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L7 (band)

April 26, 2024

Not to be confused with L-Seven, the Detroit post-punk band.

L7 is an American all-female rock band founded in Los Angeles, California, first active from 1985 to 2001 and re-formed in 2014.[5] Their longest standing lineup consists of Suzi Gardner (guitars, vocals), Donita Sparks (vocals, guitars), Jennifer Finch (bass, vocals), and Dee Plakas (drums, vocals). L7 has released seven studio albums and has toured widely in the US, Europe, Japan, Australia, and South America. "Pretend We're Dead" was heavily played on US alternative radio and entered the top 10 on the Billboard Modern Rock chart in 1992.[6]

L7
L7 performing in 2015
Background information
OriginLos Angeles, U.S.
Genres
DiscographyL7 discography
Years active
  • 1985–2001
  • 2014–present
Labels
Members
Past members
Websitel7theband.com

Due to their sound and image, L7 is often associated with the grunge movement of the late 1980s and early 1990s,[7] and as an all-female band, L7 have, at times, been linked to riot grrrl; although they preceded and are outliers of both the grunge and riot grrrl movements.[8] L7 have been supportive of political causes, and formed Rock for Choice in 1991.[9] A documentary film about the band, L7: Pretend We're Dead, premiered in 2016.[10][11]

History edit

Formation and early years (1985–1989) edit

L7 were formed by Donita Sparks and Suzi Gardner in 1985.[5] Both artists were active in the Art punk community of Echo Park and had met in 1984 through mutual contacts at the cultural hub of the LA Weekly. Of their meeting and on hearing Gardner play a tape of her songs in progress, Sparks described it as "one of the happiest days of my life" with a clear synchronicity in the music they were each interested in creating.[12] At the time, Gardner was also active as a poet.[13] A year prior, Gardner had performed backing vocals on the college radio hit "Slip It In" by Black Flag.[14] Gardner and Sparks began performing regularly in Los Angeles at punk and metal venues along with a revolving list of supporting musicians in the early years.

The punk rock duo brought Jennifer Finch on board as bass guitarist and Roy Koutsky on drums.[15][16] Finch, with the strongest Californian roots of the four, connected the band with an even wider network, including Brett Gurewitz of Epitaph Records where the band recorded their first demo.[17] Their eponymous debut album, described as "intense, energetic" and "fast straightforward punk music" was released by Epitaph Records in 1987.[18] L7 reported challenges in the early years with finding a suitable, stable drummer. Shortly after the release of L7, Koutsky quit the band and was replaced by Anne Anderson.[19] Subsequently, Anderson left at the end of the touring cycle for the L7 record, and Demetra "Dee" Plakas was recruited by the band in late 1989 which completed the band's first stabilized lineup as an all-female band.[20][17]

Time with Sub Pop (1989–1991) edit

The band released (“Shove”/“Packin’ a Rod”) in 1989 as the Sub Pop Single of the Month.[21] L7 reportedly spent a short time in Seattle in the early 1990s.[11][22] L7's next album, Smell the Magic, was released in 1990 on Sub Pop and earned a four star review by Rolling Stone who stated "With Donita Sparks' and Suzi Gardner's twin lockstep guitars racing down the highway to hell, Smell the Magic was one of Sub Pop's finest hours."[23] L7 traveled to England and opened for Nirvana on several dates in 1990.[24]

In August 1991, L7 performed at the International Pop Underground Convention (IPU) held in Olympia, Washington.[12] The IPU was organized around a fiercely independent DIY ethic, with L7 the only band with major label representation, having recently signed with Slash Records (a subsidiary of London Records).[12]

Major label releases with Slash (1991–1997) edit

Their 1992 third album, Bricks Are Heavy, produced by Butch Vig, was featured in Rolling Stone's May 1999 list of 'Essential recordings of the 1990s', and was their most critically and commercially successful release.[25] When Donita Sparks reached out to Yoko Ono to request permission to sample her scream in the opening track "Wargasm," Ono reportedly replied that she had her fingers crossed for the group as it was time for their music to get popular.[12] Their 1992 single "Pretend We're Dead" spent 13 weeks on the US Alternative Songs chart while peaking at the No. 8 position,[26] and it had also peaked at No. 21 on the UK Singles Chart. The singles "Everglade" and "Monster" also made appearances on the UK Singles chart.[27] In their listing of the top 50 grunge songs, Paste magazine included "Pretend We're Dead" as number 21.[28] L7 went on a year long tour to promote Bricks Are Heavy.[29] Variety reported in 1992 that L7 had built a huge underground following all over the world due to repeatedly touring.[29] The popularity of Bricks Are Heavy was also boosted by frequent video play on MTV. By June 2000, Bricks Are Heavy had sold 327,000 copies in the US.[30]

In a July 1993 article for Spin which featured L7 on the magazine's cover, Renée Crist described L7 as "four of the funniest, meanest, strongest, coolest, most pissed-off women I know" and as "wild, rambunctious, spontaneous" with a stage show that "is a wash of buddy love, crowd working, and acrobatics".[31]

