Death Valley Girls Announce New Album 'Welcome To Earth', Share First Single
Tuesday, 11 August 2026
Written by Laura Johnson
Photo: Sheva Kafai
Death Valley Girls will return with a new album this autumn.
The rock band from Southern California will put out 'Welcome To Earth', the follow-up to 2023's 'Islands In The Sky', on October 9 via Suicide Squeeze Records.
As a preview, they've shared the lead single Message From the Venus Flower, which finds lead singer Bonnie Bloomgarden mourning the loss of her dog Tommy via lively vocals atop an '80s-inspired soundscape. The song arrives with a video by multi-hyphenate punk legend Ian Svenonius. Introducing the track, Bloomgarden said:
"After the fire [California’s Eaton Fire], Tommy, my best friend and dog, was not the same. I didn’t bring her medicine when we evacuated cause I didn’t bring anything, even my phone or car. My landlord, who lived in the house in front, drove us to her friend's house, and it was weeks before we could go back. And when we could go back, everything was destroyed. I wasn’t sure if she was hurting because she wasn’t on her medicine, or if she was scared, or if she didn’t know why we left our home and was mad at me! Previously, we had done sessions with Animal Communicator Amy Wild, and they really helped. They had a session a month or so after the fire, and Tommy tried to tell me that her body didn’t matter, our connection was eternal, because we were eternal souls that reincarnate and meet up in many lifetimes, and moreover, we are always connected and together. The illusion of separation is a very earthly human concept. I told her I don’t care about our souls, I just wanted to know if her body was ok!!
"Less than a year later, she left her body. I was broken. I had officially lost everything to 2025. After lying in bed wallowing, I decided I needed to try some life. I went on our normal walk and passed by a flower, a butterfly pea (Venus flower.) As I stood there, the flower sent me a message like a lightning bolt to my brain! In an instant the flower shared with me what Tommy had been trying to explain! The flower explained it: IS Tommy. Everything I love is Tommy, because love isn’t just something you feel, share, or do; love is more like a dimension! anything that gives me the feeling I get when I think of Tommy IS her. Because love isn’t just something you feel, share, or do, love is more like a dimension! And you tap into it, or remember often most easily through a physical manifestation like Tommy!"
On the video, she added: "Ian Svenonius is one of my favorite artists! His writing, music, taste, and ethos are genius! He’s a legend of innovation and is always evolving exponentially while still referencing essential splashes of the past with sincere reverence. Yet, somehow is always peak ultra modern! What he and Sandy Denton have created in the scene with the Rated Z Dancers is breathtaking. I can’t believe they agreed to make a video for us!!"
Death Valley Girls will celebrate the record with a release show at Scribble in Los Angeles on the day it arrives. Following that, they've lined up an autumn UK and European tour that includes a stop at Brighton's Mutations Festival on October 23. Tickets are on sale now.
'Welcome To Earth' tracklist:
Welcome To Earth
Basic Witch
Plant Magic
Sing For Yourself
Message From the Venus Flower
I Love You
Fire and Brimstone
Life So Far
How Losing Everything in the Fire Taught Me to Love Myself
Death Valley Girls Upcoming Tour Dates are as follows
Sat October 24 2026 - MANCHESTER Abbey
Sun October 25 2026 - GLASGOW Stereo
Mon October 26 2026 - NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE Cluny
Wed October 28 2026 - LONDON Lexington
Fri October 30 2026 - OVIEDO Lata de Zinc (Spain)
Sat October 31 2026 - VALENCIA 16 Toneladas (Spain)
Tue November 03 2026 - UTRECHT dBss (Netherlands)
Wed November 04 2026 - BERLIN Lido (Germany)
Thu November 05 2026 - HAMBURG Molotow (Germany)
Fri November 06 2026 - METZ Les Trinitaires (France)
Sat November 07 2026 - LUCERNE Sudpol Club (Switzerland)
Thu November 12 2026 - BELFORT LA POUDRIERE (France)
Fri November 13 2026 - NIMES Paloma (France)
Sat November 14 2026 - ARGENTEUIL La Cave (France)
Tue November 17 2026 - CHERBOURG Le Circuit (France)
Wed November 18 2026 - BORDEAUX Krakatoa (France)
Thu November 19 2026 - PARIS La Maroquinerie (France)
Fri November 20 2026 - LA ROCHELLE La Sirene (France)
Sat November 21 2026 - ROUEN Le 106 (France)
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