May 2010

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THE TRANSITION from actor to musician is extrmely hit and miss. You could be looking at the next Jared Leto or you could, Gof forbid, be witnessing the next incarnation of Dogstar, the ill-fated bar band fronted by Matrix actor Keanu Reves. Tonight, this dingle West London venue is at mazimum capacity as three quarters of The Pretty Reckless make their way onto the stage. The young, mostly female crowd barely een acknowledge their presence, thouh, as many of them fiddle nervously with their cameras and wait with bated breath. It’s clear who they’ve come to see tonight and when TV’s Gossip Girl actress-turned-frontwoman Tayor Momsen finally charges onto her first ever UK stage, she’s greeted with cheers, screams and a lightning story of camera flashes.

Within the very first song any doubts about whether or not she can convincingly fron a band are dead and buried. She is physically and vocally everything that a frontwoman could wish to be. Her voice alone demands attention – the perfect balance of radio-friendly harmony and husky grunge-growl echoes that of a young Courtney Love – and while the other members of the band are awesome musicians, competing with Taylor’s presence and charisma is pointless. Heavy riffs and wailing solos rock the ting room and the crowd are at the Gossip-Girl-gone-grunge’s mercy as tehy shut along with the choruses of Make Me Wanna Die and Zombie.

Armed with superb voice and some killer tunes, tonight Taylor has proved beyong doubt that she’s much more than just an actress playing the part of a rock star.

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The Pretty Reckless have confirmed that they will release their debut EP on June 22nd in the US, Canada and Australia. It will be available at all digital retailers, Hot Topic stores and on Warped Tour 2010 where The Pretty Reckless are slated to perform. Fans can now check out the EP's cover on the band's Facebook page.

Stay tuned for the official video premiere for "Make Me Wanna Die" coming soon.

EP Track List

1. Make Me Wanna Die
2. My Medicine
3. Goin' Down
4. Zombie - exclusive track

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Gossip Girl star Taylor Momsen has dismissed claims she is a "dark" person, and insists it's just the way she is perceived by the media.

The 16-year-old has currently put her acting on hold to front her new rock band The Pretty Reckless.

And she thinks her grunge-chick look is to blame for the picture painted of her by the tabloids.

"Dark is a relative term," says Taylor - best known for her role of Jenny Humphrey in the hit TV drama.

"It just depends on what you consider dark, you know? I think some people think I'm a Satan worshipper or something."

The Pretty Reckless will be releasing their debut album later this year, while their first EP is out next month.

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Taylor Momsen came on board the Lennon Bus to work with students from La Guardia High School in NYC last week. They tracked "All You Need Is Love" and we captured the moment in our latest Lennon Bus Live.

Amazing! Great job!

Here are some screencaptures from the last episode of Gossip Girl "Last Tango, Then Paris".

What do you think about it?

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‘The Pretty Reckless’ first single ‘Make Me Wanna Die’ is out on iTunes UK The song has been landed at #11 on iTunes Top Songs. Congratulations! Here's the Top Songs List: CLICK HERE to buy the song from iTunes!

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DO you like The Pretty Reckless? DO you sing along with a hair brush in front of the mirror?Do you secretly think you’re an awesome rockstar waiting to be discovered? Would you like a special signed picture or poster from the band?

If the answer is yes then this is the competition for you!
Gossip Girl’s Taylor Momsen and her amazing band The Pretty Reckless are looking for your uploaded video covers of the new single “Make me Wanna Die” and in return you get cool band stuff like posters or a special signed picture.
To enter simply:
1. Register on MUZU and become a friend of The Pretty Reckless
2. Watch the “Make Me Wanna Die” video and start being creative about your cover!
3. Upload your video and be in with a chance of winning
Competition Terms and Conditions Competition closes on 31st May 2010
source: https://www.muzu.tv/home/registration , via

While in the UK for a short promotional tour, Alter The Press managed to sit down with Taylor Momsen and Ben Phillips of The Pretty Reckless.

