Singer/songwriter Howe Gelb has made his name with desert-rock/alt-country pioneers, Giant Sand, but he also has a lengthy solo-career, and his 24th album, Gathered ...

Next month Fire Records is releasing Little Sand Box, a sprawling eight-CD box set collecting the solo output of Giant Sand visionary Howe Gelb—six commercially issued albums, a live effort, and a ...

It started with a rhythm pulled from a Casio keyboard. Chords were added, along with open pockets for keyboard and bass, and then Howe Gelb stepped in with the story to fill it all in. Piece by piece, ...

Formed in 2013, Belgium’s The Colorist Orchestra have so far existed to reinterpret other singers’ works; founders Aarich Jespers and Kobe Proesmans use traditional and bespoke instruments to rework ...

Giant Sand founder Howe Gelb has flipped for flamenco. The local rock icon has made a new album of indie-rock-flamenco hybrid songs, featuring Spain's Band of Gypsies and flamenco legend Raimundo ...

Howe Gelb conceived of his latest album after sharing a bill with a pair of black gospel choirs in Canada in 2003. Curious to find out if gospel’s soaring harmonies might mesh with his own brand of ...

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Howe Gelb doesn’t like to fight fate. The Tucson-based singer/songwriter says that destiny played a big role in the birth of Tucson, the new record from Gelb’s Giant Giant Sand collective. The extra ...

Editor’s Note: A version of this article appears in this week’s issue, featuring 100 Songs that Defined Arizona. In celebration of Arizona’s centennial, we spoke songwriter Howe Gelb, who has led the ...

Number one shape-shifter in indie rock: Go. If you didn’t come up with Howe Gelb in that mix, you may not have been paying much attention the past 30 years. We had a lengthy interview with Gelb this ...

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Howe Gelb has spent years refining. Since launching his Tucson institution Giant Sand in the mid-’80s from the ashes of the previous Giant Sandworms, he’s shaped and carved his artistic approach, ...