Things got heated (or, shall we say, brutal) last week when Olivia Rodrigo announced her Sour Prom concert film, which featured a photo of her as a Gen Z Carrie wearing a tiara while holding a bouquet of roses. But as her mascara-streaked eyes gazed into the distance, trouble loomed ahead.
Within hours, Courtney Love pointed out the similarity between Rodrigo’s photo and the cover of Hole’s 1994 album Live Through This, and the two musicians had a heartfelt exchange about “twinning” (with Love playfully asking for flowers and...
Within hours, Courtney Love pointed out the similarity between Rodrigo’s photo and the cover of Hole’s 1994 album Live Through This, and the two musicians had a heartfelt exchange about “twinning” (with Love playfully asking for flowers and...
- 6/28/2021
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Courtney Love and former Hole bassist Melissa Auf der Maur will perform at a Planned Parenthood benefit concert at Town Hall in New York on March 14th.
Titled Bans Off My Body, the event was organized by Planned Parenthood and the Feminist Institute — a nonprofit organization that collects and archives feminist art, humanities, politics, and business. Jane’s Addiction’s Perry Farrell and his wife, Etty Farrell, will also perform, as well as singer-songwriter Rachael Yamagata, Joan as Police Woman, and alt-rock band Betty.
Hole has been broken up since...
Titled Bans Off My Body, the event was organized by Planned Parenthood and the Feminist Institute — a nonprofit organization that collects and archives feminist art, humanities, politics, and business. Jane’s Addiction’s Perry Farrell and his wife, Etty Farrell, will also perform, as well as singer-songwriter Rachael Yamagata, Joan as Police Woman, and alt-rock band Betty.
Hole has been broken up since...
- 2/19/2020
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
By the time Hole‘s third album Celebrity Skin had been released in the fall of 1998, the world had already met two different Courtney Loves. The first was a vitriolic weapon of self-destruction: a brash bottle blonde with smeared red lipstick, ripped tights and coquettish babydoll dresses, who growled and sneered with the best of them. The word “troubled” became synonymous with her name and bled into her music: the Pacific Northwest-bred alt-rock band married riot grrrl ethos with the heaviness of the grunge scene her husband Kurt Cobain became the wearied face of.
- 9/8/2018
- by Brittany Spanos
- Rollingstone.com
Read between the lines of the empowering story of Hole's drug-addicted drummer Patty Schemel, and an uncompromising picture of Courtney Love is also there
Here is a film that is interesting for what it hints at, and merely says between the lines. On the face of it, this is a positive and empowering story about recovery from addiction: Patty Schemel's, the charismatic drummer with Courtney Love's 90s rock band Hole. She inhaled the fume of rock-celebrity and became addicted to drugs; sidelined by Courtney, she got fired from the band and wound up doing crack and living rough. With her family's help she went into rehab, got clean and sober and now mentors young musicians.
But rewind. Patty's troubled life and career in Hole happened in the aftermath of Kurt Cobain's shocking suicide in 1994, and also the drug-related death of Hole guitarist Kristen Pfaff in the same year.
Here is a film that is interesting for what it hints at, and merely says between the lines. On the face of it, this is a positive and empowering story about recovery from addiction: Patty Schemel's, the charismatic drummer with Courtney Love's 90s rock band Hole. She inhaled the fume of rock-celebrity and became addicted to drugs; sidelined by Courtney, she got fired from the band and wound up doing crack and living rough. With her family's help she went into rehab, got clean and sober and now mentors young musicians.
But rewind. Patty's troubled life and career in Hole happened in the aftermath of Kurt Cobain's shocking suicide in 1994, and also the drug-related death of Hole guitarist Kristen Pfaff in the same year.
- 11/16/2012
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Hit So Hard documents the Hole drummer's descent into drugs hell, with plenty of footage of Courtney Love being equally naughty
The first thing to say about the rock doc Hit So Hard is that, really, you've heard this story a million times. The second is, so what? It's a great story. Tell it again.
Nothing's more toothsome than a narcotic-assisted rock'n'roll swan dive from the top of the pops to the bottom of the barrel. Sometimes, as here, there's a late bounce back towards recovery and sanity; but too often, all you're left with is a cadaver choked on its own vomit with a needle still in its arm. The survivor's tale has the compensatory afterglow of optimism, all horrors viewed through the retrospective scrim of rehab and hard-won sobriety. This way you get no corpse, no legendary status, no crowd of ghouls around the grafitti-covered gravestone, but you...
The first thing to say about the rock doc Hit So Hard is that, really, you've heard this story a million times. The second is, so what? It's a great story. Tell it again.
Nothing's more toothsome than a narcotic-assisted rock'n'roll swan dive from the top of the pops to the bottom of the barrel. Sometimes, as here, there's a late bounce back towards recovery and sanity; but too often, all you're left with is a cadaver choked on its own vomit with a needle still in its arm. The survivor's tale has the compensatory afterglow of optimism, all horrors viewed through the retrospective scrim of rehab and hard-won sobriety. This way you get no corpse, no legendary status, no crowd of ghouls around the grafitti-covered gravestone, but you...
- 11/10/2012
- by John Patterson
- The Guardian - Film News
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