Back in the '90s, Melissa Auf der Maur rose to prominence as the bassist of Hole. But even then, the mechanisms and visibility of being in a major rock band weren't for her. She signed the contract in search of experience, got it, then walked away. After a brief stint with the Smashing Pumpkins following…

Earlier this year, right before the 20th anniversary of Kurt Cobain’s suicide and Hole’s classic album Live Through This, Courtney Love said that she was reuniting with Melissa Auf Der Maur, Eric Erlandson, and Patty Schemel and that they were working on new material. A few weeks later, she tapered expectations by saying that...

2000′s Machina/The Machines Of God was the last album the Smashing Pumpkins released before going away for a while, the one where Jimmy Chamberlain came back and Melissa Auf der Maur took over for D’Arcy Wretzky on bass. It doesn’t boast the critical adulation and cultural resonance reserved for Siamese Dream and Me...

A few months ago, Courtney Love gave Hole fans something to be excited about when she confirmed in a Facebook Q&A that she was “slowly, steadily” reuniting with the band’s Celebrity Skin-era lineup of Eric Erlandson, Patty Schemel, and Melissa Auf Der Maur. Then in an interview earlier this month, Love ment...

Nothing ever happened with the Fucking Virgins, the space-rock supergroup featuring Ryan Adams, Evan Dando, Melissa Auf Der Maur, and James Iha, but either way, kindred souls Adams and Dando seemed destined to work together at some point. That point, it appears, is this weekend. According to a couple Twitter posts, Adams will produce the [...]