{"id":2510474,"date":"2026-07-21T04:40:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T04:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2510474"},"modified":"2026-07-21T04:40:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T04:40:30","slug":"melissa-auf-der-maur-announces-first-new-music-in-over-15-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/melissa-auf-der-maur-announces-first-new-music-in-over-15-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Melissa Auf der Maur announces First New Music in over 15 Years &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Melissa Auf der Maur has just opened the vault.<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/happymag.tv\/hole-teaser\/\">Hole<\/a> and Smashing Pumpkins bassist is back with <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bass Womb Roo: My \u201990s 4-Track Demos x Field Recordings<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The project is out September 4th via Envision Records, and pairs unreleased demos with new interludes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The seven unreleased 4-track tape recorder demos were written in the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/happymag.tv\/new-music-radar-echo-romeo-cosmic-kat-pop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nineties<\/a>, and the eight new interludes were created for the upcoming <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Melissa Auf der Maur: My \u201990s Rock Photograph<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> exhibit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The interludes also include archival audio, taken from Auf der Maur\u2019s time with Hole and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/happymag.tv\/smashing-pumpkins-tribute-album-tame-impala\/\">The Smashing Pumpkins<\/a>, where she would record her audiences from a video camera on her bass amp.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can listen to a teaser for the new composition \u2018Skip a Beat\u2019, here.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bass Womb Room - Skip A Beat teaser\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ujbC7MLFUt0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here\u2019s what Auf der Maur had to say in a statement on\u00a0 <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bass Womb Roo<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI 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. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These songs are the sound of my internal experimentation and a way of keeping the Montreal art girl alive inside. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These sounds are the quiet and private side of the girl who joined the big American major label rock band.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In other news, Hole are on Instagram and teasing something coming this Friday, July 24th, so keep an eye out there, too.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; 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