Before Kurt Cobain became the ’90s’ Poster Child for teenage angst and angry youth, the Nirvana frontman wrote a theme song for the colorful animated series Ren & Stimpy that was rejected by the show’s bosses. In a podcast on Nerdist.com this week, Billy West, the voice behind the lovably-dimwitted feline Stimpy, remembered the day [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Kurt Cobain’
10 Hottest Acid Heads in History
November 23rd, 2010 |
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Acid played an important part in the culture of the last century. So, incidentally, did good looking women. Combine the two and it’s a blend you’ll never forget. No doom, no fear, just ’60s vibes, boobs, and awesome music. So join us now as we examine the top 10 hottest acid heads in history. And [...]
Macca’s memorabilia to go under the hammer
October 8th, 2010 |
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Sir Paul McCartney’s handwritten lyrics are all set to go under hammer and are expected to fetch 133,000 pounds in a music memorabilia auction this month (Oct10). The working lyrics to Maxwell”s Silver Hammer, off The Beatles” 1969 album Abbey Road, are expected to be the big draw in the internet sale, which also includes [...]
Courtney Love posts half-naked pics on Twitter
October 5th, 2010 |
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Courtney Love has raised eyebrows by posting half naked-pictures of herself on Twitter. The shocking photos show the 46-year-old singer posing in just underwear with her hands covering her breasts. In another photo, she wears tights and knickers but no skirt as she bends over near a mirror, reports the Daily Mail. Formerly in the [...]
Shonen Knife U.S. Tour
September 8th, 2010 |
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TOUR KICKS OFF TONIGHT IN SEATTLE AT THE TRACTOR TAVERN; AUTOGRAPH SIGNING AND MINI-
SET AT AMOEBA RECORDS IN SAN FRANCISCO
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“When I finally got to see them live, I was transformed into a hysterical nine-year-old girl at a Beatles
concert”
- Kurt Cobain
Legendary Japanese pop-punk, all-girl band Shonen Knife kick off their U.S. tour on September 8 in Seattle, WA. The band has also
just announced that they will be playing mini sets and signing autographs at the Amoeba Records stores in San
Francisco (September 12 at 2pm) and Los Angeles (September 14 at 5pm). For more info visit: www.amoeba.com.
Wed 09/08 Seattle, WA Tractor Tavern
Thu 09/09 Vancouver, BC Biltmore Cabaret
Fri 09/10 Portland, OR Mississippi Studios
Sat 09/11 Oakland, CA Uptown Night Club
Sun 09/12 San Francisco, CA Bottom Of The Hill
Mon 09/13 San Diego, CA The Casbah
Tue 09/14 Los Angeles, CA Spaceland
Fri 09/17 Austin, TX Red 7
Sat 09/18 Dallas, TX The Loft
Sun 09/19 Kansas City, MO The Record Bar
Mon 09/20 Northfield, MN The Cave
Tue 09/21 Chicago, IL Schubas Tavern
Wed 09/22 Kalamazoo, MI The Strutt
Thu 09/23 Cincinnati, OH Midpoint Music Festival Grounds
Fri 09/24 Pittsburgh, PA 31st Street Pub
Sat 09/25 New York, NY Asia Society
Sun 09/26 Washington, DC Rock And Roll Hotel
Tue 09/28 Brooklyn, NY Knitting Factory
Thu 09/30 Montreal, QC Le Cabaret Du Mile End
Fri 10/01 Toronto, ON The Legendary Horseshoe Tavern
Sat 10/02 Buffalo, NY Mohawk Place
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Queen’s Freddie Murcury voted ‘Greatest Rock Legend Of All Time’
September 4th, 2010 |
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Queen frontman Freddie Mercury has been named the ‘Greatest Rock Legend Of All Time’. The flamboyant star, who died in 1991, landed the top spot in the poll, carried out by Internet market research website OnePoll.com. Mercury, who beat Elvis Presley to claim the title, sold 300 million records after forming Queen in 1970. He [...]
Courtney Loveâ€s daughter legally free now
August 21st, 2010 |
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Frances Bean Cobain, only child of the late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain and Hole singer Courtney Love, is officially and legally a free woman. When Frances turned 18, the guardianship she was under automatically ended by law, reports TMZ.com. Previously, Frances was under the custody of her paternal grandmother. Courtney has been found tweeting endlessly, [...]
Courtney Love wishes daughter happy birthday on Twitter
August 20th, 2010 |
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Courtney Love took to Twitter to wish her daughter Frances Bean, a happy birthday. Love wished her daughter – the day after her daughter turned 18 and inherited her dead rocker dad’s massive fortune. Bean is her only child with the late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. “Happy 18th i got you something so bloody awesome, [...]