L7's fourth album, Hungry for Stink, was released in July 1994. The album peaked at No. 117 on the Billboard 200 chart, their highest position to date. "Andres" was the lead single off the album, which peaked at No. 20 on the US Alternative Songs and No. 34 on the UK Singles charts. The band continued to be regarded as a strong live act[12] and performed on the main stage of the Lollapalooza tour in 1994, which also included The Smashing Pumpkins, the Beastie Boys, George Clinton, Nick Cave, A Tribe Called Quest, and The Breeders.[32] In January 1995, L7 played a set of benefit concerts for Voters for Choice at Constitution Hall along with Neil Young, Lisa Germano, and Pearl Jam.[33][34][35] Finch created a "slight fuss"[36] after reportedly playing the final song of one show after removing her shirt.[37]

In 1995, L7 was one of four bands featured[38] in the documentary film Not Bad For a Girl.[39][40] The film, which focused on several all female bands, was awarded Best Documentary at the New York Underground Film Festival in 1996.

Finch left the band in 1996,[41] during the recording of their fifth album,The Beauty Process: Triple Platinum. Sparks and Greta Brinkman played bass on the album, after which Gail Greenwood – formerly of the band Belly – became the band's full-time bassist.[42] L7 performed at the Bumbershoot festival in Seattle, Washington in 1997.[12]

Independent output and initial disbandment (1997–2001) edit

In 1998, the pseudo-documentary film L7: The Beauty Process was released, directed by Krist Novoselic.[43] The film contains actual concert footage of L7's trials and travails of being a “punk-like band in a pop-like marketplace.”[44]

L7's sixth studio album, Slap-Happy, was released on the band's own label Wax Tadpole Records in 1999.[14] To promote the record, on July 17, 1999, L7 had a plane fly over the crowd at the Lilith Fair at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, with a banner that read, "Bored? Tired? Try L7." The following day, an airplane towed a banner over the crowd at the Warped Tour at the Stone Pony lot in Asbury Park, New Jersey. The banner read "Warped needs more beaver...love, L7."[14][45] Greenwood later left the band and was replaced by Janis Tanaka, formerly of the San Francisco band, Stone Fox.[46]

 
L7 performing at the Emerson Theater in Indianapolis in 1997

Record sales continued to wane during the late 1990s, and the band grew increasingly low on funds. However, the band's live performances consistently garnered praise, including a September 1999 review by rock critic Greg Kot in the Chicago Tribune that stated "Gardner and Sparks favor low-end guitar chug, a sound that suggests the idling engine of a Harley-Davidson more than the high-end squeal of most lead guitarists. They intersect with bassist Janis Tanaka to create a thick, sludgy bottom that rumbles the floorboards and shoots right through the sternums of innocent passersby. Their secret weapon remains drummer Dee Plakas."[47]

By 2001, L7 were no longer touring. The band listed the following statement on their website, "L7 are on an indefinite hiatus. We know that's vague, but that's just the way it is. The future of the band is a bit up in the air at the moment." L7 appeared to be defunct for all practical purposes. From 2007 to 2012, Sparks pursued another project, along with Plakas on drums, in their band Donita Sparks and The Stellar Moments. Finch formed several projects including OtherStarPeople and her punk rock group The Shocker.[48] Tanaka played bass for Pink and Greenwood played with Bif Naked and later, the reformed Belly.

In 2012, Sparks started a Facebook page for the band, posting videos and archival images of L7, where their fan base quickly began to regroup.[8]

Reunion (2014–present) edit

On December 10, 2014, L7 announced, on their official Facebook page, that they were reuniting, featuring Donita Sparks, Suzi Gardner, Jennifer Finch and Demetra Plakas.[49] As part of the reunion, the band revamped their website and included a mailing list for fans.[50]

The reunited band kicked off a European tour at Rock am Ring in Germany on June 6, 2015[51] with shows in the Czech Republic, Austria, UK, France, and Spain.[52] This was followed by North American dates in New York,[52] Toronto,[53] and at Riot Fest in both Denver [54] and Chicago,[55] and the Fun, Fun, Fun Festival in Austin, Texas.[56] Exclaim! reviewed their Toronto show and stated that "Their subversive sense of humour and brash confidence provides feminism with some much-needed comic relief and audacity, and on this night, as 50-somethings in a 30-year-old band, they looked, acted and sounded every bit as brazen as they did 25 years back."[53]

On February 15, 2016, L7's original drummer Koutsky passed away at the age of 53.[57] Later in 2016, the documentary film L7: Pretend We're Dead, directed by Sarah Price, premiered in Los Angeles. The film, largely funded through Kickstarter,[58] features original footage and interviews with the band members and eyewitness accounts of their development from Lydia Lunch, Shirley Manson, Krist Novoselic and Butch Vig.[59][41][60] The film was nominated for a VO5 NME Award for Best Music Film.[61]

