Hayley Williams

Paramore Kitten - Hammerstein Ballroom - 5/16/13

Paramore Kitten Hammerstein Ballroom 5/16/13 Better Than: Anything J.J. Abrams has done in 2013 Before seeing Paramore tonight, I went to the movies with my best friend. We're both huge sci-fi/fantasy dweebs, so we, of course, had seen the new Star Trek movie on its opening day. The movie was ... More >>

The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Week, 5/13/13

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A Bite With The Band: Angel Haze On New York, Learning About Hip-Hop, And Fiending For Chipotle

It's harder than it looks to sit down and break burritos with Angel Haze. The plan, originally, was simple: Invite the New York-based (but not native) rapper, whose recent signing to Universal Republic and imminent appearance on Hot97's Who's Next stage have supercharged her white-hot status in th ... More >>

Radio Hits One: fun.'s "We Are Young" Brings Indie Pop To The Super Bowl And The Hot 100

Last week Billboard published the Hot 100 chart covering the post-Super Bowl week, and unsurprisingly the most notable leap on the chart was made by a song featured on the telecast. The surprise was that it wasn't "Give Me All Your Luvin'," Madonna's new single, performed during her halftime show pe ... More >>

Live: B.o.B Shows Flashes Of Megastardom At The Bowery Ballroom

B.o.B w/Lauriana Mae Bowery Ballroom Tuesday, November 29 Better than: Living in New Jersey. (Joking, Taylor Ham aficionados!) 9:56 p.m.: "He represents Atlanta, ladies and gentlemen... He's sold like a million records and like 15 million downloads... He's had a Grammy nomination... It's B.o.B!" S ... More >>

Four Potential Special Guests For Taylor Swift's Two New York Shows

As you might have heard, Taylor Swift has been crossing the country touring behind 2010's Speak Now and performing a new cover song, often with a surprise guest, at each city along the way, leaving in a trail of camera phone YouTube videos and exclamation point-filled tweets in her wake. In Atlanta ... More >>

Live: Luke Bryan Shakes His Rump, Covers Lady Gaga At Terminal 5

Luke Bryan w/ Josh Thompson, Lee Brice, and Matt Mason Terminal 5 Friday, September 16 Better than: Having to go out to PNC Bank Arts Center, where these all-star country shows usually take place. In a town where the "but country" that finishes the trusty declaration of openmindedness "I listen t ... More >>

Live: Paramore Ends Their Year And Celebrates Their Label At Terminal 5

Paramore w/ fun., The Stereo, The Swellers, and This Providence Terminal 5 Wednesday, September 8 Better than: Getting soaked on the long walk back to the subway. In one of the many shoutouts Paramore frontwoman Hayley Williams directed toward her record label Fueled By Ramen—the emo-pop ma ... More >>

Paramore Pay A Visit To Diaryland On "Monster"

via paramore.net​ "Monster" is the first fully fleshed track from the outfit Paramore to come out since two of its members left in a huff of authenticity late last year, although the band's most defining aspect—the wail of flame-haired frontwoman Hayley Williams—is still intact. Th ... More >>

Live: Bamboozle Stimulates Every Sense (And Then Some)

So much to see, everywhere. ​The Bamboozle Meadowlands April 29-May 1, 2011 Better than: Watching scene reports scroll by on Twitter. In a lot of ways, the Bamboozle is a festival tailor-made for the current moment of constant distraction. The festival's running time over three days totals ... More >>

2010: The Year In Music Photos

​The year in music, circa 2010, started at the Cake Shop, with a shred-down to the New Year courtesy of Siren Festival MVP-to-be Marissa Paternoster and her band Screaming Females. After a tour through the NYE fetes of the Lower East Side and Williamsburg, that night ended amidst a marathon sh ... More >>

Former Paramore Guitarist Josh Farro On Hayley Williams and His Old Band: "What Started As Natural Somehow Morphed Into A Manufactured Product Of A Major Label"

Uh, nevermind...​It wasn't exactly surprising when, over the weekend, Paramore announced that two members--founding guitarist and drummer Josh and Zac Farro--would be leaving the band; if any act seemed vulnerable to a No Doubt-type split and subsequent frontlady solo career, it was Paramore. ... More >>

Live: Justin Bieber Provokes Squeals, Enrique Iglesias Asks a 16-Year-Old On A Date, And Katy Perry Rules All at Z100's Jingle Ball

Z100's Jingle Ball, featuring Katy Perry, Justin Bieber, Paramore, Kim Kardashian, and More Madison Square Garden Friday, December 10 Better than: That GIF of sparks coming out of Katy Perry's chest from the "Firework" video. Yes, Katy Perry looked like a human nutcracker at this year's Z100 Jin ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: December 1 through 7

A Pop Star's Guide to Making Music on Twitter

​A couple days ago, zeitgeisty rapper B.o.B stopped by Chelsea Handler's talk show. There, he disclosed an interesting detail: despite the fact that he and Paramore's Hayley Williams share dual billing on what is far and away the biggest song of his career, "Airplanes," the two have never met ... More >>

Live: B.o.B Covers MGMT, Regales Thoroughly Soused Masses At Irving Plaza

He'll probably buy you a beer if no one else will. Pics by Rob Trucks, more below.​B.o.B/Yelawolf/Playboy Tre Irving Plaza Tuesday, August 17 Every single person at this show was underage and/or drunk, present company excepted. Multiple amorous young couples took turns making out in various ... More >>

Will "The Ultimate Chart" Change The Way We Quantify The Ubiquity Of Eminem, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, And Justin Bieber?

