Why Courtney Loves Hating Nirvana

Kurt Cobain's widow, Courtney Love, 36, has slammed the brakes on the release of a Nirvana song recorded just months before Cobain's 1994 suicide, according to court papers. The blocked album, which was originally scheduled to have hit store shelves last Saturday, was planned as a 10th anniversary commemoration of the release of "Nevermind," Nirvana's 1991 disc that shoved Michael Jackson off the top of the record charts and kicked off the Seattle-based "grunge" music revolution. But Love's injunction brought a screeching halt to the sales plan. Still, reports Reuters, a lawyer for Nirvana's surviving band members, drummer Dave Grohl and bassist Krist Novoselic, held out hope as late as last Friday that a box set containing "a lot of new content" could be re-assembled for release in October -- with or without the disputed song, "You Know You're Right," reportedly the last song Cobain ever recorded with Nirvana. In seeking her injunction against the inclusion of the single in the set, Love complained that she did not have any input in the album, reports Reuters. The injunction was granted in King County Superior Court in Seattle on June 11. The larger issue, though, is Love's effort to dissolve her partnership with Grohl and Novoselic, whom she says were little more than Cobain's sidemen. Such a dissolution would give her sole control of the Nirvana legacy. A trial to resolve the dispute is set for Dec. 21, 2002.