Melissa Auf der Maur, the previous bassist of Hole, touring member in the Smashing Pumpkins, and co-founder of New York’s Basilica Hudson, has introduced a brand new memoir. Even the Good Girls Will Cry: A ’90s Rock Memoir comes out March 17 by way of Da Capo. Take a look at the e book cowl beneath.
Billed as “half rock memoir, half journey diary, and half psychedelic scrapbook,” Even the Good Ladies Will Cry paperwork Melissa Auf der Maur’s life as she grew up from an adolescent in Montreal immersed within the metropolis’s artwork and music life, to a cassette DJ and ticket lady, on by means of to a musician who acquired her massive break. After her band Tinker earned a gap slot for the Smashing Pumpkins, she was whisked off on the journey of a lifetime. Auf der Mauf was invited to hitch Gap simply in time for his or her 1994 Live Through This world tour, bonded with Courtney Love as a pal whereas she grieved the dying of Kurt Cobain and former Gap bassist Kristen Pfaff, and started to see the alt-rock world from the within searching as a musician, photographer, producer, and extra.
“This e book is in regards to the decade that outlined me and my era, 1991-2001, and my life within the rock bands which allowed me to have a entrance row seat to an extremely visceral and unforgettable second within the counterculture,” mentioned Auf der Maur. “It’s a love letter to the ability of music and one-of-a-kind voices that make the world a cooler place; it’s additionally an ode to the analog, and what magic has been misplaced. Sharing what our era witnessed, and what the world as soon as was, in my hope of constructing a extra livable future collectively.”
Examine Gap’s Live Through This at No. 8 in “The 150 Best Albums of the 1990s.”
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