Two nights ago, "Gossip Girl" star Taylor Momsen celebrated her sixteenth birthday with a party in New York City that featured a performance by her band the Pretty Reckless. While Momsen's band draws on a lot of different influences, it's clear that their look and sound draw a lot from Courtney Love and her band Hole (one listen to the Pretty Reckless makes it fairly clear that Momsen has listened to Celebrity Skin on repeat).

Though imitation is said to be the sincerest form of flattery, Love apparently doesn't appreciate the homage. She took to Twitter to cut down Momsen (along with the Veronicas), saying "Why does Taylor Whatsit deeply disturb me and why is the Blonde one from the verons or whatever they are called wearing my actual clothes?" She also told Momsen, "I don't watch tv or read teen mags and gossip rags so I wouldn't know. Do not still 'like my music' please."

Courtney has a history of feuding with people, so she's no stranger to public beef. She normally keeps it a war of words, but what if the two of them actually threw down? We hit the street to sample the folks waiting to get into today's episode of "It's On with Alexa Chung" and asked them which would put the other one to sleep in a cage fight.

The laughably unscientific results show that more than three quarters — 77 percent, to be exact — of the respondents would place the odds on Courtney to knock out Momsen. It's pretty obvious, really: She's got the obvious size and experience advantage, and as several of those polled said, "Courtney is a badass."

Two people in the Nirvana universe share a birthday today. Courtney Love turns 45 today. The controversial wife of Kurt Cobain has had a bit of a checkered history, but it's hard to deny the fact that she released one of the definitive albums of the grunge era (Hole's Live Through This) and her first solo album was totally underrated. Love hasn't released any new music since 2004, but supposedly we'll be seeing a new solo album, a Hole reunion, or both by the end of the year.

In a strange bit of cosmic coincidence, today also marks the 18th birthday of Spencer Elden, better known as the nude baby on the cover of Nirvana's Nevermind. Elden's parents were paid $200 to take the photo, with the fishhook and dollar bill added later. In an interview in 2007, Elden remarked that he sort of feels like a porn star because so many people have seen his penis.

Nevermind represented the beginning of the '90s alt-rock revolution and made Nirvana into one of the biggest bands in the world — and it also turned both Elden and Love into generational icons. In honor of their birthdays, enjoy a live version of Nirvana's "Drain You."

By Matt Elias

It's one of the most surreal moments I've had during my time at MTV News. I was backstage at KROQ's Almost Acoustic Christmas in Los Angeles on Sunday, waiting in a hallway for my scheduled interview with the Killers, when all of a sudden I was whisked into a side room by KROQ's Ann Ingold (you "Loveline" listeners might know her as "Producer Ann"). Without any idea of what was going on, I was told these words: "Courtney Love will talk to you."

"Courtney Love!" I screamed to myself. Before I had a chance to react, I was face-to-face with an icon of '90s grunge. For someone like myself who worshiped Nirvana and everything surrounding them, this was a big deal.

To the best of my recollection, the interview started with Courtney (who clearly hasn't been watching MTV or checking out our Web site) saying, "MTV still has news? I miss the '90s and Kurt Loder ... this isn't going to f---ing air." It was love at first bleep! Read more...

Every now and then, Courtney Love likes to post rambly stuff on her MySpace blog. (Who uses MySpace anymore? Courtney, we guess.) To wit: posted sometime yesterday, this brilliant call for someone "super super crafty" to make high-end lacy something-or-others for Courtney's "apparel." Oh, and Court needs a backup singer in the studio, too...

