Donita Sparks is no dummy. The former L7 frontwoman knows there's room for more rock & roll Runaways. "Infancy of a Disaster," centerpiece of the L.A. blogger's first solo album, whiffs traces of ...

This exploration of women in the’90s rock scene features original interviews with Liz Phair, Shirley Manson, Kristin Hersh, Donita Sparks and Tanya Donelly, as well as members of Hole, Luscious ...

Singer-guitarist Donita Sparks of L7 is 62. Actor JR Bourne (TV’s “Teen Wolf,” ″Revenge”) is 55. Singer Craig Honeycutt of Everything is 55. Drummer Darren Jessee of Ben Folds Five is 54.

DONITA SPARKS (singer, guitarist, L7) We got on the tour thanks to our perseverance, humor, and actually being a little bit confrontational.

Hole iconoclast Courtney Love, Garbage frontwoman Shirley Manson and her shimmering contralto, L7’s unapologetically gritty leader Donita Sparks: These were the artists who saturated MTV ...

Take, for example, Donita Sparks, the lead guitarist and vocalist for L7. “We dressed very grungy, our hair was matted, dirty, dreaded, and clumped, and our clothes were torn,” says Sparks ...

L7 co-founder Donita Sparks says when the chance came to put together the festival, she thought, “Why not do something like the old Sunset Junction street fair in Silver Lake?” For decades, that ...

L7's Donita Sparks has become inextricably linked to the Flying V – a guitar that, admittedly, might not be the first guitar music fans associate with grunge-tinged art punk.

Sparks compared the festival, which takes its name from L7’s 2016 album of deep cuts and cover songs, to the Sunset Junction Street Fair, which shut down in 2011.

Featuring Jeff McDonald, Steve McDonald, Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore, Mark Arm, Lou Barlow, Keith Morris, Donita Sparks, Jennifer Finch, Buzz Osborne, Dale Crover. Worth a watch.

Sparks asserts that while the band was – and continues to be – popular in England, the crowd “got really fucking shit-faced, unruly, and violent with us”, which provoked her response.