Courtney Love

Death, Drugs and Rock n' Roll- "Don't Knock The Rock's" Timely Glimpse into Musicians' Triumphs and Tragedies

Lina LecaroAllison Anders and Patty Schemel​There is a segment in the riveting new documentary Hit So Hard- The Life and Near Death Story of Patty Schemel that explores the concept of "Saturn Returns" (the astrogical phenomenon which is said to influence and test a person's life development be ... More >>

Bad Dads: Five Of The Worst Fathers In Musical History

he's a genius too, you know Dads--they have sure done a lot for music, either by being musicians and dads at the same time, making some rockin' dad rock, or just fathering incredibly talented children. In honor of Father's Day, we thought we'd bring you a short series on dads. Today we bring you s ... More >>

Courtney Love, Blogger: "I Have a Standing Offer with the LA Times to Write an Op-Ed"

​Dear Diary, "I'm not going to lie, yes, my life is pretty much in chaos right now. And that's exactly why it's a perfect time to write a column for my friend. Here. For you. Every week or so. Ish. It's a test of sorts. Can I do it?" XOXO Courtney Love Courtney Love is writing a column for ... More >>

Today in WTF: Courtney Love Dating Kurt Cobain Impersonator?

​Our worthy colleagues at OC Weekly dug up some blurry phone pics that show Courtney Love canoodling (yup, canoodling) with hottie actor Michael Pitt (Funny Games, The Dreamers, and that one Love & Order about that sexy psycho teen). What makes the canoodling a little odd is that Pitt played ... More >>

How to Talk to Your Indie Rocker Friends About Your Grateful Dead Past

​Back in 2009, the National's Bryce and Aaron Dessner produced and curated the double-disc compilation Dark Was the Night. The proceeds from this double-disc compilation benefited the AIDS-fighting Red Hot Organization and featured a selection of indie rock bands from Spoon to Death Cab. Yeste ... More >>

Top 8 Twitter Tools: Threatening Thugs, Homophobic Hip Hoppers and Musical Idiots Who Are Worse Than Courtney Love

8 Threatening Thugs, Homophobic Hip Hoppers and Twitter Idiots Worse Than Courtney Love

Courtney Love To Test The Limits Of Twitter Trash Talk In L.A. Court

Courtney Love tweets her own images often.​There's talking shit, and there's tweeting shit. Welcome to 2011. Courtney Love, L.A.'s sometime mental-health laureate, has tested the boundaries of tweeting shit (thanks, Courtney), and the matter of whether or not some of her keyboard poetry const ... More >>

Top 10 Crazy and Ridiculous Music Photos of 2010

Top 10 Crazy and Ridiculous Photos of the Year

Best Use of a Porcelain Bowl: Chateau Marmont's Double Latte

A. ScattergoodChateau Marmont's double latte​ Chateau Marmont is many things to many people, depending on whether you're Courtney Love or Keith Richards or one of the rest of us. Quite aside from any late night debauchery, it is a lovely place for an interview (actors, musicians, visiting che ... More >>

The LA Weekly Interview with Best Coast: Bethany Cosentino on Why She Had to Leave Brooklyn, How She Is (and Isn't) Like Lady Gaga and Katy Perry, Being Only Slightly Less Cool than Kanye, and Joan Didion (Yes, Joan Didion)

Sean TeegardenLA Weekly cover girl: Best Coast's Bethany Cosentino​ Alright--we gave you the sneak peek a couple of days ago, and now here it is. The LA Weekly Interview: Best Coast (read the whole thing here). It is a profile of rising star Bethany Cosentino that we're sure is gonna challeng ... More >>

Courtney Love Is Her Own Paparazzi, Posts Lots of Fashion Week Photos on Twitter

Courtney Love Is Her Own Paparazzi, Posts Lots of Fashion Week Photos on Twitter

Courtney Dearest: Courtney Love Celebrates Frances Bean Cobain's 18th Birthday by Publicly Berating Her on Twitter

Mamma Mia: One of Courtney Love's sad, sad tweets on Frances' birthday​Living with a very possibly mentally ill relative is never fun, even if one says one will never talk to them again and spends a lot of time on the East Side, hanging out at Wacko and the Echo, while said insane relative tou ... More >>

"I Can't Go On Jay Leno with a Fragrant Vagina": Courtney Love Turned into Adorable Lego-Style Animation

Live through this animated parody​We've received a link from someone who knows someone who purports to know what working for Courtney Love is like. Somewhere along that chain of anonymity someone created a cheap, Lego-style computer animation of a purported backstage conversation between La Lo ... More >>

Music Picks: Cobra Lilies, Gaslight Anthem, Shelby Lynne, Die Antwoord

Also, The Dead Weather, New Pornographers, the Swell Season and others

Nightranger: Everybody Talk About Pop Muzik

Over the Weekend: Hole, Air Guitar and Conan O'Brien

Yeah, you may still be trying to recover from Coachella, but there was a little too much going on this weekend to be housebound. Courtney Love and Conan O'Brien both made their big returns to the L.A. stage and local air guitarists went head to head at the Troubadour to move one step closer to the c ... More >>

