“Basically I need the money. My daughter Frances was really, really confused about why her dad’s on every radio station in the world and why her mom sells a few records herself, and why we didn’t have enough money, really, for groceries.” – Courtney Love explains why she recently sold a share of Nirvana’s publishing.

Surely Frances Bean is old enough to receive her own copy of Steve Albini’s “Some Of Your Parents Are Already This Fucked”?

Speaking of bankruptcy (of the creative sort), I’d like to wish Ian McCulloch a very happy 47th birthday. Just because someone is on a creative losing streak that’s almost two decades long is no reason why they shouldn’t be allowed to celebrate their birthday.