Taking “biting the hand that feeds you” to another level (in true C. Love form), Courtney Love took the opportunity to blast the UK music scene and trash her last solo album while addressing students at Oxford on February 12. Dressed all in black, the oft-addled singer managed to show up on time for her speech and spoke for an hour before opening the floor up to questions, for better or for worse.

Discussing the rise of 360 promotional deals, Love said, “Friends don’t let friends do 360 deals.” (Funny, I can think of a lot of other things Love’s friends should have discouraged her from doing.) She then claimed that her last album, America’s Sweetheart was crap, stating, “I thought I could be both Mick [Jagger] and Keith [Richards] at the same time, but one of you has to be sober and I’m not two people. Much of my hi-jinx have been drug-related. When you’re under 30, whatever, but once you’re past 40 it’s just ugly.” Wisdom! (Via NME.)

Riots on the streets! Power to the people! Rock n’ roll! What’s that you say? Oh, riots across the street prevented Courtney Love from getting to her Hole gig last night? And the riots were due in large part to a Facebook party with rowdy teenage attendees? Hmm… maybe Facebook parties gone awry are the new riots anyway. [Via NME]

Frances Bean Cobain didn’t exactly finish out the last decade with a smile on her face. Four years after Courtney Love regained custody of Frances Bean following an alleged 2003 Oxycontin overdose, Courtney lost custody of the 17-year-old Frances Bean again in late December of last year. A few days later, Frances Bean filed a restraining order against her wayward mother. Needless to say, Christmas at the Cobain/Love household must’ve been a bummer.

Luckily, it looks as if Frances is already busying herself to avoid the current clusterfuck that is her familial relations; she’s scheduled to make her recorded debut as part of Dresden Dolls frontwoman Amanda Palmer and gypsy-punk ragamuffin Jason Webley’s latest project, Evelyn Evelyn, who will release their self-titled debut March 30 on Eleven Eleven. Frances lent her pipes to the song “My Space,” which also features vocal turns from Andrew W.K., Tegan and Sara, goth-fantasy writer (and Palmer’s husband-to-be) Neil Gaiman, and to top it all off, “Weird Al” Yankovic. 2010: the year where Frances Bean Cobain and “Weird Al” share equal billing on the same song. Kurt would be proud, surely.

So this story keeps getting to be more of a bummer. And Courtney Love keeps finding new ways to abuse her social networking privileges. First it was reported that Love had lost custody of Frances to Kurt Cobain’s mother and sister. Now comes the news that Frances has gotten a restraining order against Love. Courtney’s responses have come large in the form of Facebook messages, which are generally always the most coherent and rational ways to respond to serious and emotional family trauma.We’ll admit that from time to time a good ole’ fashioned typo-ridden Courtney Love blog post has gotten us through some slow news days. Incoherent rants about Ryan Adams stealing money from her after mediocre sex? Yes please! But, this is another creature altogether. Read the full story

Not to be lazy, but there’s not a whole lot to say here. It’s too sad.