{"id":889268,"date":"2026-09-09T13:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T13:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/889268\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T13:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T13:36:10","slug":"melissa-auf-der-maurs-90s-rock-photos-capture-the-end-days-of-counterculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/889268\/","title":{"rendered":"Melissa Auf der Maur&#8217;s &#8217;90s rock photos capture &#8216;the end-days of counterculture&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Melissa Auf der Maur is letting it all hang out. In March, Montreal\u2019s prodigal rock daughter released <a href=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/entertainment-life\/melissa-auf-der-maur-90s-rock-memoir-even-the-good-girls-will-cry\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/entertainment-life\/melissa-auf-der-maur-90s-rock-memoir-even-the-good-girls-will-cry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">her memoir Even the Good Girls Will Cry<\/a>, revisiting her coming of age in Montreal and meteoric rise to grunge-rock royalty during the 1990s as a member of Courtney Love\u2019s band Hole, topped off by a stint in the Smashing Pumpkins. Now she\u2019s putting the icing on the cake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Auf der Maur\u2019s exhibition My \u201990s Rock Photographs opens to the public this week at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) and runs until June 6, 2027. It is accompanied by a vibrant photo book of the same name and a new album, Bass Womb Room, culled from atmospheric demos she made while on tour with Hole back in the day, which accompanies an installation at the end of the AGO show. It\u2019s a lot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt feels wild,\u201d Auf der Maur said recently. \u201cIt feels kaleidoscopic, like I\u2019m inside out. In some ways, it\u2019s odd to share so much. It is vulnerable. I\u2019m aware that I have put in motion this deep, personal expos\u00e9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Melissa Auf der Maur is letting it all hang out. In March, Montreal\u2019s prodigal rock daughter released her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":889269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":["post-889268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=889268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/889269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}