GoFundMe launched for L7's Jennifer Finch after aggressive cancer diagnosis; Daisy the Great adds fresh voices to a new version of 'Rubber Teeth Talk'
This is Punk Rock Bach for July 16, 2026.
I’m keeping the intro short this week to make way for our top story, which will hit close to home for those readers who have either received themselves or have had friends, family or loved-ones receive a cancer diagnosis.
Cancer sucks.
But after the lead, stay tuned for a fresh interview with Daisy the Great’s Mina Walker and Kelley Nicole Dugan, plus a Q&A with Mike Reaume of Man Mountain.
GoFundMe campaign raises funds for L7’s Jennifer Finch after brain cancer diagnosis
Jennifer Finch, who plays bass for the storied rock group L7, is being treated for an aggressive form of brain cancer, according to a press release.
The announcement comes ahead of L7’s “The Last Hurrah Tour,” the band’s final world tour, which is set to debut in the United States on Oct. 6 in San Diego, Calif. Due to her diagnosis, Finch will be unable to participate in the U.S. portion of the tour this fall.
L7 bandmate Donita Sparks said in the release that the band was heartbroken by the health development.
“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,” Sparks said. “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.”
To fund her treatment and recovery, Finch’s friends, family and collaborators have created a GoFundMe page, according to the release.
Finch’s loved ones posted on Instagram that, “After her diagnosis, there was hope that treatment would give her a path back to some version of normal life. Instead, complications brought multiple surgeries and a relentless series of setbacks. Jennifer is now living with significant physical limitations and requires a level of care that love, friendship, and sheer determination cannot safely provide around the clock.”
They said the GoFundMe was created “to help cover professional in-home nursing care, physical and speech therapy, medical equipment, home-care expenses, and the essential support Jennifer needs to live with as much comfort, dignity, autonomy, and quality of life as possible.”
As of midday Thursday, the GoFundMe had raised more than $367,000.
You can visit and contribute to the GoFundMe campaign for Jennifer Finch here. L7’s “The Last Hurrah” is set to begin in San Diego, Calif. on Oct. 6.
Daisy the Great brings friends in for new version of ‘Rubber Teeth Talk’
For Mina Walker, Daisy the Great’s latest album serves as a reminder that a song is not a recording.
“A song can exist through time in a lot of different ways,” she said. “One of my favorite records is the ‘If I Were a Carpenter’ record from the ‘90s — where a bunch of different artists covered Carpenters’ songs. And like a lot of those versions of the songs, like Sonic Youth doing ‘Superstar,’ just helped me understand the songs in different ways, and love them more deeply, like both the original and the covers of them.”
Daisy the Great — the musical twosome of Walker and Kelley Nicole Dugan — is set to release “The Rubber Teeth Talk With Friends,” a collaboration-heavy edition of its 2025 album “The Rubber Teeth Talk,” on July 17. The album will feature tracks such as “Bird Bones (Birthday Girl Version),” “Lemon Seeds (Ray Bull Version)” and “Dog (Frankie Cosmos Version).”
Punk Rock Bach spoke with both Walker and Dugan ahead of the album’s July 17 release. Dugan said the duo enjoys performing different versions of songs in their repertoire.
“We like to think about recordings as just like a snapshot of that song at that time, but, like, obviously, you know, you play songs for years, and they kind of shift as you play them, and in different situations, you play them differently with the full band,” she said. “Or we just did a duo tour where we were playing all the songs, just the two of us, with two guitars, and the songs breathe differently in those different setups.”
Bringing other musicians into the fold
Artists who join Dugan and Walker on the new version of the album include Frankie Cosmos, Ray Bull and Babehoven, among others.
“I feel like collaboration is pure art,” Walker said. “And I think it helps curb any type of ego a lot of times because you’re tossing back and forth this energy in a room and it feels like it belongs. It’s like coming from some type of magical field, and it belongs to everybody that’s creating it, and everybody that it’s given to.”
Walker said it also serves as a reminder of what art is.
“I think that in this universe that we live in, it’s really easy to like feel like you own things and you are the owner of the art you make,” she said. “And I just think collaboration is such a good reminder that art is a conversation and a combination of so many people and energies and things.”
Dugan said all the tracks on the new version of the album hit her in a different way. For instance, she cited the collaboration with Harmony Tividad, “Dream Song.” She said the track recently released “has so much space in it, and it’s so intimate, and it’s so lush and beautiful, and filled with these really awesome, like crunchy harmonies.”
