Julez and the Rollerz have pushed another spark into their debut-album rollout. The Los Angeles band have shared Phaser, a new single from Dirty Little Rock 'N' Roller, which is due June 26 via Lolipop Records. Punknews picked up the track this morning, while the band's Bandcamp page confirms the album's nine-song tracklist and release date.
Phaser is not being sold as a polite introduction. She Makes Music published a statement from vocalist and guitarist Jules Batterman, who said the song started from a late-2023 rehearsal-space jam and has lived in the band's set for years. That checks out with the track's appeal: it feels built for the room first, with fuzz, gloss, and a little glam-rock impatience all fighting for space.
'Phaser' is about the weird feeling of being an artist and accidentally turning your entire existence into a performance. Whether you're on stage, posting online, talking to people after shows, or awkwardly networking somewhere, there's this pressure to always be 'on' and entertaining enough to keep people paying attention.
Batterman also framed that pressure through the band's experience moving through the industry as a group of mostly woman-presenting musicians, where visual perception can start crowding the music itself. That makes Phaser sharper than a standard garage-pop single. The hook is big, but the subject is the exhaustion of being expected to make yourself consumable every time you leave the house.
Dirty Little Rock 'N' Roller will include Time, Phaser, I Don't Know You, Call Me Up, I Need Love, Hot Take, Bring It On, Always Hard 4 U, and Take It Back. UpToHear identifies Phaser as the final single before the album, which gives the rollout a clean runway into late June. It follows the band's 2023 EP Is This Where The Party Is?, and Punknews notes a June 28 record release show at Zebulon in Los Angeles.
There is a useful tension here. Phaser sounds like a band chasing sweat and bright lights, but it is also suspicious of the machinery that turns personality into product. For a debut album called Dirty Little Rock 'N' Roller, that is the right kind of contradiction: messy, self-aware, and still committed to the hit of volume.