Former Smashing Pumpkins/Hole bassist Melissa Auf Der Maur will release her debut album in February, Rolling Stone reports.
The Montreal-born musician recorded the self-titled effort over the past two years with an all-star lineup of hard-rock collaborators, including A Perfect Circle's James Iha and Jeordie White, Queens of the Stone Age's Josh Homme and Nick Oliveri and Hole's Eric Erlandson.
"I wanted to make a rock & roll fantasy record," said Auf Der Maur.
The album's tracks span her 11-year music career, and include a number of songs she wrote as a 19-year-old member of the Montreal band Tinker.
"We didn't know what the hell we were doing, and we wrote songs based on complete innocence and guts," she said. "Two of those songs have held up in the most glorious way."