 
L7 performing in 2018

In 2016, L7 played a series of shows in the US, South Africa, the UK, and Australia.[62] Chris Lane of Houston Press described the synergy of Sparks and Gardner's guitar playing and the strength of the band's live show stating "Their percussive styles seemed to be locked together, producing a glorious, unified wall of sound. Bass player Jennifer Finch bounced about the stage while propelling each song forward, and drummer Dee Plakas proved that she should be a lot more famous as a rock drummer with every fill."[63]

On January 13, 2017, L7 released Detroit (Live) on record label Easy Action. The live album was originally recorded at a concert in the Motor city on September 1, 1990, and coincided with the group's initial release of Smell the Magic on Sub Pop records. Their performance at the established punk venue Clutch Cargo's in Detroit expressed the raw, kinetic energy of the era. L7 released Fast and Frightening (a collections of rarities, covers, and live performances) as a double album in 2016 with music critic Robert Christgau granting it an A minus in a 2018 review.[64]

On September 29, 2017, L7 released its first new song in 18 years, "Dispatch from Mar-a-Lago" on Don Giovanni Records. The title is a reference to the Mar-a-Lago resort owned by Donald J. Trump.[65] A follow-up single, "I Came Back to Bitch", was released in February 2018.[66]

L7 continued to tour heavily in the US, Canada, and Europe in 2018.[67] April 2018 saw the band announce their plans to record a seventh studio album via PledgeMusic, scheduled for release in 2019.[67] The band went on tour shortly afterward. Including dates with Le Butcherettes as openers.

L7 released the first single from their first album in 20 years, "Burn Baby", on February 28, 2019. The full album, Scatter the Rats, was released on May 3, 2019, through Joan Jett's record label Blackheart Records.[68] The album received generally favorable reviews.[69] Hyperallergic referred to the band's legacy as "feminist punks, metal snarlers, (and) grunge comedians" and stated of their return album that Sparks and Gardner "pound out one solid, catchy, immediately identifiable power riff after another, more punk-minimalist than in their molten grunge period".[70]

In April 2022, L7 announced a tour commemorating the 30th anniversary release of their third album, Bricks Are Heavy. The band played the entire album, along with several other songs. The tour consisted of eighteen scheduled shows through the month of October. L7 also announced a deluxe reissue of Bricks Are Heavy. Remastered by Howie Weinberg, the limited-edition release comes pressed on gold and black vinyl via Licorice Pizza, and pre-orders begun on September 30.[71]

Politics and activism edit

The band's name, L7, derives from a slang term for square.[12] Forming and gaining exposure a time when female musicians and bands were still routinely referred to with terms such as "chicks" and "foxcore", they deliberately chose a name that didn't draw attention to being an all-female band, to resist being typecast into roles the music industry typically expected of women.[72] [73] Sparks said, "We get letters from young girls who say that we’re their inspiration for picking up an instrument, and that makes us really proud. We didn’t really have role models growing up."[72]

In 1991, the band formed Rock for Choice, a pro-choice women's rights group and concert series that raised funds to cover legal expenses due to the prolonged Anti-abortion violence and women's clinic bombings of the 1980s and 1990s.[74] The concept for Rock for Choice, generated by L7 and Sue Cummings, senior editor at the LA Weekly,[9][12] was loosely modeled on Bob Geldof's Live Aid. L7 performed along with Nirvana, Sister Double Happiness, and Hole at the inaugural event held at the Hollywood Palace on October 25, 1991.[75][9] Thanks to a conversation between members of L7 and Dave Grohl at an afterparty following the first show, subsequent Rock for Choice posters were designed in a distinctive underground comix style by SoCal artist Jim Evans/TAZ collective.[76]

Rock for Choice founders L7 and Cummings, along with punk rock promoter and Cochella co-founder Rick Van Santen of Goldenvoice, laid the framework for the inaugural concert.[9][77] The group created kits with information to empower activists to stage a Rock for Choice benefit in their own towns. The New York Times reported that within two years of launching Rock for Choice, there had already been 37 such concerts nationwide.[9]

L7 performed at the September 27, 1992, Rock for Choice benefit concert at the Hollywood Palladium along with Exene Cervenka, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Mudhoney.[78] In October 1993, seven bands played a sold out Rock for Choice benefit including the beloved Los Angeles bands X and Firehose, and featuring the headliner Rage Against the Machine.[79] L7 band members took to the stage, each in a guise of a beauty contestant wearing a sash listing a city where anti-abortion violence had erupted: Sparks as "Ms Bakersfield, CA," Plakas as "Ms. Lancaster, PA," Finch as "Ms. Peoria, IL," and Gardner as “Ms. Newport Beach, CA."[80]

Later Rock for Choice concerts included the Foo Fighters, Ween, Pearl Jam, and other prominent bands of the era.[5] L7 returned their focus to their music, reducing their involvement with Rock for Choice, which continued on independently through 2001.

