Courtney Love

The Top 5 Best (Pro-Lady) Songs About Vagina

Lana Del Rey must've known that covering Nirvana's "Heart Shaped Box" would elicit some sort of a response from Courtney Love, but none of us could've predicted that Love would actually be funny when she Tweeted LDR about it. "You do know the song is about my vagina right?" Love queried. "Next time ... More >>

The Top 10 Best Music Biopics

The news that Alan Rickman will be portraying Hilly Kristal in a new CBGB biopic half excited us, then half scared us yesterday. He'll be good, but Lordy, who is going to play Debbie Harry? And The Ramones? Those are big shoes to fill... So we comforted ourselves with this -- a list of our top 10 fa ... More >>

Hit So Hard: Hole Drummer Patty Schemel on the '90s Revival, Courtney's Antics, and the New Film About Her Life

[Editor's note: Matt Momchilov plays in an S.F.-based, all-gay Hole tribute band called Butthole. He seemed like the perfect person to interview original Hole drummer Patty Schemel about the new documentary covering her life, so when we were pitched this story through a friend of Momchilov's, we too ... More >>

Based on the New Revelations About Courtney Love, Frances Bean Cobain is Freakin' Amazing

​So, after two years and one month of speculation, and thanks to Maer Roshan's new e-book, Courtney Comes Clean, we just got a few steps closer to finding out why Frances Bean Cobain filed a temporary restraining order against her own mother, Courtney Love. According to legal statements ... More >>

Is Courtney Love Mentally Ill?

​In case you missed it, last Saturday, while performing at Brazil's SWU festival, Courtney Love had a minor meltdown after an audience member repeatedly held up a photo of Kurt Cobain. "I don't need to see a picture of Kurt, asshole!" she yelled. "And I'm going to have you fucking removed if you ... More >>

Still, Silent, Sexy – and Unsettling

Can Twitter Land You In Court?

​I saw recently in the news that Courtney Love is being sued for tweeting. Could that happen to me, even if I don't have a lot of followers? If so, how can I avoid that?~Avoiding a TwasuitWell first, for those not intimately tracking Courtney Love's every electronic move like I am, let me provide ... More >>

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Predictions for San Francisco 2011

Monday's Pick: M.O.T.O., Midnight Creeps, Sharp Objects, The Spurts at Elbo Room

The Midnight Creeps' Jenny Hollywood​M.O.T.O.Midnight CreepsSharp ObjectsThe SpurtsElbo Room9 p.m., $6Camps that teach young women how to rock are certainly commendable, but it's a safe bet Jenny Hurricane learned the old-fashioned way: by simply watching Iggy Pop. The Midnight Creeps frontwoman p ... More >>

Hole returns amid all that Courtney confusion

Hole to Headline BFD 2010 (along with Deftones, Silversun Pickups, More)

photo by Stacy Schwartz for City Pages Courtney Love fills the Hole once more​Live 105 just announced its 2010 lineup for its big summer fest, BFD, and the band on the bill most folks will be talking about--for better or for worse--is Hole. Yup, Courtney Love and Co. will be one of the headliners ... More >>

Local Frequency: Bay Area Band Q&A w/ Maus Haus

​Like many of San Francisco's best acts, Maus Haus is tough to pin down stylistically. The group's idiosyncratic lyrics are matched with orchestral electronic arrangements reminiscent of Krautrock, Bollywood soundtracks, and Brian Eno's best work. The group's upcoming release, Sea-Sides, like its ... More >>

New Hole Single: A Fuck You to Trent Reznor

Stacy SchwartzHole at Spin's recent SXSW party​The latest Hole single off the upcoming Nobody's Daughter, "Samantha," includes all that early Courtney Love rage in the chorus. What starts as a power ballad about a girl who wants to "wrap her legs around this world" takes a sharp turn as Love yells ... More >>

The Pack's Lil B Releases Printed Collection of Text Messages

​Who says you need a lot of words to put a book together? The Pack's Lil B has a new printed release out today, a publication whose focus is keeping rap music "positive." Comprising "text messages and emails to his thousands of fans and friends," the $26.99 Takin Over  aims to send a message ... More >>

2008 Music Awards Program

DJs dig into '90s nostalgia

Hearts and Minds

Queen of Rock Sluttitude in SF Tonight (Friday)

Groupies

The view from Jimmy Page's pants: groupies claim their 15 minutes

Grind It Out With Pam

Exit the Matrix

The Matrix: Path of Neo is more chop suey than chopsocky.

Hear This

Electrelane proffers that come close/go away rock; punk paragons the Leaving Trains do the "all original members" thing

Shop Till You Drop

Forget Kurt Cobain's Journals, and try Eminem's To-Do Lists instead

Who's That Girl?

Pushy's Madeline Minx wants to be both Madonna and Woody Allen

Sophisticated Boom Boom

S.F.'s Famous Burlesque Orchestra provides a safe haven for punks, gorillas, and other odd characters

Unhampered by Sanity

Here's a plot for you: Courtney Love meets the ghost of an avant-garde German baroness whose husband also shot himself

Love and Rockets

"Tough Love II"

Veterans' Affairs

Imperial Teen has shrugged off its Bay Area rock past, a potentially disastrous tour with Marilyn Manson, and mastered the art of the pat answer

Y1981

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

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Night Crawler

Love Hate

Nick Broomfield's Courtney problem

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The House of Tudor

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Love Sick

Sleater-Kinney's Call the Doctor painfully dissects physical and emotional boundaries

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The Sound vs. Fury

The secret success of 1995's rhythm nation

The Book of Lists

SF Weekly contributors salute the best (and worst) music of 1995

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