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Robert Fripp helps Toyah Willcox channel Courtney Love with this week’s Sunday lunch

May 29, 2022May 29, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Celebrity Skin, Coutney Love, Cover Version, Hole, Robert Fripp, Sunday Lunch, Toyah Willcox

Yes, Robert and Toyah are covering the title track of Hole’s Celebrity Skin album from 1998. But what will Toyah

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Courtney Love made it into a Super Bowl commercial. Wait–what?

February 11, 2022February 11, 2022 Alan Cross 1 Comment Celebrity Skin, Courtney Love, Cover Version, Doja Cat, Hole, Super Bowl, Taco Bell

With the Super Bowl coming Sunday, all the advertisers who spent more than US$5 million for 30 seconds are trying

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Ongoing History Daily: When music industry money flowed like water

July 21, 2021July 21, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments Beer, Hole, Metallica, Moist, Molson Polar Ice Beach Party, Tuktoyaktuk, Veruca Salt

Back in the 90s, there was so much money flowing through the music and beer industry that we saw some

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Ongoing History Daily: The behind the scenes of The Simpsons’ “Homerpalooza” episode

July 20, 2021July 21, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments Courtney Love, Hole, Homerpalooza, Simpsons, Sonic Youth

One of the best music-themed episodes of The Simpsons dates back to May 1996 with “Homerpalooza,” which saw Homer became

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Ongoing History of New Music 

The Ongoing History of New Music, encore presentation: Riot Grrrls–A primer

June 11, 2021June 11, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments 7 Year Bitch, Bikini Kill, Fifth Column, Heavens to Betsy, Hole, Huggy Bear, Mecca Normal, Pagan Babies, Patti Smith, Riot Grrrl, Sleater-Kinney, Team Dresch

[Another summer encore. Back with more new shows in the fall. -AC] There is no question that the vast majority

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Random music news for Friday, November 20, 2020

November 20, 2020November 19, 2020 Alan Cross 1 Comment Bobby Brown, Courtney Love, Elvis Presley, Hole, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Name That Tune, Paul McCartney, Sharon Osbourne, Shazam, Spike Lee, Streaming, Van Halen

Before we begin, South Korea has unveiled their AI-powered TV news anchor. Scary, really. Now that you’re freaked out, try

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The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 890: Musicians who lost it, part 1

September 11, 2020September 10, 2020 Alan Cross 0 Comments Adam Ant, Courtney Love, David Bowie, Hole, Iggy Pop, Morrissey, PIxies, Sinead O'Connor, Stooges

The summer encore season has come to an end. It’s time for some brand new shows. There’s something about creative

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Could a Hole reunion be in the works? It kinda looks like it.

May 26, 2019May 26, 2019 Alan Cross 0 Comments Courtney Love, Hole, Live Through This

A little more than twenty-five years after Hole released their Live Through This album, thoughts turn to the prospect of

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25 Years Ago, Courtney Love and Hole Lived Through This

April 12, 2019April 12, 2019 Gilles LeBlanc 0 Comments 25th anniversary, Courtney Love, Hole, Kurt Cobain, Live Through This

I probably don’t have to tell readers of this site that 1994 was a landmark year for music releases. We’ve

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Watch Courtney Love rip through a version of “Celebrity Skin” backed by a 1,500 person band

October 18, 2018October 17, 2018 Alan Cross 1 Comment Courtney Love, Hole, Rockin' 1000

Fans of the Foo Fighters will remember The Rockin’ 1000, a massive group of Italian musicians who lured the Foos

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Random music news for Saturday, September 22, 2018

September 22, 2018September 21, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments Apple, Bjork, Courtney Love, Dallas Green, Dine Alone, Elton John, Facebook, Headphones, Hole, iPhone, Knight Rider, Metal, Movie Trailers, Suge Knight

Still in Vegas. No baby crying anywhere my room. No tiger in the bathroom. And there are no dead bodies

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