Other appearances edit

The band appeared in John Waters' 1994 film Serial Mom under the name "Camel Lips".[81][82]

Their songs have been featured on the soundtracks of numerous films, including Natural Born Killers, Point of No Return, and Pet Sematary Two.[83][84] "Shove" appears on the soundtrack of the movie Tank Girl[85] and "Pretend We're Dead" appears on the soundtrack of the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.[86][87] "Andres" is available as downloadable content for the Rock Band 4.[88]

Finch and Plakas performed several times with Japanese artist hide in 1994.[89]

L7 appeared on TV shows such as Late Night with David Letterman, The Jon Stewart Show, The Word, 120 Minutes, and Alternative Nation. The band played at the Reading Festival in 1992 having been chosen for the concert by Nirvana band leader Kurt Cobain,[90][91] Glastonbury Festival in 1994, Lollapalloza in 1994, Finsbury Park in 1997, and on the Warped Tour in 1995 and 1999. They toured with and opened for artists including Bad Religion in 1988, GWAR in 1989, Nirvana and Alice in Chains in 1990, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Faith No More, Rollins Band and Beastie Boys in 1992, Pearl Jam in 1994, Marilyn Manson and The Offspring in 1997, and Ministry in 1999.[46]

The band, with Finch returning on bass, appeared in the 1999 cult video Decoupage: Return of the Goddess, performing the Sonny and Cher song "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)" with actress Karen Black, and being interviewed individually by Decoupage hostess Summer Caprice.[92]

The video for "Pretend We're Dead" was featured on an episode of Beavis and Butthead. In a later episode, while discussing who would win in a battle between Tiffany, Wilson Phillips, and Debbie Gibson, the characters state their belief that "one chick from L7 could kick all their asses combined".[93][94]

Throughout the mid-2000s, the band's song "Shitlist" was used as the entrance music of professional wrestler Jon Moxley, who would later become widely known under the name Dean Ambrose upon joining WWE in 2011. The song was also used in ECW by Brian Pillman (under his loose cannon gimmick) in 1996, until his departure the following year.

Controversies edit

During their performance at the 1992 Reading Festival, the band experienced "technical difficulties with their audio equipment" and were forced to stall their set. The rowdy crowd grew restless and began throwing mud onto the stage, repeatedly pelting the band. In protest, lead vocalist Donita Sparks removed her tampon on-stage and threw it into the crowd yelling "Eat my used tampon, fuckers!" Sparks has remained unapologetic about the incident,[5][95] and the tampon has been referred to as one of the "most unsanitary pieces of rock memorabilia in history."[96]

Later in 1992, Sparks caused controversy in the United Kingdom when she dropped her jeans and underwear on live television, appearing nude from the waist down, during an L7 performance on the late night UK programme The Word.[97] Of the incident, Sparks later commented that the Word show L7 appeared on had a number of chaotic aspects already underway including "a men’s bum contest" and a "hidden camera in Oliver Reed’s dressing room, showing him intoxicated with his shirt off, which was really fucked up. So I added my contribution to this craziness."[98]

In 2000, the band raffled a one-night stand with Demetra Plakas at a London gig.[99][100] The winner got to spend the night on the tour bus. Rolling Stone reported that Plakas and her bandmates decided "We're not being hypocritical about rock & roll anymore. Rock & roll is prostitution."[101]

Musical style, influences, and legacy edit

L7's sound has been described as "unique and unforgiving, mixing a punk rock attitude with heavy sludge metal."[44] A 2019 article on L7 in Alternative Press stated that "In the early-'90s underground, L7 were positively bulletproof and larger than life. Not as come-hither nymphs or saucy rock star minxes bestowed with privilege but as a hard-rocking unit" that could not be messed with.[102]

Aesthetically, their style was subversive with a long-standing resistance to the expectation to be eye-candy. L7 called themselves "slob girls" with ratty hair and clothes and bassist Jennifer Finch frequently performed barefoot onstage.[14] Sparks summarized "If we were gonna be looked at, we were gonna be thrashin."[11]

A reviewer in 1995 stated that "L7 plays slow-riffing hard rock, fast punk rock and bluesy, catchy midtempo songs: generic forms upgraded by smart lyrics and pure irreverence on stage."[37]

Influences on the group include the Ramones and Frightwig.[14]

The Prodigy covered the Hungry for Stink track "Fuel My Fire" on their 1997 album The Fat of the Land.[103][104] In 2015, Spin listed Bricks Are Heavy as number 249 on their list of the top 300 Best Albums of the Past 30 Years (1985 - 2014).[105] Decibel ranked the songs from L7's Bricks Are Heavy as part of their Hall of Fame Countdown in 2016.[106] In 2016, Ugly Things ranked Smell the Magic at number 24 on a list of the top 40 punk albums of all-time. [107] In 2017, Metal Injection ranked L7 at number 7 on their list of "10 Heaviest Grunge Bands".[108]

