Melissa Auf der Maur

Born: 1972-03-17

Melissa Gaboriau Auf der Maur (born March 17, 1972) is a Canadian musician, singer-songwriter, photographer and actress. Auf der Maur began performing in 1993 after forming the indie rock band Tinker while she was a student at Concordia University. She was recruited as the bassist for the American alternative rock band Hole in the summer of 1994 and is included on several Hole releases, including the album Celebrity Skin (1998). Following her departure from Hole in 1999, Auf der Maur briefly joined The Smashing Pumpkins as a touring member for its 2000 tour and began her solo career; her debut studio album, Auf der Maur, was released in 2004 on Capitol Records and her second studio album, Out of Our Minds, was released in 2010 on her own independent record label, PHI–MAdM Music. VH1 placed Auf der Maur at number 68 on its list of 100 Greatest Women of Rock & Roll in 2007. Auf der Maur is also a photographer and occasional actress. Her photographs have been included in National Geographic and exhibited at Sotheby's. She has acted in How to Make the Cruelest Month (1998), Beyond Borders (2003) and Collaborator (2011). As part of her 2009 multidisciplinary project Out of Our Minds—which produced an album, a single, a film and a comic book—Auf der Maur acted as a film and record producer, working alongside her husband and filmmaker Tony Stone. Stone and Auf der Maur are the creative directors and owners of Basilica Hudson, an arts and performance center in Hudson, New York.


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Beyond Borders

as Charity Ball Band Bass Player
Released: 2003-10-23

Sarah Jordan, an American living in London in 1984, is married to the son of a wealthy British...

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Rammstein in Amerika

as Self
Released: 2015-09-25

The concert film celebrates the band’s legendary show in New York’s Madison Square Garden –...

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Cássia

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2015-01-29

Cássia Eller Rejane. Cássia Eller. Cássia. A powerful restless force on stage, shined herself...

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Brainiac: Transmissions After Zero

as Herself
Released: 2019-03-12

In May 1997, Tim Taylor, creative force behind the beloved Dayton, Ohio rock weirdos BRAINIAC,...

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Collaborator

as Alice Longfellow
Released: 2011-10-08

A playwright whose marriage and career are in a free fall has an explosive run-in with his...

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Hit So Hard

as Self
Released: 2012-04-20

The rise to fame (and the near-fatal fall from it) of Patty Schemel, drummer for Courtney Love's...

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The Righteous Babes

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1998-12-22

The Righteous Babes shows how the self-affirmative music of young women is renewing the 90's...

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The Smashing Pumpkins - Greatest Hits Video Collection

as Herself
Released: 2001-11-20

Released alongside The Smashing Pumpkins greatest hits CD "Rotten Apples", this video collection...

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Hole: MTV Unplugged

as Bass
Released: 1995-04-18

On February 14, 1995, Hole recorded a live acoustic performance in front of an audience at the...

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Hole - Live at The Metro (Chicago, 1994)

as uncredited
Released: 1995-01-13

Hole's performance at The Metro on October 21, 1994. The show was taped and then broadcast on...

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Out Of Our Minds

as Woman With Car / Cloak
Released: 2009-01-16

A fantasy world spawned from sound. Three time periods and three narratives, one...

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Play Your Gender

as Self
Released: 2017-07-09

Juno Award-winning musician Kinnie Starr is on a quest to find out why only 5% of music...

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The Zen of Screaming

as Herself
Released: 2005-03-06

In the early '90s, a passionate and unrestrained movement of singers emerged from the...

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Saturday Night Live

as Self - Musical Guest
First aired: 1975-10-11

A late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The...

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MTV Video Music Awards

as Self
First aired: 1984-09-14

An annual award ceremony presented by MTV to honor the best in the music video medium.

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Geddy Lee Asks: Are Bass Players Human Too?

as uncredited
First aired: 2023-12-05

Famed Rush bassist Geddy Lee travels to the homes of some of music’s most renowned bass players...

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