Death Valley Girls Preview 'Welcome To Earth' With Second Single Basic Witch
Tuesday, 01 September 2026
Written by Jon Stickler
Photo: Sheva Kafai
Death Valley Girls have released another single from their upcoming album.
Following last month's lead single Message From the Venus Flower, Basic Witch pairs punk and garage-rock with psychedelic sounds and vibrant saxophone. It explores the cycle of blaming others and arrives with a video featuring the legendary Exene Cervenka of Los Angeles punk pioneers X.
The track offers a further glimpse into 'Welcome To Earth', which was written after the devastating Eaton Fire in Los Angeles in 2025, which destroyed lead singer Bonnie Bloomgarden's home in Altadena. She explained:
"I had, by all standards, a very difficult and destabilizing few years—and that was before losing everything in the fire. When so much happens that is outside of your control, I think it’s a very human coping mechanism to try to assign blame and divide everything into good or bad. He’s bad, that place is good, what I did before was bad, so as long as I never do that again, I’ll be safe. We create these systems of duality because we think they’ll protect us. But duality rarely exists in real life.
"Eventually I realized that assigning blame wasn’t empowering me; it was keeping me in a loop. So I started studying that loop, and I saw that I was actually repeating a pattern I’d been living out since I was a kid—constantly trying to figure out who was safe, who was dangerous, who was good, who was bad. It was exhausting.
"The more I looked inward, the more I realized that the only place I could really find power was within myself. I’m not saying we’re responsible for everything that happens to us. I’m saying we are responsible for what we do with what happens to us. For me, that meant taking radical accountability—not in a ‘blame the victim’ way, but asking myself: Where was I giving away my power? Where was I putting people on pedestals and making them the priority? Where could I have had stronger boundaries? What could I do differently moving forward?
"I realized I had been doing this my whole life without even knowing it. This song is about taking control of your own boundaries. It’s about taking responsibility for your choices without needing blame, fault, victim, or perpetrator to consume you. Because when you stop looking outside yourself for someone to blame—or someone to save you—you get your power back."
On the video, she added: "The concept for the video is pretty funny, imagine Karate Kid meets Quadrophenia.
"It’s important to me to highlight people/businesses we love when we have an opportunity to use our lil platform. After the fire I felt super weak, so I started taking a strength training class from Candy in Echo Park. In a few short months I felt and was stronger than I have ever been! When i find anything that helps me I want to share that intel with the world, so we started working on a music video idea! I wanted her to train someone who was getting picked on like in Karate Kid. So we asked Henry Mortenson to direct and Exene Cervenka to star in the video with her friends Skating Polly, and Annette. It turned into a super cute family video. A real good time."
The follow-up to 2023's 'Islands In The Sky' is set to arrive on October 9 via Suicide Squeeze Records.
Following a series of US dates supporting Twin Temple, the California band will play an album release show in Los Angeles before heading out on a UK and European tour this autumn, including an appearance at Brighton's Mutations Festival on October 23. Tickets are on sale now.
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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