Courtney Love Unplugs New Cobain Songs for MTV : Pop music: But the rocker’s widow kept the spotlight on herself in her 13-song set with band Hole. Air date for the acoustical outing isn’t set.

With Nirvana’s hit “MTV Unplugged” album still hovering in Billboard’s Top 20, Courtney Love’s Valentine’s Day taping with her band Hole of an episode of the same show at the Brooklyn Academy of Music was pregnant with haunting possibilities.

And, while the 13-song set contained a few sentimental moments involving the memory of Kurt Cobain, Love is not one to give up the spotlight, even to her late husband.

Introducing “Drown Soda,” an unreleased Cobain song that contained the ironic couplet, “Things have never been so swell/I have never been so well,” Love said, “Maybe he can hear it,” and guessed that he might complain she was “f---ing up his song.”

An untitled song she said that she, Cobain and Hole drummer Patty Schemel “wrote in Brazil when we were really drunk and stuff” sounded like it. At one point a fan shouted out an inquiry as to her Valentine’s Day and there was a long pause. Love finally brightened and said she had gotten a valentine from “the sexiest man in America,” Brad Pitt.

The set was equally divided between songs from Hole’s current album, “Live Through This,” new material and other artists’ songs, including Donovan’s “Season of the Witch” and Duran Duran’s “Hungry Like the Wolf.”

Strumming a series of acoustic guitars, Love seemed relaxed and free of baggage. She revved up a throaty, horror-show roar for the climaxes of several songs, but generally kept herself on an even, folk-rock keel that was emotionally effective, if not always in tune. However this all plays on television (the show doesn’t yet have a scheduled air date), Hole’s meandering progress toward bigger stardom marches on.