As rocker Courtney Love gets ready to release a new Hole album, Dazed & Confused magazine featured the singer on the January 2010 cover featuring “100 Dazed stars from the last decade.” Just as the magazine is hitting newsstands, word comes that Courtney Love has lost custody of her daughter with Nirvana front-man Kurt Cobain, Frances Bean Cobain, once again.

In the January issue of Dazed & Confused, on sale Thursday December 18, Dazed headed to New York to spend a couple of days with the legend that is Courtney Love, as she gets ready to unleash new Hole album ‘Nobody’s Daughter’ early in the New Year.

Photographed by Yelena Yemchuk and styled by senior fashion editor Karen Langley, the first lady of rock talks exclusively to Dazed about why London has the best musicians, how she overcame her demons, and why her name will always split a room.

Apparently she hasn’t overcome all her demons, since it was revealed Courtney Love lost custody of teenage daughter Frances Bean Cobain. This is the second time Love has lost custody of her teenage daughter.

Frances Bean Cobain, Love’s 17-year-old daughter with Kurt Cobain, is now being cared for by the late Nirvana front-man’s mother and sister. The reasons behind the change of custody are not clear, but a lawyer for Kurt Cobain’s mother and sister said this is a private family matter and that no statement would be issued on the reason behind the move.

Documents filed at Los Angeles Superior Court on Friday show that Wendy O’Connor, Kurt’s mother, and Kimberly Dawn Cobain, his sister, have been named temporary guardians of Frances Bean.

The duo will now be in charge of the rock heir’s education, living situation and health care, ostensibly until her mother regains custody or she ceases being a minor (she turns 18 next August).

Her lawyer today denied speculation the move is a result of a drug relapse. ‘Courtney’s been clean for years and is perfectly fine,’ Keith A Fink told People magazine. This is simply about Frances preferring to live with her grandmother at this time.

‘Frances is 17 and a strong-willed child, and this is a decision she made on her own,’ Fink added. ‘No matter what, Courtney loves her daughter more than anything in the world.’

It is not the first time Love, who previously fronted rock band Hole, has lost custody of Frances Bean. The Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services stepped in 2003, after the troubled singer was treated for an accidental overdose of OxyContin medication. Frances Bean, then just 11, was placed under the care of O’ Connor until Love regained custody in January 2005.

Love’s daughter was born in August 1992, just six months after she married Cobain in Honolulu, Hawaii. On April 8, 1994, the Nirvana singer committed suicide. Love has previously spoken about the difficulties of bringing her daughter up alone. ‘We get [along] well most of the time but teenagers are hard,’ she has said. ‘Being a single mother is hard. I just want things to be good for her, but she’s a lot like me and a lot like her dad.’

Despite her notoriously erratic behavior, Courtney has previously insisted: ‘I am a good mother, and the proof is in the pudding.’

Frances told Harper’s Bazaar magazine last year that she does not want to live in the shadow of her famous parents forever. She said: ‘If you’re a big Nirvana fan, a big Hole fan, then I understand why you would want to get to know me. But I’m not my parents.’