The band was listed by Kerrang! in 2019 as one of "Ten Bands No One Expected to be So Influential Today."[109] The group was described as "one of rock’s most volatile and respected acts. Predictable on paper, anything but on stage".[109]

Band members edit

 
L7 performing at Rock am Ring in 2015

Current

Past

  • Roy Koutsky – drums (1985–1988); died 2016
  • Anne Anderson – drums (1988–1989)
  • Greta Brinkman – bass (1996–1997)
  • Gail Greenwood – bass, vocals (1997–1999)
  • Janis Tanaka – bass (1999–2001)

Timeline edit

Discography edit

Main article: L7 (band) discography

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Not to be confused with L Seven the Detroit post punk band L7 is an American all female rock band founded in Los Angeles California first active from 1985 to 2001 and re formed in 2014 5 Their longest standing lineup consists of Suzi Gardner guitars vocals Donita Sparks vocals guitars Jennifer Finch bass vocals and Dee Plakas drums vocals L7 has released seven studio albums and has toured widely in the US Europe Japan Australia and South America Pretend We re Dead was heavily played on US alternative radio and entered the top 10 on the Billboard Modern Rock chart in 1992 6 L7L7 performing in 2015Background informationOriginLos Angeles U S GenresPunk rock 1 grunge 2 hard rock 3 alternative metal 4 DiscographyL7 discographyYears active1985 2001 2014 presentLabelsEpitaph Sub Pop Slash Man s Ruin Wax Tadpole Don Giovanni Blackheart RecordsMembersDonita Sparks Suzi Gardner Jennifer Finch Demetra PlakasPast membersGreta Brinkman Gail Greenwood Janis Tanaka Anne Anderson Roy KoutskyWebsitel7theband wbr com Due to their sound and image L7 is often associated with the grunge movement of the late 1980s and early 1990s 7 and as an all female band L7 have at times been linked to riot grrrl although they preceded and are outliers of both the grunge and riot grrrl movements 8 L7 have been supportive of political causes and formed Rock for Choice in 1991 9 A documentary film about the band L7 Pretend We re Dead premiered in 2016 10 11 Contents 1 History 1 1 Formation and early years 1985 1989 1 2 Time with Sub Pop 1989 1991 1 3 Major label releases with Slash 1991 1997 1 4 Independent output and initial disbandment 1997 2001 1 5 Reunion 2014 present 1 6 Politics and activism 2 Other appearances 3 Controversies 4 Musical style influences and legacy 5 Band members 5 1 Timeline 6 Discography 7 References 8 External linksHistory editFormation and early years 1985 1989 edit L7 were formed by Donita Sparks and Suzi Gardner in 1985 5 Both artists were active in the Art punk community of Echo Park and had met in 1984 through mutual contacts at the cultural hub of the LA Weekly Of their meeting and on hearing Gardner play a tape of her songs in progress Sparks described it as one of the happiest days of my life with a clear synchronicity in the music they were each interested in creating 12 At the time Gardner was also active as a poet 13 A year prior Gardner had performed backing vocals on the college radio hit Slip It In by Black Flag 14 Gardner and Sparks began performing regularly in Los Angeles at punk and metal venues along with a revolving list of supporting musicians in the early years The punk rock duo brought Jennifer Finch on board as bass guitarist and Roy Koutsky on drums 15 16 Finch with the strongest Californian roots of the four connected the band with an even wider network including Brett Gurewitz of Epitaph Records where the band recorded their first demo 17 Their eponymous debut album described as intense energetic and fast straightforward punk music was released by Epitaph Records in 1987 18 L7 reported challenges in the early years with finding a suitable stable drummer Shortly after the release of L7 Koutsky quit the band and was replaced by Anne Anderson 19 Subsequently Anderson left at the end of the touring cycle for the L7 record and Demetra Dee Plakas was recruited by the band in late 1989 which completed the band s first stabilized lineup as an all female band 20 17 Time with Sub Pop 1989 1991 edit The band released Shove Packin a Rod in 1989 as the Sub Pop Single of the Month 21 L7 reportedly spent a short time in Seattle in the early 1990s 11 22 L7 s next album Smell the Magic was released in 1990 on Sub Pop and earned a four star review by Rolling Stone who stated With Donita Sparks and Suzi Gardner s twin lockstep guitars racing down the highway to hell Smell the Magic was one of Sub Pop s finest hours 23 L7 traveled to England and opened for Nirvana on several dates in 1990 24 In August 1991 L7 performed at the International Pop Underground Convention IPU held in Olympia Washington 12 The IPU was organized around a fiercely independent DIY ethic with L7 the only band with major label representation having recently signed with Slash Records a subsidiary of London Records 12 Major label releases with Slash 1991 1997 edit Their 1992 third album Bricks Are Heavy produced by Butch Vig was featured in Rolling Stone s May 1999 list of Essential recordings of the 1990s and was their most critically and commercially successful release 25 When Donita Sparks reached out to Yoko Ono to request permission to sample her scream in the opening track Wargasm Ono reportedly replied that she had her fingers crossed for the group as it was time for their music to get popular 12 Their 1992 single Pretend