Courtney Love

Courtney Love: "I'm 48, of Course I Listen to Avett Brothers. It's What Women My Age Do"

"This tour is really an 'I'm still alive' tour," says Courtney Love in between a series of radio shows and meetings. Was there ever any doubt? She's busier than ever, and our brief conversation with her is stuffed with quick-fire anecdotes, a fondness for discussing her recently-read list of books f ... More >>

The 10 Best Concerts in New York This Week, 6/24/13

For more shows throughout the week, check out our New York Concert Calendar, which is updated daily.

Meet Courtney Love's New Craigslist Bassist

Courtney Love recently revealed to Bust Magazine that she had placed an advertisement on Craigslist seeking a female bassist to play in her new (read: renamed) band, Courtney. She requested a musician interested in performing in a "band in the style of Hole" and "in the style of Melissa Auf der Maur ... More >>

Fall Out Boy

If Pink Married Bobby Seale...

She'd be Pink Panther. If Courtney Love married the Hertz Rent-a-car guy, she'd be Courtney Love Hertz. If Sandra Oh married Karen O, she'd be Sandra Oh-O.

WORKS OF LOVE

The latest venture of an iconic star

Courtney Love's C-Word Dress On Display

Courtney Love's art show at Fred Torres Collaborations--called "And She's Not Even Pretty"--has messages that are really easy to gauge, mainly because they're pretty much spelled out on the work. The above c-word dress blithely states, "Not my cunt on my dime mister." (It's an outfit we can all re ... More >>

Rock Stars Love Boring, Nutritious Food (Except for Courtney Love)

According to a story in Gourmet Live's new "Music Issue," rock stars now have the most boring diets of anyone you know (whole grains, ginger-infused water, potato chips in moderation). But if you read today's New York diet in Grub Street, Courtney Love comes to the rescue with suitably eccentric eat ... More >>

An Impromptu Interview With Courtney Love On The Occasion Of Her Debut Art Show

Curiosity led us early Tuesday evening toward Fred Torres Gallery in Chelsea. Courtney Love, visual artist? That sort of makes sense. Given Love's unpredictable reputation, we were not expecting to see her at the press preview for her debut art show, "And She's Not Even Pretty," let alone have a sit ... More >>

Tupac's Hologram Asks, "Remember The '90s?"

At what point does the nostalgia overwhelm the art?

Courtney Love Being Evicted From Her West Village Townhouse

​Courtney Love is going to be evicted from her house on West 10th Street for setting fires and destroying the decor, Page Six reports today. Love, who is 46 (!), is accused of painting over "hand-finished" walls -- the lease apparently stipulates that nothing be done to the interior -- and owi ... More >>

Most Expensive NYC Rental Costs $165,000 a Month, is in Plaza Hotel

That right there is the most expensive rental in New York, clocking in at a staggering $165,000 a month. The Astor Suite went on the market today and has three bedrooms, five bathrooms, a dining room, a library and an eat-in kitchen.

Live: Courtney Love Has All Eyes on Her at Hiro Ballroom

Jenna Sauers​ Courtney Love Hiro Ballroom, Maritime Hotel Tuesday, September 6 Better than: Listening to Celebrity Skin alone in your bedroom again. "I need a glass of wine," Courtney Love announced as she took the stage, twirling a big paper parasol through the air around her. "I need win ... More >>

Courtney Love Tells Me Her Hopes and Dreams

​CLICK HERE for my new column in which Courtney Love tells me that she wants to get out of "movie prison" just like Robert Downey, Jr did. Anyone have the keys? Also in the column:

This Week in the Voice: Andrew Cuomo, Lobbyists Calling

​Congrats to the newly elected Governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo. As a welcoming gift, this week's Voice cover story would like to warn you and your constitutions of the various leech-like lobbyists waiting to suck your integrity as a public official dry. The inimitable Wayne Barrett reports ... More >>

Courtney Love's Twitter-Rant Birthday Present To Frances Bean Cobain Is Thoroughly Depressing

​As our resident Courtney Love expert is still on Juggalo detail, this falls to me. First of all, Frances Bean Cobain, daughter of Kurt & Courtney, has turned 18, which is mortifying in a shit-I'm-getting-old sort of way. Also mortifying: this compendium of Courtney Love's Tweets on the matter ... More >>

10 Magnificent Discoveries from Behind the Music: Courtney Love

The nakedly turbulent narrative structure of VH1's Behind The Music was invented for Courtney Love. In fact, everything with her is behind the music. So when the hippie spawn who once fronted Faith No More (true story) and auditioned for the Mickey Mouse Club by reading Sylvia Plath (a piece about ... More >>

Week in Review: Born Free

That's how you listen to Ghostface! Photo by Rebecca Smeyne​In the week M.I.A. broke the internet in a tidal wave of blood and guts and red hair, we did our best to put it back together.

"You Seem Fine. Are You Fine?" Courtney Love Discusses "The Letterman Years," With David Letterman

Got a feeling you'll be hearing about Courtney Love/Hole a few times today. (Prepare yourself with Camille's disconcertingly knowledgeable assessment of the new "Hole" record, Nobody's Daughter.) For starters, here Courtney is on Letterman last night, pinpointing an earlier, somewhat notorious, pa ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Sam Amidon, Courtney Love, Little Brother, Harlem's Afro-Cuban Renaissance, Roky Erickson, The Human Centipede, and More

Little Brother: happy or not, it's an ending. Photo by Studio Kompleks​In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla falls hard for Sam Amidon, the gentle, affable, R. Kelly-covering young folkie, while Camille Dodero applies a lifetime of Courtney Love-related knowledge to Hole's new Nobody's Da ... More >>

Hole at Terminal 5: Is Courtney Love Scary? Not Anymore.

