Hole
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Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 15 June 1991
CALIFORNIAN band HOLE sit around my Hollywood hotel room in various degrees of drunkenness. ...
Hole: Pretty On The Inside (City Slang/All formats)
Review by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 14 September 1991
TOP HOLE! ...
Hole: Pretty on the Inside (Caroline)
Review by Robert Gordon, Spin, October 1991
THE WEATHERVANE continues turning, from R.E.M. to the Red Hot Chili Peppers and now, perhaps, to Sonic Youth. Coproduced by SY's Kim Gordon and Don ...
Nirvana, Sister Double Happiness, L7, Hole: Palace Theater, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 28 October 1991
A Potent 'Rock for Choice' at Palace ...
Hole: Camden Underworld, London
Live Review by Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, November 1991
YOU KNOW WHEN you're feeling elated, lost in wonder, not out of your cranium but wondering why there seem to be continents on the moon, ...
Interview by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 23 November 1991
From out of Nowhere, California, to topping the English independent charts and headlining London, HOLE have been one of the year's most talked-about bands. A laughable hangover of the post-Sub Pop ...
The Berlin Independent Days Festival: Don't Mention The Wall!
Report by Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 23 November 1991
Swells Uber Alles! STEVEN WELLS takes his war on Jingly Jangly Wank to the Berlin Independent Days festival, where he shouts at Indie Kids, Europop ...
Whole Lotta Love: Hole: Camden Underworld, London
Live Review by Sally Margaret Joy, Melody Maker, 30 November 1991
WHAT THE F*** is happening now? ...
Overview by Keith Cameron, Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 4 January 1992
It's the dawning of a new earache! Jakki Brambles is playing Daisy Chainsaw! Your parents have heard of Nirvana! Geffen are chasing Mudhoney! Madonna's into ...
Review by Deborah Frost, The Village Voice, 4 February 1992
COURTNEY LOVE is scary. Much scarier than the witches old (Macbeth's, say) and new (Lydia Lunch, say) whom she occasionally sounds like and whom she ...
Hole: Belting Out That Most Unfeminine Emotion
Interview by Simon Reynolds, The New York Times, 9 February 1992
SUSAN FALUDI, the author of Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women, said recently in a magazine interview that "anger is not something that's an ...
Overview by Simon Reynolds, The Observer, 15 March 1992
WHILE ROCK'N'ROLL abounds with angry young men, female rage has always been a scarce commodity. There's been the gleeful anarchy of the Slits, Patti Smith's ...
Interview by Simon Price, Melody Maker, 17 July 1993
...but what's it all about? SIMON PRICE listens as COURTNEY LOVE fills him in on the (w)Hole picture. ...
Hole: Live Through This (Geffen)
Review by Jon Young, Musician, 1994
"JUST YOU try to hold me down/Come on, try to shut me up," snarls Courtney Love near the end of Live Through This, hurling a ...
Interview by Caitlin Moran, Melody Maker, 19 February 1994
Hole are, to all intents and purposes, Courtney Love. And Courtney Love is a one-woman spite factory, spewing out bile and savaging anyone who dares ...
If you know a better Hole, go to it
Interview by Caitlin Moran, The Times, 8 April 1994
Caitlin Moran prostrates herself before the godlike genius of rock's angry young woman Courtney Love (Mrs Cobain to the rest of us) ...
Hole: Live Through This (City Slang/All formats)
Review by Barbara Ellen, New Musical Express, 9 April 1994
HOLE ON THE RAGE ...
Hole: Live Through This (City Slang EFA 04935)
Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 15 April 1994
Love 'em or leave 'em ...
Report by Paul Elliott, Pete Makowski, Kerrang!, 9 July 1994
Seattle's heroin nightmare continues. First ANDY WOOD of the seminal MOTHER LOVE BONE overdosed and died. Then KURT COBAIN ended his desperate addiction by committing ...
