Courtney Love Releasing 'Nobody's Daughter' in January

Courtney LoveHole fans, rejoice. Courtney Love has not only resurrected her '90s band's name for her new album 'Nobody's Daughter,' she's actually going to release it. Rolling Stone confirms that Hole's first record since 1998's 'Celebrity Skin' is set for a January release and explores a varying degree of topics that one might expect from Love: greed, vengeance and feminism. Apparently, the sound draws from David Bowie's 'Diamond Dogs,' "the good side of Pink Floyd's 'The Wall'" and "'80s goth," so, it might be a bit moody.

Still, all of this is good news for a few reasons. First, 'Nobody's Daughter' hasn't exactly been fast-tracked. After a false start in 2005 that included getting Billy Corgan and Linda Perry to produce, Love scrapped those sessions and fired her band. In the end, she ended up hooking up with 'Celebrity Skin' producer Michael Beinhorn, as well featuring the production and guitar work of 23-year-old guitarist Micko Larking.

But more so, this will probably have Love focused around something other than saying Ryan Adams is terrible, possibly signing off on her former husband Kurt Cobain's likeness for video games and being sued by American Express. As we noted back in January, 'Nobody's Daughter' was supposed to be funded by a tequila company and a tampon company, but there's no word yet on any cross promotions.

She does seem generally excited to give Hole another go. "It's four letters," she told Rolling Stone. "It is one of the best band names in f---ing history, if I do say so myself. For a while, I was a little embarrassed it was maybe vulgar but at least it's not phallic. It's H-O-L-E, it's a great band name, and it's mine."

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