Hole (Band)

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 >>

Dear Beloit College: 1994 Was Also A Good Year For "Women Of This Generation" To Be Rock Stars

"Good music programmers are rock stars to the women of this generation, just as guitar players were for their mothers." —From the Beloit College Mindset List, in which two dudes at a Wisconsin college attempt to get a bead on What The Freshmen Class Might Be Thinking via the making of a list w ... More >>

Win A Scholarship To The Women's Music Summit

The Women's Music Summit is a two-day conference at the Full Moon Resort in Big Indian where accomplished players like Marnie Stern, Melissa Auf Der Maur, and Meshell Ndgeocello will lead master classes, jam sessions, roundtables, and opportunities to connect, and it's scheduled to take place on Aug ... More >>

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

At what point does the nostalgia overwhelm the art?

So, The Mid-'90s Lineup Of Hole (Including Courtney Love) Reunited At Public Assembly Last Night

Last night Public Assembly hosted the afterparty for the premiere of Hit So Hard, a documentary about former Hole drummer Patty Schemel; the marquee act for the evening, a group called the Trinity Jam, consisted of Schemel, bassist Melissa Auf Der Maur, and guitarist Eric Erlandson—the three p ... More >>

Hit So Hard

Modernist Kicks: Swissted's Mike Joyce Discusses The Inspirations For 10 Of His Gig Poster Makeovers

​In 1978, the Sex Pistols would have hocked snot at the idea of being associated with prim layouts and orderly type. Sublime's signature colors were not purple, pink, red, and gray; The Replacements had no ties to concentric squares. Dr. Know and Gorilla Biscuits never put pinwheels anywhere i ... More >>

Pazz & Jop's Album Results Get Soundscanned

The incredible shrinking album

Download: Hunny's Bruising, Crashing "I'm History"

​Hunny is the turn-of-the-millenium "return of the rock" played out in real time; it formed when the members of YIMBY-approved Staten Island dance-pop crew Paragraph got bored with glossy beats and threw their drum machines in the trash. The bruising grunge-metal gnashers' debut I'm History w ... More >>

Q & A: The Raincoats' Ana da Silva On The Riot Grrrl Movement, Kurt And Courtney, And Being Johnny Rotten's Favorite Band

​ This month has seen quite a bit of ink spilled on behalf of the 20th anniversary of Nirvana's Nevermind. But it's also a moment to remember the ways that lead singer Kurt Cobain's reach went beyond the scope of his band and that record—consider one of his most beloved influences, the U ... More >>

Q & A: Don Fleming On The Grunge Years, Courtney Love's Work Ethic, The Velvet Monkeys And Being Sonic Youth's "Manager"

​One of the more surreal moments in television history happened one superlate evening in 1989, when Sonic Youth appeared on the avant-garde-leaning music program Night Music on the severely avant-lacking NBC network. With downtown skuzz buddy Don Fleming playing SY's "manager on keyboards"
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Courtney Isn't Loved By Straight Guys

​Hit So Hard: The Life & Near-Death Story of Patty Schemel is a hard-hitting documentary about the lesbian ex-addict Hole drummer (second from right), which is playing the New Directors/New Films festival tonight at MoMA. In it, Courtney Love's first quote is, "I was completely high on drugs. ... More >>

Melissa Auf der Maur

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 >>

M.I.A.'s "The Truff": Releases Lynn Hirschberg Diss Track, Didn't Order Truffled French Fries

​Like Courtney Love before her, M.I.A. has responded to a less than kind Lynn Hirschberg profile -- Love's in Vanity Fair and M.I.A.'s in this weekend's New York Times Magazine -- the only way she knows how: angry music. Love's band Hole had the bootleg "Bring Me the Head of Lynn Hirschberg," ... 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.

This Week In The Voice: Every Hour is Happy Hour

​What if you lived in a city where there was a bar with a happy hour, for every hour of the day? Guess what, New Yorkers: You do.

"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 >>

Download the Library Is On Fire's Awesomely '90s-Revival Anthem "Vanessa's Theatre of Peace"

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. ​Brooklyn trio The Library Is On Fire is a straightforward, all-thrills, unpretentious alt-rock blast--a band that understands the perfect balance between noise and melody. It helps that frontman Ste ... More >>

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 >>

Melissa Auf Der Maur

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 >>

Band of Gypsies

Feast your eyes on the Night of a Thousand Stevies, a riveting cavalcade of gold dust women

Books

No Future

Kurt Cobain's Final Denial

Notes on Girl Power

The Selling of Softcore Feminism

Never More

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

Don't Freak

America's sweet tart fails to live up to her tabloid potential

Milk It

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

Over It!

Politicking With Michael Stipe; Hanging With The Hansons; Slash In Soho

Brody's Screaming Fucking Bloody Mess of Antique Grunge

She Stays and She Goes

Fuck you, Heidi Fleiss! Fuck you, Scott Weiland! Linda Non-Blonde Honey, see ya around

Music

Where Do I Go Now?

Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll From Here

Nice Nice Guys Finish Last

Blacked Out

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

NY Mirror

Still Not Just Art in a Cage

Respect Due

Who's Beautiful Now?

A Terrible Beauty

NY Mirror

Citizen Corgan