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Analogue Auf der Maur online. My Memoir: EVEN THE GOOD GIRLS WILL CRY + Art Book: My 90s Rock Photographs. I LOVE BASS + Art Factory @basilicahudson
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#90s#analog#90sgrunge#ssawmagazine#melissaaufdermaur#hole#smashingpumpkins#courtneylove#floodmagazine#boty
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With queen feline Bella as my witness, advanced copy of the visual companion of my memoir, My ‘90s Rock Photographs coming out Sept 8th with @delmonico_books @artbook
In tandem with accompanying major museum exhibit in Toronto @agotoronto
Pre-sale link in bio and save the date for museum opening … Please!
xMx
06 Jun 2026
EVEN THE GOOD GIRLS WILL CRY OUT NOW WORLDWIDE
I lived it
I wrote it
I read it
I cried it
I AM it
Grateful to share my ‘90s Rock Memoir with you today. (Fresh tears on Audiobook)
Tears and Time.
They weave our worlds.
Hold us together.
US, Canada, UK, Ireland, East Coast to West Coast, come find me in a city near you …
Memoir and event links to via my linktree and on www.xmadmx.com
17 Mar 2026
Hello People of the Internet
Nice to find you here.
Starting a dialogue and breaking the ice today, because there is so much sharing coming around the bend for me in 2026 ——
My 90s rock memoir, coming out on my birthday, followed by some travel to find you in person, exploding into a photography book + exhibit and more — in preparation for that, I will be engaging much more here, lifting the hood on what is to come ….
xMx
21 Nov 2025
I first listened to @xmadmx Melissa Auf der Maur’s BASS WOMB ROOM on September 4, and I struggled to find the words for it, because it pulled me outside my usual way of listening, which is strange, since I thought my emotional relationship with music had already shown me every way it could move through me.
It ended up being a journey into sound itself, how it travels, comes back to me, to us, and how we’re an active part of
that constant movement too.
We tend to imagine listening as an arrow, I guess, travelling from a point of origin to a final target, the listener, but sound doesn’t stop there. It’s more like walking through an empty Gothic church: you hear your footsteps on the floor, again from the walls, then from further away, and you can feel the sound in your own body too.
At the museum, BASS WOMB ROOM is a pyramid of mirrors with videos playing in the middle, where the images bounce between the mirrors and you end up reflected with them, much like the sound of your footsteps in the church.
And it all makes sense through the body, through the womb, especially when you think about why Melissa calls the bass “the mother of all instruments”.
Our mother’s voice reaches us from within her, along with her heartbeat and those low frequencies we can already feel. We’re not even born yet.
The record brings together seven unheard ’90s demos she recorded alone at home in Los Angeles, guitar, voice, bass, a dripping faucet, the click of her camera, “the quiet and private side of the girl who joined the big American major label rock band”, and eight new interludes produced by Alex Crow, connected by a heartbeat that represents both
the bass and “the womb we all come from.”
BASS WOMB ROOM: My ’90s 4-Track Demos x Field Recordings is out now on Envision Records, digitally# and on a limited pink cassette, with the vinyl out December 4, on pre-order in black and limited Coloured Galaxy Translucent, my favourite, of course.
@xmadmx @pitchperfect.pr @envisionmanagement
#90s #analog #90sgrunge
08 Nov 2026
Our Book of the Year for 2026 is a deeply personal reflection on family, identity, creativity and the people and places that shape us.
@emjaywaller caught up with Melissa Auf der Maur (@xmadmx) to discuss creative legacy, women in music, the emotional power of art and what it means to preserve our memories in an increasingly digital world.
We love this book and we’re so thrilled to have it in our top spot this year end 💖
Pick up your copy of Melissa’s essential memoir ‘Even the Good Girls Will Cry: My ’90s Rock Memoir’ at Rough Trade, ft. a signed bookplate and exclusive zine of extras.
@atlanticbooks
04 Nov 2026
#SSAWmagazine AW26
In the great encyclopaedia of rock, her story sounds like a distorted fairy tale: a young, flame-haired Canadian bass player, plucked out of obscurity to join Hole, the band fronted by Courtney Love, only weeks after the death of both her husband, Kurt Cobain, and Kristen Pfaff, the previous musician to have held the job. Melissa Auf der Maur stepped into a storm, which she weathered for five years, before leaving and spending a year as the bassist in Smashing Pumpkins. 25 years after one of the most intense creative eras in music, the Montreal-born artist returns with both a memoir and a photo book revealing her own viewpoint, exponentially expanded by an incredible body of work. As her memoir Even the Good Girls Will Cry reveals, she captured every single moment of her journey using the Nikon camera she carried with her at all times. While the text tells of her emotional journey, the monograph My ’90s Rock Photographs displays the vast archive of images collected over the last analogue decade in human existence. From her home in New York State, Auf der Maur looks back at an era and an archive which took almost a quarter century to process.
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Melissa Auf der Maur in conversation with Nathalie Fraser
Photography @jjennawestraa
Styling @roxanedanset
Hair and make-up @christinecherbonnier @thewallgroup
Production @sashita_bonita
Photography Assistant @kathydisco
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Melissa wears @maisonvalentino by @alessandro_michele
04 Nov 2026
Melissa Auf de Maur—the self-proclaimed “photographer trapped in a rock band”—reflects on her new memoir and photo book documenting her years playing bass in Hole and The Smashing Pumpkins.
Read the interview at the link in our bio.
✍️ by @steveappleford
📷 by @xmadmx *
* Slide 12 by @jess_chappe
#melissaaufdermaur #hole #smashingpumpkins #courtneylove #floodmagazine
03 Nov 2026
Absolutely delighted that Even the Good Girls Will Cry by @xmadmx has been named the Rough Trade Music Book of the Year. Congratulations, Melissa, on your incredible 90s rock memoir.
