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Courtney Love to Sue Guitar Hero 5: “I Loathe it and Kurt Would, Too”

Published September 11th, 2009 by Karen
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The release of Guitar Hero 5 was met with negative reactions from many music fans due to its inclusion of Kurt Cobain as a playable character capable not only of singing  Nirvana songs, but of dancing and lips-synching to hits by everyone from Bon Jovi to Bush. (See video below).

So what do Cobain’s widow and his Nirvana bandmates think about it? Continue reading »

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Kurt Cobain Sings Bon Jovi? Courtney Love Sucks.

Published September 2nd, 2009 by Karen

ABOVE: A look at some of the horrors inflicted on Kurt Cobain in Guitar Hero 5…Kurt looks happier singing Bon Jovi in a video game than he looked singing Nivana songs in real life.

Ok, when we found out about Kurt Cobain’s scheduled appearance in Guitar Hero 5, we were mildly disgusted. The idea that Courtney Love would sell off yet another sliver of her late husband’s dignity for a few more bucks was somewhat disheartening. (Top 10 Worst Cobain-Related Products)

(Although, really, Cobain may have lost all rights to “dignity” the day he offed himself with a gun. Courtney might as well have saved him, stuffed him and sold him to the Rock’n'roll Hall of Fame.)

However, now that we’ve seen this video game monstrosity in full form, we’re really pretty creeped out by it.

Seeing Cobain’s lifeless cartoon image dancing and singing hits by Bush, Billy Idol and Bon Jovi is kinda like seeing a corpse strung up and made to dance around like a marionette.  Not that seeing cartoon Cobain sing his own songs is any better, really. Think Weekend at Bernie’s Goes Grunge. We imagine forcing video Cobain to perform a Foo Fighters song will be worth zillions of points.

Every detail is there: from the worn cardigan and t-shirt to the 5 o’clock shadow and greasy blond highlights, making Cobain’s bouncing dance to Billy Idol’s “Dancing with Myself” all the more unsettling.

Then again, maybe a video game with Jim Morrison fighting alien zombies would be cool (kidding).

A game where you could throw tomatoes (or Foo Fighters CDs) at Courtney would be pretty awesome though (not really kidding).

Do you think it is wrong to have Cobain in a video game?
Is this really any better/worse than having Jimi Hendrix or the (dead) Beatles in a game?

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Gossip Girl Music: Pretty Reckless–Love or Lavigne?

Published August 19th, 2009 by Karen

ABOVE: Is this Gossip Girl starlet the next Courtney Love, or just another Avril Lavigne?

In a recent photo, Gossip Girl star/aspiring musician Taylor Momsen looks strikingly similar to musician/actress Courtney Love.

Of course, being 16 and resembling a fairly haggard 45 year old might not be a compliment.

At any rate, the teen star is attempting to branch out by shifting away from the world of shallow teen TV drama and into the world, of, well, slightly-less-shallow pop-rock.

In fairness, Momsen and her band, the Pretty Reckless, are light years ahead of most of the other celebri-teen albums by dance-pop nightmares like Ashley Tisdale, Vanessa Hudgens (anyone seen the commercials for Bandslam? Ugh) and Brooke Hogan–not to mention GG co-star/Cobra Starship collaborator Leighton Meester.

Momsen is offering a free pair of tracks online: “Zombie” (Better than the Cranberries track, but not as cool as the King Khan & BBQ song of the same name) and “He Loves You.”

LISTEN: The Pretty Reckless

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Courtney Love Seeks to Reclaim Stolen Cobain Fortune

Published April 12th, 2009 by Wendy
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Courtney Love intends to file a lawsuit within the next month in an effort to recoup the millions of dollars “looted” from her late husband’ Kurt Cobain’s estate, E! reports.

According to E! the suit targets “former assistants, former managers, CPAs, lawyers and a couple of banks” who Love says bilked roughly $30 million in cash and another $500 million in false real estate ventures from Cobain’s fortune.

“Courtney’s main interest is ensuring that her daughter gets the assets back that were stolen,” San Diego attorney Rhonda Holmes told E!. Cobain’s mother and siblings are also listed as plaintiffs in the suit.

Cobain, Nirvana’s lead singer-guitarist, was discovered dead in his Washington home this week 15 years ago.

Amy Winehouse, Courtney Love, Britney Spears Nude, Dead or Reality Show?

Published July 2nd, 2008 by Karen

Just as people will always slow down to gawk at traffic accidents, people will always enjoy watching celebrities (and non-celebrities) crash and burn in a horrible downward spiral.

This alone explains the success of all reality shows—and tabloid headlines (that’s probably why you clicked on this article, right?)—people want to watch other people fail miserably, destroy their lives and get tangled in controversy because it makes them feel better to know that someone out there is more messed up than they are.

With that in mind, you can’t help but wonder how long it will be before VH1 or some other group of bottom-feeders wrangle all of today’s hottest, most screwed up singing stars into a camera filled house/reality show under the guise of rehab.

Since all of these stars are often referred to by the media as “trainwrecks,” perhaps the show could take place on a train. We’ll call it Train Wrecks. Or maybe Crazy Train—but only if we can get Ozzy Osbourne to be the host and perform his 1980 hit “Crazy Train” mp3 as the theme song.

Amy Winehouse, Britney Spears, heck, maybe even Lindsay Lohan (she did have a hit album afterall), could all pile into a train and spend time talking about their problems, resisting the temptations of the club car’s open bar. Along the way, the train could stop in various towns where the girls could do good deeds or lecture kids on the dangers of drugs or something equally heartwarming.

And now, for a quick look at the contestants:

Winehouse made a name for herself with soulful retro-pop songs such as “Rehab,” mp3 but has quickly deteriorated into a skeleton-esque shell of her former self, having recently been hospitalized after collapsing from what her father told the media was emphysema induced by smoking crack and cigarettes. Classy.

Spears has a list of woes too long to tackle, but highlights include shaving her head, being hospitalized for an extended time and shaving her head. Not to mention a “comeback” appearance on a horrible sitcom.

Lohan’s been in and out of rehab, posing nude for mags, failing miserably in movie theaters and taunting paparazzi with the notion of a lesbian relationship with DJ Samantha Ronson (whose brother is Mark Ronson, the ultra-hip producer behind Winehouse’s Grammy-winning album, Back to Black free mp3 downloads).

Hmm…I was kidding at first, but actually, this show just might work. Throw in the currently anorexic looking Courtney Love as the den mother/train conductor offering guidance to the girls, and this show is sure to be a hit.

Now, if a network actually comes out with Crazy Train I want a cut of it!