Tag: Jennifer Finch

  • L7 VIP – The Experience US – Tickets and Packages 2023

    L7 VIP – The Experience US – Tickets and Packages 2023

    What The 2023 L7 VIP Experience Includes:

    • Exclusive entry to L7 VIP soundcheck for one song
    • Take photos with the band at Soundcheck.
    • 4 Pack of limited edition (run of one thousand!) Flexi discs of NEW L7 single “Cooler Than Mars”
    • V.I.P. L7 In Your Space Tour laminate
    • Early re-entry to the venue with laminate
    • Early access to the L7 merchandise stand
    • One month Free subscription to NEW L7 Fan Club (Launching October 1st, 2023
    • * This is a Ticketless Upgrade.


    L7 2023 Tour Dates With VIP Packages

    2023-09-14 THR Wonder Bar Asbury Park, NJ BUY VIP General Admission Tickets

    2023-09-16 SAT Brighton Music Hall Allston, MA BUY VIP General Admission Tickets

    2023-09-17 SUN Gramercy Theatre New York, NY BUY VIP General Admission Tickets

    2023-09-18 MON Black Cat Washington, DC BUY VIP General Admission Tickets

    2012-10-02 MON The Venice West Venice, CA BUY VIP General Admission Tickets

    2023-10-03 TUE House of Blues San Diego San Diego, CA BUY VIP General Admission Tickets

    2023-10-07 SAT Pappy & Harriet’s Pioneertown, CA BUY VIP General Admission Tickets

    What are people saying about the L7 VIP experience?

    I feel I owe a bit to L7’s music and attitude; there wasn’t anything like those women on TV growing up in the 1990s. Meeting them was special and my god, they were all so nice and thorough in answering questions about songs and even about the punk rock scene during the time. Total opposite vibes from when I first saw them on MTV destroying that van in the “Stuck Here Again” video. The fan experience/L7 VIP was well worth it because just seeing them play was a bucket list item, but meeting them? I couldn’t stop smiling all night!” (Dawn – Columbus, OH 10/13/2022)

    Roe vs. Wade’s overturning lit an inferno in me, and those early Rock For Choice shows are crucial in rock music’s stance on abortion rights. Not only do I love Bricks Are Heavy, but those women really inspire me with their activism and overall style. I was elated to meet them after hearing their test drive “Wargasm” at Rickshaw; they’re so nice and equally as upset as the rest of the women in the room about the Supreme Court’s overruling.” (Nadia – Vancouver, BC – 10/22/2022)

    My girlfriend’s favorite record is Bricks Are Heavy, and October was her birthday month, so the Fan Experience basically made her year (her words!). She played it cool while talking with Suzi Gardner for 10 minutes but said she was practically crying when Jennifer Finch gave her a hug.” (Clayton – Toronto, ON – 10/12/2022)

    “I dropped the extra cash on the Fan Experience, and do I regret that? Hell no! I always wondered what Donita was like in person, and she’s awesome! Very laid back and funny, she even joked to our group about the band taking requests during soundcheck to keep them sharp.” (Nicholas – Portland, OR – 10/24/2023)

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  • IT HAPPENED TO ME (Jane Magazine)

    IT HAPPENED TO ME (Jane Magazine)

    IT HAPPENED TO ME
    Jennifer Finch laments the death of grunge.
    by: Jennifer Finch

    Jennifer Finch went from playing tiny clubs to rocking huge festivals. Until middle-class white-boy bands took over again.

    It’s almost Christmas, 1988. I am sitting in my home in Los Angeles in front of a hand-decorated package my friend Courtney Love just sent me. I already know what it is. Courtney left L.A. a couple of months ago for Portland, Ore., and is working at an indie record store. I had just gotten off the phone with her when her gift arrived. Usually when we are in different cities we sit on the phone for hours talking about boys, our lives and the Britpop stars we are infatuated with. This call was different. She told me about a new, exciting music scene up in the Northwest. She sent me some records from her store of these new bands. She called to make sure I’d gotten them.

    It’s gloomy outside. It is gloomy for the L.A. music scene as well. In 1988, if you like alternative music, all you can see are either bands in the cow-punk scene or rock groups hoping to breathe the exhaust left behind by Guns N’ Roses’ success. The hardcore/punk scene, which was active only two years ago, has died off completely. Pay-to play, a scam where bands have to play the clubs to let them play their music, is the standard. L.A. is not the place to breed a healthy alternative scene. There is nothing to be excited about. I am in L7, and Courtney is still trying to put together a band. It is looking bleak for us both.

