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916. - Melissa Auf der Maur

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Melissa Auf der Maur is a musician and bass player best known for bands like Hole and the Smashing Pumpkins. Her new memoir, Even the Good Girls Will Cry, is out next week. We chat with Melissa from her home in upstate New York about the new Apple laptop, Montreal vibes, Grimes and Elon, channeling the gods on stage, shooting a roll of film a day in the ’90s, Courtney writing “slut” on her stomach, the time MTV asked her to take The Verve to Tom & Jerry’s, when musicians make their best work at their most fucked-up, Canadian ayahuasca retreats, owning Bo Burnham on vinyl, and gently prodding around a Hole reunion one day, and getting back in the studio with Courtney. instagram.com/xmadmx twitter.com/donetodeath twitter.com/themjeans howlonggone.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Speaker A: All right, uh, this episode of How Long Gone is brought to you by Stateside with Kai and Carter, a new podcast from The Guardian. And they are using this podcast to slow down the news and wrestle with the questions that we all have about what's happening in the world. And they do it 3 times a week. Jason, does that sound familiar to you? Speaker B: We don't really talk about, you know, a lot of international global news items and climates and cultures and sports and things like that. We do talk about fashion and wellness, but for everything else, Kai and Carter are a great place.

Speaker A: All right, so who couldn't use more news? Listen wherever you get your podcasts or watch on YouTube. Hello and welcome to a very, very rare Monday afternoon recording. It is your co-host Chris Black here. It's the first spring day in New York. It is feral out there. People are eating in the streets, they're drinking in the streets, they're walking fast, they're walking slow, they're taking it all in. There's shirtless guys in the park, there's old Asian people playing ping pong. It's kind of the grab bag of what New York has to offer when the weather reaches this kind of temperature, Jason.

Speaker B: Okay. Do you think spring has officially sprung or is this just a little cock tease before we get another dump on you? Speaker A: Based on my experiences as a resident and current weather patterns and global warming, I'm going to say that this is merely a tease, a tickle, and that Old Man Winter will return in some way, shape, or form before it's all said and done and Mr. Sunshine can show us a smile. Speaker B: Okay. Do you think spring has officially sprung or is this just a little cock tease before we get another dump on you?

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