![]() As L7’s first single to hit the mainstream charts, it leveraged their third album, Bricks Are Heavy, among the squares yet to latch onto grunge. The band’s smash-hit Pretend We’re Dead arrived in 1992. Though there was a 13-year break between 2001 and L7’s reformation in 2014, Donita Sparks, Suzi Gardner, Jennifer Finch and Demetra Plakas have – aside from a few line-up changes – very much gone the distance. L7 defied the burn-hard/burn-out existence of many bands that thrived during the early 1990s punk, grunge and hardcore scenes, some of whom didn’t make it out. READ MORE: The Genius Of… The Will To Live by Ben Harper.So, in tribute to L7 and their savage 1992 album Bricks Are Heavy, we’re going to right that wrong and convince you to put it in heavy rotation. Decades later, though, they’re still lazily lumped in with these scenes and still labelled as such. The $4 show starts at 10 p.m.LA-founded hard-rock hellraisers L7 preceded the grunge and riot grrrl movements, and fought against being pigeonholed as an ‘all-girl band’. The Monkees-loving trio will be joined Saturday by the experimental turntable stylings of DJ Davo (one of the only local artists who can persuade me to dance) and indie hip-hop emcee Cee Reed (one half of Work Force and the ringleader of the Northeast Abilities crew). ![]() Local pop punk faves The International Brunch Mummies have invited their musically-inclined neighbors down to Danbury's She was anointed "Precious" by her father. She famously threw a deli platter at Nick Cave at '94s Lollapalooza and countsĪmong her close friends. She also has a notoriously bad temper that shows in both her music and personal life. The singer, sans L7, rocks harder and is more fun. After her departure the group's sound turned to darker, dope-y rock while Finch had nominal success with an '80s-flavored synth band called Other Star People. The group founded Rock for Choice, a pro-choice non-profit organization, in 1991.įinch left the band, which continued without her, in '97 due to "artistic differences" and returned to school. The snarl of songs such as "Pretend We're Dead" and "The Bomb" propelled them to the front of the grunge and hard-rock movements of the last decade. Their EP's title song "Asstray" goes "Smoke rings get in my eyes/ Smoke rings around your lies/Smoke rings fade way/ Inhaling what you say." Their cover of Juice Newton's "Angel of the Morning" and "Bad Brain Good Head," (which sounds like it was produced by the love-child ofīut Finch remains best known as "the former frontwoman of L7." That group was a famous combination of raunch, social consciousness and musical skill. "My Life As a Plumber" has the frontwoman wailing "My life as a plumber started when I was young/ I've seen every leaky problem under the sun/ While everyone around me was too scared to react, I said/ Hand me the plunger baby - and -step - back." ![]() It's pure Finch that, even she describes as, "a little sleazy." There are the same sort of memorable melodies and hilarious lyrics. swerving between punk and alternative - and not unlike Concrete Blonde. L7's Jennifer Finch brings The Shocker to Empress Ballroomīecause the '90s are over, The Shocker is a little less fuzzy and grungy than L7 was.
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