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There's a new twist in the ongoing saga Aerosmith saga. The beleaguered band has had problematic relations with lead singer Steven Tyler, leading to rumors that Joe Perry and company would be recruiting a new singer while Tyler got whatever help he needed. But the band has announced that they will play a series of European festivals in June, and they've promised that Tyler will indeed serve as the frontman. "I love performing as the lead singer in Aerosmith," Tyler said. "I am grateful for all of the support and love I am receiving and am committed to getting things taken care of."

Tyler entered a rehab facility in December, but a series of strange instances (including a visit to a karaoke bar and gig singing in a Home Depot) have created doubt among fans as to what Tyler's future with the band would be. Aerosmith have been through a lot as a band (drug issues, public apathy, that one time their drummer set himself on fire), but they're becoming dangerously close to joining the pantheon of bands who become known more for their personal drama than for the music itself. Who else is in that pantheon? Glad you asked!

Courtney Love/Hole
Love didn't invent the concept of band drama, but she certainly refined it to an art form. It's been six years since she released her debut solo album America's Sweetheart, and since then, she has gone to war with the former members of Nirvana, her old bandmates in Hole, the makers of "Guitar Hero," a credit card company and her own daughter Frances Bean Cobain. She is only now making her live performance comeback, though her heavily-bootlegged follow-up album Nobody's Daughter remains somewhere in limbo. But even if her new album is the new decade's version of Kid A, her personal drama will still eclipse the music.

Whatever Band Pete Doherty Is Currently In
The beleaguered British star, who first broke out with the Libertines and then formed Babyshambles, is known more for dating Kate Moss and taking photos of himself while doing drugs than anything he has ever recorded. Every time he schedules a concert, the question becomes not "What will he play?" but rather "Will he make it to the stage?"

Amy Winehouse
She grabbed everyone's attention back in 2006 when her Back to Black floored music fans around the world and launched a mini-genre of her very own. But since Winehouse won five Grammys, it's been nothing but issues involving drugs, her health, her strange relationship with her parents, her legal problems and her relationship with on-again/off-again boyfriend/husband Blake Fielder-Civil.

Oasis
When they were putting out all-time great singles like "Wonderwall" and "Supersonic," everybody was willing to overlook the fact that the two brothers at the front of the action were constantly at odds. But in the past few years of middling albums and go-nowhere singles, all of the focus has been on the war of words between Liam and Noel Gallagher. And even though the band officially broke it off last year, whenever either brother puts out any music, the question will immediately be "What does the other brother think?"

Axl Rose
No fewer than 17,000 people have been in Guns N' Roses since the release of the Use Your Illusion albums and Axl essentially turned the group into a solo project. Since then, he has floated in and out of the public's consciousness, released one album and sporadically toured (most recently, he showed up for a surprise show during New York Fashion Week). The drama surrounding Rose and his various players has long eclipsed the fact that "Welcome to the Jungle" still rules.

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.”