By the time Hole‘s third album Celebrity Skin had been released in the fall of 1998, the world had already met two different Courtney Loves. The first was a vitriolic weapon of self-destruction: a brash bottle blonde with smeared red lipstick, ripped tights and coquettish babydoll dresses, who growled and sneered with the best of them. The word “troubled” became synonymous with her name and bled into her music: the Pacific Northwest-bred alt-rock band married riot grrrl ethos with the heaviness of the grunge scene her husband Kurt Cobain became the wearied face of.
- 9/8/2018
- by Brittany Spanos
- Rollingstone.com
Patty Schemel is best remembered as the drummer of the alternative rock group Hole, fronted by erstwhile alt-queen rocker, now-notorious loudmouth Courtney Love. For top level context, Schemel laid the thunderous beat on both of Hole’s most popular and well-known records, including 1994’s Live Through This, which was released just four days after frontwoman Courtney Love's husband, Kurt Cobain, was found dead in their home. This is all well-documented. What only the most hardcore of rock aficionados will remember was that Schemel’s drum parts on 1997’s follow-up record Celebrity Skin were replaced by a session drummer at the behest of producer Michael Beinhorn (knob-twiddler for records like Soundgarden's Superunknown, Red Hot Chili Peppers' Mother's Milk and Grave Dancers Union by Soul Asylum).
What isn’t well-documented in the career and life of Hole and Schemel -- and this is what “Hit So Hard: The Life...
What isn’t well-documented in the career and life of Hole and Schemel -- and this is what “Hit So Hard: The Life...
- 4/10/2012
- by The Playlist
- The Playlist
More political diatribe than rock band biopic. The unvarnished truth for those who can stand it. .Hit So Hard: The Life and Near-Death Story of Drummer Patty Schemel. is one the baldest, most unvarnished looks inside the rock and roll industry you will ever see. Moreover, after you have seen this, you may not want to see another. Schemel.s experience working under the tutelage of mother Courtney Love is a life of looking into the face of death. It is nothing more, or less, than that. After succeeding in driving her out of the band during the recording of .Celebrity Skin. (with the help of producer Michael Beinhorn) Love recruited her next drummer with an employment-wanted ad that requested,...
- 3/25/2011
- by Ron Wilkinson
- Monsters and Critics
Hole have announced the tracklisting for their first album in 12 years. Nobody's Daughter - due for release on April 26 - will feature 11 brand new songs, including the band's recent buzz single 'Skinny Little Bitch'. Nine of the tracks were produced by Michael Beinhorn with additional production by Micko Larkin, while two were helmed by Linda Perry. The album's cover art, which the group posted on their official website alongside the tracklisting, appears to the right. The Courtney Love-fronted band have released three previous studio albums: 1991's Pretty On The Inside, (more)...
- 3/26/2010
- by By Nick Levine
- Digital Spy
Despite the legal dramas in her life, Courtney Love has still managed to make an album with her band Hole. "Nobody's Daughter" will be released by Mercury/Idj in April.
The 45-year-old rocker says the album took five years to finish, adding to Spin magazine that she relied on "the kindness of strangers" just to complete the project.
The "strangers" are said to be her former collaborators, including Linda Perry, Billy Corgan, and producer Michael Beinhorn, who have all since distanced themselves from the project.
According to the magazine, Beinhorn quit after almost a year due to Love's "fragmented focus," saying Kurt Cobain's widow had a lot of personal issues that "made it impossible to do the sort of work that I wanted."...
The 45-year-old rocker says the album took five years to finish, adding to Spin magazine that she relied on "the kindness of strangers" just to complete the project.
The "strangers" are said to be her former collaborators, including Linda Perry, Billy Corgan, and producer Michael Beinhorn, who have all since distanced themselves from the project.
According to the magazine, Beinhorn quit after almost a year due to Love's "fragmented focus," saying Kurt Cobain's widow had a lot of personal issues that "made it impossible to do the sort of work that I wanted."...
- 2/18/2010
- icelebz.com
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