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 ...

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 ...

As an oft-repeated legend has it, one of the most successful partnerships in Tucson music occurred almost by accident. Once upon a time–actually, it was 1985–a college kid named David Slutes ...

The great “could have been” story is a tired tale in the music business. Anyone with more than a casual relationship with popular music can remember a band that should have been huge, likely an act ...

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 ...