{"id":2446956,"date":"2019-07-30T09:36:15","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T15:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=865157"},"modified":"2019-07-30T09:36:15","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T15:36:15","slug":"l7-drop-new-holding-pattern-video-comment-on-pledgemusic-debacle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/l7-drop-new-holding-pattern-video-comment-on-pledgemusic-debacle\/","title":{"rendered":"L7 Drop New \u2018Holding Pattern\u2019 Video, Comment on PledgeMusic Debacle"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In an act of sincere, coordinated irony, L7<\/a> have released both a video for their song \u201cHolding Pattern\u201d along with a statement about how items purchased through the now-defunct website PledgeMusic are also in a holding pattern.<\/p>\n

The video shows fuzzy, psychedelic footage of the band members \u2014 a symbolic representation of feeling stuck \u2014 as they play the song\u2019s poppy, serene melodies. \u201cHolding Pattern\u201d appears on L7\u2019s recent comeback LP, Scatter the Rats<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Holding Pattern\u2019 is a song about being stuck, caught in a loop of stagnation either by fate or psychological paralysis, or both,\u201d singer-guitarist Donita Sparks said in a statement. \u201cI\u2019ve been there a few times and it\u2019s depressing and frustrating. Lyrically, this is a pep talk to my soul from the fairly incompetent life coach that lives in my brain to get things moving forward in a positive manner. \u2018Do it, it\u2019s just your life. \u2026 The future is waiting, get here soon.’\u201d<\/p>\n

The video comes a few months after the website PledgeMusic, a crowdfunding site that offered rewards to fans who backed bands, declared bankruptcy. L7 had used the site to raise money for Scatter the Rats<\/em> and were left high and dry when the site imploded. The money the band raised never made it to them, and in a statement they described it as a \u201cfiasco.\u201d Joan Jett\u2019s Blackheart Records came in as a savior and helped the band manufacture and ship Scatter the Rats<\/em>, and the band says it will make good on the PledgeMusic orders.<\/p>\n

\u201cPledgeMusic has held over $20,000 in shipping costs alone that we have no access to and will likely never see,\u201d the group said in a joint statement on Facebook<\/a>. \u201cHowever, L7 has made the financial commitment to honor these mailings. From the Borough of Brooklyn to the shores of Peru, every Pledger who paid for the record please take note, the music is on its way!\u201d The group added, \u201cThe only time we will speak of this again will be in a courtroom.\u201d<\/p>\n

As an added thank you, the group said they were including a \u201cWilly Wonka<\/em>\u2013style\u201d Golden Ticket in one of the shipments. Whoever finds it will receive Sparks\u2019 now-autographed Golden Flying V guitar, which she played onstage on the tour in support of Scatter the Rats<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlthough our song \u2018Holding Pattern\u2019 is not about this lousy experience with PledgeMusic, we believe that we can all relate to its inspiration of being caught in a disheartening loop of stagnation in one way or another,\u201d the band said.<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In an act of sincere, coordinated irony, L7 have released both a video for their song \u201cHolding Pattern\u201d along with a statement about how items purchased through the now-defunct website PledgeMusic are also in a holding pattern. The video shows fuzzy, psychedelic footage of the band members \u2014 a symbolic representation of feeling stuck \u2014 […]<\/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":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2446956","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-25 12:08:02","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":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2446956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2446956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2446956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2446956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}