Los Angeles glam-rock band Julez and the Rollerz crave connection without compromise on “I Need Love,” the seductive, spirited third single off their upcoming debut album ‘Dirty Little Rock ‘N’ Roller’ that channels romantic anxiety, raw want, and theatrical rock ’n’ roll abandon into an electrifying, undeniable cry for acceptance.
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Can I be neurotic and still be loved –or do I have to be perfect all of the time?
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Craving connection can make a person feel feral, funny, desperate, and alive –
– all nerves and neon, cigarettes, empty promises, and feelings too big to play cool.
Julez and the Rollerz throw themselves headfirst into that emotional overload on “I Need Love,” a heated glam-rock confession that channels romantic anxiety into a churning, charismatic rush of guitars, handclaps, pounding drums, and unguarded want. It’s a messy, magnetic, full-throttle rock ’n’ roll cry from the heart – a song about needing love without having to sand down the restless, unruly parts of yourself first.
I’m as strung out as a girl can get
I’m stuck on holidays and cigarettes
It takes a lot for you to
loosen me up I guess
Throw me another
pack of emptiness
I need love, I need love
I need love
Atwood Magazine is proud to be premiering “I Need Love,” the seductive and spirited third single off Julez and the Rollerz’s upcoming debut album, Dirty Little Rock ‘N’ Roller (out June 26 via Lolipop Records). Formed in 2021 by frontwoman, vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter Jules Batterman, the LA-based indie four-piece – rounded out by bassist and backup vocalist Morgyn Payge, synth player and backup vocalist Shea Carothers, and drummer Sarah Park – have spent the past few years carving out their own space in their local underground rock scene, fusing glam grit, garage bite, power-pop hooks, and theatrical self-awareness into songs that feel at once combustible and deeply human.
Following 2023’s debut EP Is This Where the Party Is? – a seismic, bite-sized best foot forward that introduced Batterman’s firebrand voice and penchant for razor-edged, emotionally exposed lyrics – Dirty Little Rock ‘N’ Roller captures a raucous young band coming into focus, sharpening their sound without losing the unruly spark that made them so exciting in the first place. The record’s first two singles, “Call Me Up” and “I Don’t Know You,” channel that evolution with exhilarating energy and urgency, with Atwood Magazine praising the latter for its restlessness and radiance, calling it a “feverish indie rock release that burns with tension, swagger, and emotional clarity… thrashing and aching in equal measure, chasing catharsis with every distorted chord and soaring refrain.”
“I Need Love” arrives as the latest taste of the Los Angeles band’s sonic might and prowess, a punchy, pleasure-seeking burst of glam-tinted rock that finds all four players moving as one. Julez and the Rollerz sound fully locked in here, each member feeding the song’s live-wire charge while giving Batterman’s restless, heart-on-sleeve performance all the room it needs to burn.
Batterman describes “I Need Love” as a song born in motion, its frantic pulse mirroring the tangled emotional questions at its core.
“This song started off as just one big run on sentence of a song that eventually came together over time while writing it with our producer and the band,” she tells Atwood Magazine. “We all crave love, it’s a part of the human condition; When love comes with a cost though, and when you’re just the manic pixie dream girl of another person’s life, it almost makes you question if romantic love is truly attainable. Can I be neurotic and still be loved? Or do I have to be perfect all of the time? That’s what this song is about more or less!”
I’m so caught up in my particular ways
Shit feels unnerving every single day
I need love, I need love
I need love, I need love
I need love, I need love
That question – ‘Can I be neurotic and still be loved?’ – cuts straight through the song’s roaring exterior. “I Need Love” opens already on edge, with Batterman singing, “I’m as strung out as a girl can get / I’m stuck on holidays and cigarettes,” her delivery carrying the sound of someone caught between self-awareness and surrender. The band doesn’t soften that spiral; they embolden it, building a dramatic release around the kind of internal monologue that usually stays locked behind a forced smile. Every chant of “I need love” lands less like a polished hook than a confession blurted out under bright lights, equal parts demand, prayer, and dare.
Musically, the track thrives on contrast: It’s sleek enough to seduce, scrappy enough to sting, and theatrical enough to make neediness feel like a power move. The rhythm section keeps the whole thing stomping forward while the guitars add heat and attitude, the synths add a dash of sweetness, and those chorus handclaps give the song a communal lift – as if the band is turning one person’s private unraveling into a room-wide release. By the time the bridge arrives – “Laying me out with all your praises / Leading me out to the wrong places / Getting me off to find yourself” – “I Need Love” has made its central ache unmistakable: The desire to be wanted without being used, adored without being reduced, held without having to perform perfection first.
