About The Pretty Reckless Like her co-star Leighton Meester, Taylor Momsen rose to fame as an actress on the TV series Gossip Girl before launching a separate music career. She formed the Reckless in 2009, later changing the band’s name to the Pretty Reckless to avoid trademark problems. With Momsen on vocals, John Secolo on guitar, Matt Chiarelli on bass, and Nick Carbone on drums, the group began finding a balance between hard rock and post-grunge, taking cues from female-fronted bands like Hole and the Runaways along the way. They worked quickly, playing some initial shows in New York City before landing an opening slot on the Veronicas’ North American tour several months later. The tour went well, and Interscope Records signed the band before the year was up. The Pretty Reckless completely revised their lineup in 2010, with Momsen retaining her frontwoman role as guitarist Ben Phillips, bassist Mark Damon, and drummer Jamie Perkins all replaced her previous bandmates. After spending several months in the studio, the group released its first single, Make Me Wanna Die, on the Kick- Ass soundtrack. The band's first album, Light Me Up, saw release in Europe and Australia in late summer of 2010 and the record rolled out in North America in 2011. The Pretty Reckless toured steadily behind Light Me Up, releasing the Hit Me Like a Man EP in March of 2012. A year later, the group's second full-length album Going to Hell appeared. ~ Andrew Leahey, Rovi Music Best New Videos See All Now Playing The Pretty Reckless Video The Pretty Reckless Waiting for a Friend ( Live at Arlene's) [audio] Now Playing The Pretty Reckless Video The Pretty Reckless Messed Up World ( F'd Up World) Now Playing The Pretty Reckless Video The Pretty Reckless Why'd You Bring a Shotgun to the Party (audio) Now Playing The Pretty Reckless Video The Pretty Reckless Waiting for a Friend (audio) Now Playing.
The same Taylor Momsen who once starred on the CW hit Gossip Girl is far away from New York's tony Upper East Side. She's half-naked, gothed up in black eye shadow and surrounded by burning books and tatted-up teens in the video for Heaven Knows, the hit song from Going to Hell, the sophomore album by her band The Pretty Reckless, released March 18 on Razor people think that girls are posing, he says. I don't want to be misogynistic myself, but maybe it's easier for girls to craft a pop tune than a credible rock tune. In the 1980s, the Mainstream Rock chart featured 13 female-fronted No. 1s, by Heart, Stevie Nicks and others. However, since the Alternative chart's debut in 1988, the mainstream rock format has become tougher.
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