Julez and the Rollerz – Dirty Little Rock ‘N’ Roller
Julez and the Rollerz release their debut album Dirty Little Rock ‘N’ Roller on Lolipop Records.
The band shared the album’s final single “Always Hard 4 U.” “Always Hard 4 U” follows the first single “I Don’t Know You.”
To celebrate the release, Julez and the Rollerz will be playing a Los Angeles Record Release show on June 28 at Zebulon. Tickets for the show are on sale now. The band will also be playing shows in San Diego and Las Vegas. Upcoming shows are listed below.
On “Always Hard 4 U” vocalist/guitarist Jules Batterman shares:
“Always Hard 4 U” was technically the first song written for this album, and probably the most personal/emotional one for me. It actually goes way, way back. I originally wrote the intro riff in high school around 2012, then randomly rediscovered it years later in some old voice notes on my iPhone. I still loved the vibe of it and finally decided I wanted to form it into a real cohesive piece of music.
The subject matter came from a pattern of relationships I kept falling into after I first moved to Los Angeles in 2018. I was super vulnerable at the time and desperately looking for friendship because I had just moved to a brand new city where I didn’t know anybody yet. I kept gravitating toward the same kind of person; overly personable, charming, and quick to take me under their wing as an awkward 20 something year old. The friendships would become really intense really fast, and eventually crash and burn because underneath it all, we were always two completely different personalities. Looking back, all of those relationships were toxic, but I almost never recognized it until things were already falling apart.
The title ‘Always Hard 4 U’ is also meant to be an intentional double entendre. On one hand, it’s about feeling like I was head over heels for a person that I had thought was my platonic soulmate in the very beginning, but it also plays into the more mutual flirtatious and tongue-in-cheek meaning too, perhaps beyond *just* friendship.”
Thematically, Dirty Little Rock ‘N’ Roller as a whole explores the passage of time within relationships, within identity and within life itself. It’s a record preoccupied with growth and reckoning, with asking what remains when the noise settles and who you become when the party finally winds down.
Produced, engineered and mixed by Grammy nominated producer Alex Newport at Tiny Creatures Studio in Yucca Valley, CA, the album captures the band live with a careful balance of raw performance and thoughtful layering. Newport, known for his work with artists such as Death Cab for Cutie, Bloc Party and The Mars Volta, brings both precision and weight to the project.
The band’s 2023 EP Is This Where The Party Is?, which leaned more heavily into scrappy garage rock and blues-tinged looseness while Dirty Little Rock ‘N’ Roller feels more polished, more emotionally direct and decidedly more mature without sacrificing bite. It is also the most theatrical the band has ever sounded, pulling from power pop and glam rock traditions with big hooks, stacked vocals and larger-than-life moments. The guitars are bold, the choruses are built to stick and there is a dramatic flair running through the record that matches its sharp self awareness. The sound is unapologetically rock-forward, trading irony for impact and leaning fully into amplified guitars and sharp-edged hooks.
Formed in 2021 by Jules with a rotating lineup of collaborators, Julez and the Rollerz quickly carved out a presence in the Los Angeles underground scene with their high-energy live shows and genre-blurring early material. Their one-off single “Call Me Up,” released in 2025 and also appearing on the new album, marked a turning point, hinting at a sharper and more defined sonic direction that now fully materializes on Dirty Little Rock ‘N’ Roller.
If earlier releases captured the chaos of youth and late nights, this album captures what comes after, the clarity, the doubt and the strange beauty of realizing you’re no longer the same person you were when you started. With Dirty Little Rock ‘N’ Roller, Julez and the Rollerz prove they’re not just playing dress-up in rock nostalgia. They’re evolving in real time and fully aware of the irony but committed to the music anyway.
Julez and The Rollerz Tour Dates:
June 28 – Los Angeles, CA @ Zebulon
July 9 – San Diego, CA @ The Banshee Bar
July 10 – Las Vegas, NV @ The Griffin
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