(Current mood: determined)
i need a brilliant macrame or knitter for creation de beaute

anyone out there super super crafty or if not have an amazing lace collection i could buy? im looking for someone who can knit lace, now this is a very very very lost art, i think there may be two old czech ladies in hollywood who did beading for Bob Mackie who do it but i noted a Victorian Knitting Blog and i saw some really beauitiful designs, i dont want to spill too much but we have to create a sample because people have ZERO imagination and the people who are financing my apparrel certainly dont when i said body suits/tights and meant very very high end they sent me a brochure of like leg avenue wannabe pam andersons, NO NO NO, if you or anyone you know possesses this skill let me know at once - u shall be compensated and we in preproduction so HURRY ill also need the lightest most amazing tulle i think Mood just opened in la cos the tulle at isw is stiff and vile i mean strimpet and pink light as a cloud imagine a pair of tights youd sell for 600 dollars? you CANT? well leave that to me - i just dont want to cut up wedding dressings for something made of polyurethane in the end and id rather pay for the labor -= okay i have to order my vintage fix and chant! do well go to us search and pick rhode island hawaii any state and just stick in the cobains, i think were at 4500 properties now! genius! i wish i knew how to use craigs list or id just blog this in there but hey f*** it

also lissie is still in the running to sing on the record as adele got famous after i told perez after "homecoming": and now shes a;l huge -= i wonder if she has any clue how it occurred - i mean i hear this girl and me and jason put it on jukebox i tell perez who has great ears and he blogs twice and bam shes insta star! cool! if youve got a booootoful voice i wanna hear it i mean like melissa type higher than mine and you understand rock n roll - rollit on over to me girl were recording very very soon and would need you at rehearsal asap.

cmon my little otis hosiery obsessed child! come out come out! ill need apliques of cherry blossoms and cabbage roses and ivy and wisteria too, and vv reloux flowers too.........hmmmm..........and shreddd chiffon with distressed beading we can make in my sewing room soon there wont be a sewing room so hurry bebe.

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In the latest edition of "The Loder Files," we head back to 1994, when Kurt Loder spoke with Courtney Love in the wake of Kurt Cobain's suicide.

She talked about the long -- and nearly impossible -- road to recovering from her husband's death: "I don't know, I haven't processed things. I'm just working...I'm putting one foot in front of the other but I'm numb."

Love also talked about their daughter Frances Bean, who was only two years old when Cobain took his own life. "He prayed every night," she told Loder, surprising many Nirvana fans. "He taught our daughter how to pray." She wonders aloud if maybe having a son would have been even harder, since she feels that "the male progeny of a dead celebrity I think might have a harder time."

But most surreal of all is the moment when Love admits how hard it is to help a toddler process the death of her incredibly famous father. "Daddy's a little like Barney," she says, "because he's on TV. And there's videos of Daddy, so we can see Daddy on TV."

From Eminem to Ice Cube and Prince, check out Loder's interviews from the MTV News vault, in The Loder Files. More rolling out soon...

Now that Scott Weiland’s reunion with the Stone Temple Pilots is finally official, what’s next for Velvet Revolver, the band the singer was booted from just last week? Already, guitarist Slash has promised a third record from VR, and he even said in a recent interview with Rolling Stone that the band's got a few fellas in mind to take over behind the mike. Slash even admitted that, as recently as last month, the band auditioned at least one hopeful -- right around the time that rumors of the band’s split started gaining speed.

So, who do we think would work well with Velvet Revolver? Here’s a couple of possible hopefuls the band should consider, after the jump... Read more...

· And here we thought that all along, Courtney Love was just a paranoid poor-speller. Turns out some identity thieves allegedly managed to loot about $72 million from the Kurt Cobain estate, including a Jersey mansion. [via The Daily Swarm]

· The Game is out after 8 days in jail, according to our friends at TMZ.

· We were devastated to learn that Carmit Bachar has quit the Pussycat Dolls. No! Not Carmit Bachar! (If anyone knows which one she is, please let us know).

· The Beatles catalog will be coming to iTunes soon. [UPDATED: Apple (um, iTunes Apple, not Beatles' Apple) is downplaying the whole thing. He said, she said, apparently.

· Also, that's probably the only time you'll see those four artists listed together. Ever.