Overview

Thanks to a thrown beer bottle and a fan letter to a P.O. box, Melissa Auf der Maur's first band scored an opening slot for the Smashing Pumpkins in her bohemian home town, Montreal. Sensing Melissa's talent, Billy Corgan recommended her to Courtney Love. Whisked from her local scene, Melissa joined Hole just after the deaths of Kurt Cobain and Hole's prior bassist, Kristen Pfaff, with the just-widowed Courtney Love at the centre of it all. That was only the beginning of Melissa's journey through alternative rock, a trip she undertook alongside 90s luminaries including Rufus Wainwright, Michael Stipe and her former boyfriend, Dave Grohl. Even the Good Girls Will Cry is a vivid dispatch from the last analogue decade, capturing that bygone era in all its messy, angsty glory. 'Our '90s fever dreams were beautiful but they were also brutal and only the good girls, like Melissa, have the guts to tell you that' - SHIRLEY MANSON 'intimate, poetic look at the sounds that defined a generation' - WALTON GOGGINS 'Fearless, loyal and radically alive' - NATASHA LYONNE 'Melissa shows us the female experience of rock and roll' - MARTHA WAINWRIGHT

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Our '90s fever dreams were beautiful but they were also brutal and only the good girls, like Melissa, have the guts to tell you that. -- Shirley Manson An intimate, poetic look of Melissa Auf der Maur's experience making music before the distractions of social media, when musicians made music not for followers but for themselves, pouring everything they had into the sounds that defined a generation -- Walton Goggins Fearless, loyal and radically alive, Melissa Auf der Maur brings the same fire to her writing that she does to her life -- Natasha Lyonne As if through the lens of her camera, Melissa shows us a female experience of rock and roll where we as women rarely get to sit at the table and share in the spoils -- Martha Wainwright, author of STORIES I MIGHT REGRET TELLING YOU Stunningly intelligent, sharp-eyed and perceptive -- Matthew Specktor, author of AMERICAN DREAM MACHINE

Our '90s fever dreams were beautiful but they were also brutal and only the good girls, like Melissa, have the guts to tell you that. -- Shirley Manson An intimate, poetic look at Melissa Auf der Maur's experience making music before the distractions of social media, when musicians made music not for followers but for themselves, pouring everything they had into the sounds that defined a generation -- Walton Goggins Fearless, loyal and radically alive, Melissa Auf der Maur brings the same fire to her writing that she does to her life -- Natasha Lyonne As if through the lens of her camera, Melissa shows us a female experience of rock and roll where we as women rarely get to sit at the table and share in the spoils -- Martha Wainwright, author of STORIES I MIGHT REGRET TELLING YOU Stunningly intelligent, sharp-eyed and perceptive -- Matthew Specktor, author of AMERICAN DREAM MACHINE Auf der Maur is a superb writer, and also a tender one...A compassionate memoir that offers much more than '90s nostalgia * Kirkus Reviews *

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Melissa Auf der Maur is a critically acclaimed singer-songwriter, best known as the former bassist of rock bands Hole and the Smashing Pumpkins. In 2007, VH1 included her as #68 on the list of '100 Greatest Women of Rock & Roll.' She is also the co-creative director and owner of Basilica Hudson, a performance centre in Hudson, NY, where she lives.

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