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Paramore brought out a special guest to help them sing ‘Misery Business’. That special guest was Lil Uzi Vert.While performing fan-favourite ‘Misery Business’, Hayley Williams and co.

Hayley Williams kicked out a pair of fans from the crowd on the first night of Paramore‘s two-night run at Madison Square Garden.Last night (May 30) while performing the song ‘Figure 8’ from the band’s sixth album ‘This Is Why’, a pair of fans caused major commotion within the first few rows of the general admission pit while they were pushing and shoving to get to the front barricade.“What is happening?” asked Williams while the crowd pointed at the two fans causing havoc. “Yes, I will embarrass both of you.

Paramore’s recent show in Atlanta, frontwoman Hayley Williams paid tribute to the late, great Tina Turner by interpolating the chorus of her 1984 hit ‘What’s Love Got To Do With It?’ into one of the band’s own songs.The show itself went down at the State Farm Arena last Thursday (May 25), with the tribute coming just over halfway through Paramore’s 22-song setlist. For their performance of the ‘After Laughter’ single ‘Told You So’, Williams swapped the last chorus out for the lyrics to ‘What’s Love Got To Do With It?’. Turner released the titular song in 1984, marking the third single from that year’s ‘Private Dancer’ album.

Paramore is back on the road and the band will be traveling all across North America this summer for an arena tour!

Hailee Steinfeld is one of the famous females to appear in Taylor Swift’s “Bad Blood” music, alongside the likes of Selena Gomez, Cindy Crawford, Cara Delevingne, Mariska Hargitay, Ellen Pompeo, Martha Hunt, Jessica Alba, Seraya, Karlie Kloss, Lena Dunham, Ellie Goulding, Gigi Hadid, Paramore’s Hayley Williams, Lily Aldridge, Zendaya and, of course, Swift herself.

Bloc Party are currently on tour opening for Paramore in the U.K. and Europe.

Kele Okereke joined Hayley Williams and the rest of Paramore to perform a cover of Bloc Party‘s ‘Blue Light’ in London last night (April 23).The show, which took place at the O2 Arena on April 23, was Paramore’s last in the UK as part of their 2023 UK and Ireland tour with Bloc Party. The show was also an additional date at the O2 Arena after what was originally meant to be the tour’s last stop in Birmingham on April 22.To commemorate the last show of their UK run, Hayley Williams and co.

Paramore fan proposed to their partner during the band’s headline gig in Birmingham last night (April 22), using a bunch of Paramore song titles.Paramore are currently touring the UK in support of ‘This Is Why’ and last night, headlined Birmingham’s Utilita Arena. During the concert, a fan was given a microphone and proposed to their partner.“You’re the only exception,” started the proposal. “All I wanted was you.

Bloc Party have shared their new upbeat single, ‘High Life’ – released midway through their extensive tour with Paramore. Check out the track belowEarlier this month, the band teased fans by confirming that new music was on the way.

Paramore fan, who was part of an upcoming girl group called Peaness, was pulled up on stage by Hayley Williams during the band’s show in Manchester.Singer Jess Branney was among three fans who teamed up with the Paramore singer for ‘Misery Business’ at the AO Arena on Tuesday night (April 18). You can view footage of the performance below.Following the performance, Williams later praised Branney’s band, writing on Twitter: “We checked em out, they’re good.”Branney, who is part of the girl group from Chester, also wrote: “Can’t believe that just happened.

Paramore‘s Hayley Williams became the latest artist to address current issues with Ticketmaster and the cost of concert tickets.The ticketing giant has been in the headlines frequently in the past few months for its controversial “surge pricing” scheme that was introduced last year, which inflates ticket prices based on demand.On Paramore’s opening night of their UK and Ireland tour in Dublin on Thursday (April 13), Williams discussed the problem as she thanked fans for coming.“I wanna say one more time how special it is that you’ve all made it tonight,” she told the crowd. “We don’t take it lightly, we know, honestly, especially now, it’s a huge sacrifice to come to a show because Ticketmaster need to get their shit together.

Paramore‘s Hayley Williams became the latest artist to address current issues with Ticketmaster and the cost of concert tickets.The ticketing giant has been in the headlines frequently in the past few months for its controversial “surge pricing” scheme that was introduced last year, which inflates ticket prices based on demand.As Paramore continued their UK tour with the second show of the run in Cardiff last night (April 15), Williams discussed the problem as she thanked fans for coming.“I wanna say one more time how special it is that you’ve all made it tonight,” she told the crowd. “We don’t take it lightly, we know, honestly, especially now, it’s a huge sacrifice to come to a show because Ticketmaster need to get their shit together.

