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A GoFundMe has launched, and Finch will miss L7’s 2026 U.S. tour.

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L7 bassist, photographer and multidisciplinary artist Jennifer Finch has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer and is currently undergoing treatment. What initially appeared to be a condition that could be addressed through treatment and a full course of radiation has progressed rapidly, requiring Jennifer to undergo multiple surgeries and resulting in significant physical limitations. She now requires extensive ongoing medical care, rehabilitation, and professional in-home assistance.

Jennifer’s many friends, collaborators and family have launched a GoFundMe campaign to help cover the substantial expenses associated with her treatment and recovery. The campaign can be found at gofundme.com/f/jennifer-finch-vs-brain-cancer-its-time-to-make-noise.

Jennifer’s diagnosis also means that she will be unable to participate in the fall 2026 U.S. leg of L7’s previously announced “The Last Hurrah Tour.” L7’s final tour was planned with Jennifer when all four members were in good health and spirits. Although she will not be able to join the band for the upcoming U.S. dates, Jennifer has asked L7 to continue with the tour as planned, which the band has made the decision to do. She will be temporarily replaced at these concerts by Tsuzumi Okai, who was previously a touring bassist for Limp Bizkit in 2018.

Donita Sparks said on behalf of the band: “We are all devastated by the news and are surrounding her with love, protecting her privacy and dignity, while helping raise the resources she urgently needs for the care ahead. Jennifer is family, and we want her to feel the full strength of the community that has loved and supported her for so many years.”

“The Last Hurrah Tour” — the first leg of L7’s final world tour — kicks off in the U.S. on Oct. 9, with stops planned in New York City, Washington D.C., Nashville, Chicago, Seattle and more, wrapping up with a hometown celebration in Los Angeles.

L7 was formed in 1985 and went on indefinite hiatus in 2001. A 2015 reunion tour was followed by the documentary L7: Pretend We’re Dead in 2016. L7’s first album in 20 years, Scatter The Rats, was released in May 2019 via Joan Jett’s Blackheart Records.

L7’s self-titled debut album arrived in 1988. The band’s third studio effort, Bricks Are Heavy, came out in 1992 and peaked at No. 160 on the Billboard 200; 1994’s Hungry For Stink reached No. 117; and 1997’s The Beauty Process: Triple Platinum achieved a No. 172 high. The 1992 single “Pretend We’re Dead” peaked at No. 8 on the Alternative Airplay chart, while “Andres” off Hungry For Stink reached No. 20. Several of L7’s songs have appeared on major film soundtracks, including “Sh*tlist” on both Pet Sematary II and Natural Born Killers, and “Shove” on Tank Girl.

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Former Iron Maiden singer Blaze Bayley has spoken about being included on the list of members who will represent the legendary British heavy metal band at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s Class of 2026 induction, in a new interview with Paul Christine of the Hard Rock History Show. Blaze, who fronted Iron Maiden for five years and appeared on two of the group’s studio albums — 1995’s The X Factor and 1998’s Virtual XI — will be inducted alongside the band’s current lineup of singer Bruce Dickinson, bassist Steve Harris and guitarists Adrian Smith, Dave Murray and Janick Gers, as well as former singer Paul Di’Anno, ex-guitarist Dennis Stratton and former drummers Nicko McBrain and Clive Burr.

Speaking about whether he would like to attend the ceremony, Bayley said (transcribed by Blabbermouth): “I would love to go. I would love to represent the band in a very positive way. I’d love to be a part of that. It’s a huge lifetime thing. Whatever you think about awards — we don’t get into it for awards, but I mean, you’re talking about Led Zeppelin being in there and all of that. So it’s huge, really. And it’s a kind of thing that I don’t think too much about, and so many people mention it: ‘Man, congratulations.’ And it’s really nice that… I mean, that is considered important by a lot of people, and so they consider me, and my work has been recognized, and that’s a really lovely feeling.”

Bayley added: “So I’d love to go to the presentation. I don’t know yet if I’m available at the moment. On my calendar, I’m not booked… There’s a couple of weeks in November I’m not booked. I’ve got no gigs. It falls on the presentation night. I don’t know what’s gonna happen, so I would love to go.”

The 2026 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame ceremony is set for Nov. 14 at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. It will air on ABC and Disney+ the following month. Iron Maiden will be in the middle of an Australian tour that night, with dates booked Nov. 13 in Melbourne and Nov. 15 in Sydney. Earlier this month, Dickinson and Harris told Metal Hammer magazine that they would not attend the induction ceremony even if it did not conflict with their tour. Harris explained: “I don’t do those sort of things. I didn’t even go to the recent red-carpet thing for the [Iron Maiden] documentary. It’s not me.”

