We’re pleased to present the July installment of our New Moon Spotify playlist—it’s filled with our favorite new music and selected carefully to accompany your summer activities. This month we feature Avid Dancer, the moniker of Los Angeles producer/songwriter Jacob Summers. His song, “Smile in a Frown”, plays like the soundtrack from an early-morning epiphany, […]
With the arrival of the June summer heat in the desert around us, we happily refresh The New Moon Spotify playlist with a special feature by a new favorite of ours, Los Angeles-based Anna Ash. Her rendition of the Lucinda Williams’, “Righteously”, plays like a soundtrack to everything cool. Visions of leather jackets, remote dive […]
Our May rotation of the New Moon Spotify Playlist features one of our favorite songwriters, San Francisco-based Doncat (Duncan Nielsen). His new single, “Once I Went to Las Vegas”, tells a debaucherous tale of a night spent wandering among the lights of the Las Vegas strip. Nielsen’s bookish lyricism, poised vocal delivery, and layered, chiming guitars blend together […]
We’ve been very conscious of the kinds of technology we bring into our home out in the desert, since part of the desert experience we love so much is to slow down and enjoy the process of living, creating, and being. When we do bring technology into our home, it’s something to assist us in […]
Our April New Moon Spotify Playlist kicks off with the effortlessly cool “Telephono” by California’s Cape Weather. The band is the collaborative project of Natalie Smith and Eric Jackowitz, the latter being the drummer for Nick Waterhouse (hence the soulful production). The accompanying music video just premiered on NPR, and we can’t get enough of […]
We are so excited to have Stella Maria Baer back in town on June 9th to host a watercolor pigment workshop! Join us at the Casita for a full day workshop of creating paint pigments from our surrounding desert environment: sands and cacti. We love the idea that this wild and alien landscape surrounding us […]
For our March New Moon Spotify Playlist, we’re featuring Kelly McFarling. Kelly is an Atlanta, GA born, San Francisco-based songwriter. Her work is reflective of transitions, the wilderness, and its navigation. Her most recent album, Water Dog, was featured in Paste and Noisey. The lead single “Records” has received over 3 million streams on Spotify since it’s […]
Over the weekend we celebrated two years of full-time desert living. We moved for a variety of reasons—a lower cost of living (though coming from San Francisco most places are), a desire to be more connected to nature, to work remotely as freelance designers, and simply because every time we came to Joshua Tree it […]
About this time last year, we were at Desert + Denim with our favorite sisters Megan and Jen Mussari, dreaming about creating a Joshua Tree bandana together. We wanted the whole bandana to be inspired by the plants and animals that live here, and ultimately go to benefit the natural world. We’re excited to have […]
On the New Moon, the earth, moon, and sun align making us unaware of the moon’s presence in the sky. Without the visual presence and glow of the moon, other celestial bodies typically hidden now shine brighter. Our chances of seeing the sky clearly are heightened on this day, making it a day of clarity […]