The guys spoke to ATP about how the band got together, their forthcoming debut album, signing to Interscope records, playing this year's Warped Tour, Taylor juggling around the band with her acting career and more.

Alter The Press: How did the band come together?
Ben Phillips (guitar): My song-writing partner and I (Kato Khandwala) met Taylor about a year and a half ago; we then started working on writing songs together. He produced the record and my musicians play on the record; it became the band. Taylor has been writing and playing since she was a kid, and was getting to the point where she wanted to release a record; luckily we caught her on her "upswing" of artistic movements.

Taylor Momsen (vocals): It was a good fit.

ATP: How did the two of you meet?
Taylor: Through Kato. I was looking for producers to work with and I got hooked up with him, who was also Ben's partner. I met with Kato, we were working together; then met Ben, ended up writing the whole record together, and here we are now.

ATP: Everyone knows you in the public eye from your role in TV's ‘Gossip Girl.’ What are people's reactions, when seeing you in The Pretty Reckless?
Taylor: It's been cool, once people can get past that I play a character, on a TV show, named Jenny Humphrey, and that I'm a real person outside of that. I'm an actress who’s also in a rock band.

Ben: The fans of Gossip Girl are great and very supportive.

Taylor: They are very supportive; it's just crossing over to people who are pretty judgmental, because I'm on a TV show.

ATP: Is it hard to juggle around your acting career with the band?
Taylor: It's pretty good; you just don't sleep.

ATP: (to Ben) It must have been hard, for you to work round Taylor's acting schedule, to work on the band?
Ben: The record took, probably, the same amount of time as it would for a regular record but, with her schedule, we were doing 8pm-4am or 12am-7am. She never slept; she just went with it. Taylor had the hardest job but, it was tedious.

ATP: Before you met Taylor, were you in a different band?
Ben: We're all in a band together, and have been playing together since we were twelve, we're part of a band called 'Famous'.

ATP: What made you want to sign with Interscope records?
Taylor: Jimmy Iovine, he's awesome. He's signed so many great acts; he is Interscope. It seemed like a great fit.

Ben: They are a fantastically supportive label, they really support our vision; it's amazing.

ATP: At the end of 2009, you put the song 'Make Me Wanna Die' online. Why did you choose this as your first single?
Taylor: It was the first song we wrote for the record, it was the start of the record, and so it seemed like a great first single as it sets the vibe for the record.

Ben: I think the guys involved definitely created a buzz, so it became the swan song for the rest of the record, and everyone liked it. We just wanted to make an epic song with lots of parts and movements and things.

Taylor: No one thought of this as a single. I thought it was a cool track, but never thought they would want to use it as a single. But they did and we're ecstatic.

ATP: How did it end up on the soundtrack to 'Kick Ass'?
Taylor: Lionsgate Entertainment was working with some people at Interscope; they heard the track and knew it was going to be our first single. Lionsgate liked it and wanted to put it in the film and we were like, totally!

Ben: We're all big comic book fans.

Taylor: It was a cool partnership.

ATP: Have you seen the movie?
Taylor: Yes, a couple of times. It's a lot of fun.

ATP: You just played this year's Bamboozle Festival. How was it?
Taylor: We had technical problems, and I almost threw up during one of the songs because I got heat stroke on stage. I seem to have bad luck with health and technicalities, but besides that, it was great! We met a bunch of fans at the merch booth, and the crowd was a lot of fun. It was super hot and people were under the weather because of the heat, but it was a great show.

ATP: Did you get a chance to watch any of the other bands?
Taylor: No, we were too busy meeting and talking to fans, and doing press.

ATP: You're doing this year's Warped Tour. With it being a skate/punk-rock festival, what are your expectations of how it'll go?
Ben: We don't know. We are a straight up rock band so we'll see how they dig it, but it should be fun. We are a regular, touring, grimy band; so we should fit in pretty easily. They can throw things, as long as they miss the instruments so we can keep playing.

Taylor: Or my face, but bruises are badass, so that's cool.

