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"We made a living off being stupid. I don't know if there's a legacy to be taken from that": there will never, ever be another band like the Butthole Surfers. And maybe that's for the best

The myths, madness, magic and mayhem of Butthole Surfers, the world's most dangerous, lucky-to-be-alive art-rock weirdos

Louder

Watch Courtney Love sing Hole classic Celebrity Skin with Green Day's covers band The Coverups at London's iconic 100 Club

The London love-in between Courtney Love and Billie Joe Armstrong continues

Metal Hammer

Courtney Love Teases Possible Hole Reunion During Surprise Performance

Courtney Love hints at a possible Hole reunion during a surprise performance with Billie Joe Armstrong's cover band in London.

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Drew Barrymore Says Her Daughter Uses Her 1995 ‘Playboy’ Cover to Win Arguments

The ‘50 First Dates’ star says she still “loved every minute” of the photo shoot.

Marie Claire

Surprise! Courtney Love joined Green Day covers project The Coverups onstage for three songs in London last night

Hole star Courtney Love joined Billie Joe Armstrong & Co. for versions of songs by Cheap Trick and Tom Petty

Metal Hammer

“It’s such a cool guitar in terms of history”: Sum 41’s Deryck Whibley has bought the ’68 Gibson Les Paul Goldtop used on some of Ozzy Osbourne, Hole, Korn and Social Distortion’s most iconic recordings – and it seems it holds a few secrets

The Les Paul previously belonged to super-producer Michael Beinhorn but it looks like it might have a secret past, beneath its celebrity skin...

Guitar World

“It's a disgrace to the bass player in me, but it's hard to write on the bass. Playing power chords on a guitar is much easier”: Melissa Auf der Maur looks back on a life in rock

As the bass player for Hole and Smashing Pumpkins Melissa Auf Der Maur helped define the sounds of alternative music in the 90s

Guitar World

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Rock trio HotWax: ‘After Covid, bands are like: we’ll just do what we want’

Noisy rock is alive and well in the hands of this Hole-influenced UK trio, who have already supported ‘dream band’ Yeah Yeah Yeahs

The Guardian - UK

10 moments of genius from MTV Unplugged

As Nirvana’s iconic set turns 30, we pick out the ten best songs from the famous sessions

Louder

The electric guitar shredded itself to death in the ‘80s. It had to start over, but the ‘90s grunge revolution didn‘t just change the face of guitar playing – it changed the world

Guitar World presents a grunge guitar guide to the ‘90s, the decade when Seattle became the epicenter of the musical universe, and resurrected the electric guitar with a raw, dirty sound that gave birth to a whole new generation of guitar players

Guitar World

The Last Dinner Party: the most talked-about band in Britain on defying the haters and their Glastonbury debut

They’ve been accused of being manufactured, an industry plant, and nepo-babies - but the music speaks for itself

Evening Standard

Your essential guide to every Hole album

Courtney Love's finest work re-assessed

Metal Hammer

Revisiting the seven weeks in 1991 that changed music history forever

The 80s weren’t dead and the 90s hadn’t really begun. This is the story of how seven weeks of summer in 1991 belonged to rock (and not just grunge)

Metal Hammer

Journalist shares photo of moment Courtney Love ‘grabbed him by the crotch without consent’

Frank Elaridi recalled an interaction with Hole frontwoman that he says ‘caught him off guard’

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How Gen Z fell for and reinvented quiet-loud indie rock

Ed Power finds out why bands such as HotWax and Bleach Lab are so inspired by the sound of Pixies, Hole and Nirvana

Louder

There's a version of Hole's Celebrity Skin featuring AI vocals from Kurt Cobain and the future is gonna be really messy

The future is coming and it's extremely complicated

The Guardian - UK

Blondshell: Blondshell review – an alt-rock star is born

Sabrina Teitelbaum writes her rage in various vivid shades, resulting in a coming of age album with PJ Harvey and Hole influences

The Guardian - AU

‘Kurt was not in a good way’: backstage on Nirvana’s first – and only - Australian tour

Promoter Stephen ‘Pav’ Pavlovic spent weeks on tour with bands like Nirvana and Hole in the 1990s. ‘I hoarded everything,’ he says – and a new exhibition reveals all

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Wales Online

Mark Steel asked people on Twitter what they knew about Newport and the response is brilliant

People shared their stories with the handful of famous faces that have graced the city over the years including rock stars and time lords

The Independent UK

Courtney Love praises Doja Cat for ‘slaying’ cover of Hole’s ‘Celebrity Skin’

Rock musician also revealed she and Doja Cat had to fight to ‘keep this song about what it’s about’ when it was featured in a Taco Bell advert

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