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art?

Pass The Cobain On The Left-Hand Side

Remember when Courtney Love said that her stash of Kurt Cobain's ashes had gone missing? I'm sure the last place she wanted them to end up was in a German art installation. Hell, I think the last place any of us would want to end up is in a German art installation. The Guardian reports that artist Natascha Stellmach is planning to smoke Kurt Cobain's ashes in a spliff as part of a multi-artist installation piece called "I Just Wanted You to Love Me." More »

9:00 AM on Thu Oct 2 2008
By Lucas Jensen
694 views, 2 comments

Latest by cheesebubble: I immediately thought of Keith Richards snorting his dad. That was special. more »

hiring with the stars

It's Hard To Find Good Help These Days

Courtney Love is having second thoughts over her MySpace Blog post this weekend offering a job as her house cleaner , describing the decision as "just wierd." Apparently finding someone who was willing to get up early, yet not one of her "superfans" was just a bit too difficult. I'd like to report that there was other news hidden within her post today, but a random word generator took over at some point, writing "come on it musey ive got a very fine fine sharp pen and Leonard Cohens given me everything hes gonna, headleass footless, i am bound to you and no other but my child and the art i have made les=ts make LIGHTNING mama." [Myspace]

1:00 PM on Tue Sep 23 2008
By Dan Gibson
91 views, 3 comments

Latest by owenmeany: Housekeeeeeeeeepeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeng! more »

now that's what i called indie

Courtney Love Provides A Reminder Of Afternoon Delights Past


In an even-ramblier-than-usual Courtney Love blog entry—topics include joining a Lilac Society branch in Pasadena long ago and collaborating with ex-Hole bassist/nautically minded rock lady Melissa Auf der Maur in the immediate future—the VMA-skipping widow Cobain talks about how certain songs in the early '90s "pissed me off and fucked me up and made me a competitive little shit." Perhaps taking a cue from her stream-of-consciousness ways, I got completely sidetracked by her mention of Smashing Pumpkins' "La Dolly Vita" (above), which I first heard on the fantastic Sub Pop compilation Afternoon Delight. ("Vita" was a b-side to the Pumpkins' 1990 Sub Pop single, which featured the blistering "Tristessa" on the front.) More »

12:15 PM on Thu Sep 11 2008
By Maura Johnston
696 views, 7 comments

Latest by Dick Laurent is dead.: I'm now going to listen to Pisces Iscariot for probably the first time in over a year, thanks Internet! more »

on the blogs

Courtney Love Explains Why She Didn't Brighten Up My Red-Carpet Experience

I was sad that Courtney Love didn't show up to the Video Music Awards' red carpet as promised, because I would have loved to hear her take on some of the "luminaries" in attendance (cough cough, Joe Francis, cough cough). But at least her just-blogged excuse note for the evening makes (relative) sense: "theyre not the "VMAS" and they never will be again - i had ZERO desire to watch let alone go and thats one of my very favourite people ive ever known or had the honour of being friends and fiends with hosting it so i feel horribly rude that my desire not to watch assholes with chastity rings- oh for fucks sake ive had some great conversations but not ONE has ever ended in an Orgasm, y'all need some pussy and some cock and shut the hell up.." Now see, wouldn't she have proven a great foil to Jordin Sparks? More after the jump! More »

12:00 PM on Mon Sep 8 2008
By Maura Johnston
550 views, 11 comments

Latest by cheesebubble: Wow. Her way with words leaves me speechless. I wonder what she puts in her coffee every morning. Now that I know she enjoys crafting, I hope to hell she gets her own shop going at [Etsy.com] more »

videodrone

Courtney Love Throws Herself Up On The Cross


Courtney Love is apparently quitting music after her forthcoming album Nobody's Daughter comes out, if this Nylon TV clip—which includes a snippet of the album's title track and her talking about how she watched her former husband, Kurt Cobain, write "Dumb" in five minutes—is to be believed. Sadly, "vlogging" is not on the list of things she says she might do once she gives up the whole music-business ghost, but perhaps we should just give it time. (Also, the chyron referring to one of her new cohorts as "a member of the new Hole"—does this indicate Love's new/old branding, or just some sloppiness on the part of Nylon's editors?) [YouTube]

