🏛️ Politics 2d ago · Sophie Gilbert

The dying days of riot grrrl

New Statesman
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This week I’m interviewing Melissa Auf der Maur, the former bassist for Hole and the Smashing Pumpkins, during the UK leg of her book tour, which has meant tumbling down a rabbit hole of Nineties nostalgia. Melissa’s memoir Even the Good Girls Will Cry is a thrilling counter-narrative to the canon of rock memoirs. It begins with her joining Hole at 22 for a baptism by fire in front of 65,000 people at Reading Festival, supporting a frontwoman, Courtney Love, who was mired in grief after the deat

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