{"id":806610,"date":"2020-04-21T08:00:55","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T14:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=987386"},"modified":"2020-04-21T08:00:55","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T14:00:55","slug":"l7-tap-joan-jett-for-blistering-cover-of-her-1983-track-fake-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/l7-tap-joan-jett-for-blistering-cover-of-her-1983-track-fake-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"L7 Tap Joan Jett for Blistering Cover of Her 1983 Track \u2018Fake Friends\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Grunge stalwarts L7<\/a> unveiled a new cover of Joan Jett<\/a>\u2019s 1983 track \u201cFake Friends,\u201d featuring guitar and vocals from none other than Jett herself.<\/p>\n

For their rendition of \u201cFake Friends,\u201d L7 flattened out the boogie-tinged skip of the original and streamlined it into a snarling ripper. \u201cLosing friends, losing friends,\u201d Donita Sparks sings, with Jett providing the harmonies, \u201cYou got nothing to lose\/You don\u2019t lose when you lose fake friends.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTo have Joan\u2019s vocals on this track along with mine is super surreal and cool,\u201d Sparks said in a statement. \u201cOur band has experienced many fake friends, especially when you\u2019re down. Some of these people you thought were your friends are nowhere to be found. Your phone calls aren\u2019t returned, etc. It\u2019s painful and it sucks. Then you find out who your true friends are.\u201d<\/p>\n

L7 and Jett\u2019s version of \u201cFake Friends\u201d serves as the A-side of a new single that boasts \u201cWitchy Burn\u201d on the B-side. That track is a reworking of L7\u2019s 2019 cut, \u201cBurn Baby,\u201d from their comeback album, Scatter the Rats<\/i><\/a>, which was released via Jett\u2019s Blackheart Records.<\/p>\n

L7 planned to release the \u201cFake Friends\u201d\/\u201dWitchy Burn\u201d single to coincide with their tour of New Zealand and Australia in May, but they ultimately decided to issue it earlier after that run was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the tour got canceled due to this horrible virus, we decided to release the tracks as a way to keep our fans\u2019 spirits up a bit, as well as our own,\u201d Sparks said. \u201cNew material gets everyone excited and happy and maybe gets them dancing around their cribs. That\u2019s something positive the band can do for our fans in these uncertain times. When rock and roll duty calls, L7 answers.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the beginning of April, Sparks launched a weekly online variety show, The Hi-Low Show<\/i><\/a>, which has so far featured such guests as Lydia Lunch, David Yow, Dani Miller and Teri Gender Bender. The show airs<\/a> Fridays at 3 p.m. PT and this week\u2019s guest will be Starcrawler\u2019s Arrow de Wilde.<\/p>\n

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Grunge stalwarts L7 unveiled a new cover of Joan Jett\u2019s 1983 track \u201cFake Friends,\u201d featuring guitar and vocals from none other than Jett herself. For their rendition of \u201cFake Friends,\u201d L7 flattened out the boogie-tinged skip of the original and streamlined it into a snarling ripper. \u201cLosing friends, losing friends,\u201d Donita Sparks sings, with Jett […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-806610","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-13 11:56:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}