Donita Sparks + The Stellar Moments

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Donita Sparks, known internationally as the front person and main songwriter of seminal rock band L7, releases her solo debut Transmiticate on her own label SparksFly Records on February 19, 2008 (distributed through Redeye). Recorded in Los Angeles, Donita co-produced the album along with Ethan Allen (Luscious Jackson, The 88, Daniel Lanois).

The record is filled with dance-rock and dark-pop gems that see Donita moving solidly into interesting new territories. Chunky guitar riffs live side by side with synths, reverb twangs, handclaps and girl-group harmonies providing ear candy chocked with glam, avant-garde punk, and lush melancholy. Donita Sparks with her backing band The Stellar Moments (featuring Dee Plakas of L7 on drums) completed a US tour with The Donnas in October.

Sparks continues to deliver her unbridled raw energy that made L7 performances the stuff of legend. Donita and the band have a tour of Brazil in February followed by a showcase at SXSW, and US and European tours for spring/summer 2008.

ABOUT DONITA SPARKS Donita Sparks co-founded the heavy riff-oriented band L7 in 1985. L7 released six studio albums, one live CD, and one greatest hits record. Their 1992 release Bricks Are Heavy was included in Rolling Stone’s list of “Essential Albums of the 1990s”. With their recording career beginning in 1987 and continuing through the ‘90s, L7 spawned underground and mainstream hits such as: Shove, Pretend We’re Dead, Shitlist, Andres, and Fuel My Fire.

Touring the world countless times, L7 also graced the main-stage of Lollapalooza in 1994 and appeared in the John Waters movie Serial Mom as the band “Camel Lips”. In 1991 Donita and L7 formed Rock For Choice with the Feminist Majority Foundation which staged numerous concerts benefiting pro-choice organizations.

Recently, Donita along with Kristin Hersh launched CASH Music (Coalition of Artists and Stake Holders). CASH Music is a platform for artists to create a sustainable livelihood and more interaction/exchange with their fans. In addition, Donita contributed to the score of the 2007 feature film The Life of Reilly (starring the late Charles Nelson Reilly). She writes a weekly music column “The Spin I’m In” for the popular, politically progressive blog Firedoglake.com. Donita also created a mash-up of Brazilian rock sensations CSS (vs. L7) in response to the band doing a lively cover of the Sparks’ penned L7 classic Pretend We’re Dead. The mash-up, Pretend We’re Alala, can be heard on L7’s and CSS’s MySpace pages.

Label: SparksFly Records
Contact: Robert Fagan
Robert@cashmusic.org

Media/Press: Josh Mills
josh@itsalivemedia.com