You say you love me
just to pass the time
Now we’re the idiots
just speaking in rhyme
I need love, I need love
I need love, I need love
I need love, I need love
Beneath the song’s heat, humor, and high-voltage release is a simple, deeply human hope: That love can meet us where we are, not only where we’ve learned to make ourselves easiest to hold.
“I just hope people find the love they deserve,” Bannerman shares. “During such a weird and scary time in history, I think everyone deserves someone who accepts them for who they are. Of course, as long as they aren’t a sh*tty person that is.”
It’s a fittingly funny, tender, and self-aware sentiment for a song that wears its neediness like a leather jacket: Openly, defiantly, and with no interest in apologizing for the spectacle. “I Need Love” doesn’t ask to be admired from a distance; it kicks the door open and demands to be felt. That’s part of its charm, and part of its bite – the way it turns insecurity into voltage, longing into theater, and the raw want for connection into a chorus built to be shouted back.
That balance of spectacle and sincerity is what makes Julez and the Rollerz feel so compelling: They know how to put on a show, but they never let the showmanship eclipse the feeling underneath. Their music has attitude, humor, movement, and muscle, but it also has a beating pulse – the sense of a band taking all the chaos of becoming and throwing it back at the world with a smirk, a snarl, and a wide-open heart. With Dirty Little Rock ‘N’ Roller, Julez and the Rollerz promise a bold arrival from an act worth watching closely: A young, hungry band making their own noise, building their own myth, and pushing forward with every catchy hook, every cathartic howl, and every unapologetic hit.
Laying me out with all your praises
Leading me out to the wrong places
Getting me off to find yourself
I need love, I need love
I need love, I need love
I need love, I need love
Stream “I Need Love” exclusively on Atwood Magazine, and dive into our full conversation with Jules Batterman below as she opens up about the band’s glam-rock roots, the musical north stars behind their sound, the making of Dirty Little Rock ‘N’ Roller, and the humor, vulnerability, and heart beating through their debut album.
Julez and the Rollerz may revel in noise, nerve, and neon-lit excess, but “I Need Love” hits hardest because of the very thing it refuses to hide: That beneath the swagger and the spectacle, wanting to be loved as you are remains one of the most electric feelings a person can have.
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A CONVERSATION WITH JULEZ AND THE ROLLERZ
Atwood Magazine: Jules, for those who are just discovering Julez and the Rollerz today through this writeup, what do you want them to know about you and your music?
Julez and the Rollerz (Jules Batterman): Well for one, we are not the Runaways! But are an all women band and we do make glam inspired rock music.
Who are some of your musical north stars, and what are you most excited about the music you're making today?
Julez and the Rollerz: Musical north stars definitely include Pretenders, Suzi Quatro, Gary Numan, Sheryl Crow, Marc Bolan, Lou Reed to name a few… (I guess more than a few). I think I’m most excited about how locked in as a band we are on this album. Every one of us has a chance to showcase our individual talents within each of the songs
Your debut album arrives in just a month and change! How do you feel Dirty Little Rock ‘N’ Roller introduces you and captures your artistry?
Julez and the Rollerz: The album definitely captures our energy, range as musicians and songwriters as equal amounts of silly and emotional.
What’s the story behind Dirty Little Rock ‘N’ Roller – the album and the title?
Julez and the Rollerz: The title actually comes from a lyric from one of the songs on the album called Hot Take. It’s supposed to be a tongue-in-cheek play on our musical reputation as women who play rock music in 2026. It’s theatrical, it’s rock music, but definitely more than *just* a rock album.
Today we're premiering “I Need Love,” the record’s second single. Can you share a bit more about this song?
Julez and the Rollerz: This song started off as just one big run on sentence of a song that eventually came together over time while writing it with our producer and the band. We all crave love, it’s a part of the human condition; when love comes with a cost though, and when you’re just the manic pixie dream girl of another person’s life, it almost makes you question if romantic love is truly attainable. Can I be neurotic and still be loved? Or do I have to be perfect all of the time? That’s what this song is about more or less!
So far, you’ve teased Dirty Little Rock ‘N’ Roller with two tracks – both of which are as energetic as they are invigorating! How do you feel “I Don’t Know You” and now “I Need Love” help capture the spirit of the album?
Julez and the Rollerz: I feel they capture both the humor and the emotional vulnerability behind the album. Both are songs I truly get to ‘belt’ on.
What do you hope listeners take away from this latest single, and what have you taken away from creating it and now putting it out?
Julez and the Rollerz: I just hope people find the love they deserve. During such a weird and scary time in history, I think everyone deserves someone who accepts them for who they are. Of course, as long as they aren’t a sh*tty person that is.
In the spirit of paying it forward, who are you listening to these days that you would recommend to our readers?
Julez and the Rollerz: Haute & Freddy, Johnny, Fright Years, Star Moles
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