Donita Sparks and the Stellar Moments

[1] The band also featured Alan Santalesa on guitar, Dat Ngo on bass,[2] and former L7 drummer Demetra Plakas on drums.

NPR's Fresh Air gave the album favorable reviews and cited the group's roots in 1970s punk music.

[1] Ken Tucker, then editor at large for Entertainment Weekly, commented on the "fluid power" of Plakas's drum playing propelling the music and observed that lyrically "Sparks remains a feminist for whom romanticism doesn't mean sentimentality - it mean passion.

[3] In October 2007, Donita Sparks and the Stellar Moments went on a national tour with The Donnas, where they performed work from their forthcoming album at over 30 venues.

[5][6] In an interview, former guitarist Alan Santalesa stated that the Stellar Moments are no more and that Dat Ngo joined him to form the Shiteland Ponies.