Death Valley Girls

Describing their music as "California doom boogie," Death Valley Girls are a garage punk band whose tough, fuzzy sound melds bad-trip psychedelia and biker-soundtrack drama with lyrics celebrating a rich variety of questionable behavior. Buzzy lead guitars, muscular and primitive drumming, and Bonnie Bloomgarden's bold vocal stylings were the hallmarks of early albums like 2014's Street Venom and 2016's Glow in the Dark. As the group matured on 2020's Under the Spell of Joy and 2023's Islands in the Sky, their attack gained a bit of refinement, hard rock influences became more...