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Eric Erlandson

Eric Erlandson

Acting

Biography

Eric Theodore Erlandson (born January 9, 1963) is an American musician, guitarist, and writer, primarily known as founding member, songwriter and lead guitarist of alternative rock band Hole from 1989 to 2002. He has also had several musical side projects, including Rodney & the Tube Tops, which he formed with Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, and RRIICCEE with Vincent Gallo.

Known For

MTV Video Music Awards
7.8

An annual award ceremony presented by MTV to honor the best in the music video medium.

MTV Video Music Awards

1984
Cobain: Montage of Heck
7.6

Hailed as one of the most innovative and intimate documentaries of all time, experience Kurt Cobain like never before in the only ever fully authorized portrait of the famed music icon. Academy Award nominated filmmaker Brett Morgen expertly blends Cobain's personal archive of art, music, never seen before movies, animation and revelatory interviews from his family and closest friends.

Cobain: Montage of Heck

2015
Antiheroine
N/A

Singer, songwriter, and actor Courtney Love has long had an impact on rock and pop culture. Now sober and set to release new music for the first time in over a decade, Courtney is ready to reveal her story, unfiltered and unapologetic.

Antiheroine

2026
Hit So Hard
5.0

The rise to fame (and the near-fatal fall from it) of Patty Schemel, drummer for Courtney Love's seminal rock band, Hole. Given a Hi-8 video camera just before Hole's infamous Live Through This world tour, Patty captured stunningly intimate footage of the scene that has never been seen... until now. Not just an all-access backstage pass to the music that shaped a generation, Hit So Hard is a harrowing tale of overnight success, the cost of addiction, and ultimately, recovery and redemption.

Hit So Hard

2012
I'll Be Around
N/A

A generation’s last encore. Follows nearly three dozen musicians, misfits, and wanderers as they unknowingly shape each other’s lives during one strange day at an alt-rock fest

I'll Be Around

2020
Hole: MTV Unplugged
10.0

On February 14, 1995, Hole recorded a live acoustic performance in front of an audience at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York City. Along with a string ensemble, The group played a mix of hits off "Live Through This," plus new material, covers by Duran Duran and Donovan, and unreleased Nirvana track "You Know You're Right."

Hole: MTV Unplugged

1995
Hole: Live at The Lemon Grove (Exeter, 1991)
N/A

Hole's performance at The Lemon Grove on 11 December 1991. The first show where Courtney teased Surrender by Cheap Trick. It recurred throughout the rest of 1991.

Hole: Live at The Lemon Grove (Exeter, 1991)

1991
Hole: Miss World
N/A

Hole performs in the short film "Miss World" from the album "Live Through This." The short begins with Courtney Love singing as she is putting powder and lipstick on. The band performs on stage as Love accepts a crown and flowers.

Hole: Miss World

1994
Hole: Doll Parts
N/A

Hole performs in the short film "Doll Parts" from the album "Live Through This." The music video begins with a black and white sequence of Courtney Love in a white room and later in a bed as she sings. She plays with the band in a room with yellow painted walls.

Hole: Doll Parts

1994
Doll Crafting with Dame Darcy & Courtney Love
N/A

A short segment aired on the public access tv series "Turn of the Century". The short features Dame Darcy, Courtney Love, and Eric Erlandson learning and teaching how to handmake dolls at home.

Doll Crafting with Dame Darcy & Courtney Love

1997
Hole: Violet
10.0

Hole performs in the short film "Violet" from the album "Live Through This." The short features Courtney Love singing as she stands in front of a painting of trees as fake snow falls around her and ballerinas dance. Young girls stand on a stage as the band performs on a set.

Hole: Violet

1995
Not Bad for a Girl
9.0

A documentary on women musicians of the 1990s from the indie rock music genre, grunge and riot grrrl including Hole, Babes in Toyland, L7 and more.

Not Bad for a Girl

1995
Hole: Garbadge Man
N/A

First video by the original line-up of the band Hole. First premiered on MTV with an interview by Courtney Love and Kim Gordon, from the band Sonic Youth, who produced their debut album that the video is promoting, Pretty On the Inside (1991).

Hole: Garbadge Man

1992
Turn of the Century
N/A

Filmmaker, illustrator and musician Dame Darcy's weekly television collaboration with Blessed Elysium's Lisa Hammer aired on New York's Public Access from 1996-1999, presenting original drama and comedy in a German Expressionist style, utilizing New York underground personalities including Jennifer Nixon (aka Queen Itchie), Peter Moran, Bliss Blood, Banjo Pete, Miller Duvall, Secretary Jenny, Cynthia Mitchell, Patrick O'Clock (aka Patrick Hambrecht), Jasper McVain, Daisy Miller, Li'l Sweetie, and Countessa Cinorre, as well as celebrity guest stars Thurston Moore, Courtney Love and Tiny Tim.

Turn of the Century

1999
Hole: The Electric Factory
N/A

Performed on HBO's Reverb

Hole: The Electric Factory

1999
Hole: Live at The Metro (Chicago, 1994)
10.0

Hole's performance at The Metro on October 21, 1994. The show was taped and then broadcast on "ABC In Concert" in 1995.

Hole: Live at The Metro (Chicago, 1994)

1995
Hole: Live at Club Lingerie (Hollywood, 1990)
N/A

Hole’s performance at Club Lingerie on October 10, 1990, documents an early live appearance by the band.

Hole: Live at Club Lingerie (Hollywood, 1990)

1990