Listen to Karen Dió’s energetic new single, Bexy

Karen Dió has unleashed a lively new single, Bexy.

The Brazilian punk’s first new music of 2026, the track came about in a cool and incredibly Karen way: by hanging out with fans online and getting inventive.

“A few years ago, me and my husband [Dinosaur Pile-Up’s Matt Bigland] had a Patreon page,” she explains. “We used to share about our lives and hang with our Patrons in live video calls quite often. In one of these live calls, we decided to grab the guitar and improvise a song live, to everyone that joined the call.

“Bex, one of our OG beloved supporters joined the live call, so we immediately began writing Bex a song. Matt started to play the chord progression that you hear in the final song and I also started to sing basically the final version of the vocals, the words beginning to form as we messed around. We wrote the song right there, live, on the call.

“Instead of singing ‘Bex’, I sang ‘Bexy’, a sort linguistic change that happens as my primary language is Brazilian Portuguese. In Portuguese you add an ‘ee’ sound to every word that finishes with consonant! So for instance ‘Facebook’ becomes ‘Faceybooky’, ‘Hot Dog’ turns into ‘Hotchy Doggy’… So ‘Bex’ ended up turning into ‘Bexy’. And that was it, the song was almost completed right there on the call.”

Listen to Bexy below:

Catch her live at the following:

Karen Dió 2026 summer tour dates

July

7 Bristol The Croft
8 Cheltenham 2000trees Festival

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