We re Dead spent 13 weeks on the US Alternative Songs chart while peaking at the No 8 position 26 and it had also peaked at No 21 on the UK Singles Chart The singles Everglade and Monster also made appearances on the UK Singles chart 27 In their listing of the top 50 grunge songs Paste magazine included Pretend We re Dead as number 21 28 L7 went on a year long tour to promote Bricks Are Heavy 29 Variety reported in 1992 that L7 had built a huge underground following all over the world due to repeatedly touring 29 The popularity of Bricks Are Heavy was also boosted by frequent video play on MTV By June 2000 Bricks Are Heavy had sold 327 000 copies in the US 30 In a July 1993 article for Spin which featured L7 on the magazine s cover Renee Crist described L7 as four of the funniest meanest strongest coolest most pissed off women I know and as wild rambunctious spontaneous with a stage show that is a wash of buddy love crowd working and acrobatics 31 L7 s fourth album Hungry for Stink was released in July 1994 The album peaked at No 117 on the Billboard 200 chart their highest position to date Andres was the lead single off the album which peaked at No 20 on the US Alternative Songs and No 34 on the UK Singles charts The band continued to be regarded as a strong live act 12 and performed on the main stage of the Lollapalooza tour in 1994 which also included The Smashing Pumpkins the Beastie Boys George Clinton Nick Cave A Tribe Called Quest and The Breeders 32 In January 1995 L7 played a set of benefit concerts for Voters for Choice at Constitution Hall along with Neil Young Lisa Germano and Pearl Jam 33 34 35 Finch created a slight fuss 36 after reportedly playing the final song of one show after removing her shirt 37 In 1995 L7 was one of four bands featured 38 in the documentary film Not Bad For a Girl 39 40 The film which focused on several all female bands was awarded Best Documentary at the New York Underground Film Festival in 1996 Finch left the band in 1996 41 during the recording of their fifth album The Beauty Process Triple Platinum Sparks and Greta Brinkman played bass on the album after which Gail Greenwood formerly of the band Belly became the band s full time bassist 42 L7 performed at the Bumbershoot festival in Seattle Washington in 1997 12 Independent output and initial disbandment 1997 2001 edit In 1998 the pseudo documentary film L7 The Beauty Process was released directed by Krist Novoselic 43 The film contains actual concert footage of L7 s trials and travails of being a punk like band in a pop like marketplace 44 L7 s sixth studio album Slap Happy was released on the band s own label Wax Tadpole Records in 1999 14 To promote the record on July 17 1999 L7 had a plane fly over the crowd at the Lilith Fair at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena California with a banner that read Bored Tired Try L7 The following day an airplane towed a banner over the crowd at the Warped Tour at the Stone Pony lot in Asbury Park New Jersey The banner read Warped needs more beaver love L7 14 45 Greenwood later left the band and was replaced by Janis Tanaka formerly of the San Francisco band Stone Fox 46 nbsp L7 performing at the Emerson Theater in Indianapolis in 1997 Record sales continued to wane during the late 1990s and the band grew increasingly low on funds However the band s live performances consistently garnered praise including a September 1999 review by rock critic Greg Kot in the Chicago Tribune that stated Gardner and Sparks favor low end guitar chug a sound that suggests the idling engine of a Harley Davidson more than the high end squeal of most lead guitarists They intersect with bassist Janis Tanaka to create a thick sludgy bottom that rumbles the floorboards and shoots right through the sternums of innocent passersby Their secret weapon remains drummer Dee Plakas 47 By 2001 L7 were no longer touring The band listed the following statement on their website L7 are on an indefinite hiatus We know that s vague but that s just the way it is The future of the band is a bit up in the air at the moment L7 appeared to be defunct for all practical purposes From 2007 to 2012 Sparks pursued another project along with Plakas on drums in their band Donita Sparks and The Stellar Moments Finch formed several projects including OtherStarPeople and her punk rock group The Shocker 48 Tanaka played bass for Pink and Greenwood played with Bif Naked and later the reformed Belly In 2012 Sparks started a Facebook page for the band posting videos and archival images of L7 where their fan base quickly began to regroup 8 Reunion 2014 present edit On December 10 2014 L7 announced on their official Facebook page that they were reuniting featuring Donita Sparks Suzi Gardner Jennifer Finch and Demetra Plakas 49 As part of the reunion the band revamped their website and included a mailing list for fans 50 The reunited band kicked off a European tour at Rock am Ring in Germany on June 6 2015 51 with shows in the Czech Republic Austria UK France and Spain 52 This was followed by North American dates in New York 52 Toronto 53 and at Riot Fest in both Denver 54 and Chicago 55 and the Fun Fun Fun Festival in Austin Texas 56 Exclaim reviewed their Toronto show and stated that Their subversive sense of humour and brash confidence provides feminism with some much needed comic relief and audacity and on this night as 50 somethings