Gwendolyn and Lucy Giles grew up playing together—just not in the traditional recess sense. From the time the Sacramento sisters were 8 and 10 years old, they were jamming and writing original music as Dog Party.

“I always like to say that we’re like rock ’n’ roll with a sprinkle of pop and a dash of punk,” says Lucy, a vocalist and drummer who hat-tips The White Stripes as an inspiration. “We’re just wicked guitar tones, bombastic drumming and sick harmonies. We’re sisters, so we have blood harmonies that will rattle your bones.”

On top of hopping into the minivan for sports practice, the tweens were hustling to their first dive bar gigs with SoCal punks Agent Orange. The sisters went on to release their first two LPs on family friend Zach Goodin and Bud Gaugh of Sublime’s Half of Nothing Records, with more reflective, coming of age work dropping on Asian Man Records.

Roughly 17 years, one tour with Green Day and six albums later, Dog Party is still a force of nature. The sisters moonlight as vinyl-spinning DJs, with Gwen (guitar/vocals) working for The Emo Night Tour. They also recently founded Sneak Dog Records with Teens in Trouble rocker Lizzie Killian to support other women-fronted projects.

The duo tapped Ryan Perras of San Jose’s District Recording Studio to work on their seventh LP, Dangerous, capturing what Lucy calls the “Dog Party ethos.” The drummer views it as “a more elevated version” of the band’s bulleted rock epic Lost Control. The sisters also tease more “push-pull harmonies” on songs such as “Fallen”—“The only positive song on the record,” Lucy jokes—and experimentation with guitar tones.

“We really had some beautiful tremolo or reverb using vintage equipment that sounds so good,” Lucy adds. “There’s some guitar work in there that sounds just like George Harrison.”

They’ll be returning to Red Dwarf on May 23, with Dangerous releasing May 17.

“I am a big fan of tiki, so I’m always happy to be there. We have been honored to play the Punk Rock Bowling stage twice, so it’s always fun to just bring our energy back to Vegas,” Lucy says. “What you can expect is some really cool harmonies, some loud guitar and—”

“High energy rock ’n’ roll,” Gwen adds.

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