ATP: But there have been a lot of crossover over the years, bands like Jeffree Star, Brokencyde and even Katy Perry, joining the tour.
Taylor: We're a lot louder than electro! We blew the speakers at the last three shows we played!

ATP: Were you asked to play?
Taylor: Yeah, they heard some of the songs and liked it. They asked us to be a part of the tour and we're psyched.

ATP: Let's talk about the album. Is there a title yet?
Taylor: No, there's no title yet, it hasn't been decided. We haven't announced it because we are still debating over a couple of names.

ATP: How would you describe it, in your own words?
Taylor: A very song driven, rock record. It's a record about life, so it covers everything: death, love, sex, rock and roll, religion, politics; it's got a bit of everything. It definitely focuses on the gritty, grimy, aspects of those things, not necessarily the happy side of things.

Ben: It's heavily influenced by classic rock. To have a female front, to a trident, true, rock band, is a novel thing.

Taylor: Because most of our influences are pretty much male rock bands, to translate that with a female singer, and not have a Joan Jett record, means we have to base it more on attitude than melody. It's not packaged; it's a very dimensional record.

Ben: A singer/songwriter record, Alanis Morisette would be a person to compare it to, someone who wrote their own songs uniquely, but heavier for sure.

ATP: When is the release date?
Taylor: I heard August 24th.

ATP: You mentioned earlier, that the record was already written when you put the single out last year. What made you want to sit on the record for so long?
Taylor: We wrote it and recorded it and, only now, is it in the process of being mixed and mastered. It's still not packaged; there's no album cover, there's no title but the writing side is finished. We’ve finished the hardest part, which was writing and recording it.

Ben: The whole thing's pretty fresh; we've recorded it as we've written it. The last song we recorded was written a month ago.

Taylor: We write the song and then record the song over and over. It wasn't done in the traditional way a record is usually done.

ATP: What are plans after Warped Tour?
Taylor: Touring, more touring and writing the next record. Ben: Writing the next record while touring.

ATP: Do you have plans for UK dates in the future?
Ben: We want to stay and play the UK; I don't know what the deal is because we are only doing one show.

Taylor: I want to play everywhere, I said we just want to play but we're told, “No, you're doing this photo shoot,” and that's fucking bullshit. I just want to play shows, just come and take pictures of them. We just want to meet the fans and play shows.

Ben: If that volcano keeps going, we'll play some shows! But I think we are coming back after Warped Tour, we might be playing Reading and Leeds, it's tentative. We don't know what we're doing, but we are coming back.

ATP: Anything else you would like to add?
Taylor: Buy the single on May 17th and stay tuned for the record.

Ben: Steal this single.

'Make Me Wanna Die' is out May 17th and the band's forthcoming 'untitled' album is out August 24th via Interscope.

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There are many faces of Taylor Momsen.
There’s Taylor the fashion icon: The gum-chewing, torn-stockings wearing Maryland-born 16-year-old splashed over the British and Americian glossies.

There’s Taylor the actress: Playing the squeaky-clean-gone-bad-girl Jenny Humphrey in American drama Gossip Girl alongside heart-throbs Chace Crawford and Ed Westwick.

And finally there’s Taylor the rock star: The Courtney Love-esque sneering frontwoman of metal-pop band The Pretty Reckless.

Music priority
In her mind, she’s pretty sure on which of the above she prefers.

I love acting and I’m doing it forever but music is my heart,” she says.

“It’s what I live for, to say the least – it’s kept me alive. Music is who I am. It’s the priority at the moment – it’s the focus.

“It’s not a pop record – I’m sure people were expecting one.”

Indeed, producers of the LA-based glamour series have given Momsen time off to concentrate on her new band The Pretty Reckless. Their single Make Me Wanna Die has already featured in blockbuster Kick-Ass, and they’re readying their debut album.

“I’m finishing,” she says cryptically, without giving much away. “They’re being very supportive with my music career.”

With the conclusion of the third series fast approaching – it’s not entirely sure whether this will be the last fans of the show will see of her character, socialite Jenny Humphrey.