Thursday Mornin’ Crunch Crumbs: Frances Bean Cobain Is 18; BP Oil Spill Halloween Costumes? & Egg Recall!
August 19th, 2010 |
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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy -You may want to keep an eye on your popcorn the next time you go to the movies in Harlem. Bedbugs are biting in at least two theaters in Manhattan…. -Frances Bean Cobain — the only daughter of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love — turned [...]
Courtney Love fears for daughter’s life
August 11th, 2010 |
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Courtney Love, wife of late Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain, has said that she’s worried about her daughter Frances Bean’s future – because she is given too much money from her father’s will. The Hole rocker is furious that her 17-year-old daughter Frances is given 26,000 pounds a month from a trust fund, and she is [...]
Courtney Love’s daughter rejected ‘Twilight’ role to avoid fame like dad Cobain
August 11th, 2010 |
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American singer Kurt Cobain’s daughter Frances Bean turned down roles in ‘Twilight’ and ‘Alice In Wonderland’ to avoid fame, her mother Courtney Love has revealed. The Nirvana rocker committed suicide in 1994 when Frances was just 20 months old. Now, 17-year-old Frances does not want to live a life in the spotlight, and had turned [...]
Robert Pattinson attacks Love over Kurt Cobain biopic remarks
July 15th, 2010 |
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‘Twilight’ star Robert Pattinson has slammed rock singer Courtney Love over remarks she made about his possible casting in a planned Kurt Cobain biopic. Love, 46, who disapproved of Pattinson, 24, playing her late husband, had gone public with her feelings saying that the thought of the actor playing the part was “stupid†and “wrongâ€. [...]
No Love Lost Between Robert Pattinson & Courtney Love
July 13th, 2010 |
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There’s not love lost between Robert Pattinson and Courtney Love: The Twilight hunk has blasted the Hole frontwoman — who he refers to as a “dick†— for slamming reports that he was cast as her late husband Kurt Cobain in a Nirvana biopic.Last spring, rumors swept the web claiming that Pattinson was going to [...]
Courtney Love tears up about life with Kurt Cobain in new docu
June 23rd, 2010 |
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Rock musician Courtney Love was teary eyed as she spoke about her life with late husband Kurt Cobain in a new documentary. Love, 45, recalled the pain of their courtship in the Behind The Music special, which debuted in America on June 21, and confessed she struggled to cope with criticism levelled at her and [...]
Courtney Love offered £108m for Nirvana’’s ‘haunted’ music
May 25th, 2010 |
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Rocker Courtney Love has reportedly been planning to sell her 75 percent stake in Nirvana’’s back catalogue because it is ‘haunted’.
The Hole frontwoman inherited the band’’s publishing rights when her husband and Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain killed himself in 1994.
She sold off 25 per cent of the End of Music catalogue in 2006, pocketing 33.35 [...]
Courtney Love claims she had a lesbian fling with Kate Moss
May 20th, 2010 |
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Rocker Courtney Love has sensationally claimed that she bedded supermodel Kate Moss in Milan, Italy.
The widow of Nirvana star Kurt Cobain had dropped hints weeks ago about a tryst with a female pin-up, who she claimed chased her round a room, leading to a sex session.
And in a startling new magazine interview, the 45-year-old singer [...]
Justin Bieber Miley Cyrus Dinner Date?
May 11th, 2010 |
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OMG — Did Miley Cyrus and Justin Bieber actually hook up for a dinner date? (Somewhere a tween with Bieber Fever just had a cow!) The teen superstars were spotted dining at Ari-Ya Sushi in West Hollywood Monday evening. Biebs, 16, told the paparazzi that his 17-year-old companion was “having fun with me.†[...]
Courtney Love contemplated suicide earlier this month
April 22nd, 2010 |
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Kurt Cobain’s wife Courtney Love has admitted that she considered committing suicide earlier this month.
The singer said that she went into a deep depression a few weeks ago and wanted to jump out of a window and die.
The disclosure by Love sent fans into a shock because two months ago the 45-year-old singer had [...]
Courtney Love “Sick†Of Talking About Kurt Cobain!
April 21st, 2010 |
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Just in case you didn’t get the memo, The Artist Formerly Known As Courtney Love is “sick” of talking about her dead husband Kurt Cobain.Love — who now wishes to be called Courtney Michelle — married the Nirvana frontman in 1992 and later gave birth to their daughter Frances Bean, now 17. Depressed and addicted [...]
Courtney Love dismisses Robert Pattinson as Kurt Cobain rumours
April 16th, 2010 |
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Courtney Love has dismissed rumours that she chose Robert Pattinson to play her deceased husband, Kurt Cobain, in an upcoming biopic.
According to the New York Daily News, she said: “Who would cast him? That’’s just wrong. I watched the ”Twilight” stuff … and it resonates with the teenaged girl in me. But isn”t that [...]