12:30 PM on Thu Aug 7 2008
By Maura Johnston
1,245 views, Comment

rebuttals

Ryan Adams Takes On "The Possibly Reality-Challenged" Using The Power Of Hypertext

So Ryan Adams has sort of responded to Courtney Love's accusation that his album Rock N Roll was recorded with $868,000 of Francis Bean Cobain's money, posting a "personal statement of clarity" on his Web site that talks about how he's working hard to become a better person, how he regrets his past mistakes, etc., etc. (There's also a peace card linked in the source code of the page, but it's not visible.) At the very end of the statement, he pretty much takes Courtney head-on, saying that he never meant anyone any harm intentionally, especially anyone who goes airing dirty laundry about him online; sure, he doesn't name any names, but the descriptions "possibly reality-challenged," "unreliable" and "outlandish" make the target of his ire pretty obvious. Full statement after the jump More »

12:30 PM on Thu Jul 31 2008
By Maura Johnston
541 views, 6 comments

Latest by queensissy: @Maura Johnston: What a ponce. Ryan Adams, not Adler. more »

Hey Courtney Love, What's On Your iPod? "Ida Marie 'I like you better when you naked,' Drugstore, Elastica live 1994 bootleg, Husker Du particuly she floated away , Blood Red Shoes, REM's latest Acclerate, Joe Lean and The Jing Jang Jong, The Big Pink 'too young to love,' 'the age of undestatement,' Ladyhawke, Annie 'I know your girlfriend hates me,' Primal Screams cover of Fleetwood Macs cover Over and Over.. Noel Fieldings at Mighty boosh festival july 5 doing old gregg covering his mangina, I did a shit on your mom, not exactly a classic, but still genuis a fuck!You TUBE IT" I guess a better question (aside from the obvious ones involving people doing shits on other people's moms) is "why does your iPod look so much like my iPod?" [Courtney Love's MySpace Blog]

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lawsuit roundup

Every Popular Musician Will Show Up In Some Courtroom Somewhere Someday

• Simon & Schuster has sued both Foxy Brown and Lil Kim for not coming through on books, despite being paid advances. In 2006, Foxy was paid $75,000 in hopes that she'd write an autobiography, while Kim was given $40,000 in 2004 for a novel. (Fiction still gets no respect, even when it's penned by a famous-ish person.) [Bloomberg via ProHipHop] More »

9:30 AM on Fri Jul 25 2008
By Maura Johnston
289 views, Comment

Buried in the bottom of a retelling of her feud with Trent Reznor—which includes shout-outs to Roberts Christgau and Hilburn—Courtney Love indicates that she might be taking a break from blogging: "I have a sign on my computer, 'DO NOT BLOG. EMBARRASSES CHILD. LACK OF GRAMMATICAL CORRECTNESS AND SPELLING MAKES ONE LOOK ON DRUGS FOR SOME REASON. DON'T START THINKING "BUT... BUT... BURROUGHS." IT'S A MYSPACE BLOG. DON'T DO IT!'" I wish her luck, because I've tried that tactic in my previous life as a "hobbyist" blogger and, well, it hasn't really worked. [Courtney Love's MySpace Blog]

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feuds

Courtney Love Takes On The Internet, Kind Of Wins

Over the weekend, Courtney Love took to her MySpace page for the purposes of calling out fellow blogger Ryan Adams, thanks to some mysterious American Express bills from 2003 that she believes are evidence that some $858,000 that went into the making of his 2003 album Rock N Roll was funded by Frances Bean Cobain's inheritance. (I guess that's why Frances is trying her hand at journalism-type stuff this summer.) Not only is she appalled by the theft, which was apparently part of the identity-theft issues she's been blogging about and facilitated by her ex-boyfriend/Rock N Roll producer James Barber, she's irritated that her funds were used to make such a crappy, poorly named album: "Ryan Adams worst record and one of the worst records i can think of in rock and roll history ironically called'Riock and Roll '... yeah you listen to this shit im listening to my i tunes on right now who names a record 'Rock n Roll' what assholes do that? ... with these trebled up guitars my bandmate said sounded like 'really horrific rem on steroids' all treble and compresssion and shit wirtten songs - but so what?" More »

