“We never in a million years thought we would win a Grammy, or any of the other crazy things that happened along the way,” she said. Earlier this year, frontwoman Hayley Williams told Rolling Stone that she viewed the tour as a victory lap, since the group recently won the Best Rock Song Grammy for their Paramore tune “Ain’t It Fun,” an LP that hit Number One. Last year’s Parahoy festival featured sets by Tegan and Sara and New Found Glory.īut before the festival, Paramore still have plenty of tour dates to play this year. The group will hand-pick the artists who perform on the fest. The fest is currently running a presale that includes a photo with the group and a Parahoy sailor’s cap. It will also include DJ sets, theme nights, sets by stand-up comedians and “much, much more,” according to the fest’s website. The festival, which will take place on a boat called the Norwegian Pearl, will also feature meet and greets, a Q&A and “Paraoke” with the band and other activities which have yet to be announced. Paramore will perform twice during the fest, which has yet to announce the rest of its lineup. The floating concert will take place March 5th – 9th and travel round-trip from Miami to Cozumel, Mexico. Keep checking back here for all the latest Paramore music news.Paramore will once again lift anchors when they embark on their second Parahoy! Festival at Sea next year. We’ll keep it up-to-date throughout the recording process. While the album could be ready by the end of this year, it will most likely come out sometime in 2017.Ĭheck up on all we know about Paramore’s upcoming fifth album on their recording page. There should be plenty more studio updates and news over the coming months, too. Now that Paramore is actively recording the album, they’ve been generous with the studio updates. Will married life affect the new music? Perhaps more lovey lyrics and cheerful music? On the other hand, Hayley and Chad have been together for eight years, so maybe there won’t be much of a change after all. Hayley also just married her longtime boyfriend, New Found Glory’s Chad Gilbert, in February. But what about the topics? Will Jeremy’s departure and Zac’s return to the band come up? Hayley and Taylor were the principle songwriters on Paramore, so there may not be a big change in style. With Jeremy gone and Zac kind of back, it will be exciting to hear how the music changes. HBD MIKE!! Studio engineer extraordinaire & all around mackdaddy, we luv u! Thx for helping us make album #5 /FuvbnGZofC

T is doin so great, everybody! /dES3A68NqS Keeping up with the habits of the last few months, the duo has continued to shared studio updates throughout the recording process for album #5. But he’d be happy to join them again as more than just a studio drummer. He has not written any of the songs, and so far is not officially part of the band again. He talked about rekindling his friendship with both Hayley and Taylor, playing on the new album, and how the new music sounds. However, in June their ex-drummer Zac Farro suddenly appeared in the behind-the-scenes shots Hayley shared on Twitter! That brought up a few major questions: Is he officially back with the band? Is he co-writing some of the new songs? Or is he just playing drums on the new record?Įarlier this month, Zac spoke on Billboard’s Alt In Our Stars podcast.

At the time, the band was down to just Hayley Williams and Taylor York. Five months ago, Paramore started recording their upcoming fifth album.

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