Hole Terminal 5 Tuesday, April 27 "Courtney Love is scary," is how the first Village Voice piece about Hole and its "genre-defying," Kim-Gordon-produced triumph Pretty on the Inside began. Published February 1992, this was the month after Nirvana's epochal Nevermind displaced Michael Jackson's pe ... More >>

Welcome Back, Courtney Love

The return of 'Hole' whether you like it or not, you little suck shits

It's Courtney Love's Big Week--and Frenemy Billy Corgan Is Having Fun Trying to Ruin It

Nate "Igor" SmithCourtney Love at the Perez Hilton SXSW party 2010 It's a big week for Courtney Love. Tomorrow is the major-label release of her five-years-in-the-making Nobody's Daughter. There're two Hole headlining shows at this week at Terminal 5, one late-night rendevous at Union Square Best B ... More >>

HOLE LOTTA LOVE

Go crowd-surfing with Courtney

Just Admit It, You're Really Excited to Hear Hole's Nobody's Daughter. Good Thing There's a Listening Party Tomorrow at Angels and Kings

Courtney Love isn't entirely feeling this whole performing live thing anymore. The recent incarnation of Hole played three shows at SXSW--the first of which, the Spin 25th anniversary performance was pretty bad-ass, haters be damned--but her Holeness was miserable. "In Austin, I hated every minute ... More >>

MEAN MACHINE

Jeffrey Ross shows off the art of the insult

Courtney Love Busy, Nude

​We were beginning to consider her reclusive, but Courtney Love has recently been a whirlwind of activity. She is starting up the band Hole again -- albeit with no other original members, though Melissa Auf du Maur may be involved in some way -- and will debut it on February 17 at Shepherd's B ... More >>

Courtney Love Covers the Replacements and Gives the World "Unsatisfied (Multitasking-Makeup Remix)"

Inclined to go with "Anonymous 9:48am" on this one: "My god, she sounds like a horse." What we have here is a five-minute YouTube video of Courtney Love pacing around her hotel room at the Standard on New Year's Eve, wandering from bathroom mirror to cosmetic bag to face-painting tool, while attem ... More >>

News Roundup: New Yorker Festival, Brooklyn Country Festival, Phil Spector's Prison Papers

​--Tickets for the October 16-18 New Yorker Festival, which will feature plenty of musicians--Neko Case, Bon Iver, Loudon Wainwright III, Ian Hunter, Jace Clayton, and Melvin Gibbs, to name a few----and a really ace concert at the Bell House with Liturgy and Dirty Projectors, are on sale now. ... More >>

Courtney Love's Twitter: The Gift That Just Keeps On Giving

Endless source of entertainment is right. Courtney Love's been at it again, earlier today lashing out on Twitter at James Barber, the producer of her debut solo album America's Sweetheart. Her Holeness is alleging that Barber's a scoundrel who deals in mortgage cons and toilet-cam porn--or so Cou ... More >>

In Honor of Courtney Love's Twitter Threats to Sue Activision over Kurt Cobain's Guitar Hero Avatar, I Have Seared My Retinas Gathering 15 of Her Finest Tweets

Courtney Love posted this googly-eyed picture of her in bed with a turtle on her head to Twitter. Somehow she was surprised when it ended up in a UK tabloid. Gun, meet these fish in a barrel. Courtney Love's public missives have always been an endless source of voyeuristic entertainment, from her a ... More >>

A Trannie and a Muscleman

​No, that's not who I had over for dinner last night. It's the wacky duo I saw performing at a downtown nightclub in a saucy act described in my fabulash new column! (CLICK HERE to read all about it.) Once you've recovered your sanity, the column also touches on other not-for-prime-time items ... More >>

The Veronicas' Hook Me Up

Superhuman tween songbirds are waylaid by technology

It's a Good One: Plastic Surgery Make-Believe

'Thr3e'

Books

She's Not Your Steppin' Stone

He was a punk, she did ballet, now he's an indie boy and her week outpunks his year

No Future

Kurt Cobain's Final Denial

Never More

The death of a hometown antihero: Ann Powers reports from Seattle on the suicide of Kurt Cobain

The Jig Is Up

Lip-synching little sis improves on Courtney; tween Cinderella fills the Lisa Loeb gap

Milk It

About a girl: Did Courtney Love really kill Kurt? Ten years later, we may or may not care.

We Got A Lot

Kvelling over damn near a dozen meanings of life, their average length close to an hour

Love and Squalor

Brooklyn Pumps Up the Volume, Courtney Flips, Body & Soul Comes Back

Art

How Too Late It Is

Snarltooth seether heads beyond the valley of the handlers, but good luck hearing her do it

A big juicy fuckup for hissyfit-having little girls who hate being little girls

Dress You Up

Blacked Out

Hip-Hop and R&B Artists MIA in Music Industry Struggle

The Party's Over

A Terrible Beauty