The album's out and it's a monster!

The album doesn't come out until April 27th in the US. I can't wait to buy the download next Tuesday! I love the samples I've heard. Hole rocks!

It's leaked out in full. I'm loving it. I have to say it's the first album I've enjoyed a lot in a long time.
The recent releases of a lot of my other favorite artists, Madonna, Tori Amos, Goldfrapp have disappointed me, so it's nice to have something from one of your favorite artists that is just amazing and you love from beginning to end.

Glindathegood said:

I just read a glowing review of this album. Sound like I'll have to check it out!

poetcorner61 said:

post it please!

TRON said:

I read it in Rolling Stone magazine in the Dr's office yesterday so I can't post it but I did find this:

Courtney Love & New ‘Hole’ Lineup - US Headlining Tour Dates

"Legendary singer, songwriter, producer, and actress Courtney Love has confirmed that she will perform her first headlining North American tour this summer in support of Nobody’s Daughter, the new album by Hole on Mercury Records, set for release next week on April 27th. The tour kicks-off in June, with the first wave of ticket pre-sales beginning this Wednesday, April 21st, with general on-sale set for April 24th.

"To show their adoration for her fans, Hole has come up with a very special - and very limited - VIP ticket package in conjunction with the tour. The package will offer early entry to the venue, a limited edition Hole poster and laminate.

"In advance of the official tour - and in celebration of NOBODY’S DAUGHTER hitting the racks - the new line-up of Hole will perform two shows at the Henry Fonda Theater in Los Angeles (April 22nd & 23rd, sold-out in advance) and the Terminal 5 in New York City (April 27th & 28th, also sold-out in advance). Those dates will dovetail with guest spots on CBS’s The Late Show with David Letterman (April 27th), The View (April 28th) and ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live (April 29th). Hole also recently performed acoustic tracks from “Nobody’s Daughter” for AOL Sessions.

"With the release of NOBODY’S DAUGHTER just days away, “Skinny Little Bitch,” the new album’s first single continues to dominate rock radio formats. “With Hole’s snarling new single, ‘Skinny Little Bitch,’ Courtney Love has scored her first hit single since the ’90s,” raved Rolling Stone. “[It] made the playlists of more than 50 radio stations in early-March, making it the most-added modern-rock radio track for the week of its debut."”

HOLE NORTH AMERICAN TOUR

June 22 Philadelphia, PA Electric Factory

23 Boston, MA House of Blues

25 Montclair, NJ Welmont Theatre

27 Washington, DC 930 Club

Read more: http://www.live4ever.uk.c...z0lnbMAd3m"

I love it!

Billboard Magazine review:

ALBUM: NOBODY'S DAUGHTER

NEW YORK (Billboard) - "You don't understand how damaged we really are," Courtney Love snarls on "Nobody's Daughter," the title track to Hole's first new album in nearly 12 years. Even after the long absence from the music scene, the alt-rock outfit is still unflinchingly intense, while frontwoman Love displays surprising range as a songwriter. Lead single "Skinny Little Bitch" chugs along until a breakneck climax, while the piano-led "For Once in Your Life" offers a somber tale of withering love. The band uses a large palette of influences on "Nobody's Daughter," drawing upon Sonic Youth's noisy abandon for some tracks and the honest lyricism of early Liz Phair for others. With three new instrumentalists -- guitarist Micko Larkin, bassist Shawn Dailey and drummer Stuart Fisher -- behind her, Love sounds as self-assured as ever, sliding over syllables and hitting the emotional high notes. "Nobody's Daughter" recalls the highlights of the band's critically acclaimed 1994 album, "Live Through This," and shows that, as a band, Hole is not one bit damaged.

good work. keep 'em comin'.

Album Review: Hole – Nobody’s Daughter

By David Buchanan on April 21st, 2010 in Album Reviews

What happens when you take Courtney Love, new-found sobriety, Billy Corgan, and a band name that may or may not still hold some measure of weight today? You get Hole v2.0. We are not here to draw comparisons between Hole’s previous members and Love’s more recent musician selection. Courtney Love has already exclaimed that, first and foremost, this is her and her guitar — so how does that stand up to the Hole moniker and the new album, Nobody’s Daughter?

Love’s recent blogger/Twitter infamy and a fresh turn at being drug-free has ostensibly wiped the slate clean in her head, one fell swoop to eradicate some long-since-worldly-familiar cobwebs by putting them down on paper in ink. From beginning to end, Nobody’s Daughter is probably the most sincere thing the public has been given by Love since the days of Live Through This.

Throw in some influence from fellow ’90s icon Billy Corgan and a proportionate amount of production sheen from Celebrity Skin’s Michael Beinhorn, Nobody’s Daughter is Love’s Hole: an entity that belongs to Love as much as it did to anyone else ever involved, fans included. Hole is the medium Love utilizes to convey her more personal side to a wider audience, the equivalent of how much easier it is to spill your guts to a stranger as opposed to a family member. No bias, just anonymity and merit.

