
Melissa Auf der Maur
Melissa Auf der Maur is a Canadian rock musician. She began her career playing bass in the band Tinker and later toured with The Smashing Pumpkins. In 1994, she joined Hole as bassist, contributing to their critically acclaimed album Celebrity Skin. As a solo artist, she released the albums Auf der Maur and Out Of Our Minds. Her most popular songs include Followed the Waves, Skin Receiver, and Taste You. Auf der Maur has appeared in the documentary films Brainiac: Transmissions After Zero and Buke & Gase, as well as the feature film Collaborator.
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- Q with Tom Power Melissa Auf der Maur on Hole’s chaos — and its genius

In her new memoir, Even the Good Girls Will Cry, Canadian musician Melissa Auf der Maur pulls back the curtain on the alternative and grunge scene of the ’90s. She tells Tom Power about the chaotic, often destructive dynamics within Hole — and how, through it all, frontwoman Courtney Love emerged as one of rock’s most powerful feminist voices. With both her bass and her camera as constant companions, Melissa made it through the decade not only intact, but stronger. The Montreal-born musician and artist joins Tom Power to share the whirlwind story of how it all came to be.
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About
- FROM
- Montreal, Canada
- BORN
- March 17, 1972
- GENRE
- Rock