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On July 21, 1994 – just three months after Kurt Cobain‘s suicide – a photo of Courtney Love kissing. Lemonheads frontman Evan Dando in a hotel room bed ran in the New York Post and quickly spread across the globe. “Merry widow Courtney Love was recently photographed sharing a passionate …

Before Lollapalooza became just another giant festival, it was a culture-shaking Nineties traveling carnival that helped define the thing we used to call “alternative.”Key moments in the careers of Pearl Jam, Nine Inch Nails, Ice-T, Green Day, Rage Against the Machine, Courtney Love, and many more played out on its …

In May 1966, Bob Dylan famously sang “Like a Rolling Stone” at the Royal Albert Hall. Nearly 60 years later, Courtney Love performed the classic right next door. On Tuesday, Love was at London’s Royal Geographical Society in conversation with actor-writer Todd Almond, celebrating the release of his new oral …

Billy Corgan is looking to take home a very personal piece of alt-rock history — Courtney Love’s handwritten lyrics for Hole’s “Violet,” which were partly inspired by their relationship. Love donated the lyrics to be raffled off as part of a fundraiser for the Ellis Park Wildlife Sanctuary in Indonesia …

Courtney Love has never been shy when it comes to sharing her opinions about other people. Going all the way back to the early Nineties, the Hole singer has generated headlines by publicly trashing rock musicians, pop singers, movie stars, and even members of her own family. It’s a level …

Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong invited Courtney Love onstage to join his cover band, the Coverups, Tuesday night in London, where they performed Tom Petty and Cheap Trick songs at The Garage, a 600-capacity venue. The band performed a number of covers, including Plimsouls’ “A Million Miles Away” and Ramones’ …

For a music journalist in the Nineties, there could have been no better phone call. Not long after Michael Azerrad hung out with Kurt Cobain for Nirvana’s first Rolling Stone cover story, Courtney Love reached out to ask him if he wanted to write a book about Nirvana. He agreed, …

Congrats are in order for newlyweds Frances Bean Cobain and Riley Hawk. The daughter of late Nirvana singer-guitarist Kurt Cobain and Hole frontwoman Courtney Love married the son of pro-skater Tony Hawk on Oct. 7, a source confirms to Rolling Stone. The ceremony, which took place in San Diego County, …

Courtney Love and Frances Bean Cobain both turned to social media to remember Kurt Cobain on the 29th anniversary of the Nirvana singer’s death. On Instagram Thursday, a day after the April 5th anniversary of Cobain’s 1994 death, Love shared a picture of Cobain’s hands as photographed by R.E.M. frontman …

Courtney Love is calling out the lack of female artists in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame — as well as the lack of women on the institution’s nomination board and voting body — in a scathing new op-ed the Hole singer penned in the Guardian. “The Rock Hall’s …