Video: In The Studio with Courtney Love... and Hole!

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God bless the NME for still employing guys like Dan Martin who are willing and able to write long and breathless blog posts about Courtney Love's return to music under the Hole moniker. Courtney Love is apparently recording new music in Hollywood with an entirely new version (unless you count potential back-up vocals by Melissa Auf der Mar) of her once great band. After the jump, read our favorite paragraph from Martin's post and watch the video of Love talking a lot about a lot of stuff, including Malcolm Gladwell. [...]

Not sure anybody wants this to happen, but in a recent video, Courtney Love proclaims she's bringing back her band Hole. Besides, her solo album is going nowhere, so why not right? it could come out as soon as the...

Apparently Courtney Love has been working on a solo album called Nobody's Daughter . But after taking lots of crazy and a bit of insane, Love never got around to releasing it. But now it seems that the album is back on track and will no longer be a solo album but a new album from Love's old band Hole. The album is expected to come out either at the end of 2009 or early 2010. Love has recruited Micko Larkin for guitar duties and former Hole bassist Melissa auf der Mar is [...]

It's tough not to rubberneck at the diarrhetic car crash that is Courtney Love's online presence, but between Ryan Adams-feud updates and too many typoed etcs., we've also been checking the pulse on her long overdue Nobody's Daughter LP. Advance listens of the perpetually delayed solo album -- which has run through various guises, producers, and collaborators (Linda Perry among them) -- have been occasionally promising but mostly terrible . In light of those stigmatic solo previews, Love's made a move that's transparently shrewd: Nobody's Daugher [...]