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Post by Admin on May 26, 2020 6:15:00 GMT
THE PRETTY RECKLESS frontwoman Taylor Momsen has confirmed that the band's upcoming album, "Death By Rock And Roll", will feature guest appearances by SOUNDGARDEN's Matt Cameron and Kim Thayil (on a song called "Only Love Can Save Me Now"), and RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE's Tom Morello (on "And So It Went").
Speaking to Meltdown of Detroit's WRIF radio station about "Only Love Can Save Me Now", Momsen said: "We recorded that in Seattle at London Bridge Studios, and it was just an awesome experience to get to actually spend some time in Seattle. Every time we're on tour, we're in and out so fast, it was really good to kind of experience the city for all that it is and all that history and record at such an iconic studio. I mean, PEARL JAM's 'Ten' [was recorded] there, and 'Louder Than Love' by SOUNDGARDEN. And then to be there with SOUNDGARDEN, it was pretty surreal."
Momsen went on to say that she was "devastated" by the death of SOUNDGARDEN singer Chris Cornell. THE PRETTY RECKLESS opened for SOUNDGARDEN in Detroit on May 17, 2017, a couple of hours before Cornell apparently committed suicide by hanging. Less than a year later, in April 2018, THE PRETTY RECKLESS's producer Kato Khandwala died from injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident.
"We had a few hard years," she said. "I'm not gonna lie. I went pretty down. Not to get too heavy into it, but I went pretty down into depression, and it took music to get me out of it again. I finally started writing again to get out everything that I was feeling, and that is what turned into the record that you are all going to hear hopefully very soon.
"I know it's cliché, but music has saved my life time and time again — it's the thing that I can always rely on and turn to, and it's always there for me. It's always supported me, so I support it."
According to Momsen, "Death By Rock And Roll" "really feels like a rebirth for us. In a lot of ways, it almost feels like the first record in the sense that we really threw everything that we had at it — we worked so hard on it," she said. "And I'm just excited for it to be out and have people come on this journey with me and see where it took us. I think it took us, in my opinion, to a new level. It's a new and improved PRETTY RECKLESS."
Asked when fans can expect to see "Death By Rock And Roll" released, Taylor said: "I don't know the answer, 'cause everything's still in kind of limbo right now just, obviously, with the pandemic and very unprecedented times. So we're not exactly sure. But I do know that we're gonna be putting out more songs and stuff, and more material before the full album. So this isn't just a quick little flash in the pan and we're going away. We're back."
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Post by Admin on May 27, 2020 19:15:11 GMT
THE PRETTY RECKLESS frontwoman Taylor Momsen has reflected on how the deaths of SOUNDGARDEN singer Chris Cornell and longtime producer Kato Khandwala affected the making of THE PRETTY RECKLESS's new LP, "Death By Rock And Roll". http://instagram.com/p/CAikz1PDkY0 Momsen, whose band was the opening act for SOUNDGARDEN's spring 2017 run of dates, told Andy Hall of the Des Moines, Iowa radio station Lazer 103.3 (hear audio below): "[Chris's passing] hit me extraordinarily hard. Getting that tour, I'm such a massive SOUNDGARDEN fan, that was the highest of the highs for all of us. And it obviously ended not ideally. I had to take a step back and we canceled touring. I wasn't in a good place to be public, so I went home to kind of reflect on what had happened and try to process. And then I started writing again, and very soon after that, I got the call that Kato, my best friend and our producer, had passed on a motorcycle accident. And that was kind of a nail in the coffin for me at that moment in time. I sunk into this whole depression, and I wasn't entirely sure how I was gonna get out of it, or if I was gonna get out of it. Not to get too heavy here, but the short of it is that music saved my life again. I delved into music, and that's what really pulled me out of it. And this record is really the culmination of all of that. So it's all there in the record." Asked how one knows it's time to get back to work after going through such a dark period, Taylor said: "You kind of don't. I kind of took a jump. I had written some stuff that I really liked, and that was the first hint of, 'Okay, I've gotta start doing something again.' And that in itself was a process. It was the first record that we did without Kato. We worked with a guy named Jonathan Wyman, who's a longtime friend of mine and the band's — a great engineer, a great friend, a great producer. And it's the first record we actually co-produced. He was a lifesaver in this scenario. "I'd say this record is like a rebirth for us," she continued. "In one way, it feels like the first record in the sense that we really threw everything — physically, mentally — everything we had at it and in it. And now it's finished, and now I'm excited for people to hear it. Making the record was a part of the healing process." Momsen has confirmed in a separate interview with Detroit radio station WRIF that RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE guitarist Tom Morello guests on "Death By Rock And Roll". Morello appears on a track called "And So It Went". Morello joins previously announced guests Kim Thayil and Matt Cameron from SOUNDGARDEN. The song with Cameron and Thayil, called "Only Love Can Save Me Now", was recorded at Seattle's legendary London Bridge Studios, where seminal LPs like PEARL JAM's "Ten" and SOUNDGARDEN's "Louder Than Love" were laid down. Momsen told The Pulse Of Radio1 about working at the historic Seattle studio: "In one way it was kind of like walking back in time. You come in and there's just all the PEARL JAM gold records and paintings and there's a wall that's covered in signed drumheads and pictures of people who've worked there. And then the studio itself is very warm and inviting, very comfortable. So it was very suited to what I was used to, but with all this added history to it." "Death By Rock And Roll", the fourth studio album from THE PRETTY RECKLESS, will arrive in late 2020 or early 2021. It will follow up 2016's "Who You Selling For", which featured the rock radio hits "Oh My God", "Back To The River" and "Take Me Down". |
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Post by Admin on May 28, 2020 6:59:26 GMT
