The Sand Rubies/Sidewinders, the desert rock band that never quite made it, are hanging up their instruments tonight after 26 years as a band (albeit with a hiatus for the main components of the group ...

If a band plays in the woods, is it making music? Yeah, but it's not popular music. Fans are needed for that. And almost certainly there would be no coffee-table book about a Tucson band that first ...

You can’t listen to more than 30 seconds of Sand Rubies’ 1990 single “We Don’t Do That Anymore” before it become obvious that the Gin Blossoms weren’t the first Arizona band doing the jangle-pop thing ...

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What's in a name? Longtime local rockers the Sand Rubies found out the hard way. Veterans of Tucson's punk-rock scene, the Sand Rubies were born as the Sidewinders. The group was forced to change its ...

Fresh off the plane from his band’s first tour of Germany in eight years, Sand Rubies guitarist Rich Hopkins is battling jet lag. “We just got home last night,” Hopkins says by phone from his home in ...

Living most of his adult and professional life in Tuscon, Arizona, former Sidewinders/Sand Rubies front man Rich Hopkins has recently relocated to Houston. For those who don’t remember, Hopkins and ...