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Will Courtney Love's DC meltdown effect her TC gig?

Today's Washington Post concert review comes about two weeks before Hole's slated First Ave gig.

By Chris Riemenschneider

June 29, 2010 at 9:29PM

(The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Courtney Love at the SXSW fest in March, where she was actually coherent and musical (albeit obnoxious) / By Tony Nelson (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

"Imagine a Hole concert that doubles as a complete Courtney Love meltdown. Not too hard to do. Now imagine it being 10 times more disastrous than that..."

So begins David Malitz's deliciously scathing but carefully worded and balanced review in today's Washington Post of Hole's performance last night at the 9:30 Club. Click here to read the whole shebang. I promise you won't regret it. And then come back here and answer this question in all seriousness: Does this review make you more or less interested in seeing Hole's pending date at First Avenue on July 16 (if it, in fact, the show still happens)?

about the writer

Chris Riemenschneider

Critic / Reporter

Chris Riemenschneider has been covering the Twin Cities music scene since 2001, long enough for Prince to shout him out during "Play That Funky Music (White Boy)." The St. Paul native authored the book "First Avenue: Minnesota's Mainroom" and previously worked as a music critic at the Austin American-Statesman in Texas.