Hole & Smashing Pumpkins Bassist Melissa Auf der Maur Announces “’90s Rock Memoir” Even The Good Girls Will Cry

Before kicking off a solo career of her own, Melissa Auf der Maur played bass in both Hole and Smashing Pumpkins. Today she’s announced her “’90s rock memoir” titled Even The Good Girls Will Cry, set for release this March.

Auf der Maur grew up in Montreal, where she sold concert tickets and formed her first band Tinker. Tinker opened for Smashing Pumpkins, and frontman Billy Corgan introduced her to Courtney Love, who’d eventually recruit Auf der Maur for Hole. Auf der Maur joined Hole during a famously turbulent time in alt-rock history: She was replacing prior bassist Kristen Pfaff, who’d just suddenly died not long after Kurt Cobain. These events seem to be the crux of Even The Good Girls Will Cry, which is billed as “part rock memoir, part travel diary, and part psychedelic scrapbook” that serves as “a vivid dispatch from the last analog decade, artistically capturing that bygone era in all its messy, angsty glory.”

Even The Good Girls Will Cry is out 3/17 via De Capo. Pre-order it here.