On June 26, Julez and the Rollerz will release their debut full-length album Dirty Little Rock ‘N’ Roller via Lolipop Records. Thematically, Dirty Little Rock ‘N’ Roller as a whole explores the passage of time within relationships, identity, and 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. Compared to their 2025 EP Is This Where The Party Is?, which leaned more heavily into scrappy garage rock and blues-tinged looseness, 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.

The album’s title comes from a lyric in the track “Hot Take,” a song that pokes fun at modern-day Los Angeles musicians posturing as reincarnated 70s rock stars. The phrase “Dirty Little Rock ‘N’ Roller” began as satire, a tongue-in-cheek jab at ego and self-mythologizing, but in naming the album after it, Julez and the Rollerz reclaim the phrase entirely. What started as sarcasm becomes self-awareness, a playful and defiant embrace of rock music’s excess, ambition and vulnerability all at once.

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.