Courtney Love Cleared, Sober and Readying New Album

Courtney Love has completed her six-month rehab and house arrest sentence for violating probation on a handful of charges — including assault, possession of an illegal prescription and being under the influence of a controlled substance — stemming from 2003 and 2004.

The "cool mom" appeared in a Los Angeles courtroom on February 3, where judge Rand S. Rubin told the 41-year-old rocker, "Overall, I think you're doing really well. We're all pretty pleased with your progress."

Love's continued progress will be addressed in court on May 5 and 12. She remains on probation until March 2007 and has to stay drug- and alcohol-free. The singer/actress must submit to random checks twice a week and must avoid any business that has alcohol as its main source of income. She must also continue therapy and counseling.

"I would just like to thank the court for allowing me these 90 days... [It] helped me deal with a very gnarly drug problem, which is behind me... I've just been playing guitar and taking care of my daughter," Love said in court. "I want to [take this opportunity] to let the community know that I'm doing great."

Love continues to write songs for her upcoming album and the former Hole frontwoman has been working in the studio with Billy Corgan. Among her new songs are "Good In Bed" and "Stand Up Motherfucker," a song she composed for her novelist grandma, who had previously told the New York Times she didn't like how her granddaughter used language. "I reacted to that, and I wrote an elegiac sort of song using the word motherfucker in it," Love told Rolling Stone.

Love plans to demo her new material in the coming weeks and will hit the studio in March with producer/songwriter/friend Linda Perry, who encouraged the rocker to be more self-reliant by giving her a guitar to play while she was in rehab.