Desert Daze

Desert Daze is a music festival held at the Lake Perris Recreation Area in Moreno Valley, California. Festival founder Phil Pirrone, formerly of post-hardcore band, A Static Lullaby, and of JJUUJJUU, had "...always wanted to do an extended festival, and all these people being in the desert for an extended amount of time presented a perfect opportunity to make that happen". The current format of the festival is no longer extended, spanning a more traditional three days. Described as "sort of an anti-festival festival", the festival grounds often showcase abstract and psychedelic art installations, thematically aligned with the artists primarily from the neo-psychedelia, desert rock, experimental, dream pop, art pop, hip-hop, lo-fi, and noise genres. Notable headliners include King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Iggy Pop, Tame Impala, Stereolab, Devo, Wu-Tang Clan, Beach House, and My Bloody Valentine. In 2022, the festival drew an estimated crowd of 10,000 attendees.

History
Pirrone previously organized the Moon Block Party festival, which evolved into Desert Daze in 2012, where the festival was initially held in Desert Hot Springs, California. For the following 3 years, until 2015, the festival took place at the Sunset Ranch Oasis in Mecca, shifting from its previous extended 11 day format. In 2016, the festival relocated to the Institute of Mentalphysics in Joshua Tree National Park. The most recent iterations of the festival, since 2018, have been in the Lake Perris State Recreation Area with cancellations in 2020 and 2023.

Lineups
The following lineups include artists that have performed at the Lake Perris State Recreation Area venue including years: 2022, 2021,  2019,  and 2018

2022

 * King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
 * Tame Impala
 * Beach House
 * Chicano Batman
 * Sky Ferreira
 * Perfume Genius
 * Mild High Club
 * Kikagaku Moyo
 * Viagra Boys
 * The Marías
 * BADBADNOTGOOD
 * JPEGMAFIA

2021

 * The War on Drugs
 * Tim Heidecker
 * Weyes Blood
 * Ty Segall
 * DIIV
 * Kamasi Washington
 * Devendra Banhart
 * Toro y Moi
 * Japanese Breakfast
 * Yves Tumor
 * Crumb
 * Sasami
 * Spellling

2019

 * The Flaming Lips
 * Stereolab
 * Animal Collective
 * Fred Armisen
 * Connan Mockasin
 * Mdou Moctar
 * Atlas Sound
 * Ween
 * Ride
 * Devo
 * Flying Lotus
 * Parquet Courts
 * Psychedelic Porn Crumpets
 * Viagra Boys
 * Wu-Tang Clan
 * Khruangbin
 * Alvvays
 * Shintaro Sakamoto

2018

 * My Bloody Valentine
 * Slowdive
 * King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
 * Tame Impala
 * Death Grips
 * Mercury Rev
 * A Place to Bury Strangers
 * Pond
 * Dakhabrakha
 * Earth
 * Julia Holter
 * Chelsea Wolfe