Everything on Nobody’s Daughter screams retro, but these are not your dainty table scraps or seemingly random leftovers from a decade long gone. The songs stick in your head, the mood strips itself bare, and the term heavy applies to even the softest of inclusions. The vitriolic “Skinny Little Bitch” is a dose of early Hole work sonically, and reminds the crowd why Love and Hole are so respected still in certain circles; “Pacific Coast Highway” waxes poetic in appropriately bleak tones regarding Love’s late husband Kurt Cobain and the anger his suicide left on her shoulders, finally bringing Love’s true feelings on the matter plaintively to the forefront:

I knew a boy who came from the sea
He was the only boy who ever knew the truth about me
I knew a boy who left me so ravaged
Do you even know the extent of the damage?

I’m overwhelmed and undersexed?
Baby what did you expect?
I’m overwrought and so disgraced
I’m too ashamed to show my face

And they’re coming to take me away now
What I want I will never have
I’m on the Pacific Coast Highway
With your gun in my hand

Moving past singles, the majority of Nobody’s Daughter comes across like a series of diary entries and doll parts that present various scenarios about self-mutilation in the emotional sense: “Someone Else’s Bed” reminds us of those drug-addled morning after moments; “For Once In Your Life”, in a different manner from “Skinny Little Bitch” or “Loser Dust”, showcases Hole as the band in unison, crafting something of a lullaby chastising one for not living up to their full potential; “Letter To God” is a very blues-tinted Dylan moment, but does not overshadow the ’90s flavor that blends well with the surrounding songs.

All in all, the running themes that anyone expects from Love, Hole, or anything similar are rarely disappointed. While tracks like “Samantha” lost a little personality transferred from live and into the studio’s double-track production, the entirety of Nobody’s Daughter (if done properly) will translate nicely as the more personable set piece amongst a Hole set list full on “Celebrity Skin” and “Jennifer’s Body” revisits during the current (and sadly short) promotional tour. If only Auf Der Maur had come back, though…ah the memories.

For all who wish to tackle the obvious, we will dispense with the bullshit: this incarnation of Hole holds Courtney Love as the only current original member still present. One could argue that, due to such a drastic line-up cleansing, Nobody’s Daughter is more accurately a Love solo album along the lines of America’s Sweetheart (something former member Eric Erlandson would be adamant to have you believe). In the loosest sense, Nobody’s Daughter is a Courtney Love record with a Hole brand stamped on it to whatever end was intended, but outside of sorely missed Melissa Auf Der Maur, no longer donating her bass strings or contributing some stellar harmonies to the picture, casual listeners would be none the wiser.

Nobody’s Daughter has elements from ’90s punk and grunge (“Loser Dust”, “Skinny Little Bitch”), shoegaze (“Nobody’s Daughter”), and culls inspiration from the likes of Jack Off Jill or L7, while drawing a lot of focus on acoustic guitar and alternative rock during the majority of its track list. There is absolutely no reason to think that this latest Hole creation is not worthy of the name or its respective catalog.

Hey ’90s kids, your favorite crazy blond is back to basics.

Wish the LA concert wasn't sold out already...

the title track is epic

omg. I can't stop listening.

I LOVE IT! Courtney made another classic. Suck it Courtney haters.

Militant said:

It's getting wildly mixed reviews, but I'm really enjoying it.

http://www.rollingstone.c...93,137125]

By Daniel Kreps
Apr 27, 2010 10:40 AM EDT

Billy Corgan welcomed the arrival of Hole's new album Nobody's Daughter by lashing out at his former collaborator Courtney Love on Twitter for allegedly including a pair of Corgan-written tracks, "Samantha" and "How Dirty Girls Get Clean," on the LP without permission. Love and Corgan have been at odds in the past few years, and Corgan recently told Rolling Stone , "I have no interest in supporting her in any way, shape or form. You can't throw enough things down the abyss with a person like that." Love issued a Facebook apology to Corgan, but their feud is far from resolved.

"My face is my face, my heart is my heart, my money is my money. Oh, and my songs are MY songs. If you can't write your own songs, maybe you should just be happy that you fooled someone into doing your work for you," Corgan tweeted last night in the first of six numbered statements. He soon referenced Love's deceased husband Kurt Cobain, writing, "Maybe you should go someone nice + live off your husband's money, u know the money he made for writing all those great songs. When you issue someone an apology on YOUR facebook page you might actually mean it and take responsibility for it."

Corgan also attacked Love's parenting skills while complimenting Love and Cobain's 17-year-old daughter Frances Bean, who opted to go live with her paternal grandmother in December. "Only u could abandon such a beautiful, incredible child who is smarter than u, cooler than u, and better than u. Oops, did I say too much," Corgan wrote before ending his tirade with, "So have your moment, burn up in the sun that laughs at u as equally as it appears to celebrate u + sleep knowing u have no honor."

Love took the high road (for now) and responded only once to Corgan on her own Twitter account, writing directly to @billy, "All i am is nice about you so if you wanna be mean be mean i dont feel anything. i have too much to feel dear."

Hole is performing live on the View today & tomorrow on Jimmy Kimmel.

"Skinny Little Bitch" - (Late show with David Letterman, April 27th).

mynameisnotsusan said:

Childish.

I just saw her on Fuse. She looks great