​A common complaint about music charts in the post-sales age is that, with their reliance on SoundScan data and airplay numbers, they miss other avenues for popular consumption, from YouTube streams to--shh!--free downloads. BigChampagne, which started off as a service charting the popularity ... More >>

Diddy, To Some Terrified Producer: "I Want A Beat That Makes Me Feel Like A White Man In A Basement In Atlanta"

Image taken exclusively for l'uomo Vogue by Mark Seliger, via Myspace​Ever wonder what it's like to produce for New York rap stalwart Diddy, a man whose creativity and ability to leech off of the creativity of others knows no real bounds? Ask 26-year-old British producer Alex Da Kid, who lever ... More >>

Summer Guide: Kelis Tries For A Rebound

With her new album Flesh Tone, the "Milkshake" singer tries on some club-pop

We Live In A Country In Which Godsmack's Oracle Is #1

​Real convincing proof of SOTC chart guru Maura Johnston's twin theorems regarding Billboard success: a), terrible rock bands sell, and sell, and keep selling, for years at a time, and b), what's old is new, and what passes for nostalgia on Billboard charts looks a lot like what was popular on ... More >>

Live From the Bamboozle, Where the Most Emo Act Was A Rapper, and the Only Grownups in Sight Were the Five Kids in Paramore

The Bamboozle Meadowlands Parking Lot Saturday, May 1 The Bamboozle is the circus-themed mainstream punk/pop/whatever blowout where the line for Mrs. Field's ice cream and cookies dwarfs the one for $10 Miller Lites. It's the sunburn factory with a kid sporting an irony-free Snapple tattoo. A mor ... More >>

Watch Paramore's Stellar Performance of "Brick By Boring Brick" on Jimmy Fallon

Young enough to wear leopard print pants, old enough to be the best female singer in rock music today. She's a conundrum, that Hayley Williams.

Hey Look, Eminem Jumped On a Song With B.o.B and Paramore's Hayley Williams

​The sequel to "Airplanes," the crossover anthem B.o.B and Hayley Williams released last week in Bobby Ray's final gambit to catapult himself out of the rap universe and directly into college dorm-room stardom. And who better than Eminem to reach an entire army of people who don't care about r ... More >>

A Comprehensive Guide to B.o.B, the Rapping Coldplay Acolyte Who Is About to Be Enormously Famous

​In two weeks the first rap album of 2010 that matters will be released. How much rap will appear on The Adventures of Bobby Ray is still a mystery. But the recent hip-hop trend of paradigm-shifting MCs--e.g., rappers who don't always seem interested in rap--continues with the big top arrival ... More >>

Live: Paramore Reduce Your CMJ Showcase To Ashes at Hammerstein

Paramore Hammerstein Ballroom Wednesday, October 21 Paramore's Hayley Williams is 20-years-old, about five feet tall, and when she walks out in front of three or four thousand people she's serenely calm. On Tuesday, somebody gave her a gold plaque, for a record her band released four years ago, w ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Paramore, Mountain Goats, Mariah Carey, Jemina Pearl

Ryan Russell"WE SOLD OUT WEMBLEY ARENA IN ONE DAY!!! WHAAATTT?!?!!" In this week's Village Voice, Ryan Dombal watches Paramore, led by emo femme fatale Hayley Williams, bust up the Lonely Tears Boys Club. Zach Baron thumbs through chapter and verse trying to understand the Mountain Goats' The Life ... More >>

Huh? Barbra Streisand Is #1

​Streisand, who sold 180,000 copies of Love Is the Answer this past week, solidifies her lead as the female act with the most #1s all time, according to Billboard. But the truly satisfying news belongs to Paramore: the band's third record, Brand New Eyes, sold 175,000 copies to claim the secon ... More >>

Paramore Finally Bust Up the Lonely Tears Boys Club

Emo's Femme Fatale, Hayley Williams

Live: No Doubt and Paramore Stay Young at Jones Beach

No Doubt/Paramore Jones Beach Theater Saturday, June 27 "I always thought I'd be a mom" is not the most obvious applause line at a rock concert. But when Gwen Stefani cooed just that in the middle of the conflicted 2000 power ballad "Simple Kind of Life," the thousands of girls-- teens with teens ... More >>

Live: Teenage Girls Run Z100's Jingle Ball

MISERY BUSINESS

Unlikely industry darlings Paramore kick out the jams

Bleat on the Brats

Emo-goth bill isn't exactly Top-8 material