“I’m not allowed to say much, but I can tell you it’s very dramatic,” she says of the season’s finale. “Particularly with Jenny’s character – there’s a very dramatic ending, which I think will shock many people.”

She says everyone has been “super supportive” of her desire to follow her music career full-time with a few members of the cast coming to see her shows.

Tabloid darling
She is though, less enamoured with the coverage she receives in the American tabloids and glossy magazines – obsessing over her weight and style choices.

In the UK she’s also currently the face of a large high street outlet’s spring/summer range.

“I don’t read them,” she says over her tabloid presence. “I don’t even care, at all. If you read them and you care then it’ll just destroy you. It’s stupid to care about any of it.

“My whole thing is feel free to hate me – I so don’t care if you hate me, but meet me, and listen to my record, and know me before you hate me.

“Don’t hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it’s a lie.”

‘Lazy’ style
She’s also become an unlikely fashion icon, snapped up by New York based modelling agency IMG (home of Kate Moss) a couple of years ago. She’s nonchalant about her new found status though.

“I really just put on what’s clean,” she shrugs. “The easiest thing to find in the morning because I’m usually running late.

“It’s just turned into style – I just don’t bother, I’m just too lazy.”

Constantly balancing her career in music, fashion and acting means Momsen hasn’t really experienced the ‘normal’ lifestyle of a girl her age growing up.

“I’ve done a lot but I’m still a teenager,” she says finally. “I still chew gum in interviews.”

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From the Notting Hill show in London.

Ben Philips - The Pretty Reckless Guitarist

Mark Damon - The Pretty Reckless Bassist

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timyawn:

Oh yeah, so I totes saw ‘The Pretty Reckless’ (Taylor Momsen’s band AKA Lil J from Gossip Girl) tonight from the side of the stage at ‘The Notting Hill Arts Club’.
These are the only pics I got. They’re pretty bad pics, but fucking awesomely bad.
They were really damn great live tbh and bitch is hot.
We totes had a moment before she went onstage.
I was all, “Hey, have a good show”
and she was all, *hair flip* “Thanks” *smile*
Pretty sure were married now or something idk idk.

This recap made me lmao. Haha

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Oh yeah, so I totes saw ‘The Pretty Reckless’ (Taylor Momsen’s band AKA Lil J from Gossip Girl) tonight from the side of the stage at ‘The Notting Hill Arts Club’.

These are the only pics I got. They’re pretty bad pics, but fucking awesomely bad.

They were really damn great live tbh and bitch is hot.

We totes had a moment before she went onstage.

I was all, “Hey, have a good show” and she was all, *hair flip* “Thanks” *smile*

Pretty sure were married now or something idk idk.

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"Someone needs to give you the smackdown you so richly deserve, and it's me who gets to do it. That's just the cherry on top." Sing it, sister! Queen B herself, Blair Waldolf, is all over the mess that is Jenny Humphrey in this week's Gossip Girl finale—and that's before the hookup-that-shall-not-be-named (if you insist on revisiting this icktastic news, look here)!

Don't miss this scandalous Gossip Girl finale Monday at 9 p.m. on the CW.

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GOSSIP Girl's Taylor Momsen has caused more controversy - by admitting she carries knives in her purse.

The 16-year-old , best known for her role as Jenny Humphrey on the ITV2 teen show, sparked outrage by saying she found playing with her switchblade knife "relaxing".

She told a newspaper: "I have a knife collection. My favourite's my switchblade.

"I flew from New York to Los Angeles and still had a couple of knives in my purse. I thought I took them all out but they got tucked up in the folds.

"I went through security, took them on the plane, opened my bag to get my wallet in LA and they fell out. I was like: "Holy s***!"'"

She added: 'I have my favourite black knife with me all the time. It's a switchblade. It relaxes me to flick it."

Meanwhile, Taylor - who is often criticised for her racy outfits - lived up to her reputation last night performing at her first UK gig with her band, The Pretty Reckless.

The blonde left little to the imagination in a short, busty frock with ripped stockings at London's Notting Hill Arts Club.

What ever would your Mom say?

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