L7: "Bricks Are Heavy" 30-Year Anniversary
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Sunday, October 23, 2022, 8 pm
Neptune Theatre
University District (Seattle)
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So many band reunions are obvious cash grabs, with the musicians returning to the stage to do little more than appease an aging fanbase drunk on nostalgia. They offer nothing new; it's simply an opportunity to escape the day-to-day doldrums of adulthood. And that's OK! But do not mistake L7's return as a placating bottle on which Gen Xers can suck. Donita Sparks, Suzi Gardner, Jennifer Finch, and Demetra Plakas are back, and they're every bit as brash and boisterous as before. It wouldn't be fair to say L7 was ahead of its time—the band very much had a place and a purpose throughout the '90s, and those tampons weren't gonna throw themselves—but the women clearly felt there was unfinished business. Their first single in the new millennium was 2017's "Dispatch from Mar-a-Lago," and in 2018 they released a bratty anthem that put bluntly the reason for their return, "I Came Back to Bitch." Thank you! There is so much to bitch about! The full-length Scatter the Rats followed, and while the band will surely pepper the set with new material, this tour also celebrates the 30th anniversary of 1992's metal/punk/at times surprisingly pop classic Bricks Are Heavy. They're gonna play "Wargasm," and decades of pent-up frustration will spill out into the streets like that pink ooze in Ghostbusters II. Cathartic AF.
by Megan Seling
On sale Fri Apr 15 at 10am
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