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Dec 21 2010 12:33 PM ET

Paramore confirms departure of guitarist, drummer

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paramoreImage Credit: Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic.comThe Paramore family has just gotten smaller. In a blog post dated Dec. 18 on their official site, the Brand New Eyes band announced that guitarist Josh Farro and drummer Zac Farro will be leaving the group. “A couple of months ago, Josh and Zac let us know that they would be leaving the band after our show in Orlando last Sunday,” the post reads. “None of us were really shocked. For the last year it hasn’t seemed as if they wanted to be around anymore. We want Josh and Zac to do something that makes them happy and if that isn’t here with us, then we support them finding happiness elsewhere.”

Never fear, Paramore fans: The remaining members — including frontwoman Hayley Williams, bassist Jeremy Davis, and guitarist Taylor York — continue to be tight-knit, and have no intentions of breaking up anytime soon. “We never for a second thought about leaving any of this behind,” the post reads. “We really hope that you can be encouraged by the fact that the three of us who are still here are ready to take on another chapter of our journey together.”

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‘Glee’ covers Britney Spears and Paramore: Hear it now!

Sep 23 2010 12:57 PM ET

'Glee' covers Britney Spears and Paramore: Hear it now!

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The much-ballyhooed Britney Spears episode of Glee airs next week and we’ve got our first tease of the music we’ll be hearing. So what Spears classics will the New Directions folks be tackling? From the leaked montage, it appears the lucky songs are “Toxic,” “…Baby One More Time,” “Stronger,” “I’m a Slave 4 U,” and “Me Against the Music.”

Plus, the episode features the Paramore tune, “The Only Exception.” Glee star Lea Michele has actually had her eye on covering Paramore for a while now. Says Michele, “I’ve wanted to do Paramore since the beginning. The song that I’m doing  is actually my ringtone.” Hear a snippet of each below, including Michele’s cover of her ringtone…

What do you think of these Glee covers, Music Mix-ers? Are they doing Britney and Paramore justice?

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Sep 13 2010 03:39 AM ET

Inside the VMAs: What you didn't see on TV

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Taylor-Swift-VMAsImage Credit: Kevin Winter/Getty ImagesThe crowd settling into the Nokia Theatre L.A. Live on Sunday evening knew that anything could happen over the next two hours — primarily because anything did happen at the last MTV Video Music Awards. (Lil Mama, you are not forgotten.) I’m sure I wasn’t the only one in that auditorium wondering whether we were about to see any more jaw-dropping surprises when the lights went down at 6 P.M. West Coast time. But did we? Read on. READ FULL STORY »

Jun 15 2010 02:16 PM ET

B.o.B and Hayley Williams mope together in 'Airplanes' video

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bob-hayley-williams“Airplanes,” B.o.B’s collaboration with Paramore’s Hayley Williams, is only two spots below Katy Perry’s “California Gurls” on the charts, but the pop hits’ new music videos could hardly be more different.

If the “California Gurls” clip is a kid-in-a-candy-shop fantasia, “Airplanes” is a moment of gloomy reflection. B.o.B and Williams never appear on screen together. She’s sitting somberly with her legs drawn in while he paces a dreary warehouse where his lyrics are projected on the walls. Then she’s singing from a pile of old photos come to life; a bit later he’s standing in the spotlight, performing for a crowd that exists only in his memory. “I could really use a wish right now,” they both repeat.

The “Airplanes” video isn’t streaming free online, sadly, but it is available for purchase through iTunes. Have you seen it? Was it worth your $1.99? Sound off in the comments.

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Mar 29 2010 10:09 AM ET

Paramore's Hayley Williams covers Lady Gaga's 'Bad Romance'

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Lady Gaga covers: Everyone’s doing them! Including Paramore lead singer Hayley Williams, 21, who shot a piano-based take on “Bad Romance” and posted the clip via Twitter yesterday. Not bad at all.

“Playing ‘Bad Romance’ on the piano and pretending to be @LadyGaga,” Williams tweeted before liberating the video. ”Why haven’t I ever done this before? Most fun I’ve had in ever.” And, later: “feel a bit crazy posting this… but you asked for it! my apologies to miss gaga. love, your friend, lady haha.”

