Around 1985, Donita Sparks met Suzi Gardner, and they had an idea. They both lived in Echo Park, Los Angeles. And they both played the guitar - something they saw few women do back then.

L7's Donita Sparks says she doesn't mind if the all-girl band are seen as punk, metal or grunge – just as long as people still want to hear them do their thing. The Los Angeles group formed in ...

“L7 don’t jam,” Donita Sparks says over the phone in early June, before departing for her band’s first international tour in nearly 20 years. “We play our songs.” The candid and ...

I spoke with singer/guitarist Donita Sparks for my Who I Am column. Here, the Chicago native who moved to L.A. at 19 takes readers on a wide-ranging journey of movies, funk, the Ramones ...

“We feel at home in a lot of places,” said L7 co-founder Donita Sparks, “and we feel out of place in a lot of places.” In many of those places, especially in the early days, L7 was one of ...

L7, including Donita Sparks, left, and Jennifer Finch, at the Marquee nightclub in 1992 in New York City. (Steve Eichner / Getty Images) That L7 is contending with these shifts at all comes as a ...

Donita Sparks of L7 performs at Hollywood Palladium on January 04, 2020 in Los Angeles (Photo credit: Rich Polk/Getty Images for The Art of Elysium) As the “billionaire space race” has ...

Donita Sparks alt-rock L7 9 p.m. Tuesday, June 10, at the Grog Shop, 2785 Euclid Heights Boulevard in Cleveland Heights, $10, 216-321-5588. These WWE-style moves probably have something to do with ...

Though often lumped in with the grunge and riot grrrl movements, L7 really predated both. Donita Sparks met Suzi Gardner while part of the L.A. punk scene in the early '80s. Gardner even sang on ...

A day before L7 reissues Smell the Magic for the 30th anniversary, Donita Sparks dropped a video of “Fast and Frightening.” Featuring newly recorded vocals, the clip shows the singer-guitarist ...

In light of the COVID-19 crisis, Donita Sparks is launching an online variety show on which the L7 guitarist-vocalist will perform and feature special guests. Titled The Hi-Low Show With Donita ...