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Free No Doubt Digital Catalog With Purchase Of Concert Ticket

Ilan Mester — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:19:52 +0000

Fans who purchase top-price tickets for No Doubt’s upcoming North American tour with Paramore will receive a digital copy of the band’s entire catalogue free, according to MTVNews.com.

The deal only applies to tickets of $42.50 or more, before extra fees. This excludes lower price levels and lawn seats. No Doubt fans who sign up online this Saturday (when tickets will be on sale) will receive every digital No Doubt song, starting with their 1992 debut to the 2003 release “The Singles.”

“Since the band is heading back to the road, we wanted to find a cool way to get people listening to our music and stoke them with a great deal at the same time,” said Tom Dumont, No doubt’s guitarist, in a statement. “With this download, it’s easy for fans to get psyched up to hear our music live once again, and that rocks.”

Their upcoming tour will mark the first time the band hits the road in five years.

andPOP Interviews Paramore

andPOP Staff — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:47:51 +0000

They have taken over the radio waves and have taken over MTV. Their album Riot has been an amazing success and they were even nominated for a grammy! John Mayer is even a fan of Paramore, and he is constantly blogging about their music. Jordan caught up with Josh Farro from Paramore about their most recent tour and the amazing success they have had since andPOP first met them in 2007. Click below to see the interview:

No Doubt To Tour With Paramore

Ilan Mester — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:25:28 +0000

Gwen Stefani and her No Doubt band-mates are planning a summer tour with Paramore.

“The whole reason for going on this tour was to have fun, try on all our favorite songs again and to get inspired to make new music,” Stefani said on the band’s website. “It feels good to be all together again.”

The excitement is mutual, “What a dream tour! We couldn’t be more excited to kick off 2009 by touring with a band like No Doubt,” said a statement by Paramore vocalist Hayley Williams, released on No Doubt’s website.

Joining the band as a third act are Janelle Monae, The Sounds and Bedouin Soundclash, who will share the slot according to the band’s website.

The tour will start in May, although exact dates have not been announced. No Doubt will also join Fall Out Boy in May for New Jersey’s Bamboozle Festival.

No Breakup For Paramore

andPOP Staff — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 14:54:00 +0000

Paramore’s lead singer Haley Williams is not pregnant and she’s not the reason for the band’s breakup, in fact the group is still very much together.

Williams got her first taste of the out-of-control Hollywood rumour mill just one day after she posted an entry explaining why the band was pulling out of scheduled European shows. The post was pretty vague and tongues started wagging that Paramore was no more.

“Since we posted the last entry, we’ve gotten tons of phone calls and people posting things on Web sites saying that we are breaking up. I just want to make it clear, though … we weren’t saying the band was over,” Williams wrote in a new entry to clear up the pesky rumous.

“We posted because we are going through hard times and we felt that because we have a really good support system in you guys, our fans, it would be better for us to just be honest about what’s going on -even though it was a pretty vague explanation.”

That explanation led to gossip blogs and fans speculated what the “internal issues” Williams mentioned in the post were alluding to. One particularly popular rumour was that the red-haired singer was breaking up the band because she was pregnant, MTV News reports.

“Man, some of the rumors that I’ve heard going around are insane! It’s weird how out of hand things can get even when you just try to tell a simple truth (for the record, my Eggo is not preggo),” Williams wrote.

“Anyway, we just need to take time to make this band the best it can be … and we are doing that now.”

Jimmy Eat World, Paramore Co-Headline U.S. Tour

Eva Lam — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 05:16:15 +0000

Veteran band Jimmy Eat World and newer upstarts Paramore are teaming up for a run of shows across the U.S. this spring.

The tour, announced Friday, will kick off in March, with dates expected to be announced shortly.

Paramore expressed their excitement to be paired up with their long-time idols.

“If it all ends tomorrow, we will be happy knowing that we got a tour with the band that gave us a reason to play music,” Paramore singer Hayley Williams said in a statement.

Jimmy Eat World also had words of praise for their touring partners. “We got to know them last December while playing festivals together,” said singer Jim Adkins. “They put on a great show and we think it’s going to be an awesome bill.”

Paramore, who are in the middle of their European tour, are up for Best New Artist at the Grammy Awards on Feb. 10.

andPOP Interviews Paramore

andPOP Staff — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 23:45:16 +0000

If this is the first time you’re hearing about Paramore, then you better get used to them; they’re here to stay.

The most talked about band on the summer’s Warped Tour, Paramore is a pop-punk band from Tennessee. Their latest album, Riot!, was released in June.

andPOP sat down with the band on their tour bus before a recent show in Toronto to talk about life on the road, surviving Warped and the album.