Kevin Bronson on January 29th, 2023

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Felt like sorting through some high-volume, high-energy rock this weekend, so we share these, new singles from Ariel View, Dreamers & Irontom, Aloud and Beach Bums.

ARIEL VIEW, “Joan”

Ariel View has been flying the pop-punk flag (and a rainbow one, too) since they stormed out of the Inland Empire and released their debut album, “Until My Lungs Are Cleared,” on Epitaph in 2019. In 2021, they independently released the follow-up, “Bury My Head,” and with founding members Harmonie Martinez and Nadine Parra now joined by AJ Padilla and Caesar Lopez, they’re blazing forward, taking cues from the pop-punk and garage-rock giants of the ’90s and early ’00s. “Joan,” their the quartet’s new single, speaks to perseverance and conviction, and how a setback or two only motivates them further. See Ariel View playing with Los Emptys at Genghis Cohen on Feb. 4, or on Feb. 9 at Harvard & Stone.

DREAMERS and IRONTOM, “Don’t Go Dark”

Dreamers don’t do anything unless they do it big — witness any of their 2022 singles, from “Body Language” to their collaboration with Sueco, “Robbery.” And so it goes for “Don’t Go Dark,” another collaborative single, this one with some of L.A.’s favorite heavy hitters, Irontom. Respective frontmen Nick Wold and Harry Hayes engage in some call-and-response before, courtesy of producer Colin Brittain, the hard stuff hits. “‘Don’t Go Dark’ is a song about the fight of life,” Wold says. “Every life, since the beginning of time, has been fighting against the darkness, fighting to exist for a while before we go back to where we came from. Irontom is one of our favorite bands, whose music we always listened to on long desert van drives during our early touring days. It’s great that they’ve become good friends and that we were able to make this incredible song together. Harry and I were talking in the studio about how it’s trendy or fashionable to be depressed, and how it’s easy to spiral down into it. The lyrics came out of that conversation; we wanted to remind people not to let the darkness consume them.”

ALOUD, “Somewhere to Be”

Aloud finished 2022 with a bang (witness the single “The Comeback Kid”), and now the quartet is picking up where they left off. “Somewhere to Be” is a motivational banger about getting off the dime, and urging someone else to do the same. The band — Jen de la Osa, Henry Beguiristain, Charles Murphy and Chris Jago — will release their album “Apollo 6” in May.

BEACH BUMS, “Whatever it Takes”

You never know what Beach Bums are gonna stuff in your ears — they call their oeuvre “mycore,” after all. So as the follow-up single to “Mystkluv,” they’re back with a minute and a half of blistering guitars and insouciance to match. See them April 8 at the Glass House.