In a separate interview last month with Rev. Tom Brice of Sportzwire Radio, Bayley said: “Well, I don’t think any of us get into heavy metal and follow it as a profession to get awards, but it’s nice to be recognized…

“And the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame — Led Zeppelin, I mean, giant of giants, almost so big that they can’t be considered as part of normal music. And to be part of that and all the other wonderful artists, to be considered there with the work that I’ve done and the songs that I’ve written and the music that we’ve done, it’s just incredible, really.”

Bayley continued: “What’s interesting, whereas I might go, ‘Well, I’m not in it for awards,’ for a lot of my fans, it’s important for them. For a lot of my fans, it’s important. They think, ‘Yes, he should be recognized.’ And so that’s really, really cool, that my fans enjoy the fact that their favorite singer has been recognized by the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame.”

Iron Maiden has been eligible for the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame since 2004 but had only been nominated twice before this cycle — in 2021 and in 2023, when the band finished fourth in the fan vote. The two Maiden albums Bayley appeared on sold considerably less than the band’s prior releases and were the group’s lowest-charting titles in the U.K. since 1981’s Killers.

The only metal or metal-adjacent acts to have been inducted into the Rock Hall to date are Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Metallica, AC/DC, Judas Priest, Kiss, Van Halen, Rush, Guns N’ Roses, Ozzy Osbourne and Deep Purple. Kiss, eligible since 1984, did not receive its first nomination until 2009 and was finally inducted in 2014. Deep Purple was eligible since 1993 but not inducted until 2016. Motörhead has yet to be recognized by the institution despite its influence on the genre.

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The Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger has acknowledged that life in a successful rock and roll band is “obviously not normal”, and admitted that “psychologically your actual state of mind is permanently damaged”.

In a new interview with the New York Times, Jagger suggests that the adulation that comes with being part of a superstar band can alter one personality.

“Obviously, it’s not normal,” he says. “It is not like most people’s lives. It does affect you. You can become disassociated. From other people. A lot of people in show business only hang around with people in show business, because they’ve got something in common, they can relate to each other, and you get disassociated from what people might call ‘real life’.”

When asked how he fights against this, the 82-year-old rock legend replies, “It’s quite easy, really. You go out and walk on the street on your own and do normal things, go and buy The New York Times.

“But, nevertheless, that’s only temporary because psychologically your actual state of mind is permanently damaged,” he adds. “Your late 20s and early 30s is a very tough time for people in this business because it’s a big ego trip, and you have to have a huge ego to do this. People that do this that don’t have huge egos have huge problems because they have to manufacture a completely different [personality]. I have a friend whose standing joke is that I behave at a dinner party like I behave onstage.

“Of course I’m not really like my stage persona… it’s such an exaggerated version of me. This overbearing, shouting, ego-tripping person — you’re not really like that. But when you’re in your late 20s and early 30s, you can be like that all the time. And there are people in show business that never switch off.

“You’ve heard all these stories about method actors,” he continues. “They take it to the absolute extreme, so they’re like the character all the time, and then after the movie’s over, they’re still in character. It takes a long time to slough off the character. So which character do you go back to? Is he always going to carry some of that character in his “true” character, whatever that is? This is the show business dichotomy and it’s something you learn to live with, and you always hope that you’re a so-called normal person underneath.”

The Rolling Stones released their latest album, Foreign Tongues, last week, on July 10.

L7 bassist Jennifer Finch has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer and is undergoing treatment.

Finch will no longer take part in the Los Angeles punk band’s Last Hurrah Tour scheduled to take place in North America later this year, but she has urged her bandmates to continue in her absence while she receives medical care.

A statement from her bandmates reads: “Following multiple surgeries and serious complications, Jennifer now requires extensive medical care, rehabilitation and professional in-home support.

“Friends, family and L7 have launched a GoFundMe to help cover these urgent expenses and allow her to remain safely at home with the care, dignity and support she needs.

“The Last Hurrah Tour was planned along with Jennifer when all four of us were in good health and spirits. Although she will not be able to join us for the upcoming U.S. dates, Jennifer has asked us to continue with the tour as planned. We will honor her request while making her care and well-being our immediate priority.

“Please donate if you are able – and, just as importantly, please share the campaign as widely as possible. Every contribution, share and message of support matters.

“Jennifer is part of our family. We love her, and we want her to feel the full strength of the community that has loved and supported her for so many years.”

To make a donation towards Jennifer’s GoFundMe campaign, go here.

Friends and Family Launch GoFundMe to Help Cover Urgent Medical, Rehabilitation and In-Home Care Expenses

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