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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Sidewinders in the '90s David Slutes recalls the point at which he felt the Sidewinders had “actually transcended all the ...

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 ...

After last year’s Rock N The Seas cruise from Los Angeles to Ensenada, which featured a shitload of booze consumption and music from a grip of Arizona bands like the Gin Blossoms, Dead Hot Workshop, ...

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 ...

I knew very little about the intricacies of the record contracts we signed. I kept way out of it. To be honest, the only interest the band and I had was, "How much do we each get?" Like true ...

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 ...

The Sand Rubies are one of those hard-luck bands ideally suited for a VH-1 special. Formed in 1985 by sometime Houstonian Rich Hopkins and guitarist David Slutes, the Tuscon-based band was originally ...