    I open Courtney’s gift. Inside are three 12-inch albums, all Seattle bands and all on labels I have never heard of. The cover art strikes me first–mostly black-and-white, live photos. Awesome. The music is even more exciting: Nirvana’s Bleach, Mudhoney’s Superfuzz Bigmuff (Glitterhouse release) and Green River’s Rehab Doll. It is now clear that the Northwest is happening. So L7 heads north to find this place where we can be part of the movement that seems like a true alternative and makes sense.

    Jump ahead to New Year’s 1990. L7 has just played a sold-out New Year’s Eve show in L.A. Eric Erlandson–Courtney’s boyfriend and guitarist for her new band, Hole–and I decide to stay up and watch the first sunrise of the new decade. I know a cool spot in the Hollywood Hills where we have a view of the entire city. We sit for hours talking about the upcoming decade, how great it is that L7 can sell out the 400 capacity club and how it would never have happened pre-1990. L.A. is really starting to pick up. It seems to us that, finally, enough people are interested in alternative music to support a couple of great indie labels, an indie radio station and a couple of local fanzines. We fantasize about how great it will be if bands like Nirvana, Soundgarden, L7 and Hole can take over the commercial ranks from dorky bands like Motley Crue, Poison and Guns N’ Roses. We talk about change not just for music, but for politics and women. We hope everything will be better in the ’90s.

    The sun rises and we go to a Mexican restaurant on Sunset Boulevard. We collapse into our booth, and Eric Signals me to turn around. I look behind me to se Slash and Axl of Guns N’ Roses eating tortillas! We both start laughing. To this day I wonder what they talked about, how they felt about the decade to come.

    The next seven years are mad. L7 goes from selling out 4,000-and-up venues. We play 40,000-capacity festivals, and seems like all our friends from the Northwest are doing the same. Record companies are running scared, realizing they’ve been blindsided by the tidal wave. They hire new blood, fire those that are not “hip” enough and sign every “alternative” band they can get their hands on. This includes Hole and :7. Middle America seems finished with cheesy, watered-down rock and wants something “alternative.” And the shift extends beyond music: After almost two decades of political passivity, Americans elect a Democratic president and start supporting equality for all races, women and gays. Many bands also back progressive political causes by doing benefits. Things seem to be changing for the better.

    It’s almost Christmas, 1998. Courtney and I are on the phone again. I sit silently as she tells me many major record labels, including hers (Geffen) and mine (A&M), are shutting down. Both of us will be inconvenienced by this, to say the least. We each have records to release and work to do.

    In 1997, after leaving L7, I helped put together a new band called OtherStarPeople. I love being in this band. We have had great fun touring and recording our first album, but we are in limbo, waiting to find out if the record will be released or not. When we signed our deal at A&M. we did not foresee the coming changes. The consolidation, as one by one labels are sold to conglomerates who then shut them down or merge them with other companies. Nearly 3,000 people from these labels are about to lose their jobs and 200 bands will be dropped. Major commercial radio stations have gone back to the “same 20 bands played over and over” format. Large alternative concert series have started losing money and will eventually stop. Cool magazines have folded, the number of political concerts has dwindled, and progressive political issues are once again losing ground. Most new bands are being fronted by aggressive, middle-class white boys. Again! Paying-to-play is even making its way back to the L.A. clubs. It almost seems that what happened in the ’90s was no more than a fluke, a glitch in the tape.

    It is gloomy once again. Well at least it seems that way at the moment. If there is one thing I have learned, when one thing rises, another will fall and another yet will rise again. This makes me happy–it keeps life interesting. Although at times it has truly depressed me that OtherStarPeople have been caught in the riptide if this “changing of the guards,” I think we have maintained a good perspective and know not to let it keep us down. As for the next big thing, I believe it is the technological movement that is changing how we obtain and enjoy music. This flux is the real reason there is so much madness going on in he music industry right now. So we have to see our way through these growing pains. And any day now, as Courtney and I discuss the men in our lives, politics and our current obsessions in our private internet chat room, we may stop for a moment, hit a few buttons and easily exchange high-quality MP3s of some of the bitchin’ new bands we love. Bands that may just be the next to rock the world.

    [Jane Mag. April 2000]

  • Lollapalooza Diaries- Words- Jon Stewart Show Date

    Hey Ya’ll, I just wanted to remind everyone that we will be on the Jon Stewart show on Tue. Oct.4th. I am in NYC right (more…)