Who is hole

Even though Skin was certified platinum shortly after its release, Love was unhappy with the way the album was handled by her record company and felt stifled by her contract, eventually bringing a lawsuit against the Universal Music Group trying to terminate her contract she still owes five more albums under her current agreement , so she can release music via the Internet.

The future of Hole became even more uncertain in early , when Love announced plans to launch a new outfit, called Bastard. In typical Love style, this lineup eventually dissolved into only her and Schemel and the group essentially broke up before it even began.

Despite the lack of any substancial project, Love finally announced the end of Hole in May of Unlike her often bitter press situations, she claimed that the situation was friendly and she would still remain friends with the previous members of the band. Love released her first solo album, America's Sweetheart, in The following year she began working on new songs, despite battling an alleged eating disorder and a stay in rehab after violating her probation by using drugs.

Working with artists including producer Linda Perry, Billy Corgan and guitarist Micko Larkin, formerly of Larrikin Love, the album Nobody's Daughter began to take shape over and In mid, Love announced that Nobody's Daughter would in fact be a Hole album. She began promoting the album in earnest in early , performing shows in Europe and the U. AllMusic relies heavily on JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript in your browser to use the site fully.

Blues Classical Country. Electronic Folk International. Jazz Latin New Age. Aggressive Bittersweet Druggy. The band had a revolving line-up of bassists and drummers, their most prolific being drummer Patty Schemel, and bassists Kristen Pfaff d. In the group disbanded to pursue other projects. In , Love retired the Hole name, releasing new material and touring as a solo artist. Hole has been noted for being one of the most commercially successful female-fronted rock bands of all time, selling over three million records in the United States alone and having a far-reaching influence on contemporary female artists.

Hole went on to become the most commercially successful female-fronted grunge band in history, selling over 3 million records in the United States between and So much of that comes from the manic smile, bugged eyes, and painted face of the homecoming queen on the cover, whose phoned-in glee seems to hide an ocean of embarrassment, insecurity, guile and rage. Were you photographed for cover of Live Through This, or was an existing photo used?

How did you get that manic smile? What was your direction? Did you ever get a chance to meet Courtney? Courtney was supposed to come by the shoot that day, but her girlfriend had a baby and even though she and I have friends in common, we still have not crossed paths, which I kind of love. Did people recognise you on the street? Some real fans did and of course friends of mine, when you mention it people see it.

I am pretty casual in person, so that is probably an alter ego of mine as well.