{"id":689782,"date":"2026-07-13T18:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T18:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/689782\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T18:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T18:57:09","slug":"l7s-jennifer-finch-diagnosed-with-brain-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/689782\/","title":{"rendered":"L7\u2019s Jennifer Finch Diagnosed With Brain Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Finch, longtime bassist of the \u201990s grunge outfit <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/2399-l7\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">L7<\/a>, is currently undergoing treatment for brain cancer. \u201cUnforseen complications have required Jennifer to undergo multiple surgeries that have resulted in physical limitations,\u201d reads a press release shared by the band. A <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/gofund.me\/a4cfdb622\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/gofund.me\/a4cfdb622&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/gofund.me\/a4cfdb622\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GoFundMe page<\/a> has been set up to help Finch cover her medical expenses and additional at-home care.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are all devastated by the news and are surrounding her with love,\u201d L7 singer and guitarist Donita Sparks said in a statement. \u201cJennifer is family, and we want her to feel the full strength of the community that has loved and supported her for so many years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, L7 made a comeback with <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/l7-scatter-the-rats\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scatter the Rats<\/a>, their <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/l7-announce-first-new-album-in-20-years\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first album<\/a> since 1999\u2019s Slap-Happy. The band celebrated their 40th anniversary last year with a <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/l7-to-celebrate-40th-anniversary-with-los-angeles-concert-featuring-lunachicks-and-css\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">special concert<\/a> at the Belasco in Los Angeles. Finch will not join L7 on the initial North American leg of their <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/l7-map-2026-farewell-tour-dates\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Last Hurrah farewell tour<\/a>, which is set for the fall, but reportedly encouraged the band to go on with the shows without her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jennifer Finch, longtime bassist of the \u201990s grunge outfit L7, is currently undergoing treatment for brain cancer. \u201cUnforseen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":689783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,146171,50,1012,56,54,55,307],"class_list":["post-689782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-l7","tag-news","tag-textaboveleftsmall","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}