L7 is back, with snarl, riffs and rage intact
The grunge revival comes for everybody, eventually, even L7. The pioneering all-female grunge-punk foursome had one hit album and single (1992's "Bricks are Heavy" and "Pretend We're Dead," respectively), and founded the influential feminist organization Rock For Choice, but otherwise never made it as big as they'd hoped. The group went on hiatus circa 2001 and re-formed, after a social media groundswell, in 2014.
The new rockumentary "L7: Pretend We're Dead," compiled in large part from the band's home movies, details their rise, their mini-scandals (frontwoman Donita Sparks famously took out her tampon
