{"id":154176,"date":"2025-10-30T22:43:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T22:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/154176\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T22:43:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T22:43:14","slug":"hole-bassist-melissa-auf-der-maur-announces-new-memoir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/154176\/","title":{"rendered":"Hole Bassist Melissa Auf der Maur Announces New Memoir"},"content":{"rendered":"

Melissa Auf der Maur<\/a>, the former bassist of Hole<\/a>, touring member in the Smashing Pumpkins<\/a>, and co-founder of New York\u2019s Basilica Hudson, has announced a new memoir. Even the Good Girls Will Cry: A \u201990s Rock Memoir<\/a> comes out March 17 via Da Capo<\/a>. Check out the book cover below.<\/p>\n

Billed as \u201cpart rock memoir, part travel diary, and part psychedelic scrapbook,\u201d Even the Good Girls Will Cry documents Melissa Auf der Maur\u2019s life as she grew up from a teenager in Montreal immersed in the city\u2019s art and music life, to a cassette DJ and ticket girl, on through to a musician who got her big break. After her band Tinker earned an opening slot for the Smashing Pumpkins, she was whisked off on the journey of a lifetime. Auf der Mauf was invited to join Hole just in time for their 1994 Live Through This<\/a> world tour, bonded with Courtney Love<\/a> as a friend while she grieved the death of Kurt Cobain and former Hole bassist Kristen Pfaff, and began to see the alt-rock world from the inside looking out as a musician, photographer, producer, and more.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis book is about the decade that defined me and my generation, 1991-2001, and my life in the rock bands which allowed me to have a front row seat to an incredibly visceral and unforgettable moment in the counterculture,\u201d said Auf der Maur. \u201cIt\u2019s a love letter to the power of music and one-of-a-kind voices that make the world a cooler place; it\u2019s also an ode to the analog, and what magic has been lost. Sharing what our generation witnessed, and what the world once was, in my hope of building a more livable future together.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read about Hole\u2019s Live Through This<\/a> at No. 8 in \u201cThe 150 Best Albums of the 1990s<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"Melissa<\/a><\/p>\n

Melissa Auf der Maur: Even the Good Girls Will Cry: A \u201990s Rock Memoir<\/p>\n

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