Just to get it out of the way, here’s a quasi-fond farewell to Hole. After 11 years and three albums, Hole founders Courtney Love and Eric Erlandson officially announced the split May 23. Love, in a statement: “I will always treasure the time we played together. Eric has been an important part of my family for over 10 years, and he’ll continue to be a part of my life.”
Love apparently wanted to focus full time on her side projects, which include being the Yoko Ono of our generation and suing everyone in the music business, which has led everyone in the music business to sue her.
Two years ago, Love announced that she was leaving Geffen and would release Hole songs on the Internet. Geffen’s parent company, Universal Music Group, filed a breach of contract suit, alleging that the band owes the label five more albums.

Love is currently working on a solo album with Hole-r Patty Schemel and former 4 Non Blondes singer Linda Perry. No word yet who will write the new album for Love.
Speaking of Kurt Cobain, Rolling Stone’s cover story on the battle over the Nirvana catalogue is a great round-up on all the legal maneuverings. It has solid insight on how things got so convoluted so quickly — and more imbalanced Love rambling, which Mr. Lang always appreciates.
In other news, Korn has struck a deal with United Artists to broadcast its June 10 NYC concert live into movie theaters. The show to celebrate the release of their fifth album, “Untouchables,” will be digitally simulcast in forty UA theaters in thirty U.S. cities. The broadcast will include a 30-minute segment on the making of the new album. Tickets for the screening are available at participating theaters and through Moviefone. Unsurprisingly, the show is not coming to Eugene.
Nothing hurts more than to see a macho poser cry. Baby Korn Fred Durst announced on the Limp Bizkit Web site that he wants departed guitarist Wes Borland back in the band. Durst, still learning to master the spell-checker: “We are hoping Wes will come back and suprise [sic] us one day soon. We really miss him.” Durst even posted Borland’s e-mail address, begging fans to pressure Borland back into the group, then admitted he doesn’t even know if the e-mail address still works.
From TV Land: Recently, Saturday Night Live has become the premier venue for musical acts to make personal statements in T-shirt form. A couple weeks ago, Moby wore an “I Heart Eminem” shirt (yes, with “heart” spelled out) as a response to the rapper’s, “Nobody listens to techno,” jab on his “Without Me” single. Last weekend, the Strokes took their turn. Mr. Lang has never liked the Strokes, to put it bluntly. Catchy? Yes. Original? Hardly. Mr. Lang knows that every band sounds like a previous band, but, to steal from fellow sarcasm-ite David Spade: I liked the Strokes better the first time, when they were called The Velvet Underground and Nico. So what do the Strokesters do on SNL in a stab at another five minutes of fame? The drummer wears the Andy Warhol banana cover from “The Velvet Underground and Nico” album. And it was hot pink. Mr. Lang almost fainted. Please, Strokes, New York, midwest, England, I don’t care where you’re from. Just go back there.
Industry item: A group of labels and publishers have filed suit against file-sharing service Audiogalaxy, the No. 3 music site according to Neilsen/NetRatings. The complaint accuses the Texas-based company of being worse than Napster because it allows people to download cover art and entire albums straight.
During Mr. Lang’s summer opine session, Weezer showed up frequently. So, back to basics. Former bassist Matt Sharp contends he owns a quarter interest in all but one of the songs on “Pinkerton” and a third interest in “The Sweater Song.” In the California suit, a letter written by frontman Rivers Cuomo: “Looks like we’re gonna start making money again so we (you and I) had better get this thing squared away sooner rather than later so the money flows to all the right places without getting hitched up.”
An abrupt farewell to you, dear readers. Mr. Lang, a media darling in his own right, is up to Portland on Friday for the show by media darlings the White Stripes. Next week, Dandy Warhols. Ol’ Merle Haggard will be in Springfield in no time. Huzzah.