Death By Rock and Roll today. The first album since fall 2016.
Since that album, the band has gone through lifetimes of turmoil in a short period of time.
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In 2017, The Pretty Reckless was riding the high of touring with Soundgarden. Fronted, of course, by the legendary Chris Cornell. In May of that year, they were awakened to the tragic news of Chris Cornell s death.
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Frontwoman Taylor Momsen has opened up in many interviews how much this event impacted her. The tragedy ultimately prompting her to pull out of the rock and roll limelight to process her grief and plan for the future ahead.
Gio Swaby s Love Letters Exhibition to Open at Claire Oliver Gallery in New York
February 11, 2021
Talk about a shooting star. Gio Swaby, a Bahamian multimedia textile artist, earned her BFA in 2016. The very next year, she mounted a solo show at UNIT/PITT Society for Art & Critical Awareness in Vancouver, BC, where Swaby now lives. The 29-year-old is kicking off 2021 with similar brilliance: “Love Letters” is her exhibition of over a dozen new works at Claire Oliver Gallery in New York. “Medium is one of the last things I think about,” the artist, who studied painting, drawing, and ceramics as well as film and video, recently said. For her Pretty Pretty series, the medium is thread and cotton. “They reference female-centered activities like sewing, plus the concept of tradition, which is echoed in the theme of Black women passing down hair-care traditions for generations.” Swaby’s creations are, as noted in the exhibit’s title, a love letter to Black women’s st