Instead of bringing back Kurt Cobain from the dead (via hologram), Dave Grohl and Friends are getting Sir Paul McCartney to front their Nirvana semi-reunion at tonight’s Sandy benefit concert.
This week rapper Wiz Khalifa was busted for marijuana possession in North Carolina. Also, Adele‘s 21 outsold Michael Jackson‘s Thriller by 500 copies in the U.K. We also found out that Frances Bean Cobain owns the rights to Kurt Cobain‘s image. Catch up on this week’s news below.
A new documentary about Hole drummer Patty Schemel revealed some rare vintage footage of Kurt Cobain, Courtney Love and their daughter Frances Bean. In it, we see what seems like an unfinished duet between Cobain and Love, as well as footage of Cobain playing around with baby Bean. Check out the video below.
Courtney Love is at it agains, only this time, she’s also bad mouthing her daughter Frances Bean Cobain. Last night on her private Twitter account, Courtney Love accused Dave Grohl of making a move on Frances Bean, claiming that ‘his hands were all over her’ in the back of some anonymous car, and that he has a sick sex obsession with Kurt Cobain.
Courtney Love is attacking muppets now. TMZ reports that Love believes Kermit the Frog and his gang of Muppet friends ‘raped’ the memory of her late husband and former Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain by using his song ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ in their 2011 movie, without her permission.
Kurt Cobain took his own life on April 5, 1994, seventeen years ago today. Over the course of his all-too-brief career, Cobain changed the face of popular music and inspired a new generation of artists. He gave a voice to the silent masses and served as an idol for legions of fans.
Sadly, he struggled with hiw own inner demons, and being cast as the icon of his peers only served to further complicate the life of the already confused young man. While his music may have saved some, it wasn’t enough to save himself.
According to NME, two of the best parts of the 1990’s—i.e., Nirvana and Ren and Stimpy—were once would-be collaborators, as Kurt Cobain apparently attempted to write a song for the bizarre and irreverent scatological cartoon from the Nickelodeon network. Which would have pretty much been the greatest thing ever.
Nirvana fans, rejoice—at least until the inevitably crushing and depressing biopic is released—as the Nirvana: Taking Punk to the Masses exhibition is set to open at Seattle’s Experience Music Project on April 16th and will, according to Spinner, “boast more than 200 artifacts related to the legendary grunge group” including such nuggets as “rare and unseen pieces like a high school era painting by Cobain of aging, Reagan-era punks, a Teac reel-to-reel tape machine owned by Mari Earl, Cobain’s aunt, on which a young Kurt recorded material for his early bands, handwritten lyrics for the songs ‘Spank Thru’ and ‘Floyd the Barber,’ plus numerous instruments, including pieces of the first guitar that Cobain ever destroyed onstage.” Unfortunately, Courtney Love’s dignity could not be found on time to be displayed.
Entertainment Weekly reports that funeral-makeup practice cadaver/ rock singer Courtney Love no longer has any use for her famous last name, insisting that she will now go on using her given name, Courtney Michelle Harrison.
Says Love, er, Harrison:
