{"id":804356,"date":"2020-02-19T08:00:02","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T15:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=954538"},"modified":"2020-02-19T08:00:02","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T15:00:02","slug":"holes-courtney-love-melissa-auf-der-maur-to-perform-at-planned-parenthood-benefit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/holes-courtney-love-melissa-auf-der-maur-to-perform-at-planned-parenthood-benefit\/","title":{"rendered":"Hole\u2019s Courtney Love, Melissa Auf Der Maur to Perform at Planned Parenthood Benefit"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Courtney Love<\/a> and former Hole<\/a> bassist Melissa Auf der Maur will perform at a Planned Parenthood<\/a> benefit concert, held on March 14th at New York\u2019s Town Hall.<\/p>\n

Titled Bans Off My Body, the event was organized by Planned Parenthood of Greater New York and the Feminist Institute<\/a> \u2014 a non-profit organization that collects and archives feminist art, humanities, politics and business. Jane\u2019s Addiction\u2019s Perry Farrell<\/a> and his wife Etty Farrell will also perform, as well as singer-songwriter Rachael Yamagata, Joan as Police Woman and alt-rock band Betty.<\/p>\n

\u201cMusic has always been a powerful tool in the fight for social justice,\u201d Laura McQuade, President & CEO, said in a statement. \u201cNow more than ever, we must be bold, courageous, and loud about protecting the full range of sexual and reproductive health care, including access to safe, legal abortion. Planned Parenthood of Greater New York is thrilled that Courtney Love, Melissa Auf Der Maur, and other fearless musicians are using their powerful voices and platforms to support our mission and our patients.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hole has been broken up since 2002, but Love recently teased a reunion in an Instagram post she\u2019s since deleted.<\/a> The benefit won\u2019t include guitarist Eric Erlandson and drummer Patty Schemel, so it\u2019s not a true reunion, but it still marks the first time Love and Auf der Maur have performed together since 2012. Auf der Maur replaced Kristen Pfaff on bass after she died in 1994; she played on 1998\u2019s Celebrity Skin.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI have had access to great, free women\u2019s reproductive health care in my life and have also had none or very limited access to it for most of my teens and twenties, leading bands, writing music, being sexually active,\u201d Love tells Rolling Stone. <\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe restricted access almost killed me,\u201d she continues. \u201cThere is no way, as an American woman who got through it miraculously healthy, that I\u2019m going to let other women suffer. I hope this concert can help young women realize that vital information and education and medical help is out there for them, and we have to fight like hell to make sure that it remains that way. Women\u2019s clinics and the law are under attack and we have to protect each other.\u201d<\/p>\n

Auf der Maur admits that she had already called Love about reuniting and that it all \u201clined up\u201d when producer Hal Willner contacted both of them. \u201cWhen the question is around women\u2019s reproductive rights, the first thought I had as the former bass player of Hole was, \u2018Time to get the band back together,’\u201d she said. \u201cI began to imagine Courtney and all of her complex feminist lyrics screaming at these old men who dared to judge what we should and should not have. I wanted to get back on stage supporting Hole\u2019s legacy in being outspoken and fearless. We are both mothers of daughters, and as it was before, their rights and future generations\u2019 women\u2019s rights and freedoms are my inspiration.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tickets will go on sale on Thursday, February 20th at 10 a.m. ET. via Town Hall\u2019s website.<\/a><\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Courtney Love and former Hole bassist Melissa Auf der Maur will perform at a Planned Parenthood benefit concert, held on March 14th at New York\u2019s Town Hall. Titled Bans Off My Body, the event was organized by Planned Parenthood of Greater New York and the Feminist Institute \u2014 a non-profit organization that collects and archives […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-804356","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-22 06:31:02","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}