Friends of Dean Martinez is an American instrumental rock/post-rock band featuring members of Giant Sand, Calexico, and Naked Prey.
The band combines Americana with electronica, ambient, lounge, psychedelia, and dub and intertwines surf rock-inspired lead guitars.
[citation needed] The band was formed in Tucson, Arizona, as an experimental side project by various members of Giant Sand, Calexico, and Naked Prey.
[2] Friends of Dean Martinez had gone through line-up changes in Los Angeles and Austin, Texas, before reforming in Tucson.
Film-scoring work includes the Richard Linklater film Fast Food Nation and the John Waters-narrated feature documentary Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea.