Posts Tagged ‘Paramore’

PARAMORE frontwoman Hayley Williams joined DEFTONES on stage yesterday (Sunday, June 27) at the Rock-A-Field festival in Roeser, Luxembourg to perform the DEFTONES song “Passenger”.

Fan-filmed video footage of her appearance can be viewed below.

DEFTONES’ new album, “Diamond Eyes”, sold 62,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 6 on The Billboard 200 chart.

DEFTONES’ last album, “Saturday Night Wrist”, opened with 76,000 units back in November 2006 to land at position No. 10 on The Billboard.

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Hayley Williams is on the bus, yanking off her fake eyelashes. It’s been a long day for the Paramore singer: up at eight to drive into Manhattan to soundcheck for Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, followed by an interview, lunch at a Times Square diner, where she spent much of her meal posing for pictures with fans, the actual Fallon taping, back to Jersey in rush-hour traffic, a quick bite near the Secaucus Hyatt, and finally onto the bus for the band’s next tour stop, the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City — a two-hour trip that, thanks to a new driver and a wonky GPS, is now well into hour three. If ever there were a time to kick back with a nice cold bottle of…

“Do you like chocolate milk?”

That’s guitarist Josh Farro, standing by the fridge. “This is the best chocolate milk ever,” he says, holding a pint. “They make it at a farm near Knoxville. Our friend sent us, like, 20 of them. You gotta try it.”

For the self-proclaimed “five best friends from Nashville” in Paramore — Farro, his drummer brother Zac, bassist Jeremy Davis, guitarist Taylor York, and Williams — this is what the road is all about. They stay up late. They watch Spaceballs and play Yahtzee. They sing Hanson songs, and not even “MMMBop” — we’re talking deep cuts. Their bus smells like popcorn and Twizzlers, and their chief entertainment is a book of hypothetical questions they take turns shouting out answers to. (If you had to be the underwear of someone famous, who would it be? “Jake Gyllenhaal!” blurts Williams.)

But inside this mobile slumber party lies a thriving rock’n'roll empire. The band’s third album, 2009’s Brand New Eyes, has sold more than 500,000 copies worldwide. The one before that, Riot!, sold two million. In between came their song for the Twilight soundtrack, “Decode,” which clocked over a million downloads and solidified Williams, a 21-year-old dynamo with a voice like a fire truck and hair to match, as America’s leading purveyor of teen-punk angst.

(Speaking of: Team Edward or Team Jacob? “Oh God,” she blushes. “I don’t really like either. I wish she’d date the guy at the school lunch table. The other two seem a little high-maintenance.” Note: Hayley Williams doesn’t do drama.)

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The opening date of Paramore’s Spring tour was proof positive of why this band continue to win over new admirers, night after night: The music was poppy, punk-y (of the fresh-scrubbed suburban variety), and loaded with more energy than a supercollider. It’s the sort of rock’n'roll that hits teenagers the hardest, but sneaks up on the older generations when they’re least expecting it.

Monday night at Knoxville, TN’s Civic Coliseum, Paramore ripped through a 17-song set heavy on tracks from their latest release, Brand New Eyes, which SPIN picked as one of the best albums of 2009. Playing to over 6,000 rabid fans, the quintet rocked with vigor, precision, and, above all, a youthful exuberance.

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Paramore singer Haley Williams is just the latest star from the rock world to take on a Lady Gaga song. She joins the ranks of Chris Daughtry, Weezer, Maximo Park, We the Kings and, of course, Eric Cartman of “South Park” fame. Could “Bad Romance” sneak into Paramore sets in the future? We’ll find out when the group kicks off the latest stretch of tour dates on April 26 in Knoxville, Tennessee.

The video came as a result of a tweet she sent only a few hours before. “Playing ‘Bad Romance’ on the piano and pretending to be Lady Gaga,” she wrote. “Why haven’t I ever done this before? Most fun I’ve ever had in ever.”

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You may already be aware that Paramore is headlining this yearly outing, but did you know the tour begins July 23 in Raleigh and concludes Sept. 19 in Anaheim? Details after the jump.

The Honda Civic Tour announced a couple of weeks ago that Paramore and Tegan and Sara will top a bill that promises “additional acts TBA.” But the actual hard data – date, city and venue – remained cloaked in secrecy until today.

As mentioned, the first night goes to Raleigh and the brand-spanking new Boutique Amphitheatre located in the city’s downtown area.

Harrington hosts the tour’s second night, taking place at the Delaware State Fair July 24. Two nights later the tour arrives in Wallingford, Conn., at Toyota Presents The Oakdale Theatre. Hmmm… the Honda Civic Tour at a Toyota-sponsored venue. Should be interesting.

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‘We’ve been needing an artist like her for a long time,’ Hayley says of her new fave.

It wasn’t difficult to do — what, with Beyoncé and Taylor Swift winning a combined 10 trophies — but after Sunday night’s Grammy Awards, most people found themselves brimming with a renewed sense of what the Spice Girls (and many others) have termed “Girl Power.”

Then, there were people like Paramore’s Hayley Williams, who had the “Girl Power” bug long before the Grammys even got underway — and not just because she fronts one of the biggest pop/rock acts on the planet, either. Seems she’s recently fallen under the spell of one Lady Gaga, too.

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