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Courtney Love & Hole during The 1998 Billboard Music Awards at MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Courtney Love refused to turn Celebrity Skin into “a grieving widow’s memoir” – but she paid tribute with the gear she played

By Janelle Borg Published

With Celebrity Skin, Love shifted Hole's musical direction and created their final opus, in the midst of great tragedy

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Left–Billy Corgan is shown performing on stage during a "live" concert appearance with The Smashing Pumpkins on January 25, 1997; Right–Courtney Love of Hole on 7/15/95 in Chicago, Il
Billy Corgan on the first time he met Courtney Love and witnessed Hole live

By Janelle Borg Published

After meeting at a Chicago venue in 1991, the two artists and their respective bands were interlinked for decades to come

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Melissa Auf der Maur playing bass on stage
Melissa Auf der Maur on joining Hole amidst tragedy and her “Master’s in Music” with the Smashing Pumpkins

By Janelle Borg Published

In her love letter to the ’90s – the last analog decade – the Hole and Smashing Pumpkins bassist shares how she fell in love with the low-end and became an integral part of the noise-making generation

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Musician Melissa Auf Der Maur performs at Highline Ballroom on March 3, 2011 in New York City
Melissa Auf der Maur reveals the biggest lesson she learned from Billy Corgan and The Smashing Pumpkins

By Janelle Borg Published

Auf der Maur joined the Pumpkins in October 1999 following a five-year stint with Hole

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Courtney Love of Hole performs on stage at Brixton Academy on May 5, 2010 in London, England. She plays a Rickenbacker 360 guitar
Courtney Love on why Echo & the Bunnymen's Will Sergeant is her “favorite guitarist on Earth”

By Janelle Borg Published

Love also reveals that a new solo album – her first since 2004’s America’s Sweetheart – is well in the works

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Melissa Auf der Maur and Courtney Love of Hole during Hole Concert '99 at The Palace in Los Angeles, California, United States
Courtney Love and bassist Melissa Auf der Maur have reunited in the studio – what this means for a possible Hole reunion

By Janelle Borg Published

Courtney Love teased a Hole reunion in February – is it finally happening?

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Courtney Love Fender Venus
Courtney Love’s Masterbuilt Surf Green Fender Venus goes up for sale

By Matt Owen Published

The unique Custom Shop creation was used extensively by the Hole bandleader, and featured during historic performances such as Reading 1995 and Lollapalooza 1994

Electric Guitars
Courtney Love of Hole performs live at Le Bataclan on August 25, 2010 in Paris, France.
Courtney Love has been taking guitar lessons and writing new material over lockdown

By Michael Astley-Brown Published

’90s alt-rock icon hints towards a Hole reunion in 2021

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See Marilyn Manson Team Up with Courtney Love for New "Tattooed in Reverse" Music Video

By Jackson Maxwell Published

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Frances Bean Cobain Music Clip Revealed on Instagram

By Guitar World Staff Published

Frances Bean Cobain recorded a short clip of herself playing and singing, which was subsequently uploaded to Instagram by her mother, Courtney Love.

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