Feminist grunge icons L7 have shared their first new tune in three years. “Loma Linda” dates all the best way again to 2003, when the band recorded the unique demo alongside bassist Janis Tanaka. It’s obtainable as a free obtain on their web site for the following week, and to stream on YouTube beneath.
“I used to be looking out the band’s archives and got here throughout this unfinished monitor from when Janis was within the band,” Donita Sparks stated in press supplies. “It nonetheless sounded somewhat contemporary and really L7 so we recorded new vocals with new lyrics and another further tracks and cranked it out in a few days forward of this upcoming tour. Gotta warn ya, we dig it and hope you do too.”
L7’s longtime bassist, Jennifer Finch, died earlier this yr after being identified with an aggressive type of mind most cancers. Tanaka has since rejoined Sparks, Suzi Gardner, and Dee Plakas forward of the North American leg of their Final Hurrah Tour, which launches tomorrow, October 6, in San Diego. Finch’s memoir, Taking pictures Up and Making Out, is ready for posthumous publication in early 2027.
Examine L7’s 1992 single “Faux We’re Useless” at No. 197 in The 250 Finest Songs of the Nineties.