#BOTY #MusicBooks #RoughTrade #BookoftheYear
03 Nov 2026
CITY OF ANGELS
ghosts, the red lady, cameos and beautiful contradictions.
LACMA: Celebrating My ’90s Rock Photographs in a sprawling Brutalist empire of art, hosted my conversation with fellow Celtic warrior goddess Shirley Manson. After crashing the museum’s ticketing site by selling out so quickly to passionate Angelenos, our one-hour conversation barely scratched the surface of the epic themes we explored: Analog Humans, Women of All Times, Gen X, Photography, and our band’s places in the glory and mess of it all…
I want more. I want to go deeper with her, in honor of our collective memory, to infuse some light into this wild, unknown future being built around us (and the atrocious human behavior we are currently witnessing across the globe)…
UNPLANNED CAMEO by NUMBER 1 Warrior Goddess Courtney Love (that’s right, I call you that, and you can kiss and tease my witchy Stevie Nicks ass my friend ha ha!) - on behalf of the global world, we apologize for how you were treated and we are all in agreement that “we all owe you and you are so beloved and so respected by anyone who fucking matters!”
Amen
X
Los Angeles! You came out for us! Eternally grateful that, my wild, defining, coming into womanhood, chapter in your lights and hills, still connects me so deeply to you all.
Thank you for coming out, supporting and WAITING IN THAT BOOK SIGNING LINE?!!
Patience is a virtue. It has paid off for me ten folds, three decades later, thanks for waiting with me.
xMx
P.S. The Sunset Tower ghosts travelled through me during that visit, whispered notions of “pulse of desire is connected to the pain of death” do what you will, put that in your pipe and smoke it for those of you who listen to the voices on the other side ….!!!!
Dream dress by @samanthapleet + @francescadimattio
Glitter cinch by @electricfeathersofficial
Isis pendant by Egypt via @nadiasomerset
Pro-photos by Kristin Burns @kristinburnsstudio
02 Nov 2026
🎸 Thursday, Nov. 5: Melissa Auf der Maur, bassist for Hole and the Smashing Pumpkins, joins Michael Lindsay-Hogg to discuss the inside history of rock 'n roll!
Before entering the music scene, Auf der Maur studied photography in Montreal. The craft followed her into her career as a touring musician. She caught some of the rawest, most intimate moments of the 90s alternative rock scene on camera: bandmates sleeping on buses, lounging in pools, dancing in crowds. In 2026, these photos went up at the Art Gallery of Ontario, and into her book, My 90s Rock Photographs.
Melissa will sign the photo-book and her personal memoir, Even the Good Girls Will Cry, at our event next Thursday. Check our link to learn more!
29 Oct 2026
⚡️ New episode alert! I am honored and thrilled to bring you a fascinating and inspiring conversation with musician, artist, and author @xmadmx recorded at this year’s @opositivefest as we celebrate her 2026 multimedia memoir project which includes two books - Even the Good Girls Will Cry: My 90’s Rock Memoir, and My 90’s Rock Photographs - and the album BASS WOMB ROOM: My 90’s 4-Track Demos x Field Recordings.
⚡️WAYS TO LISTEN⚡️
📻 RADIO: An excerpt of our interview is featured in the @sheroesradio Hour this weekend > Thursday and you can tune in LIVE via any of our amazing public radio affiliates that carry SHEROES. Full list of stations and airtimes at sheroesradio.com/howtolisten
🎧 PODCAST: Listen anytime to our full conversation on the SHEROES Podcast, wherever you get your podcasts. Download and subscribe so you never miss an episode!
🎵PLAYLIST: check out this week’s SHEROES Radio Hour playlist on @qobuz including songs we discussed in our interview from the new album.
🙏 MANY THANKS: This episode was recorded live at the Old Dutch Church in Kingston, NY by our friends at @radiokingstonny and we thank @opositivefest for having us!
🫶 SUPPORT OUR WORK: SHEROES is 100% independent and is supported by our radio affiliates, @qobuz , and listeners like you! Make a tax deductible donation by clicking link in our bio or visit sheroesradio.com.
23 Oct 2026
London! Paris! Berlin!
Save the Dates in your overseas hearts pour moi!
Thank you. Merci. Danke
Taking my ‘90s Rock Photobook on a mini European adventure this November… book signings and conversations with some very special people, find me! (Exciting Nov vinyl news to follow too! Stay Tuned!!!)
Tues Nov 10 — London
Rough Trade East, in conversation with Thurston Moore @thurstonmoore58
Wed Nov 11 — London
Waterstones Gower Street, book signing
Fri Nov 13 — Paris
Yvon Lambert, book signing
Sat Nov 14 — Paris
Gaîté Lyrique Auditorium, in conversation with Sophie Hackett @hackettse , Curator, Photography @agotoronto , co-curator of photo exhibit and book, (PARIS PHOTO WEEK!!!!)
Tues Nov 17 — Berlin
Fotografiska Berlin, in conversation with special guest
Thurs Nov 19 — Berlin
Rough Trade Berlin, in conversation with Christof Ellinghaus @hamsterslang (my old friend of @cityslang who brought our 90s magic to Germany way back when!!)
1 - Christof Ellinghaus, Backstage, Reading Festival, UK, 1994
2 - Thurston Moore with Birthday Clown, Backstage, Lollapalooza, San Francisco, 1995
3 - Sophie Hackett, AGO, Toronto, 2026
(w/ MAdM and Magic Photo team @kathydisco @chloeee491)
Tickets available through my linktree and website www.xMAdMx.com
22 Oct 2026
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