in a 30 year old band they looked acted and sounded every bit as brazen as they did 25 years back 53 On February 15 2016 L7 s original drummer Koutsky passed away at the age of 53 57 Later in 2016 the documentary film L7 Pretend We re Dead directed by Sarah Price premiered in Los Angeles The film largely funded through Kickstarter 58 features original footage and interviews with the band members and eyewitness accounts of their development from Lydia Lunch Shirley Manson Krist Novoselic and Butch Vig 59 41 60 The film was nominated for a VO5 NME Award for Best Music Film 61 nbsp L7 performing in 2018 In 2016 L7 played a series of shows in the US South Africa the UK and Australia 62 Chris Lane of Houston Press described the synergy of Sparks and Gardner s guitar playing and the strength of the band s live show stating Their percussive styles seemed to be locked together producing a glorious unified wall of sound Bass player Jennifer Finch bounced about the stage while propelling each song forward and drummer Dee Plakas proved that she should be a lot more famous as a rock drummer with every fill 63 On January 13 2017 L7 released Detroit Live on record label Easy Action The live album was originally recorded at a concert in the Motor city on September 1 1990 and coincided with the group s initial release of Smell the Magic on Sub Pop records Their performance at the established punk venue Clutch Cargo s in Detroit expressed the raw kinetic energy of the era L7 released Fast and Frightening a collections of rarities covers and live performances as a double album in 2016 with music critic Robert Christgau granting it an A minus in a 2018 review 64 On September 29 2017 L7 released its first new song in 18 years Dispatch from Mar a Lago on Don Giovanni Records The title is a reference to the Mar a Lago resort owned by Donald J Trump 65 A follow up single I Came Back to Bitch was released in February 2018 66 L7 continued to tour heavily in the US Canada and Europe in 2018 67 April 2018 saw the band announce their plans to record a seventh studio album via PledgeMusic scheduled for release in 2019 67 The band went on tour shortly afterward Including dates with Le Butcherettes as openers L7 released the first single from their first album in 20 years Burn Baby on February 28 2019 The full album Scatter the Rats was released on May 3 2019 through Joan Jett s record label Blackheart Records 68 The album received generally favorable reviews 69 Hyperallergic referred to the band s legacy as feminist punks metal snarlers and grunge comedians and stated of their return album that Sparks and Gardner pound out one solid catchy immediately identifiable power riff after another more punk minimalist than in their molten grunge period 70 In April 2022 L7 announced a tour commemorating the 30th anniversary release of their third album Bricks Are Heavy The band played the entire album along with several other songs The tour consisted of eighteen scheduled shows through the month of October L7 also announced a deluxe reissue of Bricks Are Heavy Remastered by Howie Weinberg the limited edition release comes pressed on gold and black vinyl via Licorice Pizza and pre orders begun on September 30 71 Politics and activism edit The band s name L7 derives from a slang term for square 12 Forming and gaining exposure a time when female musicians and bands were still routinely referred to with terms such as chicks and foxcore they deliberately chose a name that didn t draw attention to being an all female band to resist being typecast into roles the music industry typically expected of women 72 73 Sparks said We get letters from young girls who say that we re their inspiration for picking up an instrument and that makes us really proud We didn t really have role models growing up 72 In 1991 the band formed Rock for Choice a pro choice women s rights group and concert series that raised funds to cover legal expenses due to the prolonged Anti abortion violence and women s clinic bombings of the 1980s and 1990s 74 The concept for Rock for Choice generated by L7 and Sue Cummings senior editor at the LA Weekly 9 12 was loosely modeled on Bob Geldof s Live Aid L7 performed along with Nirvana Sister Double Happiness and Hole at the inaugural event held at the Hollywood Palace on October 25 1991 75 9 Thanks to a conversation between members of L7 and Dave Grohl at an afterparty following the first show subsequent Rock for Choice posters were designed in a distinctive underground comix style by SoCal artist Jim Evans TAZ collective 76 Rock for Choice founders L7 and Cummings along with punk rock promoter and Cochella co founder Rick Van Santen of Goldenvoice laid the framework for the inaugural concert 9 77 The group created kits with information to empower activists to stage a Rock for Choice benefit in their own towns The New York Times reported that within two years of launching Rock for Choice there had already been 37 such concerts nationwide 9 L7 performed at the September 27 1992 Rock for Choice benefit concert at the Hollywood Palladium along with Exene Cervenka the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Mudhoney 78 In October 1993 seven bands played a sold out Rock for Choice benefit including the beloved Los Angeles bands X and Firehose and featuring the headliner Rage Against the Machine 79 L7 band members took to the stage each in a guise