Tonight on The Artist Hour, we turn the spotlight on Hayley Williams, celebrating the release of her new album Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party and revisiting the incredible creative journey that has taken her from teenage frontwoman to one of the most influential voices in alternative music.

The new record marks a bold new chapter for Williams. Produced by Daniel James and released independently through her new venture Post Atlantic, Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party brings together 18 tracks of introspective songwriting and inventive production.

Earlier this month, she surprised fans with 17 unsequenced singles, inviting listeners to create their own running order. The response was immediate. Fans built playlists, traded theories, and even launched hayleysingles.com to share their versions. The final album was inspired by those fan-made sequences and features one brand-new song, Parachute.

Williams wrote and played much of the record herself, with contributions from longtime collaborators Brian Robert Jones and Joey Howard, and Jim-E Stack on True Believer, which earned her first solo Billboard Alternative Sales number one. The album’s videos, including Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party and Glum, expand the world of the record with intimate, cinematic storytelling.

After more than twenty years fronting Paramore, Williams has grown from an energetic punk singer into a boundary-pushing songwriter unafraid to change shape. With Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party, she steps fully into her independence, balancing the freedom of self-expression with the craft that made Paramore one of the most enduring bands of their generation.

Tonight’s show revisits both sides of her catalogue, from Paramore’s explosive anthems like Misery Business and Hard Times to her solo work, including highlights from the new record.

The Artist Hour: Hayley Williams / Paramore - tonight at 8 PM on Today Radio.