Courtney Love's recent Behind the Music special covered the wild and turbulent career of the Hole singer, but Love added another strange and unexpected chapter to her life story with perhaps her biggest in-concert meltdown yet. According to theWashington Post , Love's recent performance at D.C.'s 9:30 Club disintegrated into a three-hour train wreck highlighted by strange between-song stage banter, attacks at her critics, endless celebrity name-checking and, by the show's end, Love stripping down topless to perform the encore. "Do you really like rock music?" Love asked one young woman earnestly during the show. "Because you're African American. That would be like me being into Lil Wayne." Check out footage of Love's bizarre performance (plus fans' post-show reactions) below.

Check out Love's wildest meltdowns, from sucker punches to topless television appearances.

Hole performed roughly 30 songs, including covers of songs by the Rolling Stones and Leonard Cohen, but the songs were mainly just fragments and only a handful were actually completed. During performances of "Miss World" and "Violet," Love turned her back to the microphone during the chorus. She also stumbled through several other songs, admitting that she had forgotten how to play them — yet still played them regardless. "This is a really weird show," Love said. "I can't tell if it's really terrible." Later, one of her handlers announced that in order to coax Love back for an encore, the crowd would have to cheer loudly because, the Post reports, "there was someone who was waiting to have sex with Love and it would take lots of applause to get her to delay that appointment."

Love has had a string of recent meltdowns surrounding the release of Nobody's Daughter. As Rolling Stonepreviously reported, Love kicked off the promotional campaign by igniting a Twitter war with both Billy Corgan — who accused Love of using a pair of songs he'd co-written on her new album without his permission — and her own daughter Frances Bean, who opted to live with her grandmother instead of Love. However, after performing what Love described as the "worst show" of her career at SXSW this March, she eloquently chatted with the hosts of The View and on the Howard Stern Show and the concerts leading up to the Washington, D.C. debacle were incident-free.

The Indie Rock Terrorism Alert seems to be at an all-time high. While Eels' Mark Oliver Everett was recently mistaken for a terrorist at London's Hyde Park, Spinner has learned that another indie rocker faced such allegations. On a recent trip to AOL's Los Angeles headquarters, the National's Matt Berninger revealed that he was taken into federal custody at Honolulu's airport because of a misunderstanding.

Following a rigorous overseas press schedule -- these stories always seem to start this way -- with bandmate Aaron Dessner behind the band's new album 'High Violet,' a jetlagged and exhausted Berninger was to meet his wife and one-and-a-half-year-old daughter for what he calls their "first official family vacation" in Kauai. After a seven-hour flight from Tokyo, waiting for his connection in a massage chair with a muffin in one hand and coffee in the other, Berninger could almost feel the mist of Kauai's many waterfalls on his face when things went wrong.

"Suddenly I hear my name being called," he tells Spinner, "and my name's flashing on all the monitors, and I was supposed to report to security." His next thought was only natural. "I sat in the massage chair. I was kind of hoping that maybe I could finish this 15-minute massage chair thing first then realized that maybe I shouldn't." So he approached the security desk where the woman behind the counter told him, "Sir, I can't help you right now. They're evacuating the airport." 

This is where Berninger, the deep baritone that has people attach words like "melancholy" and "dark" to the indie rock band with Ohio roots, realized that perhaps "there's something going on." Outside, as he was watching people clear the airport, the cause of the situation dawned on him. 

"I had bought a novelty clock in Tokyo, some sort of MacGyver, goofball alarm clock that happened to look exactly like a bomb. And it was in my suitcase," he says, describing the memento he bought for a pal. "I had the Honolulu Airport evacuated for about 45 minutes. I ultimately had to surrender the alarm clock to the TSA but they were very pleasant and professional. They had done a great job and I thanked them and they let me go." With everything cleared up, Berninger apologizes to anyone at the airport that may have missed their connecting flights that day.

Leonard Cohen has spent the last two years globetrotting through a marathon tour, but when Rolling Stone caught up with the poet last night in New York — where he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame — he revealed he's working on a new album, his first disc of fresh material since 2004's Dear Heather. "God willing it will be finished next spring," he said.

"I'm producing it," he said, wearing his typical dapper black suit and fedora. The 75-year-old added that the disc will contain "10 or 11 songs," mostly composed before he hit the road in May 2008 for the first time in 15 years. "One song was written on tour, the rest were written before," he said, noting that he wrote some tracks with longtime collaborator Sharon Robinson and with his longtime companion Anjani. What will it sound like? "Something good, I hope."

Cohen said not much has changed on his playlist in recent years and rattled off a list of his favorite artists with long breathy pauses between names: "The same people — Tom Waits, Van Morrison, Bob Dylan, Judy Collins."

Last year, Cohen debuted one new song live, the slow, moonlit blues "Feels So Good." This summer, Cohen embarks another leg of his tour, and in November he'll play Cambodia's Olympic Stadium with proceeds going to chartiable groups like the Cambodian Red Cross. "That's a long story," he said. "But if we can help there I'm very happy to be able to do it." Cohen's tour grossed $21 million in 2009 and earned stellar reviews. "I don't examine these things too closely," he said about his success on the road. "Otherwise they may evaporate."

At the ceremony, Cohen made a brief-but-spellbinding speech, said he was "overwhelmed" and then recited a stanza from his staple "Hallelujah." After the ceremony, fellow icons Paul Simon and Billy Joel made an early exit, but Cohen hung around his table, posing for photos and accepting accolades. When a couple forced electric guitar pickguards in his face, Cohen calmly told them, "You know I don't like signing these," but then signed them anyway.

Perez Hilton appeared on HLN’sThe Joy Behar Show tonight to tell his side of the Miley Cyrus photo scandal. Dressed in a suit he apparently borrowed from the Riddler, Hilton took the moral high ground. Behar asked him if he had purposefully pixelated the photo to suggest the absence of undergarments. “I did not pixelate anything, I did not photoshop anything,” said the gossipmonger. “I can’t help it, Joy, if America has a very dirty imagination.”

Hilton was unapologetic. He refuted child pornography charges, and in the process offered the most curious defense I have ever heard:  “I think it’s insulting to children to accuse that of child pornography.” He also insisted that he would do it all over again: “If the photo agency that took that photo let me [post it], I would. It’s not showing anything inappropriate.”

Listen, this controversy has become overblown. Hilton is right that most people are overreacting, “upset over an image they didn’t see.” But to me, his basic defense is beyond disturbing. He claimed that the photo isn’t any more inappropriate than any of the pop star’s recent spate of un-Disneylike activity: “grinding up on her 40-something year old director, pole dancing, all the oversexualized things she’s been doing.”

So,  basically, a teenaged girl is dancing inappropriately and pretending to be a grown-up. (Horrors!) And that gives actual grown-ups license to do pretty much anything they want to with her? That’s like saying “She was asking for it.” PopWatchers, that’s just bullplop. Bullplop! (It doesn’t help that Perez kept on finding new ways to imply that the whole controversy is Cyrus’ fault, couched in weirdly inappropriate language: “Miley has been around the block.”)

Did any of you watch the Hilton interview, PopWatchers? Are you on Team Perez, Team Miley, or Team Who Taught These Two To Dress? I never thought I’d say this, but I think I’m with Joy Behar: maybe it’s not an invasion of her privacy, but we can all agree that it’s definitely an invasion of her private parts.