Critical reaction was strong, and massive crowds attended all three of the shows she eventually played.Ĭourtney Love is back and in fighting shape. She played the grunge chestnuts and a number of songs from her new album, “Nobody’s Daughter,” which Mercury will release April 27. The answers are “yes” (unless she was crowd surfing) and “yes” (insofar as she could ever “sing”). Would she stay upright for the entire set? Could she still sing? People were curious about the new songs, sure, but they were mostly curious about her. There was a freak show element to the three gigs Hole played at SXSW. Seeing her out of her element would be as jarring as catching Lady Gaga in khakis and a button-down. In a musical landscape populated with faceless hard rock bands, bad emo hair and aw-shucks indie rockers who look just like the kids who serve you coffee in the morning, she’s like nothing else. But there’s also the feeling that you’ve witnessed the rock star in her natural habitat-perched atop a filthy bed in a trashed hotel room, she commands attention.
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