{"id":2510404,"date":"2026-07-21T03:34:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T03:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2510404"},"modified":"2026-07-21T03:34:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T03:34:04","slug":"these-sounds-are-the-quiet-and-private-side-of-the-girl-who-joined-the-big-american-major-label-rock-band-former-hole-smashing-pumpkins-bassist-melissa-auf-der-maur-announces-bass-womb-room-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/these-sounds-are-the-quiet-and-private-side-of-the-girl-who-joined-the-big-american-major-label-rock-band-former-hole-smashing-pumpkins-bassist-melissa-auf-der-maur-announces-bass-womb-room-her\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;These sounds are the quiet and private side of the girl who joined the big American major label rock band.&#8221; Former Hole, Smashing Pumpkins bassist Melissa Auf der Maur announces Bass Womb Room, her first new music in over 15 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p id=\"elk-b2105e80-8455-11f1-8bdc-231c5f844536\">Former <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.loudersound.com\/features\/your-essential-guide-to-every-hole-album\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.loudersound.com\/features\/your-essential-guide-to-every-hole-album\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.loudersound.com\/features\/your-essential-guide-to-every-hole-album\">Hole<\/a> and Smashing Pumpkins bassist <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.loudersound.com\/bands-artists\/melissa-auf-der-maur-on-surviving-the-90s-and-her-brilliant-memoir\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.loudersound.com\/bands-artists\/melissa-auf-der-maur-on-surviving-the-90s-and-her-brilliant-memoir\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.loudersound.com\/bands-artists\/melissa-auf-der-maur-on-surviving-the-90s-and-her-brilliant-memoir\">Melissa Auf der Maur<\/a> has announced the forthcoming release of<strong> <\/strong><em>Bass Womb Room<\/em>, featuring her first new music in over 15 years.<\/p>\n<p>The album, <em>Bass Womb Room: My \u201890s 4-Track Demos x Field Recordings, <\/em>to give it its full title, will incorporate old and new music, and include previously unreleased four-track demos Auf der Maur recorded during the &#8217;90s, in addition to eight new &#8216;interlude&#8217; compositions created for <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ago.ca\/exhibitions\/melissa-auf-der-maur-my-90s-rock-photographs\" data-url=\"https:\/\/ago.ca\/exhibitions\/melissa-auf-der-maur-my-90s-rock-photographs\" target=\"_blank\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\">an upcoming exhibition<\/a> of the Canadian musician&#8217;s photography.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"elk-seasonal\"\/><\/p>\n<aside data-block-type=\"embed\" data-render-type=\"fte\" data-skip=\"dealsy\" data-widget-type=\"seasonal\" class=\"hawk-root\"\/>\n<p id=\"elk-b2105e80-8455-11f1-8bdc-231c5f844536-2\">&#8220;I wrote these songs in the context of rising pressure from the major label-driven music industry on myself and my peers to make glossy hit songs to dominate radio airwaves,&#8221; Auf der Maur says in a statement. &#8220;These songs are the sound of my internal experimentation and a way of keeping the Montreal art girl alive inside. These sounds are the quiet and private side of the girl who joined the big American major label rock band.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"my-6 w-full overflow-hidden lg:my-8\" data-component-name=\"JwPlayer:Carousel\" data-jwp-carousel=\"\" data-jwp-carousel-payload=\"{&quot;ids&quot;:{&quot;playerID&quot;:&quot;aAP34WaV&quot;,&quot;searchPlaylistID&quot;:&quot;3DfOCMYv&quot;,&quot;divID&quot;:&quot;botr_3DfOCMYv_aAP34WaV_div&quot;,&quot;fallbackPlaylistID&quot;:&quot;3DfOCMYv&quot;,&quot;fallbackDivID&quot;:&quot;botr_3DfOCMYv_aAP34WaV_div&quot;,&quot;key&quot;:&quot;V+hPR0fSRsLTWstxI93auiu0aFO9odb2e5R7xjemMNzuPx+\\\/&quot;,&quot;tintLogo&quot;:false,&quot;useSearchPlaylist&quot;:false,&quot;enabled&quot;:true},&quot;signPostingEnabled&quot;:true,&quot;signPostingLinkEnabled&quot;:true,&quot;waitForAdLoad&quot;:false,&quot;hidePlayerOnDesktop&quot;:false,&quot;hidePlayerOnMobile&quot;:false,&quot;hidePlayerOnTablet&quot;:false}\">\n<div class=\"flex h-[50px] items-center justify-between border-t-2 border-solid border-neutral-300 px-[14px] text-base font-bold uppercase text-black\" data-jwp-carousel-header=\"\">\n<p><span class=\"jwp-carousel-title-mobile\"\/><span class=\"jwp-carousel-title-desktop\">Latest Videos From Louder<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"aspect-video w-full min-h-[200px] lg:min-h-[330px] relative overflow-hidden bg-black\" data-jwp-carousel-container=\"\">\n<div class=\"absolute inset-0 size-full items-center justify-center bg-white\" data-jwp-carousel-fallback=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Auf der Maur first spoke about the project during a March interview with <em>Louder<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The museum exhibit of my photography that&#8217;s coming out with my book [<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/delmonicobooks.com\/book\/melissa-auf-der-maur-my-90s-rock-photographs\/\" data-url=\"https:\/\/delmonicobooks.com\/book\/melissa-auf-der-maur-my-90s-rock-photographs\/\" target=\"_blank\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\"><em>My \u201990s Rock Photographs<\/em><\/a>]opens in Toronto in September, and it&#8217;s up for a year, and then it will travel internationally,&#8221; she told this writer. &#8220;It&#8217;s a very large exhibit, and one room is an ode to my bass and the fans, and it&#8217;s called the Bass Room, and I&#8217;m building a sonic score to the installation. So I&#8217;ve actually been in the studio, and I&#8217;m returning to music, but in a very bass forward way. It will be an hour long piece that goes throughout the exhibit, an audio journey.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But, and you&#8217;re the first person I&#8217;m telling this, I also found some of my early four-track song recordings from the &#8217;90s, and they are actually working really well within this ambient score. So I am going to be releasing, with the photo book, a new body of sound. And I&#8217;m really excited about it, because I think it&#8217;s the way that I&#8217;m going to ease myself back into sound. I need to come back in through the innocence place.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Bass Womb Room<\/em> will be released on September 4 via Envision Records. 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