Paramore

Paramore are heading to the UK and Ireland for a tour in April 2023 it has been announced. In support of their upcoming sixth album ‘This is Why’ the tour will kick off in Dublin before making stops in Cardiff, Glasgow, Manchester, London and Birmingham. They will be joined by special guests Bloc Party. Fans can pre-order any ‘This is Why’ album format from the UK store to gain early access to the UK tour tickets and the exclusive opportunity to purchase a limited amount of early entry tickets to the shows. If…

Coronavirus is posing some “Hard Times” for rock band Paramore, which announced on Tuesday that it will no longer play its Thursday show at the Wiltern in Los Angeles. “Due to a case of COVID-19 within the touring party, we will be rescheduling our show on Thursday, October 20 at The Wiltern in Los Angeles,” the group said in statement posted to its official Instagram story. However, the rock trio, fronted by Hayley Williams, gave its Angeleno fans some good news, sharing that the “show will now be on Monday, October…

The three members of Paramore are feeling their age. Recently, they shot a video for their comeback single, This Is Why, and the jagged, brash song wreaked havoc on their joints. “It’s not even a performance-heavy video and I’m still sore,” says frontwoman Hayley Williams, 33. As they appear over Zoom from their period Los Angeles rental one September morning, the band are on the brink of their first proper day back at work in four years. Straight after we speak, they start rehearsals for their October tour. They have…

Twenty years ago, if you told Paramore vocalist Hayley Williams that she’d become one of the most influential pop singers in America, she might have offered little more than a scowl. As a DayGlo-haired punk sprite, miraculously gifted with the lung capacity of a Southern church choir, she couldn’t have seen it then — nor could her childhood friends-turned-bandmates, Zac Farro and Taylor York — but Paramore would go on to craft songs that would alter the trajectories of rock and pop. Artists such as Olivia Rodrigo, Demi…