Death Valley Girls share new song, "Basic Witch"

"Basic Witch" follows lead single "Message From the Venus Flower", and arrives alongside a music video featuring Exene Cervenka of Los Angeles punk band X. It's the second preview of a collection of songs which were written in the aftermath of the Altadena fires that destroyed singer Bonnie Bloomgarden's home. "I had, by all standards, a very difficult and destabilizing few years—and that was before losing everything in the fire," Bloomgarden says of the single. "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 inwar...