Following in the footsteps of Miley Cyrus and her down daughter, Courtney Love has taken leave from the microblogging service Twitter, without so much as a parting “don’t forget to keep up with your FICO score” to her 45,000-plus followers. Does this mean she’s actually going to drop her mobile device and focus on her long-in-the-making album Nobody’s Daughter? Or is she abandoning the 140-character format to become a Suze Orman for the generation that grew up on The Spin Alternative Record Guide? At least her Twitpic account lives on… [courtneylover79/Twitter / CLCobain/Twitter; Pic via CLTranslated] MORE »
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Quitting Twitter: The New Black (Or The New Item From Etsy, Anyway)
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Guitar Hero CEO On His Game’s Cobaintroversy: “The Check Has Been Cashed”
Someone at the Web site associated with the hyperbolic British music tabloid NME decided to ask Dan Rosensweig, CEO of the Guitar Hero franchise, about his take on the whole uproar over the late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain’s avatar being used in the game, and singing songs like Bon Jovi’s “You Give Love A Bad Name” to boot. After finding out that Cobain could be used to sing songs that weren’t by Nirvana, Courtney Love freaked out on Twitter and threatened lawsuits; shortly after that, surviving members Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic asked the game to lock down Cobain’s karaoke ability. But Rosensweig says that it’s all legit! MORE »
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UPDATED: Dave Grohl And Krist Novoselic Would Like Activision To Lock Kurt Cobain’s “Guitar Hero” Avatar Down, Please
In response to Courtney Love’s protests that she had nothing to do with the likeness of her late husband, Kurt Cobain, being used to sing Bon Jovi songs in Guitar Hero 5 and subsequent lawsuit threats in regards to that matter, a statement has been released by Guitar Hero manufacturers Activision in concert with Nirvana’s Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic. What does the statement sound like? A denial, a denial, a denial, of course. MORE »
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Courtney Love Is Not Happy About Kurt Cobain’s Starring Role In “Guitar Hero” Either
Were you kind of cheesed off when you found out that the Kurt Cobain avatar in the forthcoming installment of Guitar Hero would be able to sing songs by the likes of Bon Jovi and Bush? Well, it turns out that Kurt’s widow Courtney Love is none too pleased about the development either, as evidenced by a string of Tweets she sent earlier today that complained about this appropriation of her husband’s license and foresaw an awful future in which he’d be forced to virtually mime Madonna. Not that! MORE »
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Courtney Love Just Kidding About That Whole Taylor Momsen Twitter Fight Thing
Last week, Courtney Love took to her Twitter to take on Gossip Girl star / budding rocker Taylor Momsen, saying that the young lady’s displays of kinderwhore style were “just annoyingly cloyingly wrong” and that she should work with her hands, and insinuating that maybe Momsen wasn’t such a nice person anyway. Scandal! That tiff blew away in the wake of many other microblogs regarding the roll-your-own-craft store Etsy and this weekend’s All Points West festival, but someone at New York’s Vulture (which, thanks to seemingly having someone on Love duty 24/7, pointed out the Tweets in the first place) caught up with Courtney in the bathroom of the It Might Get Loud premiere last night and asked her what happened. And hey, it looks like all is forgiven, or at least like there was apparently no beef in the first place. MORE »
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Courtney Love Is Not All That Convinced By Taylor Momsen
Gossip Girl starlet / aspiring rocker Taylor Momsen turned 16 earlier this week, and she’s finally received her birthday gift from Courtney Love: A big old stream of invective over her basically inviting comparisons to the former Hole singer with her sartorial choices of blonde mop, red lipstick, eyeliner, and baby-doll dresses. Love, apparently sent over the edge by reports from a show by Momsen’s band, The Pretty Reckless, that name-dropped her as much as they did Momsen’s Gossip Girl co-stars, let her Tweet flag fly at near Momsen last night: MORE »
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Trent Reznor May Be Gone From Twitter, But The Impersonators Are Ready To Snatch Up His Followers
Nine Inch Nails’ main man Trent Reznor quit the microblogging service Twitter and deleted his account two weeks ago, but already people have rushed in to fill his void—including “Ternt Reznor,” who proclaims that “A one line bio could not possibly contain the greatness that is me” and is not afraid to impersonate Arthur Fonzarelli in 140 characters or less. Who knows, this superegomanaical version of Reznor could actually be the man himself having a laugh at his own expense! Weirder things have happened on the Internet for sure. [Twitter via Courtney Love, who may or may not think that "Ternt" = "Trent"] MORE »
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Courtney Love Has A Hole Lotta Things To Say To Her Former Guitarist
Last month Courtney Love announced that her eternally delayed new album would be released under the moniker of her band Hole, news that did not sit well with the band’s former (?) guitarist Eric Erlandson. “We have a contract,” Erlandson told Spin last week. “She signed a contract with me when we decided to break up the band, which was like 2002 or something, so I really don’t have comment on it except that I know my part in that band. The way I look at it, there is no Hole without me. [Laughs] To put it blunt. Just on a business level.” Well, when you get blunt about business with La Love, you’re going to hear about it on the Internet a week later! Courtney put out some Tweets this morning in response to Erlandson’s claims: MORE »
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Courtney Love Prepares To Crown Herself Miss World One More Time
Proving that there are still bands from the ’90s that still have yet to reunite–or, at least, dust off their old names for one more trip through the nostalgia machine–Courtney Love has announced that her forever-in-the-works album Nobody’s Daughter will not come out under her name, but instead under the name of her old band Hole. Also she’s wearing leather pants! And trying to channel Apocalyptica! Unfortunately the C-Love video diary set up by the NME to chronicle these exciting (yet not all that surprising in the grand scheme of things) developments is broken, but just look at this breathless synopsis penned by the mag’s Dan Martin: MORE »
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Ex-Journalist Realizes That Semi-Ironic T-Shirt Market Is More Recession-Proof Than Scribing
Former Kerrang! writer Howard Johnson has figured out a way to make money in this current crazy word-hostile age: T-shirts! Hey, everybody needs to be clothed, right? Sadly, he doesn’t have a replica of this top at his online store SaltyRockz, but he does have lots of other options for people who like to have passerby staring at their chests. The “Home Taping Is Killing Music” shirt at left—which seems so quaint now!—is but one of the items available at Johnson’s self-funded “labour of love”: MORE »
