{"id":9153,"date":"2026-03-05T02:02:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T02:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/courtney-love-hole-reunion-2\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T02:02:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T02:02:01","slug":"courtney-love-hole-reunion-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/courtney-love-hole-reunion-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Courtney Love, Melissa Auf der Maur Not Reuniting Hole"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2026\/03\/GettyImages-111168233-scaled.jpg\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1936\" alt=\"\"><figcaption>Hole&#8217;s Melissa Auf der Maur and Courtney Love at the 1998 Billboard Music Awards (photo: Kevin Mazur \/ WireImage).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Updating a story first posted here earlier today (March 4), Courtney Love and Melissa Auf der Maur are not reuniting their \u201990s rock band Hole after all. Speculation began running high after Love posted a video of Auf der Maur <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DVb9e-QCa-L\/\" target=\"_blank\">on Instagram<\/a> with the caption \u201cso do we tell the kids about the tour,\u201d to which Auf der Maur replied, \u201cit starts with eternal love \u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As it turns out, Love personally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DVelPJJkrEG\/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\">replied to SPIN\u2019s Instagram post<\/a> about the developments, writing, \u201cNo Hole reunion\u201d and clarifying that her reference to a \u201ctour\u201d was actually about Auf der Maur \u201cplaying some shows [and] new songs\u201d at some point. However, it\u2019s unknown if she was referring to Auf der Maur\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xmadmx.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">previously announced<\/a> promotional events in support of her memoir <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/10\/melissa-auf-der-maur-memoir\/\">Even the Good Girls Will Cry<\/a><\/em>, which chronicles her experiences playing with both Hole and Smashing Pumpkins and is out March 17 through Da Capo.<\/p>\n<p>More from Spin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2026\/03\/aftershock-festival-lineup\/\">Tool, Wu-Tang, My Chem Align For Aftershock<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2026\/03\/bruce-hornsby-bonnie-raitt-new-song\/\">Bruce Hornsby, Bonnie Raitt Turn Back The Clock<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2026\/03\/whatever-happens-at-311-day-in-vegas-might-not-stay-in-vegas\/\">Whatever Happens at 311 Day in Vegas Might Not Stay in Vegas<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Auf der Maur famously joined Hole for the band\u2019s 1994 tour in support of the album\u00a0<em>Live Through This<\/em>, mere weeks after the deaths of both Love\u2019s husband Kurt Cobain and Hole bassist Kristen Pfaff. She remained in the group for five years and was featured prominently on its 1998 album\u00a0<em>Celebrity Skin<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Later this spring, she will perform alongside the National\u2019s Aaron Dessner and HAERTS at a <a href=\"https:\/\/school.hawthornevalley.org\/winter-gala\/\" target=\"_blank\">May 30 benefit<\/a> for Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School in upstate New York. The event will be hosted by <em>The White Lotus<\/em> star Walton Goggins and held at Basilica Hudson, which Auf der Maur co-owns with her husband, filmmaker Tony Stone.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Hole punditry comes amid the rollout of the Love documentary <em>Antiheroine<\/em>, an early cut of which premiered at Sundance in January even though it was unfinished. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/courtney-love-documentary-recut-sundance-1236511091\/\" target=\"_blank\">According to <em>the Hollywood Reporter<\/em><\/a>, Love was not happy was this version but is \u201cdedicated\u201d to eventually completing and promoting it. Both Auf der Maur and Hole drummer Patty Schemel are interviewed in the film, as are R.E.M.\u2019s Michael Stipe and Green Day\u2019s Billie Joe Armstrong.<\/p>\n<p>Love hasn\u2019t released music with Hole since 2010 and her lone solo album remains 2004\u2019s\u00a0<em>America\u2019s Sweetheart<\/em>, although she\u2019s been working on its follow-up for years and in 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/02\/26\/arts\/music\/melissa-auf-der-maur-even-the-good-girls-will-cry.html\" target=\"_blank\">drafted Auf der Maur to sing on it<\/a>. She surprisingly popped up in 2024 as a guest on 070 Shake\u2019s cover of the Tim Buckley classic, \u201cSong to the Siren.\u201d As recently as 2021, she told <em>Vogue<\/em> that a Hole reunion is \u201cjust not gonna happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2021\/07\/the-greatest-rock-stars-of-all-time\/?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=bottomlink&amp;utm_campaign=yahoolink\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hole&#8217;s Melissa Auf der Maur and Courtney Love at the 1998 Billboard Music Awards (photo: Kevin Mazur \/ WireImage). Updating a story first posted here earlier today (March 4), Courtney&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2354,4279,4280,6,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-courtney-love","category-hole","category-melissa-auf-de-maur","category-news","category-pushly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}