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16 books to have on your radar in 2026

THE LIST: No guarantees, of course, but Annabel Nugent thinks these hot titles will be some of next year’s best

The Independent UK

“The moment I discovered what it feels like to teach yourself a riff that you love, I was hooked. It feels like you're riding the universe”: Hole and Smashing Pumpkins' Melissa Auf der Maur reveals the bassists who compelled her to pick up the instrument

The ’90s bass icon pays homage to the other women in the scene at the time – and recalls how seeing them onstage was a total game-changer for her

Guitar World

"Her story, unfiltered and unapologetic." One of rock's most iconic, inspirational and provocative figures to share her life story in a "raw, complicated" new documentary film

Antiheroine will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival

Louder

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Courtney Love to tell her life story for first time in revealing new documentary

Influential rock star frontwoman of Hole, who was married to Kurt Cobain until his death in 1994, had previously been teasing a memoir

The Independent UK

"I listened to track one and I was like, Ooh, that was nasty!" Hollywood superstar Adam Sandler reveals the iconic '90s rock album that he can't stop listening to

Actor and comedian Adam Sandler shares his love for one of the most raw, brutal and essential rock bands of the 1990s

Louder

There is a fascinating TV series to be made about a menopausal rock band – Riot Women isn’t it

Writer-director Sally Wainwright is a national treasure, but here she’s reduced the fury and passion of the riot grrrl movement to a minor plot device, says Tiff Bakker, a New York-based writer

The Guardian - UK

Why Jackson Hole Is The Fed's Mountaintop Moment—And Why It Matters More Than Ever

Imagine being Jerome Powell this week. On Friday, August 22, the Federal Reserve chairman will step onto the stage at the Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium — the most closely watched monetary retreat in the world — with markets, politicians, and even building contractors staring him down.

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“Icontend that I was the first person to actually have a Super Fuzz Big Muff – before the rest of the boys”: How Courtney Love created the grunge classic that was released during her darkest hour

Hole’s song Violet came out just a week after Kurt Cobain’s suicide

MusicRadar

“I apologize for the broken beer bottle that was thrown at him”: Melissa Auf der Maur surprises fans as she reunites with Billy Corgan to perform a Smashing Pumpkins classic

The bassist linked up with the alt-rock titans for the final song of the night in Montreal

Guitar World

The 10 best grunge album openers: a definitive list that is irrefutably correct so you're not allowed to argue with it

A list in which we sacrifice some of our favourite opening tracks in the name of journalistic integrity... but seriously, no Serve The Servants?

Louder

“I was so exhausted that whole day. But I couldn’t help but light up from the electricity of Iggy Pop’s energy”: Deryck Whibley appeals to Hard Rock Cafe to return his guitar from the Iggy Pop feat. Sum 41 era

The Sum 41 guitarist recently recovered another guitar that was stolen from him after over two decades

Guitar World

Alternative rock legend Courtney Love reveals her new musical "obsession", the fast-rising teenage artist she considers "the Gen Z Trent Reznor or Brian Eno"

Courtney Love nominates some of her favourite emerging artists, among them "the Gen Z Trent Reznor or Brian Eno"

Louder

“If you lined up Jimmy Page, Jonny Greenwood, and Will Sergeant, I’d pick Sergeant every time”: Courtney Love on why Echo & the Bunnymen's Will Sergeant is her “favorite guitarist on Earth”

Love also reveals that a new solo album – her first since 2004’s America’s Sweetheart – is well in the works

Guitar World

Courtney Love: 'I may not love Taylor Swift musically, but her angry lyrics resonate with me'

Courtney Love tells us about her new collaboration with 070 Shake... and gives a few thoughts on Lamar, Taylor Swift, Billy Corgan, Lana Del Rey, PJ Harvey and more...

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"What are you 'gonna do when you run out of all the lyrics Kurt left for you?": Watch Courtney Love take down a disgruntled sexist Nirvana fan who suggested she stole lyrics from Kurt Cobain after his death to use in her own band

Hole frontwoman Courtney Love keeps her cool when a fiery Nirvana fan calls in to ask some rather inappropriate, misogynistic questions on the Howard Stern show

MusicRadar

“I’d like to win these lyrics because I think it’s about a guy I know a little bit and I’d love to put that on my wall”: Billy Corgan enters auction of handwritten lyrics of Courtney Love’s song... about him

He’s in it to win it, he claims

Louder

“I’m in it to win it.” Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan enters charity raffle to win Courtney Love's hand-written lyrics for Hole's Violet, a song inspired by Billy Corgan, “a guy I know a little bit about”

Want to beat Billy Corgan to the ownership of lyrics about Billy Corgan, and help a wildlife sanctuary in Sumatra at the same time? Of course you do

Louder

Great prog you must hear from Nine Stones Close, Tiberius, Krokofant and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week!

Cool new proggy sounds to enjoy from Could Seed, Danafae, Lawrence English and more...

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Guitar World

“I was really inspired by them – that’s why I wanted to have an all-girl band. It feels very feminine on stage, but we’re all playing power chords and screaming”: Olivia Rodrigo on how ’90s alt-rock and riot grrrl inspired her record-breaking GUTS tour

Rodrigo cites The Breeders, Hole, Sleater-Kinney, L7 and Babes in Toyland as some of the key bands that shaped her guitar-leaning musical taste and career trajectory

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Courtney Love reveals she’s an unlikely fan of East 17

Despite being renowned as one of the world’s queens of grunge, Hole rocker Courtney Love has revealed she is an unlikely fan of East 17.

Metal Hammer

“The first day of rehearsal they forgot me!” Watch Nirvana's first-ever TV performance as a four-piece, with future Foo Fighter Pat Smear on guitar

On September 25, 1993, Nirvana performed as a quartet on US TV show Saturday Night Live, playing two songs from their brand new album In Utero, with Pat Smear on second guitar

Woman & Home

Girl power, timeless talents and questionable fashion - the music stars of the 90s that we'll worship forever

Ready to revisit the 90s? These stars captured the sound and the spirit of the decade

Louder

“I like being in total control, then I hooked up with Kurt Cobain and everything lost control.” Courtney Love on “battling Kurt's dammed demons” and pouring “25 years of repressed rage” into Hole's music

Courtney Love looks back on Hole's early days, and how her life changed after she “hooked up” with her future-husband, Nirvana's Kurt Cobain

Louder

The 10 best cover versions by Smashing Pumpkins

Billy Corgan and crew's renditions of hits by U2, Hole, Fleetwood Mac, Depeche Mode, The Cure and, umm, Natalie Imbruglia

Guitar World

“With Courtney, it enhanced my commitment as a woman to keep on rocking”: Courtney Love and bassist Melissa Auf der Maur have reunited in the studio – what this means for a possible Hole reunion

Courtney Love teased a Hole reunion in February – is it finally happening?

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