Band, *2013 US, Los Angeles
Rock
Think of Death Valley Girls as an acid-tripping science experiment that’s been buried alive, and resurrected as a sexually liberated dystopian chain-gang. A cosmic scar, if you will, on the hills of Echo Park, where the experiment began in 2013 by proto-punk Bonnie Bloomgarden and guitarist Larry Schemel — who got lost in the desert, returned to their haunted garage in Echo Park, and pieced together their vision with shopworn images of sexploitation babes, a blood-soaked Iggy Pop, and Bloomgarden’s series of phantasms, the result of spending a year in a mental institution, where she planned her neon-glowing odyssey by listening to Black Sabbath and UFO, reading about alien conspiracy theories, and deriving her band’s moral compass from a line she saw in a movie: “Everybody’s gotta be in a gang,” from campy sexploitation romp Switchblade Sisters (1975).
Patty Schemel dr *1967 US | |
Larry Schemel g | |
Laura Kelsey dr, voc | |
Jessie Jones voc, acg | |
Bonnie Bloomgarden g, org, voc | |
Nicole Smith b, voc | |
Bobby May b, org |
Track list and 30sec audio provided by
Title | Artist | Year | Type |
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Darkness Rains | Death Valley Girls | 2018 | Album |
Born Again And Again | Death Valley Girls | 2017 | Single |
Glow In The Dark | Death Valley Girls | 2016 | Album |
Electric High | Death Valley Girls | 2015 | Single |
Death Valley Boogie | Death Valley Girls | 2015 | Single |
The Burger Sessions | Death Valley Girls | 2014 | Album |