An entire town in Finland could very well get a lot of its heat from a giant sand battery before too long. The new battery has officially been announced and will be built by Polar Night Energy. It's a ...

Thirty years into their career, Tucson Americana institution Giant Sand have announced the they're throwing in the towel. On the plus side, founder Howe Gelb revealed that the group will be ringing ...

On the edge of a small town in Western Finland, a startup called Polar Night Energy worked with a local utility to pioneer something that doesn’t exist anywhere else in the world: a giant sand battery ...

Giant Sand was the primary outlet for the stylistic curveballs and sun-damaged songcraft of Howe Gelb, a Pennsylvania-born singer/guitarist who formed the four-piece Giant Sandworms after relocating ...

Giant Sand often gets lumped in with the many alternative rock acts that, in Nirvana's wake, enjoyed a surge in popularity. But unlike its grungy peers, the Arizona band found its inspiration in the ...

WESTERLY — Three giant sand sculptures in Westerly and Charlestown are harbingers of an international competition slated for Columbus Day weekend at Misquamicut State Beach. The competition, called ...