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 ...

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 ...

There’s a certain amount of irony in the fact that Mas Cuacha, the new album by local desert-rock survivors the Sand Rubies, contains a song called “Satellite Radio.” Never mind that the tune–one of ...

Longtime desert dwellers and Downtown hipsters are gonna love this: The Sand Rubies - aka the Sidewinders, and we aren't referring to the baseballers - are getting back together. OK, we're not ...