NME (my favorite oversized British rock mag) has an exciting new article and video footage of Courtney Love and Micko Larkin, the new Eric Erlandson, talking about her long-awaited second solo album. Turns out it won't be a solo album at all, but will be released as a HOLE album. That's right, Courtney is resurrecting Hole, one of the best bands of the 90s in my humble opinion. Their trio of albums - from Pretty On the Inside to Celebrity Skin - form an excellent conceptual trilogy of this enigmatic woman's ascension from ugly duckling wannabe to one of the most famous (or infamous, but those are only two sides of the same coin) women on the planet.
Watching the clip you can sense Courtney's charisma and humor and the force of her magnetic personality, scorched and battle-scarred as it may be by her epic tragedy of a life. I've been obsessed with CLove for years, since around the time she starred in The People Vs. Larry Flynt. (She really is a good actress, it's too bad she destroyed her film career along with her music one after about 2002.) Call me crazy, but I really see her as the last real rock star, part of a dying breed. Gay guys always have to have their divas, I suppose, and while others may go with more traditional models - Barbra, Liza, Madonna, Cher, Bette, etc. - I like Courtney because she is this weird blend of grande dame/female drag queen plus ROCK N ROLL, like REAL rock n roll, not dance music, not pop music, not American Idol, but something that is raw and real and confessional and RARE these days, to say the least.
I got tired of waiting for her follow-up to 2004's America's Sweetheart (HALF of which is actually very good and inspiring and almost spiritual) a long time ago, but I can't help feeling a little twinge of the old excitement when I see these clips.
Rise again, crazy phoenix. The show isn't over yet.
Check out the article and video clips here.
I think that will work. If it doesn't, just go to www.nme.com and type "Return of Hole" in the search field.
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