“And that really hits me, because it’s kind of like it feels like the quiet center of the big version,” she said. “Like, it’s if you strip everything away and just close your eyes and read the lyrics, that’s kind of what it feels like to me. Like it would be […] the heart center version of the big recording.”
Remembering a friend
For Dugan and Walker, the album’s track that stands as the most emotional is “Bird Bones (Birthday Girl Version)” — which is about a friend who passed away.
“Our friend Stephanie Shaffir,” Walker said. “She was an amazing actor and artist and just like a beautiful, strange, lovely person.”
Walker continued, “I think that she, through her whole life, and through my life of knowing her, reminded me of the importance of friendship and living through your relationships and the importance of relationships.”
Daisy the Great’s “The Rubber Teeth Talk With Friends” is set to release on July 17. It is available for pre-save on various platforms here. The band is set to perform live next in Putou Shequ, China, on July 18.
Man Mountain’s Mike Reaume talks about finding new appreciation for public radio ahead of the band’s new album
Detroit-based Man Mountain is set to release its latest album, “Threads of Another Life,” on July 24 via Spartan Records.
It’s been six years since the group last released a full-length album. Tracks on the new record include “Astralis,” “Halcyon Dream” and “Absence / Descent.”
Punk Rock Bach caught up with Mike Reaume, the band’s guitarist, to ask about how he’s listening to music and what are his favorite music-listening memories ahead of the album’s release.
Editor’s note: Q&A has been lightly edited for style, syntax and typos.
Punk Rock Bach: How do you prefer to listen to music?
Mike Reaume: Oh man, is there even a wrong choice here? Honestly streaming is the most convenient but it's probably my least favorite, while vinyl and CD are the opposite (least convenient but probably my favorite) - there's just something about the experience of listening to music on physical media, feels more intentional. I've also recently started to seriously appreciate radio, but specifically local public radio (shout out to 101.9 WDET), as it feels refreshingly human and analog in stark contrast to our predominantly digital and algorithmically curated reality elsewhere.
PRB: What are you listening to now?
Reaume: Everything haha, but lately it's been a lot of Loathe, Sunlight Ascending, The Callous Daoboys, Karmanjakah, You Infinite, The Barbarians of California, and Hammock. I also found my old iPod Classic last weekend, plugged it in, and have occasionally been listening through in alphabetical order by song name, and forcing myself not to skip any - first song was "A-List Actress" by Hey Mercedes, and I think the most recent song that played was "Andy Sundwall" by The Chariot.
PRB: What is your favorite music listening memory?
Reaume: It's not like one specific memory, but music has just been such a core connection for me to my closest friends, and so many of my favorite bands and albums became that as a result of all of us recommending bands and sharing CD's constantly. Now when I listen to any of those bands I immediately remember hearing it for the first time and the people I was with (or whoever shared it with me), and I think there's something really special about that.
PRB: What do you listen on?
Reaume: Great question! Most of the time I'm probably listening to music in the car, and by that I mean anytime I'm driving there is music playing 100% of the time haha. At home though, I've got a lot of options: soundbar for streaming, turntable for vinyl, and in my music room I've got some Yamaha monitoring speakers that I really like, and my Sennheiser HD600's have become my go-to headphones.
PRB: What’s your favorite music discovery in the last year?
Reaume: My old iPod Classic haha, but if you mean like a band or an album it's probably The Callous Daoboys (their album "I Don't Wanna See You in Heaven" is a masterpiece).
Man Mountain’s album “Threads of Another Life” is set to release on July 24 via Spartan Records. It is available for preorder on Bandcamp and the record label’s website. You can hear the single “Absence/Descent” and the single “Halcyon Dream” on YouTube.
What I’m listening to…
This week I’m listening to a real treat: “Trashworld: Livin’ in a Trashworld E.P.!”
A bit of a back-story: WAY back in March, I ordered the E.P. on cassette via Tapehead City. I was impressed that a band was choosing to release their E.P. via cassette. It led me down a rabbit hole of reminding myself how fun cassettes are — but of course I didn’t have anything on which to play it.
I dug out one of my old cassette players, but the belt had disintegrated. I tried replacing that belt, but couldn’t quite figure it out. Fast forward to this week, and I found another old cassette player. Finally listening to it, and it’s fantastic.
My favorite track is “Fuck Work,” which is a ton of fun.
Strongly recommend!
Next week: A legend in the world of punk — Milo Aukerman, Ph.D., singer for the Descendents! We’ve got an in-depth interview with Aukerman about the band’s re-releases of 1987’s “ALL” and “Liveage!” Milo goes back to ‘87 next issue. Be there on Thursday!