Even the Good Girls Will Cry: My 90s Rock Memoir

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.