Cypress Hill, Lemonheads, Verve, Hole et al: Reading Festival
Live Review by Cathi Unsworth, Melody Maker, 3 September 1994
READING.It's like acid; once you've tried it you swear you'll never be back for more, and yet you always are. Perhaps it's because this festival ...
Hole, Veruca Salt: Mississippi Nights, St Louis, MO
Live Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 19 November 1994
SWEET'N'SOUR ...
Live Review by Mark Mordue, Melody Maker, 4 February 1995
OH YEAH, smash it up, baby, smash it up. This is Courtney Love's night, history standing on her great long legs, a f**k-you attitude. ...
Hole: Civic Hall, Wolverhampton
Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 29 April 1995
In the name of Love: Caroline Sullivan on a stunning start to Hole's tour in Wolverhampton ...
Hole: Oxford Street Virgin Megastore, London
Live Review by John Harris, New Musical Express, 6 May 1995
PETTY ON THE OUTSIDE ...
Report and Interview by Jason Cohen, Rolling Stone, 24 August 1995
While the Courtney saga continues, Hole prove that a rock & roll band is the sum of its parts ...
Live Review by Caitlin Moran, The Times, 1 September 1995
Britpop may be bland, but the Reading Festival shows we are over the dark days of last year ...
Hole: My Body The Hand Grenade (City Slang)
Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 11 October 1997
COURTNEY LOVE reigned supreme in 1995 – and didn't we know she knew it. Now, with the release off a new album, well, it's all ...
Review by Eric Weisbard, The Village Voice, 2 September 1998
COULDN'T SAY which color most becomes her, but Courtney Love's best vowel is u. She throws herself into them all, of course, like a stage ...
Review by Stevie Chick, Melody Maker, 5 September 1998
COURTNEY LOVE is performing the most outrageous and unexpected act of an outrageous, unexpected life: surviving. Her rewriting of 'Miss World' on Hole's last tour ...
Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 12 September 1998
She's still angry, still got the "fire in her belly", still craving world domination for HOLE. We load up the tequila and discover that a ...
Review by James Hunter, Rolling Stone, 17 September 1998
Courtney Love and Hole make a fiery, flowery return ...
Hole, The Cure: The Forum, London ***
Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 13 October 1998
WELL, IT'S one way of getting a rock critic out of the house. Just tell her a big band is going to make a secret ...
Love and death and the Hole damn thing...
Interview by Barbara Ellen, The Observer, 15 November 1998
It is four years since Kurt Cobain's suicide, but it is what people remember about Courtney Love. Yet she has her band, her Hollywood career ...
Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 30 January 1999
It's million-selling records, a 24-hour media circus and a limo in every city for HOLE, but does Courtney Love want even more success? Oh yes... ...
Courtney Love vs. Everett True
Interview by Everett True, The Stranger, 25 February 1999
THE FOLLOWING are excerpts from a conversation that took place in a hotel room in Seattle, last December after the Hole concert at KeyArena. No ...
The Lesson Of Love: Courtney's Got The Hole World In Her Hands
Report and Interview by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 14 May 1999
IT IS A STILL-SLEEPY Courtney Love whose familiar voice comes over the phone line early one morning from Cincinnati. It's the first day of her ...
It's True, I Did Kill Kurt Cobain
Memoir by Caitlin Moran, The Times, 5 April 2004
It is ten years since the rock icon shot himself. This critic recalls meeting with his wife, Courtney Love, shortly before his death ...
Interview by Ian Fortnam, Classic Rock, October 2004
The one-time Hole bass player and now solo performer talks about Courtney Love, Billy Corgan, her music, her musical upbringing, and where destiny has taken ...
South by Southwest: Where The Weird Get Going
Report by Stephen Dalton, The Times, 26 March 2010
The freaks were out in force in Austin, Texas, for the South by Southwest festival. Stephen Dalton revels in the music ...
Review by Everett True, BUST, 26 April 2010
HEY. GLAD YOU could make it. Thought we might want to establish a few rules before I get down to the actual reviewing. ...
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