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Cinemetal, New Shit, Not Quite Metal?

COOL CHICK WITH UNPRONOUNCABLE NAME TO RELEASE SECOND ALBUM

 Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 at 10:00am by

I don’t really know what the critical consensus was on the self-titled debut solo album from ex-Hole/ex-Smashing Pumpkins bassist Melissa Auf der Maur, but I thought it was catchy as hell. It came out just a few months after Courtney Love’s America’s Sweetheart and certainly blew that album right the fuck out of the water, that’s for sure. If you’ve never heard it, all you really need to know to understand what kind of record it is is that Josh Homme co-wrote and appears on the album alongside James Iha, Jeorde White (a.k.a. “Twiggy Ramirez”), and some other nifty guest musicians. Either those names appeal to you, or they don’t.

ANYWAY, that was almost six years ago already, and I kinda thought maybe Ms. Auf der Maur was done with music or something. But not so! She’s just released a video for “Out of Our Minds,” the title track from her new solo album, which a press release tells me “extends into a 28-minute, HD film starring and conceived by MAdM, as well as a limited edition comic book and matching Picture Disc Vinyl illustrated by Jack Forbes from Brooklyn, NY.” Personally I’m not sure that I care about anything other than the music, but, hey, good for her for being ambitious.

So this isn’t really metal and I’m not as wild about it as I was, say, “Followed the Waves” or “Taste You”* from her last album, but it’s not bad at all:

Out of Our Minds comes out March 30. And it features a duet with Glenn Danzig!

-AR

*If you can find the French language version of “Taste You,” check it out instead of the English version. The song sounds a million times sexier en Francais.

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  • RockOutWithMy…YouKnow

    She has a place up where I live in upstate NY and performed at a local bar mutltiple times. She performed just 2 or 3 weeks ago on the bar’s last night being open. She’s a great talent and an extremely down to earth person, which is hard to believe considering she was once in a band with that human waste of an infected needle Courtney Love.

  • I killed a Dunky

    Also if Im not wrong sh ewas the basist of a Perfect CircLe for their first album, I dig her as a musician and as a GirlFriend

    • james

      your wrong.

  • I killed a Dunky

    my bad was just Hole and Smashing PumPKins so who was the basist for PerFect Circle? let ma check that out

  • I killed a Dunky
  • SourDeez

    I may check this out, as long as Billy Corgan didn’t so much as set foot in the studio while she was recording it.

  • Phro

    It has a kind of art house rock that normal would piss me off, but I find it vaguely pleasurable.

    That may be the whiskey, though.

  • Limmy Killmeister

    All I can say is finally, loved/love her first album.

  • Jen Yoshida

    her music really doesn’t agree with me, but i grew up with her and she’s a nice enough girl, so i won’t slag on her too much ;)

  • NoNameNoSlogan

    meh, better than Smashing Pumpkins,,,,but that ain’t sayin much

  • You Don’t Know Me

    I dig that song. You can get a free download of it off of her website.

  • Sewer

    AlternativeRockSucks.net?

  • Who

    “So this isn’t really metal…”

    You bet ! This isn’t Metal at all !
    Is Bjork Metal ?

    I’m French and I’m sorry to say that the French version of “Taste You” is pure bullshit.
    Ça craint ! (i.e. it sucks)

  • pigchop

    Any of you fuckers ever heard or seen the Black Sabbath tribute band called “Hand Of Doom”…? Melissa Auf der Maur fronted the band and co-produced a live album of Sabbath Material in 2002. Check it out.

  • bryan

    Auf der Maur is very close to Auf der Mauer, which would be “On the Wall,” so that’s kind of neat.

  • http://www.metalsucks.net/category/scraping-genius-off-the-wheel/ Gary Suarez

    Glad to see I’m not the only one who appreciated “Followed The Waves.”

    • iolanach

      I love that song! Almost forgot who it was from…this one isn’t as good, but it’s decent.

      Better then anything Smashing Pumpkins ever recorded.

      • iolanach

        Also, she’s pretty hot.

        Yes, i’m that shallow.

        • I killed a Dunky

          agree with u :P

        • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mathew-James-Saunders/1153389571 Mathew James Saunders

          Unlike the various keyboard chicks spoken of around here (where tit shots are mandatory to bother to read the article) I actually don’t mind watching this; however a lil’ nip slip somewhere in there would be the frosting on the cake

  • http://salsicha.wordpress.com Gabriel [Pylsa]

    Come on, it isn’t that hard to pronounce, just think in “owf der mowr”, heh. Btw, I hope this new album be as cool as the first one. Real a Lie and Overpower Thee rock as fuck.