Updating a narrative first posted right here earlier at the moment (March 4), Courtney Love and Melissa Auf der Maur aren’t reuniting their ’90s rock band Gap in spite of everything. Hypothesis started working excessive after Love posted a video of Auf der Maur on Instagram with the caption “so will we inform the children concerning the tour,” to which Auf der Maur replied, “it begins with everlasting love ….”
Because it seems, Love personally replied to SPIN’s Instagram put up concerning the developments, writing, “No Gap reunion” and clarifying that her reference to a “tour” was truly about Auf der Maur “enjoying some exhibits [and] new songs” in some unspecified time in the future. Nevertheless, it’s unknown if she was referring to Auf der Maur’s beforehand introduced promotional occasions in help of her memoir Even the Good Ladies Will Cry, which chronicles her experiences enjoying with each Gap and Smashing Pumpkins and is out March 17 by means of Da Capo.
Auf der Maur famously joined Gap for the band’s 1994 tour in help of the album Reside Via This, mere weeks after the deaths of each Love’s husband Kurt Cobain and Gap bassist Kristen Pfaff. She remained within the group for 5 years and was featured prominently on its 1998 album Movie star Pores and skin.
Later this spring, she’s going to carry out alongside the Nationwide’s Aaron Dessner and HAERTS at a Could 30 profit for Hawthorne Valley Waldorf College in upstate New York. The occasion shall be hosted by The White Lotus star Walton Goggins and held at Basilica Hudson, which Auf der Maur co-owns along with her husband, filmmaker Tony Stone.
In the meantime, the Gap punditry comes amid the rollout of the Love documentary Antiheroine, an early lower of which premiered at Sundance in January regardless that it was unfinished. In keeping with the Hollywood Reporter, Love was not pleased was this model however is “devoted” to ultimately finishing and selling it. Each Auf der Maur and Gap drummer Patty Schemel are interviewed within the movie, as are R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe and Inexperienced Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong.
Love hasn’t launched music with Gap since 2010 and her lone solo album stays 2004’s America’s Sweetheart, though she’s been engaged on its follow-up for years and in 2025 drafted Auf der Maur to sing on it. She surprisingly popped up in 2024 as a visitor on 070 Shake’s cowl of the Tim Buckley basic, “Tune to the Siren.” As just lately as 2021, she informed Vogue {that a} Gap reunion is “simply not gonna occur.”
