Where is l7 now

In , the band released their first new song in 18 years, the self-explanatory "Dispatch from Mar-a-Lago," followed four months later with "I Came Back to Bitch. We caught up with Donita beforehand. And the toughness is aided by the fact that there are four of us. If you're just out there on your own, you're taking the hits by yourself, you're taking the glory by yourself, but with four of you, it's a band. When we would walk in a room, some people were terrified of us, because there were four of us and we were kind of intimidating looking, but actually we're not that scary.

I guess if you catch us on a wrong day and we could be scary. Four is better than one, so it just amplifies everything. I would say both. Dudes were scared of us. Women wanted to be us, but they didn't really know how to begin.

I'll tell you who were not that intimidated — well, maybe they were intimidated, but they had no qualms about approaching us: lesbians. They were very brazen about wanting to get in our pants. Lesbians had none of the fears or trepidations that straight dudes had about approaching us for romantic endeavors. It depends on what city. If we were in San Francisco, half the audience were dykes. It was massive. On our first major label release, Nirvana had just broke and we were using the same producer [Butch Vig].

And I think some people expected us to break through — maybe not as big as Nirvana, but get to a gold record, which we never did.

Certainly there were some expectations for a bigger success. No, I don't think the Ramones ever got a gold record. The Stooges never got a gold record. Suzi and I were sort of art punks wanting to do metal but had very limited skills to do so. But that created our sound. It's sort of the punk way of working with what you've got and spinning gold out of it — not wealth, but something valuable. Once we dial in our tones on our guitars and once we have Dee playing drums — Dee is the glue.

She broke her arm last year and she was not with us for a few of our shows, and we could really tell. Rock bands were getting exposure; they were getting on David Letterman. Rock bands were getting on Saturday Night Live. Pop artists have encroached their way into everything from Coachella to SNL. The bastions that used to be for artists like us have been cannibalized by pop stars. We still are part of it.

People need to be reminded of that every so often. Everybody rewrites history when they write an article on the band. It hit you in the ventricles? Jennifer quit the band. Suzi quit the band. When Jennifer quit, we were able to go on.

When Suzi quit, the wheels had already fallen off the band financially. Sometimes people become enemies for reasons that are just like… [ Pauses. Moody Blues drummer and co-founder Graeme Edge dies at Could Travis Scott face criminal charges after the Astroworld tragedy? Legal experts explain. At CMAs, country music is a diverse, inclusive family.

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