L.A. punk outfit Death Valley Girls have released their new single 'It's All Really Kind of Amazing' via Suicide Squeeze. Quite the uplifting song, the track touches on believing in your dreams and the understanding that you can achieve your visions. Magnificently composed, there are elements of psychedelic and desert rock with bright pop melodies bursting through the production.
Brighton band Creeping Jean have unveiled their latest track 'Desert Sauce', the follow-up to their 2020 single 'Angel Breath'. Revving up the instrumentation from the more blues-rock steering of the last offering, 'Desert Sauce' incorporates elements of hard rock stacked with stadium size sonics that is mountainous.
After unveiling his track 'Neon Bride' last month, L.A.-based CHILLEMI returns with a new cut titled 'Evil Eye'. A wooing duet with Nasa Hadizadeh of Rose Cologne, the song is a delightful blend of desert rock and alt indie swaying with hazy guitar lines, light drums and even organ play, all handled by CHILLEMI and Kyle Avallone .
Los Angeles artist CHILLEMI steps forth with the video for his single 'Neon Bride'. Shot in Las Vegas, which seems like the perfect location, there is imagery of the good, old retro hotels, the classic wedding chapels where all couples who wish to skip out on the traditional, expensive or family non-approaved marriages go, and of course the Elvis clone.
L.A. Witch have unveiled their latest single 'Gen-Z', taking from their forthcoming album 'Play With Fire', out August 21st on Suicide Squeeze Records. Pure, unadulterated rock & roll built on menacing guitar riffs, a sinister bass line and the sassy vocals of Sade Sanchez. The content of the tune deals with the current generation's reliance on social media and the lacking of ways and other outlets to deal with the added pressures of it. 'Gen-Z' is the follow-up to L.A. Witch's song 'I Wanna Lose', which was released last month.
The Holy Knives have team-up with The Kills' Jamie Hince for a remix of their track 'Always Gone'. Hazy guitar licks, church bells and slow-marching drumming are the base of the production. What can be described as spaghetti western meets psychedelic, desert rock, Hince's version is dark, sultry and uber sexy.
Los Angeles band The Paranoyds have shared their latest single 'Memory Foam'. The song follows their 2019 debut LP 'Carnage Bargain' which was released on Suicide Squeeze. For this offering The Paranoyds deal with the transitions into adulthood with the garage rock instrumentation also embodying 60s pop melodies.
Having released incredible tracks such as 'Sell Your Soul' London's Sleep Eaters continue their blaze with their latest cut 'Bad Love'. A mix of bluesy American, desert rock, and psychedelic, the track highlights the effects of a sinister lover of a toxic relationship. There is a Nick Cave-like sarcasm in some of the lyrics that also acts as a form of resilience from the Sleep Eaters' front man. The song is taken from the band's forthcoming EP 'Holy Days', out August 9th via PNKSLM.
Inspired by a trip to Florida where quite a bit of introspection took place, Montreal band Wild Mercury have shared their new single 'Orange County'. According to the group, this was the very first tune that they recorded together. Taken from their EP1 release, the song is a hazy rock & roll gem laced with sunny garage and alt-pop undertones.
Dorothy is rock and roll; the kind of rock and roll that was once a soundtrack the hedonistic streets of Sunset Blvd. This is that gritty and raw rock that oozed from the roads of Detroit, the Lower East Side of Manhattan and the historic city of Nashville; that in your face rock that pumps with sheer attitude. Fronted by Budapest-born, San Diego-raised Dorothy Martin, the group is one of the most dynamic bands to emerge in the past four years. They have not only managed to land in the mainstream charts but they did it on their own terms.
