Courtney Love

Top 20 best Minnesota musicians: #10-1

​Related:Top 20 best Minnesota musicians: #20-11Minneapolis music scene named second-best in the U.S.10. Babes in ToylandOrigin: Minneapolis | Active: 1987-2001 | Songs: "Bruise Violet" and "Sweet 69"  Kat Bjelland is one of the nastiest female vocalists, period. Although the woman who adeptl ... More >>

Weekend Checklist: The Melismatics, Get Cryphy, Dropkick Murphys, Orgy

​It's been said many times that the Twin Cities are a breeding ground for musicians.  This weekend alone we have five CD releases from locals; some, like the Melismatics, are veterans in this game, while others like the Readygoes are just getting their start in the scene. No matter where thes ... More >>

Courtney Love says Frances Bean Cobain was conceived in Minneapolis

​Oh, Courtney. She just can't give a straight answer, can she? In an interview about the 20th anniversary of Nirvana's breakout music video for "Smells Like Teen Spirit," Courtney Love took the opportunity to divulge several intimate details about her and Kurt Cobain's first... how shall we say... ... More >>

Sound Unseen 12: From Sid & Nancy to Sigur Ros

Eleven music films showing at Ritz Theater

Wize Guyz, Sound Unseen featured in this week's City Pages

Photo by Chris McDuffie​It's Hump Day, which can only mean one thing here at Gimme Noise headquarters: It's time for the print edition of our blog to hit newsstands. Here's a sneak peek of what we have in store for you:

Courtney Love's memoir: 20 questions it should try to answer

​Late last week, word broke that Courtney Love is writing - or co-writing, or dictating, or bashing out in innumerable typo-strewn MySpace blog posts to be deciphered later, or whatever - her memoirs. 

Frances Bean Cobain turns 19 years old today, making us all feel very old

​When Kurt Cobain took his own life in 1994, after the initial shock and sorrow faded away, what I was left with was a deep concern and sympathy for his baby daughter, Frances Bean, who was only a year old at the time. Not only would she grow up without a father in her life (and constantly be ... More >>

5 weirdest things on Courtney Love's Etsy page

​In addition to everything else weird and drama-rama-filled in Courtney Love's life, the Daily has a story out today about the Hole frontwoman's ongoing saga with arts and crafts online marketplace Etsy. The site has apparently proven to be a challenge for Love, who posted a typo-pocked update to ... More >>

Top five musical idols who need to drop autobiographical tell-alls, stat

​Chin-stroking musos everywhere were stoked to learn that next week's issue of Rolling Stone will include an excerpt from Life, the long-awaited, drug- and debacle-soaked memoir from storied Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards. This in a season that will already see the release of stocking-stu ... More >>

Hole at First Avenue, 07/16/10

Photos by Nick Vlcek​HoleJuly 16, 2010First AvenueThere were a lot of people speculating as to how Hole's show at First Avenue was going to go down on Friday night, from the die-hard fans convinced Courtney Love was going to deliver, to the wide-eyed spectators just hoping to witness a trainwreck. ... More >>

Courtney Love: Fashion blogger

Courtney Love jumped on the blogging bandwagon by launching her fashion blog, What Courtney Wore Today. The blog is self-explanatory, Courtney posts photos of and tidbits about what she is wearing. Photo from What Courtney Wore Today

Hole, Los Lobos, Josh Ritter, and more: Critics' Picks

Hole

On Hole's "Skinny Little Bitch"

"Skinny Little Bitch" might be compared, profitably, to a dirty bomb -- or an inescapablee black hole.

Courtney Love loses custody of Francis Bean

When they said the gears of justice grind slowly, they weren't kidding.

The Songs We Can't Escape

Courtney Love posts blog, forfeits last shred of sanity

For once, Gimme Noise is struck quite nearly speechless.

The Songs We Can't Escape

Fleetwood Mac

Estelle, Dillinger Four, and more

5ingles

What's the View Like from Jimmy Page's Pants?

Pamela Des Barres makes a case for the groupie as muse

11/14 Morning Communiqué

She Bop

It Didn't Start with Babes in Toyland: A Short and Eccentric History of Women in Local Music, 1931-Present

Free Will Astrology

Foo Fighters: In Your Honor

Better to Be a Burnout Than to Fade Away

Flunking rehab, robbing bandmates, pulling a Courtney Love: The Libertines return

Celebrity, Skinned

America's sweetheart Courtney Love: Dead at 40?

Live From The Vomitorium

Man-sized poultry, punk-rock panties, and the grossest story ever told

Top of the Pop

The Year's Best National Albums (A Wholly Objective and Statistically Sound List)

Bands on the Run

Road-tripping to Texas for South by Southwest

The Impossible Scream

Katastrophy Wife Unleashes a Wail to Do Edvard Munch Proud

Taster's Choice

Athletic Supporters

ESPN's The Life holds up the sensitive side of jock culture

Fear of Music

Can a local CD store with no CDs save record companies from free music?

A Power of Ten

Slug's love bug, Kat Bjelland's exorcism, Dave Pirner's throbbing shins: Ten years of local music served on ten great platters.

Pained & Disdained

Pavement may spit on their audience, but their aim is true

Grrls at Their Best

Mas Scara tests the bounds of militant amateurism

Love for Sale

Playtime

Smells Like Grave Robbing

MUSIC: The Raincoats

Braving the Elements

Gallo Humor: The actor-writer-director of Buffalo '66, Vincent Gallo.

Generation Next

Unisex Bloodlust

Porn in the U.S.A.

Cinephilia, Eyestrain, Vertigo

This year's New York Film Festival kept movie buffs reeling.

Records