After years and years of slowly making their way up the lineup, Paramore is finally taking the headlining reins at Bamboozle Music Fest this May. The pop-punk kids will take headlining duties on Day 1, while Weezer will headline Day 2. More »
One day after America honored the Twilight soundtrack (led by Paramore’s hit “Decode,” with its autumnal video), the feisty Tennessee pop punk act is back with… an even more autumnal video. The otherworldly clip for the bouncy Brand New Eyes track “Brick By Boring Brick” appeared on the band’s website today, brimming with imagery that comes off as Alice in Wonderland meets Pan’s Labyrinth meets the color goldenrod. The weirdest part of the vid—besides Hayley Williams’ unnaturally natural blonde hair—is the out-of-left-field and slightly traumatizing ending. Embedding prohibited, so check it out at Paramore’s site and then come back and tell us if you were as disturbed as we are.
Video of the making-of “Brick By Boring Brick” behind the jump, in case you’re in desperate need of some behind-the-scenes answers. More »
Barbra Streisand’s Love Is The Answer has blown past early sales predictions, selling 180,000 copies and coming in as this week’s top-selling album, according to SoundScan. Paramore’s brand new eyes (175,000 copies) is at No. 2, while Mariah Carey’s Memoirs Of An Imperfect Angel (168,000 copies) bows at No. 3. And the key here, once again, would seem to be TV: Not only did Babs appear on Oprah, she hawked her album on QVC, which apparently gave her quite the direct-sales bump. More »
Preliminary sales numbers from industry rag Hits have last week’s top three slots on this week’s new-release-stuffed album-sales chart taken by Paramore, Barbra Streisand, and Mariah Carey, respectively—and yes, that’s Mariah coming in behind the new effort by Barbra Streisand. The “official” tally from SoundScan will come later today, but for now let’s speculate: More »
Following lead singer Hayley Williams’ throat-problem-occasioned early exit from Tuesday night’s show in Pomona, Calif., which resulted in the crowd filling in for the frontwoman on a song, Paramore has postponed tonight’s show at the Palladium in Hollywood until a future date. [Paramore] More »
