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Some artists borrow their own lyrics or album titles to name a memoir. Melissa Auf der Maur, former bassist of Hole and the Smashing Pumpkins, quoted a demon. Does she mean a literal or metaphorical ...

Back in the ’90s, Montreal musician Melissa Auf der Maur unexpectedly found herself at the heart of the grunge and alternative rock scene, playing bass for one of the era’s most iconic bands: Hole.

In the summer of 1991, Melissa Auf der Maur saw two gigs at Les Foufounes Électriques in Montreal that would ultimately change the course of the then 19-year-old musician’s life. The first was Los ...

It was that obsession with music that led to her connection with Corgan, apologizing to him on behalf of the entire city of Montreal after the Pumpkins’ first gig ended with an audience member ...

The bassist for the rock band Hole has written a tender, dishy and wildly funny new memoir about her time in a group beset by tragedy and chaos. She speaks to Adam White about beauty, trauma, her ...

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Auf der Maur's memoir 'Even the Good Girls Will Cry' is out now Ilana Kaplan is a Staff Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has previously appeared in The New York ...

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MARCH 17: Melissa Auf der Maur Discusses Her New Book "Even The Good Girls Will Cry" at Strand Bookstore on March 17, 2026 in New York City. (Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images) In ...

Rocker Melissa Auf der Maur, who once dated Dave Grohl, recounts in her new book, Even the Good Girls Will Cry: A '90s Rock Memoir, that the Foo Fighters drummer and frontman was the first guy to give ...

Wary of working with Hole’s ‘impossible, drug addict’ lead singer, the bassist soon found herself entranced. So why did she jump ship for the Smashing Pumpkins – and start a relationship with Love’s ...