Tag: courtney love

The 20 Best Riot Grrrl Songs

“Even though I did punch her, I thought she was a genius,” Courtney Love said of Kathleen Hanna in 2002, while attempting to explain riot grrrl to The Strokes live on MTV. Twenty years later, and about 30 since the movement’s inception, trying to define it still feels fraught. Riot grrrl was always a nebulous concept, […]

September 1, 2022
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Courtney Love Addresses Complicated Relationship With Mark Lanegan on Instagram, Deletes Post

Courtney Love and Mark Lanegan had a long, complicated relationship, some of which was documented in the late musician’s recent memoir Sing Backwards and Weep. A few days after news broke of his passing, Love took to Instagram to address his death, and gripe about how he portrayed her in his book. “Rip mark. You were […]

February 27, 2022
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Doja Cat Covers Hole’s ‘Celebrity Skin’ for Taco Bell Super Bowl Commercial

Raise your hand if you this coming. OK, put it down. Doja Cat has teamed up with Taco Bell and performed a cover of Hole’s “Celebrity Skin” for the fast-food joint’s Super Bowl commercial this year. The commercial deemed “The Grande Escape,” features the 1998 song that includes newly reworked lyrics in partnership with Courtney […]

February 10, 2022
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Courtney Love on ‘Rape Me’ in Succession: ‘I’ve Never Been So Proud’

(Spoiler alert!) Calling all Succession and Nirvana fans: if you saw this week’s episode of HBO’s hit series based on Rupert Murdoch’s media dynasty, you saw the scene where Kendall Roy interrupted his sister’s town hall speech with “Rape Me” blaring over loudspeakers. Courtney Love wrote an approving message on her Instagram story: “I was in the […]

November 3, 2021
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Watch Courtney Love Emotionally Cover Britney Spears’ ‘Lucky’

Yesterday, the New Yorker published an extensive investigative piece about Britney Spears’ conservatorship. Courtney Love spoke to journalist Ronan Farrow about her encounters with the infamous Hollywood figure Sam Lutfi (she calls him a “street hustler” in the article) and business manager Lou Taylor. “An honor to speak to an honorable man. Speak again soon,” she tweeted […]

July 4, 2021
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Courtney Love, Mickey Dolenz, Sean Lennon to Perform at Adam Schlesinger Tribute

The life and music of late musician and songwriter, Adam Schlesinger, will be honored at a concert filmed at New York’s Bowery Electric. Rolling Live, the streaming website, will debut the event, which was organized by Schlesinger’s Fountains of Wayne bandmate, Jody Porter. “This is a proper musical send-off for my soul brother with a bunch of […]

April 16, 2021
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