Music Picks: Stagecoach Festival, Yoshitake Expe, Hole, Chicha Libre

Also, Aquaserge, Norah Jones, Dr. Dog and others

Courtney Love Wants You To Like Her on Facebook, so She Will Let You Listen to Her New Album For Free

​The music industry is very confused about the Internet and whether content should be free or not. Courtney Love is an attention whore. These two undeniable facts collided against each other today (aided and abetted by Spin magazine) with an offer to let you hear the entirety of Hole's new a ... More >>

Tonight: Melissa Auf Der Maur at the Viper Room

​ [Preview by Mikael Wood] Think Melissa Auf der Maur is pissed at Courtney Love? Nearly six years after the release of her self-titled solo debut, Auf der Maur has finally completed work on its belated follow-up -- just in time to be overshadowed by Love's recently announced revamp of Hole, ... More >>

Music Picks: Soweto Gospel Choir, Paul McCartney, Melissa Auf der Maur

Also, Jay-Z, Metric, Triorganico, Air and others

SXSW Highlight Reel: Top 5 Wasted Musician Moments

Erin BroadleyBottoms up​SXSW is equally known for the amount of alcohol people consume as it is for music. Let's put it this way: we came, we saw, and some of them puked. Here are our "Top 5 Wasted Musician Moments at SXSW," including GZA, Death Set and an honorary nod to Bill Murray.

Over the Weekend: L.A. Takes on Austin

Last week, L.A.'s music (and music journalist) community headed to Austin, Texas for South by Southwest. The annual music event brought together up-and-comers with rock veterans for days and nights of concerts. Check out what our team saw over the weekend. Courtney Love Is Back Erin Broadley​ ... More >>

SXSW Review: Courtney Love's Hole!

One of the most-anticipated gigs at this year's South By Southwest was the return (in name, if not in band members) of Courtney Love's group Hole, although it seemed as if the motives for the buzz weren't entirely musical. Before the show, at the Spin magazine party at the laid-back outdoor amphith ... More >>

Courtney Love Shows Off Boobs -- er, Tattoos [NSFW]

Ladies and gentlemen, Courtney Love, who at one point in her life was a musician of some reknown, has returned to Twitter. What's more, she's got some new tattoos that she'd like to share with you, and then some. Ms. Love posted the following four images on Twitter on Monday, erm, revealing that eve ... More >>

Echo and the Bunnymen Play Ocean Rain in its Entirety at the Nokia

Echo & the Bunnymen at the Nokia Theater, Oct. 24. Seeing a maddeningly underrated and undervalued band like Echo & the Bunnymen is a good way to keep the ears and soul in check, especially the day before a cold front from Dublin swoops in to take over all of SoCal, and to remind us who pays for Th ... More >>

Courtney Love Leaving L.A. -- But to Where?

Various British gossiparazzi sites have picked up an item that actress and former Hole singer Courtney Love is packing up and leaving swinging Los Angeles for comatose Buckinghamshire, England. "People criticize Britain," the item quotes Love, "but it's still a cleaner, safer place to live than Ho ... More >>

Is Courtney Love Good for the Jews?

The new issue of Heeb, the hip Jewish mag, features a cover story on L.A.'s former Queen of the Damned, Courtney Love. Titled, "Riot Incorporated: Inside the Turbulent Mind and Empire of Courtney Love," Karen Bookatz's interview is packed with prime-rib quotes from the Hole-istic One, who reflects ... More >>

Nightranger Attends the Gidget Gein Memorial

Lecaro mourns, porns, and gets adorned with L.A.'s original punks and scene makers.

Theater Reviews: Jesus Christ Superstar, Don Juan

Also, Daughters of Heaven, The Smartest Man in the World

Grammy Kisses

Pre-awards parties; star spotting; survival of the hippest

STYLE WARS TONIGHT!

I'm not a "designer," but I am a fierce competitor -and a STYLE Councilor- so I figured why not? Watch me compete TONIGHT against 7 other fearless fashionistas and deconstruction dymanos at Style Wars. I suck on sewing machines, but as I found out last night, this competition isn't for thread he ... More >>

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Pussycats and a Cougar

Girls, Girls, Girls

Fashion Weak

Must the show go on at Smashbox?

Welcome to the Dollhouse

Wiggin' Out

Agent Provocateur

Child Care

The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things exploits; Duck Season extols

A Mother's Love

Jack White's Ghost Sonata

Thirteen Ways of Looking at Nirvana

Slushed in 2003

Letters

Speak Easy and Carry a Big Stick

Edited by Kateri Butler

Green Eggs and Lawsuits

Artists, contracts and money

Fuck Fisch, Let's Spoon

Hello, Polly!

200 Cigarettes and 20 Dates

A Room of Her Own

The Hole behind the looking glass

Enviros Can Kill Marsh, but not Playa Vista