of a beauty contestant wearing a sash listing a city where anti abortion violence had erupted Sparks as Ms Bakersfield CA Plakas as Ms Lancaster PA Finch as Ms Peoria IL and Gardner as Ms Newport Beach CA 80 Later Rock for Choice concerts included the Foo Fighters Ween Pearl Jam and other prominent bands of the era 5 L7 returned their focus to their music reducing their involvement with Rock for Choice which continued on independently through 2001 Other appearances editThe band appeared in John Waters 1994 film Serial Mom under the name Camel Lips 81 82 Their songs have been featured on the soundtracks of numerous films including Natural Born Killers Point of No Return and Pet Sematary Two 83 84 Shove appears on the soundtrack of the movie Tank Girl 85 and Pretend We re Dead appears on the soundtrack of the video game Grand Theft Auto San Andreas 86 87 Andres is available as downloadable content for the Rock Band 4 88 Finch and Plakas performed several times with Japanese artist hide in 1994 89 L7 appeared on TV shows such as Late Night with David Letterman The Jon Stewart Show The Word 120 Minutes and Alternative Nation The band played at the Reading Festival in 1992 having been chosen for the concert by Nirvana band leader Kurt Cobain 90 91 Glastonbury Festival in 1994 Lollapalloza in 1994 Finsbury Park in 1997 and on the Warped Tour in 1995 and 1999 They toured with and opened for artists including Bad Religion in 1988 GWAR in 1989 Nirvana and Alice in Chains in 1990 Red Hot Chili Peppers Faith No More Rollins Band and Beastie Boys in 1992 Pearl Jam in 1994 Marilyn Manson and The Offspring in 1997 and Ministry in 1999 46 The band with Finch returning on bass appeared in the 1999 cult video Decoupage Return of the Goddess performing the Sonny and Cher song Bang Bang My Baby Shot Me Down with actress Karen Black and being interviewed individually by Decoupage hostess Summer Caprice 92 The video for Pretend We re Dead was featured on an episode of Beavis and Butthead In a later episode while discussing who would win in a battle between Tiffany Wilson Phillips and Debbie Gibson the characters state their belief that one chick from L7 could kick all their asses combined 93 94 Throughout the mid 2000s the band s song Shitlist was used as the entrance music of professional wrestler Jon Moxley who would later become widely known under the name Dean Ambrose upon joining WWE in 2011 The song was also used in ECW by Brian Pillman under his loose cannon gimmick in 1996 until his departure the following year Controversies editDuring their performance at the 1992 Reading Festival the band experienced technical difficulties with their audio equipment and were forced to stall their set The rowdy crowd grew restless and began throwing mud onto the stage repeatedly pelting the band In protest lead vocalist Donita Sparks removed her tampon on stage and threw it into the crowd yelling Eat my used tampon fuckers Sparks has remained unapologetic about the incident 5 95 and the tampon has been referred to as one of the most unsanitary pieces of rock memorabilia in history 96 Later in 1992 Sparks caused controversy in the United Kingdom when she dropped her jeans and underwear on live television appearing nude from the waist down during an L7 performance on the late night UK programme The Word 97 Of the incident Sparks later commented that the Word show L7 appeared on had a number of chaotic aspects already underway including a men s bum contest and a hidden camera in Oliver Reed s dressing room showing him intoxicated with his shirt off which was really fucked up So I added my contribution to this craziness 98 In 2000 the band raffled a one night stand with Demetra Plakas at a London gig 99 100 The winner got to spend the night on the tour bus Rolling Stone reported that Plakas and her bandmates decided We re not being hypocritical about rock amp roll anymore Rock amp roll is prostitution 101 Musical style influences and legacy editL7 s sound has been described as unique and unforgiving mixing a punk rock attitude with heavy sludge metal 44 A 2019 article on L7 in Alternative Press stated that In the early 90s underground L7 were positively bulletproof and larger than life Not as come hither nymphs or saucy rock star minxes bestowed with privilege but as a hard rocking unit that could not be messed with 102 Aesthetically their style was subversive with a long standing resistance to the expectation to be eye candy L7 called themselves slob girls with ratty hair and clothes and bassist Jennifer Finch frequently performed barefoot onstage 14 Sparks summarized If we were gonna be looked at we were gonna be thrashin 11 A reviewer in 1995 stated that L7 plays slow riffing hard rock fast punk rock and bluesy catchy midtempo songs generic forms upgraded by smart lyrics and pure irreverence on stage 37 Influences on the group include the Ramones and Frightwig 14 The Prodigy covered the Hungry for Stink track Fuel My Fire on their 1997 album The Fat of the Land 103 104 In 2015 Spin listed Bricks Are Heavy as number 249 on their list of the top 300 Best Albums of the Past 30 Years 1985 2014 105 Decibel ranked the songs from L7 s Bricks Are Heavy as part of their Hall of Fame Countdown in 2016 106 In 2016 Ugly Things ranked Smell the Magic at number 24 on a list of the top 40 punk albums of all time 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