Artist: Melissa Auf Der Maur

Filed under: News , Exclusive , New Releases Tony Stone Canada is known for its majestic scenery, so it was hardly a feat to convince some of the country's most celebrated filmmakers and musicians to sign on for the National Parks Project . Artists like Great Lake Swimmers ' Tony Dekker, Woodhands ' Dan Werb a nd DFA 1979's Sebastien Grainger trekked deep [...]

Shining (the Swedish one, not the Norwegian one) have switched record labels, which you don't really care about because fuck is it to you as a fan?, but they've also announced a new album and released a new song from that album, which you do care care about, because fuck is it to you as [...]

I know it's arrogant for us to pat ourselves on the back, but holy shit, did we kill it this week or what? Here's what we did: We brought you the first interview with Behemoth frontman Nergal since he was diagnosed with leukemia in August. We got the exclusive scoop on Melissa Auf der Maur's [...]

Shining's Jorgen Munkeby with Melissa Auf der Maur When Melissa Auf der Maur, one of the most metal not-really-metal musicians on the planet today, tipped us off that she was going to be collaborating on a new project with Shining's Jorgen Munkeby, well, we pretty much got down on our hands and knees and begged [...]

Dopo il nuovo album solista nel 2010, un film e un tour, Melissa Auf Der Maur , la ex bassista di Hole e Smashing Pumpkins, ha ancora voglia di sperimentare: ecco quindi l'annuncio di una serie di concerti che ci mostreranno una Auf Der Maur inedita. In queste quattro date italiane, la vedremo in duo unplugged per uno spettacolo in cui i suoi brani saranno completamente stravolti e arrangiati per voce, basso, chitarra synth e tastiere. Il tutto sarà accompagnato da videoproduzioni dirette dalla stessa artista canadese. Continua a leggere Melissa [...]

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Though best known for her bass work in Hole and The Smashing Pumpkins, Melissa Auf der Maur is a formidable solo artist in her own right. In 2004, she dropped her self-titled debut Auf der Maur, a clamorous yet thoroughly melodic effort. Guests on the record read like an alt. rock primer: Eric Erlandson, James [...]

Melissa Auf der Maur was 22 when she became the bassist for Hole in 1994, after Kristen Pfaff died of a heroin overdose. She was with the band for five years before going on to pursue other music collaborations and releasing her debut album, Auf der Maur, in 2004. She released her second full-length album, Out Of Our Minds, in conjunction with a comic book and a short film last year. The album ranges from haunting to pretty, from angry to serene. Auf der Maur's vocals are at times a tough mistress telling you to "come [...]

Filed under: News , Exclusive Press Here In 2010, Melissa Auf der Maur finally released her long-awaited album, the multi-media 'Out of Our Minds,' and she did it without the help of a record label, major or indie. As the former Hole bassist tells Spinner, she couldn't be happier about. "It's definitely the best time for someone like me who, in the '90s, when the music industry was so simple and [...]

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NF Rating:Former Hole Bassist Melissa Auf Der Maur left her newly formed fanbase at the edge of the pier in front of her Gokstad ship while she went all Valhalla on us in her epic self titled debut 'Auf Der Maur' making her fans have a vivacious appetite for more. Now this was in 2004 and it took a decent chunk of 6 years in between touring, promoting and forming a Black Sabbath covers band 'Hand

FEATURING MELISSA AUF DER MAUR AND MEMBERS OF WATAIN, CATTLE DECAPITATION, FORBIDDEN, VANISHER, HOWL, THE CONTORTIONIST, DISEMBODIED, EVOCATION, AND ROSALINE For 2010, we decided to do something special as part of our regular end-of-year festivities here at MetalSucks - namely, ask musicians from across the vast spectrum of the metalsphere (or, in a few cases, [...]

Vince and Gary have been raving about Oslo's Shining all year, and as it turns out, Melissa Auf der Maur - one of the most metal not-quite-metal musicians out there right now - is a big fan, too. She apparently first came into contact with the band at the Dour Festival in Belgium this past [...]

Dank and drab, you know November's come when it's gone. And unfortunately its autumnal misery still lingers. Yet in the dense, metre-thick brick that houses Bristol's best beached venue imbued with a somewhat Medieval sense of mystery a bonafide superstar lies in wait, mulling over the fusion of such bricks, fused together, ostensibly, with human blood. Myth and urban legend aside, tonight lumbers into life quite lethargically, as inconceivably revered 'new blood' duo 2:54 come across all too much like Warpaint ripping the incisors from Romy Madley Croft's coy Les Paul reverberations. Sisters Hannah and [...]

It's difficult to do false endings in videos but by gum Japanese Voyeurs really, really manage it in their new video for 'Milk Teeth', which appears to have been shot using the Hipstamatic function. With band promo photos taken by celebrated grunge photographer, Steve Gullick and a video that apes the 90s scene so much, [...]

Sun Airway to Perform at Pitchfork's Offline Festival for CMJ "It was just announced that Sun Airway will be part of Pitchfork's Offline Festival. They are scheduled to perform at 3:30pm on Friday, Oct. 22 at Brooklyn Bowl. The three-day festival will feature performances by such acts as Marnie Stern, Matthew Dear, Glasser, and Wild Nothing as well as DJ sets by Animal Collective's Avey Tare and TVOTR's David Sitek. You can purchase tickets for $10 here. " (The Deli) Q&A: Melissa Auf Der Maur "Melissa Auf der Maur is [...]

Promoters Brace For Phillies Post-Season Run "With the Phillies now in their fourth consecutive post-season run, many a sports-and-music fan has had to make some hard decisions these last four falls. Philly promoters who are in the business of putting on both local and touring talent on stages here have an even tougher time once the whole city gets swept up in the post-season drama. We talked with a few of Philly's busier rock 'n' roll promoters to see how they've adapted, and whether or not they expect this year's post-season run to affect business the way it has [...]

Melissa Auf der Maur is in the middle of promoting her multi-medium art project, which includes the surprisingly strong record Out Of Our Minds. She's just released a new video from the album entitled "Meet Me On the Dark Side". Check it out here: Melissa Auf der Maur has a number of southern Ontario dates coming up including: London, Call The Office, Nov 2 Hamilton, Casbah, Nov 3 Toronto,

Filed under: News , Video , Exclusive As anyone who's ever been to Burning Man can attest, creativity and destruction are intrinsically related. By definition, regeneration can only occur after a death of some sort. Melissa Auf der Maur knows a little something about that cycle, having reinvented her solo career several times in the years following her memberships in Hole and S mashing Pumpkins . The video for her latest single, 'Meet Me on the Dark Side,' [...]

Photo courtesy of DHDesign It is a slooow day for local-music-related news, folks. So, today, we present a little bonus coverage featuring other important stories going on in Philly. Melissa Auf Der Maur Brings "Out Of Our Minds" To Philly "We're not gonna lie — we used to have a mad crush on flame-haired bassist Melissa Auf der Maur. We're over it now, but we still love and admire MAdM for her fine musical ability and the fact that she's somehow remained mostly unsullied after that long [...]