Paramore bassist and original member Jeremy Davis has exited the band. In a statement posted on Paramore’s Facebook page, the band wrote: “We’ve written and re-written this countless times and there’s just not a good way to put it… Jeremy is no longer going to be in the band with us. To be honest, this has been really painful. After taking time to consider how to move forward, we ultimately found that we really do believe Paramore can and should continue on. And so we will. We’re really thankful for the people who have helped see us through hard times before and what we’ve discovered is that those people are just as much a part of this as we will ever be. We’re hopeful for Paramore’s future and we’re also excited for what Jeremy’s going to do next.”
Nick Jonas, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, and the Joe Jonas-fronted DNCE will all join the star-studded bill for Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest in Times Square. Additionally, the annual broadcast will feature Alessia Cara, OMI, Pentatonix and Nathan Sykes. On the west coast side, there will be a Los Angeles celebration hosted by Fergie that will feature the last performance from One Direction before their hiatus.
It looks like The Strokes are back in the studio cooking up some new tunes. Over the weekend, the group headlined Mexico’s Live Out Monterrey Festival, and while in town, they rented some studio space at Victoria Records. According to an Instagram post from Victoria Records CEO Victoria Morales-Kühne, the band rented one studio in which to rehearse and one in which to record drums.
R.E.M. has inked a multi-year, worldwide licensing agreement with Concord Bicycle Music for the band’s catalog that was recorded between 1988 and 2011, which includes the albums Green, Out of Time, Automatic For the People, Monster, New Adventures in Hi-Fi, and Up. Concord Bicycle plans to release deluxe reissues of the albums with bonus material and exclusive packaging on its Concord imprint. “The band and all at REMHQ [CQ] are very happy to be joining with Concord Bicycle Music for this next phase of curating and extending R.E.M.’s recorded legacy,” said R.E.M. manager Bertis Downs in a statement. “The albums covered by this agreement are some of the band’s most successful, both artistically and commercially, and we know the people at Concord share our enthusiasm about this partnership. We leave the Warner Bros. family, a great label where we are certainly grateful for some of our career highlights. But moving forward, we knew this was the right time to change it up and Concord is the right home for this key part of R.E.M.’s catalog.”
