediah Supreme
- Godzillionaire – Curly’s Wife
- Golden Bats – One Eye Watches the Abyss
- Grasshole – The Trials of Lenny Harlock
- Grey Mantis – The Day is Yours
- Grimruiner – The Great Collapse
- Hayvanlar Alemi – Referendum Day
- Headless – Devoured
- Heavy Roller – Hellfire
- Herba Mate – Aragosta vs. Panther
- Hidden Intent – A Place of Horror
- High as Hell – Powerwolf
- High Reeper – Plague Hag
- Holy Serpent – For No One
- House of Broken Promises – Fear Me
- Hy-Test – Rocket Surgeon
- Ilium – Anachronista
- Jess Coram – Coming Home
- John E Vistic – SLR 5000
- Khan – Control
- King Cig – Swamp Thing
- King Parrot – Disgrace Yourself
- Kitchen Witch – Delusion
- Krach Bumm – Störtebecker
- La Muerte – LSD for the Holy Man
- Lamassu – I Die
- Levitating Churches – Rock N Roll Hell
- Lillyé – Under
- Long Holiday – Caveman
- LORD – Kill or Be Killed
- Lords of Dust – Califa
- Lunar Swamp – The Crimson River
- Lunatic – Horrible
- Madé J. – Doin’ Nothing I Say
- Malcura – Malcure
- Maya Mountains – San Saguaro
- Meat Cake – Third in Attendance
- Meathook – Prime Candidates for Murder
- Mindcrawler – Red Dunes
- Moana – The Cultess
- Monarchus – Lucy
- Mote – Reqium for Al
- Motherslug – Hordes
- Mountain Wizard Death Cult – Thrones
- My Diligence – Resentful
- Namazu – Calving Virtue
- Neck Grip – In League With Satan
- Nightstalker – Sweet Knife
- Nuada – Kraken
- Ohm Rune – Star Destroyer
- Our Last Enemy – Spitfire
- Peeping Tom – Wet Leaf
- Penny Ikinger – Ride on Cowboy
- Peter Black – Wrought Dub
- Pieces of Molly – Warlords
- Pilots of Baalbek – 59225
- Pink Cocoon – No Control
- Planet of the 8s – Christoper Walken in the Jungle With the Fkn Animals
- Potion – Woman of the Wand
- Prötöspasm – Occupation
- Raul Sanchez i Jorge – In On the Take
- Red Mesa – Sacred Datura
- Redro Redriguez & His Inner Demons – SM58
- Romano Nervoso – The Son of God
- Rosy Finch – Ruby
- Sail – Starve
- Saint Karloff – Interstellar Voodoo
- Sativa Root – Funeral of the Witch
- Seedy Jezus – Warwhores
- Serenity Defiled – Purified in Flames
- Sexy – Rev. Snail
- Shapes Like Rapids – Beautiful Girl
- Shatter Brain – Talk in Fear
- Sheriff – The King’s Crown
- Shroud – Burdened by the Ties
- Silverlight Shadows – Black to the World
- Slim Jeffries – Speak Up Son
- Slugbucket – Masochist
- Sons of Disaster – Land of the Sons
- Sons of Zöku – Luz
- Stiff Richards – Dig
- Stone Lotus – Mountains of Filth
- Suiciety – Woken by Demons
- Sula Bassana – Dark Dreams
- Summonus – Wormhole
- Surdo – Gotta Getcha Out of My Head
- Svetlanas feat. Nick Oliveri – Lose Control
- Switchblade Jesus – Who Was in My Room Last Night
- Temptress – Ride of Your Life
- Thaw – Nameless City
- The Balls – Blood on the Line
- The Black Heart Death Cult – Sonic Dhoom
- The Credits – California Reptile
- The Deadlips – Crooked Mind
- The Dive Bombs – Right On
- The Fuck Ups – Come to Daddy
- The Freeks – Chronic Abduction
- The Frees – Enough is Enough
- The Hard-Ons – What is It With Gunmen and Finger Food?
- The Heavy Eyes- Hand of Bear
- The Hypnogogics – Darkest Night
- The Muggs – After the Ending
- The Neptune Power Federation – Opium Den
- The Progerians – Crush the Wise Men
- The Ruiner – Volcano
- The Schizophonics – Battle Line
- The Sea Shall Not Have Them – Walking Through Walls
- The Sonic Dawn – Soul Sacrifice
- The State System – Dangerous
- The Stripp – The Hoddle Street Disaster
- The Vendettas – Rats on the Wheel
- The Moose Rush – Dumadu Honey
- These Things – Overworked and Underpaid
- Thunder Horse – Coming Home
- To An End – Left Untold
- Toadvine – Stones and Bones
- The Wrong Stuff – Tomorrow People
- Topnovil – Ghettoblaster
- Trace – White
- Trippy Wicked & the Cosmic Children of the Knight – Three Leaves
- Tumbleweed – ESP
- Turtle Skull – Rabbit
- Undersmile – Soil
- Uptown Ace – Left Behind
- Vexation – Journey Beyond Mortality
- VVARP – Sommersolståndet
- Warped – Raised by Goats
- White Hills – A Thousand Points of Light
- WitchCliff – Psychic Space Lord
- Wolfpack – Web of Hate
- Yawning Man – Melancholy Sadie
- Zed – Take Me Home Again
- Zone Six – Acidic
- KlavierKrieger – Hidden Bonus Track