The Pretty Reckless were on top the world in the spring of 2017. Their third album Who You Selling For had come out a few months prior, and they were on tour with Soundgarden — one of their biggest influences. Three years and several tragedies later, the band is back with a new single "Death By Rock and Roll" and an album on the way, which Taylor Momsen describes as a rebirth for them. Right at the end of their tour supporting Soundgarden, Chris Cornell was found dead in his hotel room in Detroit. Just under a year later, Kato Khandwala — the producer who had worked with the band since 2010 — died from injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident. http://instagram.com/p/CAdbQfNjBLk "This [new] record was me starting to come out of that. I went down for a while there," the singer admitted in an interview with Loudwire Nights. "This record, when I started writing that, was the start of me going on an upswing and really needing to get back in the studio and make music again." "Music for me has always been the thing that's been my salvation, it's always been the thing that I can do in my bedroom and helps me stay sane," she continued. "So I turned to music again, and it once again saved my life. It really brought me back to life again." http://instagram.com/p/CAaqII2DmMQ Part of that "upswing" was when Momsen got to fly to Seattle and record a song at London Bridge Studio with none other than Kim Thayil and Matt Cameron of Soundgarden. "We have this tune for this record — that I can't really talk too much about because it's not out — but it was just begging for Soundgarden, it was a Soundgarden-type tune," she explained. Recording at London Bridge Studio, where albums such as Alice in Chains' Facelift, Temple of the Dog and Pearl Jam's Ten were made, was quite the experience for the vocalist. And to top it off, she says the song is one of her favorites on the record. http://instagram.com/p/CAYRyDPDIZk "Actually getting to go to Seattle and spend some time there and get to be a tourist for a minute and record in such an iconic city, in such an iconic studio with the guys in those bands that made those records was such a highlight in that record and in my life." |
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Post by Admin on Jun 4, 2020 21:31:46 GMT
THE PRETTY RECKLESS frontwoman Taylor Momsen recently spoke to 100.3 The X Rocks radio personality Big J about her band's inability to tour during the coronavirus pandemic. "It's crazy times," she said (see video below). "I don't know what to say. It's a real bummer. We were supposed to be on tour right now. We had some of the best touring lined up in our career. It was all the festivals, it was the FOO FIGHTERS, it was GUNS N' ROSES, it was PEARL JAM — the list goes on and on — and after three years of basically self-quarantining for myself, I was really ready to get back out into the world and really excited to play the new material live, and the circle doesn't quite feel complete without being able to do that. But we've just gotta be patient. Ride the storm out, wait. "I do know that live music and rock and roll, it's not gonna go away forever — it can't," she continued. "it's lifeblood. People need it, musicians need it. So I know that musicians will figure out a way to do it. We'll figure out a way to play. I know they're talking movie theater drive-in concerts and stuff right now. Right now, it's obviously quarantine videos that's a big thing. But we'll figure it out. I'm just looking forward to once the four of us can get in a room together and just start playing, then the weight will start to lift and we'll figure it out from there." Momsen recently confirmed in a separate interview with Detroit radio station WRIF that RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE guitarist Tom Morello guests on THE PRETTY RECKLESS's upcoming album, "Death By Rock And Roll". Morello appears on a track called "And So It Went". http://instagram.com/p/CAwEv-QjwdG Morello joins previously announced guests Kim Thayil and Matt Cameron from SOUNDGARDEN. The song with Cameron and Thayil, called "Only Love Can Save Me Now", was recorded at Seattle's legendary London Bridge Studios, where seminal LPs like PEARL JAM's "Ten" and SOUNDGARDEN's "Louder Than Love" were laid down. "Death By Rock And Roll", the fourth studio album from THE PRETTY RECKLESS, will arrive in late 2020 or early 2021. It will follow up 2016's "Who You Selling For", which featured the rock radio hits "Oh My God", "Back To The River" and "Take Me Down". http://instagram.com/p/CAtZpelDF2J |
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Post by Admin on Jun 8, 2020 19:20:49 GMT
When Taylor Momsen gave up acting for a life of rock and roll with The Pretty Reckless, the singer indicated no interest in ever returning to Hollywood. But, these days, the musician has seemingly softened her stance on the subject. In a recent interview, Momsen even suggested she could act again.
It was 2012 when Momsen exited Gossip Girl, her portrayal in the series' finale revisiting the character (Jenny Humphrey) she inhabited on the teen drama from 2007 to 2010. The year she initially left the show is also the same year The Pretty Reckless emerged with their debut album, Light Me Up.
Since that time, Momsen's music career has taken precedence. (After all, The Pretty Reckless will release their fourth album later this year.) But when talking to Rock 102.1 KFMA last week (June 1), the rocker had a surprising answer when asked if she could ever see herself returning to the screen.
Watch the video down toward the bottom of this post. The exchange in question occurs at about 3:20 in the clip.
"Rock and roll is forever a mainstay," Momsen said. "I will never not play rock and roll music. I'm gonna be playing rock and roll music till I'm dead. For a long time, I said I'd never act again, but I've gotten older now, and who knows? It's not something I'm actively pursuing in any way but never say never, I guess."
As for the differences between acting and making music, Momsen offered a logical overview of each's level of creative fulfillment. And it's clear that her main interest remains in rocking out rather than smiling for the camera.
"It's just so different," Momsen said. "It's so my vision, music. From the music to the visuals to the live shows to everything. I'm in charge of all of it. Really getting to see that through, it really feeds my creative soul, whereas acting, it was much more of a job for me — kind of show up, do the job, go home."
Last month, The Pretty Reckless released "Death by Rock and Roll," the band's first new single since those issued from 2016's Who You Selling For album. The group's upcoming effort, also called Death by Rock and Roll, is expected to be along shortly, although a release date has yet to be revealed.
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