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Courtney to Sell Kurt’s Stuff, Green Day Cover Lennon, Foo Fighters in the Studio

4/30/07, 3:01 pm EST

Courtney Love

  • Courtney Love has decided to sell most of Kurt’s belongings, then donate the proceeds to charity. “My daughter doesn’t need to inherit a giant…bag full of flannel…shirts,” Love said. “A sweater, a guitar and the lyrics to ‘(Smells Like) Teen Spirit’ — that’s what my daughter gets. And the rest of it we’ll just…sell.” Though a date has yet to be set for the auction, Love claims that her decision is widely supported. “Everyone’s been positive and behind me on it,” she said.
  • Green Day’s take on John Lennon’s “Working Class Hero” will be released through iTunes tomorrow, May 1st. All proceeds go to help people affected by the situation in Darfur.
  • The Foo Fighters are hard at work on a new album “We’ve been in the studio for the past month and a half, and we’ve got about another month to go. We’ve been recording with our friend Gil Norton,” Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl said. “He worked on our second record (The Colour and the Shape), he’s a good guy and he makes amazing albums. So we’re making a really big powerful record, which I’m very excited about…I can’t wait to jump on stage and do this stuff, it’s gonna be great.” Grohl also said that the record “sounds like a Foo Fighters album, but it’s definitely moving in a few different directions.”
  • Legendary Chicago-based indie label Touch & Go will launch an online store sometime this summer, Billboard reports. The site will make accessible both Touch & Go’s current and catalog roster, plus serve as the only source for downloads of songs by any of Steve Albini’s bands Big Black, Rapeman and Shellac. The site will carry music in the non-DRM MP3 format, and will sell singles and full albums for the familiar 99 cents per song/$9.99 per album price. Nice.
  • Check out one of Interpol’s new tunes “The Heinrich Maneuver.” It sounds … like a new Interpol tune. They are reliable that way and it’s comforting.
  • Apparently Britney has already cancelled her dubious-sounding comeback gigs, scheduled for later this week. That girl is such a tease.
  • Participate in a feverish debate over whether Madonna’s new look makes her look old or chic.
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Andrea | 6/11/2007, 12:21 pm EST

This has been a mystery for thirteen years now.. They once gave Courtney a lie detector test that revealed that she offered money to El Duce to kill Kurt, so why couldn’t they just give her a lie detector test asking her if she killed him or not?! What’s the big friggin deal?!… And wait a minute, conspiracy to committ murder is supposed to land you a long time in prison, so why didn’t they ever send her there?.. What did they do, just say, “Oh, this test just proved that you hired someone to kill your husband, but it’s okay.. You don’t have to go to jail.”… I mean, really?! What the #*&! is going on?!

Marcus | 5/1/2007, 8:54 am EST

Oh yeah, I don’t trust any male who wears that much makeup. They told Stern years ago that they wouldn’t go glam, that they would stay gritty . . . well, it appears they lied.

Marcus | 5/1/2007, 8:52 am EST

Not only is Green Day going to cover “Working Class Hero,” but they’re going to call the album “Instant Karma.” I’m planning on them fucking it up; then, maybe, I’ll get the surprise of my life.

Sleverett | 4/30/2007, 5:04 pm EST

Um…Courtney doesn’t even look like Courtney anymore. Why don’t celebrities have the character to grow old with dignity?

fred | 4/30/2007, 4:40 pm EST

she cant do that i never liked her any way

fatty alert! | 4/30/2007, 4:25 pm EST

YO! HOW ABOUT A LINK TO THE INTERPOL SONG?

Jimbo | 4/30/2007, 4:20 pm EST

If it wasn`t for Kurt, Courtney would still be stripping or waitressing tables.She`ll eventually spend all his money, and Francis Bean might get a few pennies out of it.

tomfoolery | 4/30/2007, 4:18 pm EST

Wow. Courtney is so desperate for a fix she’s going to auction off Kurt’s flannels?

Get this bitch back in rehab ASAP.

Turd | 4/30/2007, 4:17 pm EST

One year to go! Their boobs are touching. Ahhhhhhhhhhh.

john | 4/30/2007, 4:15 pm EST

i feel so old now when I see Frances Bean, im only 25 but the fact that I am old enough to remember Kurt holding her at the Mtv awards makes me feel so old….

Jim | 4/30/2007, 4:03 pm EST

Madonna’s new haircut? Jeez I thought it was Dave Wakeling from The English Beat!

Money City Maniac | 4/30/2007, 3:59 pm EST

Turd, according to Wikipedia, she turns 15 in a few months.
Definitely not legal.
Dirty Turd!

Odys Coltrane | 4/30/2007, 3:57 pm EST

Glad to see the Bean is growing into her looks. Could Courtney look any more plastic?

abandonedstation | 4/30/2007, 3:48 pm EST

‘giant bag of flannel shirts.’ Hilarious! Kurt Cobain has been reduced to laundry. Maybe the lucky buyers will find a baggie of skag in the breast pocket.

Why doesn’t Billie Joe Armstrong just move to Ireland, wear sunglasses all the time, and call his band U3?

I wonder if Dave Grohl will buy a Kurt kollectible.

I can’t wait for Steve Albini to somehow put his foot in his mouth commenting on his old band’s material being available online…

Christ, is Britney washed up at 26? Invest wisely from this point on, Ms. Spears. I heard corn stocks have nowhere to go but up…

Madonna looking old? That point is moot since she IS old (almost 50). That doesn’t mean I wouldn’t hit it, though…

JBK (Surf City Sounds Plus) | 4/30/2007, 3:45 pm EST

Hi: Courtney Love’s daughter resembles a young Grace Slick…Cute too. I hope she behaves some, so that she survives…My 2 cents! ~JBK

Tim | 4/30/2007, 3:45 pm EST

It`s sad that Courtney Love controls the fate of the Nirvana empire, having contributed nothing to it. Life is ironic alright.

dlt | 4/30/2007, 3:40 pm EST

Kurt Cobain Wasn’t Great

But I remember where I was
(Painting a small, new store in
Yuppieville) the
Sad day he died

Green

Day’s a washing machine

Courtney's kid is looking HOT! | 4/30/2007, 3:37 pm EST

YUMMY!

hey!! | 4/30/2007, 3:36 pm EST

i don’t think courtney understands what charitey is… its for other people than yourself.

Boner | 4/30/2007, 3:36 pm EST

Green Day covering Lennon. The end is near. Although they did have some catchy tunes about jerkin off and gettin high.

david | 4/30/2007, 3:33 pm EST

you cant just sell that sort of stuff. honestly. and I cant wait for that green day tune. green day covering john lennon sounds so wrong but I bet it`ll sound terific, and its for damn good cause. I would give, like, anything for the handwriten lyrics for SLTS ( Smells like teen spirit) or a guitar bt cobain but that prick will probbally just sell them for like, millions of dollars to a bastard who doesnt even like or aprecheate nirvana and who`ll just sel it for more. ;-( :-( I can not express my anger in mere words……

your mom | 4/30/2007, 3:32 pm EST

madonna’s hair: she looks like lauren hutton’s older sister.

OLD, not chic

Turd | 4/30/2007, 3:25 pm EST

Damn, nice rack. Is she legal yet?

Mike | 4/30/2007, 3:19 pm EST

Courtney, the professional widow, was married to Kurt less than 2 years and now controls all rights to the Nirvana song catalog, she`s already sold off 25% of that.Wouldn`t it be great if Courtney gave an interview while hooked up to a lie detector Test?

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