When Courtney Love has her day in court to argue her case against Geffen Records, Inc., she and her attorney won’t be able to use a pivotal claim Love has touted since the dispute started over a year ago. One of Love’s key arguments has been that recording artists are unfairly excluded from a labor law provision that allows other entertainment workers, such as actors, to be freed from their contracts after seven years. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Fumiko Wasserman dismissed that argument from the suit on Wednesday, according to a court spokesperson. Wasserman green-lighted Love’s other claims… Read more »
Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic are hoping a judge makes Courtney Love have her head examined. The former Nirvana members and partners in Nirvana LLC, a business entity they established with Love in 1997 to handle such Nirvana-related issues as the release of recordings, filed a motion on April 11 to compel Love to undergo a psychiatric evaluation as part of the two parties’ ongoing dispute over the company, according to a spokesperson for the King County Superior Court in Seattle. When Nirvana LLC was established, a provision was written into the contract that gave any of the partners the… Read more »
A judge in Seattle says he’ll decide in seven to 10 days whether to order Courtney Love to have a psychological examination. Lawyers for Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic want a judge to make Love submit to an evaluation. The two former members of Nirvana have been battling Love over the partnership they formed to administer the Nirvana catalog after Kurt Cobain died. Love is looking to dissolve the partnership, claiming her judgment was “significantly impaired” when she signed the agreement. Lawyers for Grohl and Novolesic argue that a provision was included in the contract to be evaluated because of… Read more »
Some musicians will sing almost anywhere to get a new record contract. Rock ‘n’ roll bad girl Courtney Love performed for the president of a major record label in a backstage bathroom Saturday night after her Hollywood Bowl concert was cut short by time constraints, her publicist said on Monday. The unusual V.I.P. restroom gig was hastily arranged to give the unnamed label executive a chance to hear Love and her new band play a couple of songs they never got to perform for the audience, spokesman Tas Steiner said. Love, 37, who was opening for rock band Jane’s Addiction,… Read more »
A Los Angeles judge has ruled that rock star Courtney Love’s lawsuit aimed at breaking her contract with recording industry giant Universal Music can go to trial, a Love spokeswoman said on Thursday. The California Superior court judge made her written ruling on Sept. 26, the spokeswoman said. “This is an historic case: no artist has ever gone this far in litigation, and no record company has ever faced charges as serious as these,” A. Barry Cappello, Love’s attorney, said in a statement. A spokesman for Universal Music was not immediately available for comment. Cappello has said that Love’s suit,… Read more »
A Los Angeles judge has ruled that rock star Courtney Love’s lawsuit aimed at breaking her contract with recording industry giant Universal Music can go to trial, a Love spokeswoman said Thursday. The California Superior court judge made her written ruling Sept. 26, the spokeswoman said. “This is an historic case: no artist has ever gone this far in litigation, and no record company has ever faced charges as serious as these,” A. Barry Cappello, Love’s attorney, said in a statement. A spokesman for Universal Music was not immediately available for comment. Cappello has said that Love’s suit, filed in… Read more »
Courtney Love filed a lawsuit against Universal Music Group, Geffen Records, the surviving members of Nirvana – Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic – and Nirvana L.L.C., a partnership formed in 1997 to manage the affairs of Nirvana, in a Los Angeles Superior Court on September 28th. The suit cites three causes of action, including declaratory relief, asking that the contract between Nirvana and Geffen be recinded and that all rights pertaining to Nirvana revert to Love, and breach of contract for an undisclosed amount. The contract dispute echoes Love’s own with Universal regarding her band Hole. Love is trying to… Read more »
Courtney Love has blocked the surviving members of Nirvana – Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic – from releasing one of the band’s final tracks, and she’s suing them for control of the group’s legacy. A Seattle judge has granted Love a preliminary injunction preventing the release of a Nirvana song called “You Know You’re Right,” which Grohl and Novoselic planned to include on a Nirvana box set due this fall. Nirvana recorded the Kurt Cobain-penned tune in January 1994, three months before his suicide. “The fight is over control of Nirvana,” said Warren Rheaume, attorney for Grohl and Novoselic. “Hopefully… Read more »
Hole frontwoman recording jazz and blues standards for soundtrack to her film “Hello Suckers.” Courtney Love’s image has gone from grunge to classic Hollywood glam, and now her music is going back in time. Miss World has been recording jazz and blues standards for the soundtrack to her film “Hello Suckers,” according to Hole’s official Web site. The project teams her with old friend Roddy Bottum of Imperial Teen; the pair were momentary bandmates in the early ’80s when Love briefly joined Faith No More, in which Bottum played keyboards. Love has already handpicked several songs for the project and… Read more »
A new dream collab just dropped. SeeYouSpaceCowboy has teamed up with Spiritbox‘s Courtney LaPlante to share the new track “To The Dance Floor For Shelter.” This marks the latest glimpse into the band’s forthcoming record, Coup De Grâce, which arrives on April 19 via Pure Noise Records. Of “To The Dance Floor For Shelter,” the band shares, “This song is our little ode to the emo songs that we were all obsessed with growing up, we wanted something that would almost feel cinematic in nature and felt like it carried you through from the piano in the beginning to the… Read more »
