With Queens of the Stone Age in the news — their first album in six years came out this week, and it’s great — it seems like as good a time as any for an extensive history of stoner/desert rock here in GO! Magazine.

Except we don’t have the space for that this week. Sorry! Instead, let’s examine one sliver of said scene: Brant Bjork.

Bjork is best known as the drummer for Kyuss, the seminal band to come out of the desert-rock scene in Palm Desert, Calif., where heavy rock, blues and psychedelics collided in a most explosive way in the 1990s. He later played in Fu Manchu, made a bunch of solo albums, and played on a ton of important stoner/desert records.

Now, he’s producing the new album from Black Pussy, a Portland-based group that will play The Horned Hand Saturday night.

Black Pussy is a quintet of sunglassed rockers who specialize in swaggering, ’70s-worshipping rock ‘n’ roll the way God intended it to be heard: through a druggy, downtempo haze. Dustin Hill is the frontman and songwriter, but two of his mates have Bend ties: Keith O’Dell (ex-Empty Space Orchestra) and Aaron Poplin (ex-Dirty Words).

Together, they’re recording with Brant freakin’ Bjork! That’s cool. They also have a significant Google problem, so use this direct link to hear ’em: www.blackpussy.bandcamp.com.

Opening will be a local band of a similar mind, Silvero, whose music is a bit more garage-blues-y than stoner-y, but it still walks with a heavy strut.

Black Pussy, with Silvero; 8 p.m. Saturday; $5; The Horned Hand, 507 N.W. Colorado Ave., Bend; www.facebook.com/thehornedhand.