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Courtney Love

April 2024

  • Courtney Love in 2018.

    The week in audio: Courtney Love’s Women; Kicking Back With the Cardiffians; The Belgrano Diary; Word in Your Ear – review

    The grunge grand dame tells her anarchic life story through the music she loves, while Charlotte Church has a tender chat with her ‘dada’. Plus, a deep dive into the Falklands war and Neil Tennant’s Smash Hits days

March 2023

  • Kate Bush on stage in 1986

    Why are women so marginalised by the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame?

    Courtney Love
    Barely 8% of its inductees are female. The canon-making doesn’t just reek of sexist gatekeeping, but also purposeful ignorance and hostility

October 2022

  • Cobain in the spotlight, lying limply on stage clutching his guitar

    ‘Kurt was not in a good way’: backstage on Nirvana’s first – and only - Australian tour

  • ‘Her first appearance takes some beating’ … Amy Winehouse.

    Ranked
    The 100 greatest BBC music performances – ranked!

February 2022

  • ‘Grunge never burned with such eloquent, self-lacerating regret’ … Mark Lanegan in 2019.

    Mark Lanegan defied darkness to become one of his generation’s most soulful singers

    Stevie Chick
    Once primed to self-destruct, Lanegan found salvation and creative freedom in collaborations that brought out the nuances of his uniquely dignified voice

July 2021

  • Olivia Rodrigo at the Brit awards in London in May

    Bad form? Olivia Rodrigo comparisons reignite pop plagiarism debate

    Longpigs’ Crispin Hunt says Rodrigo should not be chastised for taking inspiration from musical forebears

June 2021

  • Olivia Rodrigo at the 2021 Brit awards.

    Olivia Rodrigo accused of plagiarism by Courtney Love and others

    Artwork for Sour Prom, which has similarities to Hole album Live Through This, criticised as ‘rude’ and ‘bad form’ by Love

March 2021

  • Sidonie Thomas (bass) Louella Gallop ( Drums) Sage Dwyer ( Guitar/Vox) of Australian girl band Bliss

    Australian arts in focus
    Girls to the front: how Australia’s rock’n’roll high school evolved – with help from Courtney Love

    A real-life inspiration for Jack Black’s School of Rock, the Melbourne institution became the Kings Cross Conservatorium – but its ethos of equality remains

January 2021

  • ‘Hilariously petulant’ ... Axl Rose and Slash at Rock in Rio in 1991.

    The fandom that made me
    Guns N' Roses: how they soundtracked my last gasp of pre-teen freedom

    In the first of a new series on the artists who had a formative influence on our writers, Rebecca Nicholson celebrates the hysterical melodrama of Axl Rose and co

August 2020

  • ‘A certain level of morbid anticipation’ ... Courtney Love of Hole performing at the 1994 Reading festival.

    20 iconic festival sets
    Hole, Reading festival 1994: grieving widow expels the pain

    The band’s appearance, months after the deaths of Kurt Cobain and Kristen Pfaff, was freighted with expectation. Courtney Love didn’t disappoint

May 2020

  • ‘All we had was porridge’ … Love during her 1982 stay.

    Courtney Love in Liverpool: the Scousers who taught the grunge icon how to rock

    In 1982, a tearaway called Courtney Love blazed into the city, intoxicated by its exploding post-punk scene. We reveal the feuds, filched raincoats and grotty flats that set her on the path to stardom

April 2020

  • Mark Lanegan

    ‘Heroin stopped me dying of alcoholism’: Mark Lanegan, rock's great survivor

    His guilt over Kurt Cobain’s death, his scrap with Liam Gallagher, his year getting clean ... the former Screaming Trees frontman reveals why writing his memoirs hurt

February 2020

  • Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro and Laura Dern at the Netflix after party.

    The Baftas 2020 afterparties - in pictures

    Following the Bafta awards ceremony, Victoria Beckham, Scarlett Johansson and Mark Ronson were among the celebrities enjoying themselves in London

August 2019

  • FANGirls Option2 400 dpi

    Scream queens: inside the world of fangirls

    The dedication of some female superfans goes way beyond music. Hannah Ewens explores her passion for Courtney Love

May 2019

  • Hole: ‘This melodic germ had taken us’

    Courtney Love: ‘A Hole reunion? We are definitely talking about it’

    As Live Through This turns 25, the band discuss the trauma and pop tactics that charged its release – as well as their comeback

December 2018

  • Round-up of 2019.

    2019 in pop culture: from Adele’s 30 to ‘zapping’ your TV

  • Courtney Love

    'I talk to my clothes': why Courtney Love is selling her best-known outfits

September 2018

  • Under the skin: Hole picked over the price of fame.

    Celebrity Skin at 20: Courtney Love’s exposé of Hollywood’s seedy underbelly

    After becoming the bastions of the ‘no sellout’ grunge set, Hole moved to LA to live out a celebrity nightmare – and make one of rock’s greatest records

June 2018

  • Past performers at Glastonbury - Dolly Parton, Solange and Jarvis Cocker of Pulp

    Worthy threads: Glastonbury's performers' standout fashion – in pictures

    With the festival taking a year out, we take a moment to appreciate some of the most memorable outfits seen on its stages over the years – from Solange in monochrome PVC to Thom Yorke in an Astro Boy T-shirt

May 2018

  • The city of Seattle has been permanently prevented from releasing photographs of the death of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, pictured here performing on 13 December 1993.

    Court rules against conspiracy theorist in bid to release Kurt Cobain death photos

    Richard Lee sued the city of Seattle to release photos of Cobain’s body, believing the musician to have been killed by government officials
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