Bad Cop Bad Cop (USA) + Svetlanas
Freitag, 14.11.2025
PUNK ROCK / HC PUNK
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BAD COP BAD COP
In the final moments of “Dead Friends,” the penultimate track of the new Lighten Up, Bad Cop Bad
Cop guitarist-vocalist Stacey Dee sings, “So try to love your life, while you can.”
These words serve as a powerful thesis for Lighten Up (Fat Wreck Chords/Hopeless Records,
September 19, 2025), the SoCal punk group’s fourth full-length. The album paints a striking portrait of
life’s hard-won victories and hard-fought losses.
“I think that’s what I write my songs about,” Dee says. “Life is hard, but it's still beautiful. Stop picking
the hard shit to look at—look at the beautiful stuff too. Lighten up.”
Dee and her bandmates—bassist-vocalist Linh Le, drummer-vocalist Myra Gallarza, and new guitarist
Alex Windsor—know what it takes to persevere.
Resilience surfaces throughout Lighten Up. In “Strugglinh,” Le confronts self-doubt and finds strength,
and in “See Me Now,” she turns family loss into triumph. “Straight Out of Detox” details a
transformational night in Dee’s life, and “Note to Self” is her reminder to keep things in perspective,
aided by iconic LA underground rapper 2mex.
Playing like a big-hearted sibling to the Jim Carroll Band’s iconic “People Who Died,” “Dead Friends”
has been in the works for years.
“This was the first time that I dug in to tell stories that I was too afraid to talk about prior,” Dee says.
“We've made records that were unapologetically strong, but the way we got to be unapologetically
strong was dealing with things like this.”
Unapologetically personal best describes Lighten Up.
“It started with having the girls over on Sundays. I would cook brunch, we’d drink tons of bottles of
Prosecco, and we would write music together,” Dee says. “This was family the entire time. It was who we
trusted, who we loved, who we knew we could work with.”
That’s why Bad Cop Bad Cop recorded at the Compound in Long Beach, home to veteran producer
Antoine Arvizu (Sublime, Ryan Bingham). The band loved recording the singles “Shattered” and “Safe
and Legal” there in 2023 with Arvizu and Dee’s partner, Migs (Sublime, Slightly Stoopid, Long Beach
Dub Allstars).
“The way that Miguel produces, he lets you be you until something needs to be added or reeled in. He
always says, ‘Never a dull moment on a record,” Dee explains. Bad Cop Bad Cop stretched their
signature hooky, melodic punk into unexpected places, like the jazzy “Las Ventanas,” the dub-inflected
“Note to Self,” or “Johnny Appleseed,” a reimagining of the Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros classic.
After tracking the instruments, the band spent 10 intense 12-hour days recording vocals with longtime
collaborator John E. Carey Jr. (Old Man Markley, NOFX, Get Dead). “The singing was the most
important part for us. We really tried things out,” Dee says, adding that Gallarza stepped up to sing
third harmony for the first time.
Lighten Up also benefits from Windsor, an expert guitarist who not only shreds (check out the end of
“I4NI”) but whose music theory knowledge proved invaluable. “Alex's guitar playing is just so fantastic
and has really elevated our songwriting, truly,” Dee says.
Everything about Lighten Up feels elevated and genuine. “This was the first time we didn’t give a fuck
about what anyone else was doing or wanted us to do. Lighten Up was for us” Dee says. “We had a
complete and total ball making it and we love it so much”
Svetlanas
Often called "The Most Dangerous Band in the World”, SVETLANAS manage
to build a strong reputation in the music community enhanced by furious
performances at international festivals like Vans Warped Tour (USA), South
by Southwest (USA), Punk Rock Bowling (USA), Rebellion Festival (UK),
Extreme Fest (FR) and Dead Of Winter (AU) just to name just a few.
SVETLANAS has earned and maintained the respect of legendary bands such
as The Adolescents, D.O.A., The Dwarves, M.D.C, Bad Religion, Suicidal
Tendencies, Sick Of It All, Phil Anselmo, Eyehategod, Jello Biafra and many
more, giving life to international tours and record productions. The band also
received a big and unexpected shout-out from Gene Simmons of the
legendary rock band KISS who said “Their music will be listened to by 40
million Americans!”.
Nick Oliveri (Kyuss, Queens Of The Stone Age, Mondo Generator, The
Dwarves) officially joined the lineup in 2016 recording along with the band
"This is Moscow Not LA" LP at the official QOTSA’s headquarters, Josh
Homme’s Pink Duck Studios, and performing a full month residency at the
legendary Whisky a Go Go as a member of SVETLANAS. From that moment
Nick will be part of every record release of the band, including “Disco Sucks”
(2020) and the upcoming release of “The Alien’s Blues” (2022).
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