While working on your year-end lists (they’re coming soon!), you inevitably spot a release you somehow missed. Usually it’s fine; sometimes it stings. I won’t hand in my resignation just yet, but forgive me for only now catching the latest single from rock-’n’-roll’s finest prodigy — which dropped A FREAKIN’ TWO MONTHS AGO. Sigh.

To those who’ve had these tunes on repeat already: apologies. I’ll try harder. But if you, like me, let this one slip, hit play and prepare for a jolt. Rock n’ Roll Kids opens with a classic ’70s glam stomp before swerving into a glampop-punk’n’roll detour less than a minute in. Tibbals keeps yanking the tempo around, slamming between restraint and full throttle, tossing in sexy guitar lines and hooks sharp enough to bruise. We’re not worthy.

The B-side, Playtime, leans into Tibbals’ theatrical soft-rock impulses — still cheeky, still dramatic, and unmistakably him.

7″ single out now on Billy Tibbals’ own Fizz Fizz Records.

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