Interview with Death Valley Girls’ Bonnie Bloomgarden at the Pitch

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Calling Death Valley Girls a garage-rock act undersells it. While the music on the Los Angeles quartet’s second full-length, Glow in the Dark, has a lo-fi aspect to it, there’s definitely a whole lotta death rock goin’ on.

The band’s video for “Disco” is a freaky pagan affair, featuring legendary L.A. DJ Rodney Bingenheimer, and directed by Troma ingenue Kansas Bowling, and will instantly drag you into Death Valley Girls’ aesthetic. The Pitch spoke with the band’s frontwoman, Bonnie Bloomgarden, by phone from L.A. about Death Valley Girls’ cult appeal and the appeal of cults.

Read the full interview at the Pitch. Published 9/19/16