11:00 AM on Mon Jul 21 2008
By Maura Johnston
1,962 views, 18 comments

Latest by Scratcher: Courtney always had a lot to live up to as our generations Yoko Ono. Luckily she's coming through in spades. more »

knights in ads' service

Five Kiss Songs That Could Easily Be Turned Into Jingles

The "writing ad-ready songs for the enjoyment of viewers at home and the delight of network accounting departments" reality show Jingles has had its debut, which was scheduled for later this month, pushed back by CBS, but that isn't stopping the network from letting the world know that Kiss bassist and entrepreneur Gene Simmons is going to be one of the show's judges. (I'm guessing he's going to take the acid-tongued "Simon" spot on the panel.) This caused me to think about how Simmons' body of work could itself be employed for the purposes of selling crap that people don't really don't need, via the time-tested "out of context lyric used to shill for a slightly incongruous product" method that so many ads employ these days. Five possible examples of how you could hear Kiss songs during breaks in Law & Order reruns after the jump. More »

12:45 PM on Thu Jul 17 2008
By Maura Johnston
415 views, 5 comments

Latest by mike a: "God Gave Rock & Roll To You" - Cornerstone Festival more »

so much to live through

Courtney Love Loses What's Left Of Kurt

People cannot stop robbing Courtney Love. First someone allegedly ran willy-nilly with Kurt Cobain's Social Security number, buying mansions in New Jersey and whatnot, and now she's saying someone has swiped what's left of his ashes, along with jewelry, clothes and what remaining Cobain memorabilia she's yet to sell herself. Love claims she's "suicidal" over the loss, a phrase I'm sure her daughter appreciates being thrown around. More »

1:00 PM on Mon Jun 2 2008
By Anthony Miccio
584 views, 6 comments

help wanted

Courtney Love Tries To Break Alt-Rock Stranglehold On Female Bass Players

After lots of delays, Courtney Love is seemingly ready to start rehearsing for the recording of her new album and its subsequent tour. But she needs a bass player, and so she's turned her MySpace blog into her own personal Craigslist because the dude she wanted originally, who, uh, worked with Plant/Page, is currently on tour with Goldfrapp. Are you that man? I ask if you're that man because she doesn't want a chick bass player for reasons that she's keeping secret. (I'm hoping that it has something to do with the way the "chick bassist" went from trope to joke during the last decade's alt-rock boom of 10 years ago, but I fully expect to be disappointed.) If you feel like applying, the ad—complete with suggested musical influences—is after the jump! More »

8:50 AM on Fri May 30 2008
By Maura Johnston
784 views, 4 comments

Latest by narymary: My former band mate, a female bass player, once auditioned for some incarnation of Hole and got pretty far along in the process. The thing that stopped her from pursuing it further was when Ms. Love informed her she would more »

do-overs

Courtney Love: Weekend Blog Warrior

Courtney Love has denied recent reports that she's scrapped work on her current album and is starting over via her MySpace blog, saying that "oit will be turned in by mid july at latest, okay?" and that she's now working with her former Faith No More bandmate Roddy Bottum on new material. And she loves Linda Perry! And she's just waiting for the recession to really hit because her material will work even better as the world plunges even further into doom, gloom, and high gas prices than it already is. More »