Paramore took a brief intermission so Hayley Williams could perform a solo acoustic cover of The Cranberries’ 1992 hit ‘Dreams’.Paramore performed at Dublin’s 3Arena on Thursday (April 13), performing a set of 21 songs that included new songs from their just-released sixth album, ‘This Is Why’. ‘Liar’ and ‘Crave’ were both performed for the first time, as was Williams’ 2020 song ‘Crystal Clear’ (which appeared on her debut solo album, ‘Petals For Armor’) and the song ‘Baby’ by HalfNoise, drummer Zac Farro’s solo project. Williams’ cover of ‘Dreams’ appeared right after Farro’s performance of ‘Baby’ – she performed it acoustically, following it up with a rendition of Paramore’s own 2009 ballad ‘The Only Exception’.Have a look at a fan-shot recording of the Cranberries cover, then see the full setlist from Thursday’s show, below:1. ‘You First’ 2. ‘The News’ 3. ‘Playing God’ 4. ‘That’s What You Get’ 5. ‘Running Out Of Time’ 6. ‘Caught In The Middle’ 7. ‘Ain’t It Fun’ 8. ‘Liar’ 9. ‘Crystal Clear’ (Hayley Williams song) 10. ‘Still Into You’ 11. ‘Rose-Colored Boy’ 12. ‘Baby’ (HalfNoise cover) 13. ‘Dreams’ (Cranberries cover) 14. ‘The Only Exception’ 15. ‘Last Hope’ 16. ‘I Caught Myself’ 17. ‘Decode’ 18. ‘Misery Business’ 19. ‘Hard Times’ 20. ‘This Is Why’ 21. ‘Crave’Paramore will play their first show in the UK tonight (April 15), performing at the Cardiff International Arena in Wales.

Paramore kicked off their long-awaited tour of the UK and Ireland yesterday (April 13). Check out footage of the show and the full setlist below.Taking place at Dublin’s 3Arena, the pop-punk veterans delivered a 21-track setlist to fans – comprising of both new songs and familiar favourites.The trio – which is comprised of Hayley Williams, Taylor York and Zac Farro – started the set with ‘You First’ followed by ‘The News’, both taken from their latest album, ‘This Is Why’.

Bloc Party frontman Kele Okereke has shared that the band are working on “exciting” new music.The indie veterans released their sixth album ‘Alpha Games‘ last year, with Okereke previously telling NME that he was “more excited about the energy that the band has right now” than he was concerned with their legacy.Now, after the recent release of his sixth solo album ‘The Flames pt. 2’, he has now told NME that Bloc Party are already back at work. Speaking with NME‘s In Conversation series, Okereke shared: “We, Bloc Party, have been writing in the last week.”He continued: “We have made a lot of music over the years and we’re going to make more.

Paramore’s Hayley Williams has shared a note written to her teenage self today (April 9).Taking to Instagram Stories, Williams shared that she had written the note for her friend’s newsletter.“My friend Elise has a newsletter and she sends out shorthand text newsletters that constantly encourage and inspire me,” she began.“For her birthday, she asked friends and creatives to contribute by writing notes to their teenage selves.”In the note, Williams wrote: “I would tell her to learn now that life is both/and.”The note Williams shared can be seen in full below and read here.“Good and also Evil Kind and also Careful Hurt and also Healing Empathy and also Not My Problem Bad Men and also Lovely Ones Vulnerable and also Fuck Off Vengeance and also Forgiveness Stay Home and also See The World Big Smile and also Depression Distance and also Closer Than Ever Intimacy and also No One Will Ever Truly Know Me Straight and also Spectrum Newborn and also Ancient Wisdom Neons and also Neutrals Hope and also Dystopia Acceptance and also Rage God and also Nothing Everywhere and also Right Here True Love and also Loneliness Believing and also Seeing Dreams Of The Future and also Painstakingly Present Getting Better and also Enough“I would tell her to learn now that life is both/and.”Earlier this week, Paramore shared a message to their fans, reflecting on the decade that’s passed since they released their pivotal self-titled album.Their fourth full-length effort, ‘Paramore’ was released on April 5, 2013 via Fueled By Ramen.Looking back in a new statement shared on social media, Williams emphasised that making ‘Paramore’ took “a lot of guts and self-determination”.

Paramore have shared a touching message for their longstanding fandom, reflecting on the decade that’s passed since they released their pivotal self-titled album.Their fourth full-length effort, ‘Paramore’ was released on April 5, 2013 via Fueled By Ramen. It was their first album a three-piece following the (rather messy) departure of brothers Josh and Zac Farro – who played guitars and drums, respectively – some three years earlier, and in the lead-up to its release, they described it often as a “statement” on that split.Looking back in a new statement shared on social media, frontwoman Hayley Williams emphasised that making ‘Paramore’ took “a lot of guts and self-determination”, particularly amid rabid fan (and critic) speculation over whether the band could thrive without the Farros (Josh had been an integral part of Paramore’s songwriting dynamic on their first three albums).

