Melissa Auf der Maur, the former bassist of Hole, touring member in the Smashing Pumpkins, and co-founder of New York’s Basilica Hudson, has announced a new memoir. Even the Good Girls Will Cry: A ’90s Rock Memoir comes out March 17 via Da Capo. Check out the book cover below.
Billed as “part rock memoir, part travel diary, and part psychedelic scrapbook,” Even the Good Girls Will Cry documents Melissa Auf der Maur’s life as she grew up from a teenager in Montreal immersed in the city’s 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 world tour, bonded with Courtney Love 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.
“This 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,” said Auf der Maur. “It’s a love letter to the power of music and one-of-a-kind voices that make the world a cooler place; it’s 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.”
Read about Hole’s Live Through This at No. 8 in “The 150 Best Albums of the 1990s.”
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