Watch Hayley’s (er, Lady Haha’s) “Bad Romance” after the jump and see what you think.

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Nov 23 2009 04:19 PM ET

Paramore's 'Brick By Boring Brick' video: Watch it here!

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Paramore premiered their video for “Brick By Boring Brick” today, featuring shades of creepery that run the full childhood-nightmare gauntlet. But despite nods to Alice in Wonderland, Sleeping Beauty, Labyrinth, and this one bad dream I keep having where the whole world is more or less on fire, this thing is definitely not for kids. Also, for the life of me, I can’t figure out what any of it means: Hayley Williams, all dolled up and looking adorable, is singing angstily while a man digs a grave and leaves fall from empty skies; meanwhile, a little girl who looks like the lost Fanning sister explores a magical castle full of butterflies and mushrooms and men of dubious intent. When the castle’s magic turns dark and evil (as castle magic so often does), the little girl runs back across the field towards Hayley — and falls smack into the open grave. At which point it somehow gets even creepier. I won’t spoil it, but let’s just say I doubt Hayley was much of a babysitter.

What do you think, Mixers? I’d psychoanalyze everything here, but I don’t get paid enough.

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Oct 7 2009 11:00 AM ET

Barbra Streisand tops the albums chart in a busy week; Paramore bests Mariah Carey

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Barbra Streisand fans are certainly a devoted bunch. Today they’ve put Babs atop the Billboard 200 with a healthy 180,000 copies sold of her jazz standards album Love Is the Answer, according to Nielsen SoundScan, beating a host of new releases by buzzier artists. By way of comparison, that’s equivalent to every one of the die-hard fans who attended Barbra’s recent gig at NYC’s Village Vanguard club going out and buying 1,800 copies of her new record. Not bad at all.

This week’s list of distinguished also-rans begins with Paramore, whose pop-punk star will no doubt continue to rise now that they’ve taken No. 2 on the chart by selling 175,000 copies of their acclaimed brand new eyes. At No. 3, it’s Mariah Carey, with 168,000 copies sold of Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel. That result might be the most noteworthy thing on this chart, actually — 168K is a nice number, to be sure, but I wonder how Mariah must feel about coming in third place to Paramore and Barbra.

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Sep 24 2009 05:08 PM ET

Paramore, 'brandneweyes': Full album stream on Myspace now

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You’ve heard the single, and read all about the angst and infighting that inspired it — now, you can stream Tennessee pop-punkers Paramore‘s upcoming September 29 album, brandneweyes, in full on their MySpace page, after the band’s homepage crashed following a deluge of eager fans.

Barring any more overloads, you can find it here, and tell us, does it live up to your post-Twilight/Grammy noms/Riot! expectations?

Sep 14 2009 02:43 PM ET

'New Moon': Hear the Death Cab for Cutie single in full

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We’ve given you the build-up and the song snippet; now the first single from The Twilight Saga: New Moon soundtrack—Death Cab for Cutie’s “Meet Me on the Equinox”—is finally streaming online.

Singer Ben Gibbard croons about the romantic futility of love (“Let our bodies intertwine/But always understand/That everything, everything ends”), which is sure to be revelatory to anyone under the age of sixteen. Listen below:

What do you think? Is this new Death Cab song worthy of their catalog? Does it suit Twilight’s vampire angst as well as Paramore’s “Decode” did? Will Twihards start popping up at DCFC shows, to the annoyance of the indie crowd?

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Aug 13 2009 11:07 AM ET

Paramore, 'Ignorance': see the new video here

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Who locked Paramore in the basement? And why couldn’t they spring for at least one measly light sconce from Ikea? Jeez.

The video for “Ignorance,” the first single off the upcoming third studio album Brand News Eyes ( due September 29) from the  Tennessee pop-punkers/ beloved Twilight bait, premiered on MTV officially this morning, but you an also watch it below in all its band-in-a-box, bare-bulb glory:

What do you think, Para-fans, are you feeling the song’s message (supposedly about the group’s own in-fighting) translated in the video here? Did you see them on tour with No Doubt this summer, and will you be catching any of their just-announced headlining fall dates?

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