Madonna has added a Nashville date to her upcoming 2023 ‘Celebration’ world tour, with proceeds benefiting trans rights organisations.The concert is due to take place on Friday, December 22 at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena, with Madonna adding a further seven dates to the US leg of the tour.Tickets for the newly announced dates go on sale at 10am local time this Friday, March 31. You can see full dates below and find tickets here.In a statement addressing recent anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, Madonna said: “The oppression of the LGBTQ+ is not only unacceptable and inhumane; it’s creating an unsafe environment; it makes America a dangerous place for our most vulnerable citizens, especially trans women of color.“Also, these so-called laws to protect our children are unfounded and pathetic.

Hayley Williams of Paramore performed a cover of Deana Carter’s ‘Did I Shave My Legs For This?’ at Love Rising, a Nashville fundraiser for LGBTQIA+ organisations.The show saw Willams team up with singer-songwriter Becca Mancari on guitar to perform ‘Inordinary’ taken from her solo album ‘Flowers for Vases / descansos‘. She then welcomed her best friend and business partner Brian O’Connor who came out dressed in full drag ready to sing ‘Did I Shave My Legs For This?’.The event was created by members of Tennessee’s music community after responding to the series of bills Tennessee recently passed targeting the state’s LGBT population – attempting to pose restrictions on things like drag shows and transgender treatment and surgery for minors.“What they’re doing with this anti-drag bill… is actually just a distraction from all these other horrible things that they’re trying to pass here — it feels like we’re in a relationship with our city and our state that’s all give, no get,” Williams told the crowd.Last month, Williams spoke out to decry the legislation.

Maren Morris isn’t backing down.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic A cast of mostly Nashville-based stars, including Maren Morris, Paramore’s Hayley Williams, Yola, Sheryl Crow and Jason Isbell — plus one key out-of-towner, the Irishman Hozier — joined up with a host of Tennessee drag artists Monday night in Nashville to protest recent state legislation aimed at cross-dressing performers, trans youth and same-sex marriage. The four-hour “Love Rising” benefit, which filled Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena with fans and LGBTQ+ community members and their allies, was also livestreamed to an international audience via the Veeps platform. No one received more of a hero’s welcome than Morris, who recently went out on a limb by standing up for trans youth and their families in a headline-making online debate with fellow country star Jason Aldean’s wife, Brittany Aldean, while most mainstream stars held their tongues. It was quickly evident that Morris has not turned into any shrinking violet as a result of the backlash she experienced from country fans on the right in the dust-up with the Aldeans, appearing on stage with a touch of androgyny in a look that combined legginess with formal black-tie. Morris performed her crossover hit “The Middle” while drag queen Alexia Noelle Paris accompanied her in an interpretive dance.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic “Love Rising” is looking to combat the deeply risible. Nashville-based musicians are coming together in a big way — a Bridgestone Arena-sized way — tonight for the show of that name, a benefit concert to raise awareness and funds for the LGBTQ community and its allies in the face of Tennessee legislation that is seen as targeting the rights of gay and trans people generally and drag performers specifically. The generously star-packed show is also being livestreamed internationally via the Veeps platform, with $14.99 tickets available here for a show that begins at 7:30 Nashville time, aka 8:30 ET/5:30 PT. The wide-ranging bill of rock, country, pop, indie and Americana performers includes Paramore’s Hayley Williams, Sheryl Crow, Maren Morris, Brothers Osborne, Jason Isbell, Amanda Shires, Yola, Brittany Howard, Hozier, Adeem the Artist, Julien Baker, Joy Oladokun, Jake Wesley Rogers and Mya Byrne, along with co-organizer Allison Russell. Late additions to the show since it was first announced include a greater contingent of non-binary and, yes, drag artists from Tennessee on top of the nationally known names.

Celebrity Swifites! Several of Taylor Swift’s famous friends and fans showed up to shake it off at the singer’s much-anticipated The Eras Tour.

Hayley Williams has recalled contacting Taylor Swift for the first time, after Swift was criticised at the 2009 VMAs by Kanye West for beating Beyoncé to an award.The Paramore singer spoke to the crowd on the opening night of Swift’s US tour at the State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. Paramore supported Swift last night (March 17) and will also perform tonight (March 18) at the same venue.She recounted the pair’s early interactions, explaining that it was Swift’s mother, Andrea, who wished the teenaged stars could form a supportive relationship due to the both being so young in the music industry.“I remember feeling like, ‘We’re so little, we’re so young,'” Williams recalled on stage of the period in the late ’00s.