1:00 PM on Mon May 19 2008
By Maura Johnston
526 views, 7 comments

Latest by Silverfuture: She's no Chuck Mosely. more »

torn between two lovers

Courtney Love Abandons Linda Perry Album

Courtney Love's been working with Linda Perry on Nobody's Daughter, her second solo album, for almost three years, but word is starting to filter out that she's scrapped everything and will start fresh with her band's guitarist Micko Larrikin, formerly of the British group Larrikin Love (no relation), at the helm. Wasn't Courtney's album supposed to come out on Perry's label, though? Hard to believe Court could go through that much drama and not blog about it. If the rumors are true, a listen to Larrikin Love's music would imply we're in for something a lot more spare and jangly than the former 4 Non Blonde's brand of pop. More »

11:30 AM on Thu May 15 2008
By Anthony Miccio
689 views, 2 comments

Latest by WHAD1: Actually it's Micko Larkin. It might even be his real name (but who knows?). Larrikin Love's singer was Edward Larrikin (who brought his own much weirder and abrasive new band The Pan I Am to SXSW). more »

reworkings

Slash Finally Realizes Weiland Is Velvet Revolver's Weakest Link

Slash promises that Velvet Revolver will record a third album, with or (please please please) without Weiland. "We don't know how or when but the core four guys will continue," he was quoted as saying. It's a heartwarming response to the bitchfits his estranged compatriot has been issuing to the world, as there's no reason The Band Formerly Known As Guns N' Roses should back a grating, obnoxious hack who can't get his pipes around anything on Appetite For Destruction except "It's So Easy," making him more of a rock dodo than a rock dinosaur. But now that The Big Empty might be out of the picture, which grating, obnoxious hack (with more vocal range) should replace him? More »

10:00 AM on Mon Mar 31 2008
By Anthony Miccio
2,231 views, 10 comments

Latest by wakeupbomb: Come on people, is there a more obvious choice than Justin Hawkins from The Darkness? Seriously, the Darkness broke up (didn't they?) and he's got the pipes to cover Axl's high notes, and rock out on his own. more »

lady, we've put up with a lot from you, but this needless beer bashing is the final straw

Courtney Love: "ive done LOADS of things with LOADS OF STADIUM ROCKERS"

Like many of us, Courtney Love wonders about certain choices Village Voice Media has made over the last few years. Twelve hours ago she was specifically irate over Voice music editor's Rob Harvilla's recent piece on the Foo Fighters, where Harvilla praised frontman Dave Grohl for his likeability by claiming that "in arena rock, as in politics, we vote for the candidate we'd most enjoy having a beer with" and that Grohl was the arena-rocker in whose company he'd most enjoy popping the top on a tall cold one. Courtney then attacked Harvilla's offhand dismissal of informed voting until her caps lock squealed like someone in Boy George's basement, comparing Harvilla's lede to a "Fox [News, presumably] talking point" and referring to the Foo Fighters as a "mediocre" band. Incensed that the general public perceives arena rockers as beer fans—"Beer isnt even GOOD. i mean REALLY."—Courtney went on to list all the things she's done with arena rockers instead of drinking beer, maddeningly teasing us by not including the names of the arena rockers in question. More »

12:20 PM on Thu Feb 28 2008
By Jess Harvell
1,976 views, 27 comments

Latest by MrStarhead: You guys realize that probably 90 percent of those things she mentioned she did with Michael Stipe, who's been her BFF for about 12 years or so. In fact, I would guess it was everything except "having sex" and "doing more »

Courtney Love blogs the Oscars before heading out to "Eltons Party": "i love dthat tattoo on her ( Dibalo) and her cute thigh and the wietzman shoes were actually pretty unnatractuve really,. neat, i like the minnesota thing too, i wont be getting a bl;ack bob although i think abou tit contstantly , but it was inspiring rarely does anyone win when theyre an "outisder" particul;alrly chicks who talk about sex working- desp[ite the fact that EVERYONE i know in this town who wasnt upper middle class or didnt come from a hollywood family DID IT and even then i know of some exceptions. so i was really proud a little Nirvana moment if you will." Oh, honey, I know what you are saying but... agggh. Nooooo. [Courtney Love's MySpace Blog / Photo: AP]

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