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YOU WONT BELIEVE: Hole - What They Never Told You

Girls in bands: two 90s rock icons on romance, ruthlessness and boring men

In the 1990s, Melissa Auf der Maur played bass in two of the decade’s most notable rock bands: Hole and Smashing Pumpkins.

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“The two things I remember are the cool guitar stuff… and this never-ending scream”: Billy Corgan on the first time he met Courtney Love and witnessed Hole live

After meeting at a Chicago venue in 1991, the two artists and their respective bands were interlinked for decades to come

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Melissa Auf der Maur says Olivia Rodrigo crediting Hole’s influence to her daughter was a career‑defining moment

Melissa Auf der Maur says Olivia Rodrigo telling her daughter that Hole helped shape her music was one of the proudest moments of her life.

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Courtney Love was 'angry' over Melissa Auf der Maur quitting Hole to join Smashing Pumpkins

Former Hole bassist Melissa Auf der Maur has recalled Courtney Love's reaction to her joining The Smashing Pumpkins.

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"By writing obsessively in my diary I was admitting, This is madness, you are in danger, be careful." Hole, Smashing Pumpkins bassist Melissa Auf der Maur on surviving the '90s, love, loss, and her brilliant memoir Even The Good Girls Will Cry

"There was a lot of pain from all the death and drugs and corporate destruction"

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"I felt like an absurd grunge Cinderella, who’d found herself with VIP access to the ball." Melissa Auf der Maur's '90s rock memoir Even The Good Girls Will Cry is frank, fearless and fabulously revelatory

You won't read a better '90s music biography than former Hole / Smashing Pumpkins bassist Melissa Auf der Maur's new memoir

Louder

Hole’s Melissa Auf der Maur: ‘Courtney Love is a maniac and a hero – and yes, you can be both’

INTERVIEW: 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 inevitable romance with Nirvana’s Dave Grohl, and her determination to reframe Courtney…

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“Living in the shadow of my grunge parents, Courtney and Billy… it was a complex and exhausting shadow to come out from under”: Melissa Auf der Maur on joining Hole amidst tragedy and her “Master’s in Music” with the Smashing Pumpkins

In her love letter to the ’90s – the last analog decade – the Hole and Smashing Pumpkins bassist shares how she fell in love with the low-end and became an integral part of the noise-making generation

Guitar World

“Was Courtney impossible, difficult, a drug addict, terrifying, and even mean sometimes? Yes, she was. But it took me one second to understand that she was also a survivor”: Melissa Auf der Maur on her time in Hole and why she’s “proud” of Courtney Love

She has a memoir out this week

MusicRadar

‘I watched society burn a woman at the stake’: Melissa Auf der Maur on her bandmate Courtney Love and the farce of the 90s

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 enemy Dave Grohl?

The Guardian - UK

"I threw my guitar off, dove into the crowd, and began strangling him to the ground. I remember the look of terror in his eyes." The night that Smashing Pumpkins Billy Corgan met his future bandmate, and future Hole bassist, Melissa Auf der Maur

The night that fate brought two alt. rock icons together

Louder

“I was a good bass player, and I am proud of my Celebrity Skin work, but oh my God, it changed my level of musicianship forever”: Melissa Auf der Maur on what she learned from playing with Billy Corgan and The Smashing Pumpkins

Auf der Maur joined the Pumpkins in October 1999 following a five-year stint with Hole

Guitar World

"So do we tell the kids about the tour?" Courtney Love and former Hole bandmate Melissa Auf Der Maur are reuniting

Get ready for half a Hole reunion, but not as Hole

Louder

Courtney Love’s Reaction To Kurt Cobain Homicide Claim Revealed By Report

Courtney Love reportedly rejects renewed claims about Kurt Cobain’s passing, choosing to honor his memory instead.

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‘I also like the name Cougar-Chella’: Gen X mom makes fake poster for Perimenopause-a-Palooza. Then Alanis Morissette comments. Now it might happen

Why should Gen Z have all the fun? A Gen X mom previously went viral after making a poster for what she calls the Perimenopause-a-Palooza. And the craziest part? Now, it might just happen.

The Guardian - US

‘If you want to nuke your life, do crack’: raw Courtney Love documentary hits Sundance

Antiheroine, a new film about the musician’s tumultuous life and career, premiered at the festival with some frank admissions but the star not present

MusicRadar

“Icontend that I was the first person to actually have a Super Fuzz Big Muff – before the rest of the boys”: How Courtney Love created the grunge classic that was released during her darkest hour

Hole’s song Violet came out just a week after Kurt Cobain’s suicide

The Independent UK

16 books to have on your radar in 2026

THE LIST: No guarantees, of course, but Annabel Nugent thinks these hot titles will be some of next year’s best

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Guitar World

“The moment I discovered what it feels like to teach yourself a riff that you love, I was hooked. It feels like you're riding the universe”: Hole and Smashing Pumpkins' Melissa Auf der Maur reveals the bassists who compelled her to pick up the instrument

The ’90s bass icon pays homage to the other women in the scene at the time – and recalls how seeing them onstage was a total game-changer for her

Louder

"Her story, unfiltered and unapologetic." One of rock's most iconic, inspirational and provocative figures to share her life story in a "raw, complicated" new documentary film

Antiheroine will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival

The Independent UK

Courtney Love to tell her life story for first time in revealing new documentary

Influential rock star frontwoman of Hole, who was married to Kurt Cobain until his death in 1994, had previously been teasing a memoir

Louder

"I listened to track one and I was like, Ooh, that was nasty!" Hollywood superstar Adam Sandler reveals the iconic '90s rock album that he can't stop listening to

Actor and comedian Adam Sandler shares his love for one of the most raw, brutal and essential rock bands of the 1990s

The Guardian - UK

There is a fascinating TV series to be made about a menopausal rock band – Riot Women isn’t it

Writer-director Sally Wainwright is a national treasure, but here she’s reduced the fury and passion of the riot grrrl movement to a minor plot device, says Tiff Bakker, a New York-based writer

Benzinga

Why Jackson Hole Is The Fed's Mountaintop Moment—And Why It Matters More Than Ever

Imagine being Jerome Powell this week. On Friday, August 22, the Federal Reserve chairman will step onto the stage at the Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium — the most closely watched monetary retreat in the world — with markets, politicians, and even building contractors staring him down.

MusicRadar

Hole’s song Violet came out just a week after Kurt Cobain’s suicide

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