During the second set of their performance Monday night at The Basement East in Nashville, Yo La Tengo’s Ira Kaplan and James McNew donned drag outfits, The Tennessean reports. Though they didn’t openly mention the meaning behind their wardrobe change, it came amid nationwide public outcry over a new law signed into action by Tennessee governor Bill Lee earlier this month.

In the five years since her Reputation stadium tour in 2018, Taylor Swift has achieved a lot.

Paramore’s Hayley Williams, Sheryl Crow, Jason Isbell and Brittany Howard are set to perform at an LGBTQ+ benefit concert in Tennessee.The show entitled Love Rising, which has been organised by Isbell and Alison Russell, will take place at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena on March 20.Other acts on the bill include Hozier, Brothers Osborne, Amanda Shires, Julien Baker, Joy Oladokun, Yola, Jake Wesley Rogers, and Mya Byrne.Tickets for the show are on sale now and can be purchased here. You can view the full line-up below.The concert was set up in the wake of Tennessee passing Senate Bill 3 and House Bill 9, two pieces of legislation that ban drag performances from taking place on public property, as well as in any location where minors can be present.“As a queer, intersectional artist and mother, raising my child in Nashville, it’s important to me to support these wonderful Tennessee LGBTQIA+ advocacy organisations, working so hard to build bridges, reduce harm and promote equality for all Tennesseans,” Russell said in a statement via Consequence.“LGBTQIA+ contributions and creativity are foundational to every genre of modern song and arts performance.

Paramore's Hayley Williams, plus Julien Baker, Brittany Howard, and Maren Morris are among the first names confirmed for Nashville's Love Rising, a live music event organized in response to Tennessee's ban on drag performances on public property. Other names confirmed for Love Rising include Sheryl Crow, Jason Isbell, Amanda Shires, Brothers Osborne, Yola, Allison Russell, and more. The event takes place on March 20 with proceeds going toward LGBTQIA+ programs, services, and resources across Tennessee.

Paramore‘s Hayley Williams has criticised two anti-LGBTQIA+ bills that have been proposed for her home state of Tennessee.Legislation was passed on Thursday (February 23) which, if signed by the governor, will make Tennessee the first state to criminalise drag shows. The bill would make drag performances in front of children or in certain public spaces, including within 1,000 feet of a public park, school or church, illegal.

Paramore secure a third UK Number 1 album, and their first in a decade, with This Is Why.

Paramore have shared an accompanying music video for their ‘This Is Why’ track ‘Running Out of Time’.The Ivanna Borin-directed video begins with frontwoman Hayley Williams listless in a recording studio, before giant, anthropomorphic drums and a guitar begin to lurch towards her.Escaping into a guitar case, things only get more fantastical from there, with Williams and her bandmates traversing throughout an array of vividly colourful, surrealistic landscapes. Watch the video for ‘Running Out of Time’ below:‘Running Out of Time’ is the third track from Paramore’s new album to receive a music video.

Since their debut in the mid-00s, Paramore have grown in stature, now widely regarded as one of the pillars of the pop-punk explosion, and now one of its most widely beloved vanguards. 

Paramore have spoken to NME about how their hiatus after their 2017 album ‘After Laughter’ was “a necessary detour”.The band took a break following a global tour in 2018 which saw frontwoman Hayley Williams concentrate on her solo career, which saw her release two albums – ‘Petals For Armor’ and ‘Flowers for Vases / descansos’. Drummer Zac Farro also released two albums, ‘Natural Disguise’ and ‘Motif’, under his project Half Noise.Speaking about the band’s hiatus in this week’s Big Read cover interview, Williams said: “It was a necessary detour.

Looking at the Official Albums Chart midweeks, you'd be forgiven for thinking you'd stumbled into a time machine and woken up in 2009.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor “Femme,” written and directed by Sam H. Freeman and Ng Choon Ping, has debuted a teaser and poster (below) ahead of its premiere Sunday in the Panorama section of the Berlin Film Festival. The film stars Nathan Stewart-Jarrett and George MacKay. Anton is handling international sales. The film centers on Jules, whose life and career as a drag queen is destroyed by a homophobic attack. But when he re-encounters his attacker, the deeply-closeted Preston, in a gay sauna, he is presented with a chance to exact revenge. Unrecognizable out of his wig and make-up, Jules infiltrates Preston’s life, and in doing so, discovers power in a different kind of drag.

A very big reason for Paramore to leave the house – their sixth studio album This Is Why is on course to claim the band their third UK Number 1 album, and first in nearly a decade.