Your already sweaty summer just got hotter thanks to a surprise drop from Paramore‘s Hayley Williams. The singer posted 17 new songs on her website over the weekend, with fans awarded access to the fresh tracks via a code from Williams’ Good Dye Young hair dye company.

Once entered, the code takes you to a rudimentary site featuring a pile of MP3 links to tracks including the meditative “True Believer” and “KillMe,” as well as the acoustic ballads “BloodBros,” “IWon’tQuitOnYou” and “NegativeSelfTalk” and the sunshiny pop bops “EDAABP” and “BrotherlyHate.” The songs mostly have a home made, confessional feel to them, with Williams dipping into a quasi-hip-hop cadence on the at-turns float-y and scream-y “IceInMyOJ” and performing over what sounds like a drum machine beat on the mid-tempo rocker “Hard,” on which she sings, “I got married once in combat losing/ Only listen to testosterone music/ I had to kill my feminine just to do it/ To get to you, I had to go through you.”

At press time Williams had not commented further on the release, including revealing if it is meant as a full, proper follow-up to either her 2020 debut solo album, Petals for Armor, or its more folk-tinged 2021 sequel, Flowers for Vases/ Descansos.

In addition to the new songs, the site features a “Misc” folder packed with a 2017 performance clip from Monterrey, Mexico, as well as what looks like a lyric sheet, a snap of a “Hayley Williams is my favorite band” T-shirt and a brief audio clip of a child saying, “I’m sorry that you’re going through something hard.”

Among the other songs in the pop-up collection are: “DisappearingMan,” “Whim,” “True Believer,” “Glum,” “LoveMeDifferent,” “DreamGirlInShibuya,” “Zissou” and “DisoveryChannel,” which features a lyrical ode to the chorus from Bloodhoud Gang’s 1999 hit “The Bad Touch.”

Earlier this year, Williams released the Moses Sumney collab “I Like It I Like It” and last week she debuted the Liz Phair-esque rocker “Mirtazapine” — an ode to the antidepressant commonly known as Remeron — on Nashville Public Radio’s WNXP, less than a week after the Republican-led Congress voted to pull back more than $1 billion in funds for NPR and PBS. She also performed the song live for the first time with Jack Antonoff’s Bleachers at the Newport Folk Festival on Friday.

A number of the U.K.’s most exciting indie-rock acts have united for a charity compilation set to boost the local grassroots music scene.

Mercury Prize winners English Teacher appear on the compilation alongside Wunderhorse, Nova Twins, Matt Maltese, Katy J Pearson and Lambrini Girls. Each act has provided a brand new recording, remix, demo or live version to the 24-track collection titled A Hideous Collective, released Sep. 5. See the full tracklist below.

The double LP has been collated by Brighton band Opus Kink – who also feature the record – and will be distributed via their label Hideous Mink Records in partnership with SO Recording. Funds raised will support the Music Venues Trust and the U.K. Artist Touring Fund, both of which support rising artists as they tour domestically and internationally. 

A Hideous Collective will not appear on streaming and will only be available on vinyl and CD. Independent record stores Rough Trade (London, Bristol, Liverpool, Nottingham), Resident (Brighton), Piccadilly Records (Manchester), Norman (Leeds) and Crash (Leeds) will stock the physicals, with a portion of the sales benefitting the businesses.

The MVT reports that over 150 grassroots venues have closed across the U.K. since 2023, citing a number of financial challenges following the COVID-19 pandemic and the cost of living crisis. 

The U.K. Artist Touring Fund (UKAT) was introduced by the Featured Artists Coalition (FAC) in early 2025. The touring fund is pulled from a voluntary £1 levy on every ticket sold for stadium and arena shows over a 5,000 capacity. A number of huge artists such as Sam Fender and Katy Perry have committed to a donation from recent tours, as have spaces such as London’s Royal Albert Hall. The fund also accepts one-off donations from interested parties.

The LP opens with a foreword from BBC Radio DJ Steve Lamacq, who has campaigned passionately to champion emerging artists and their abilities to tour. “I raise a toast to our grassroots venues, and all the unsung heroes who run them,” he says on the first track. “Because without them, where would we all be?” Coldplay are set to donate 10% of the profits from their run of 10-night residency at Wembley Stadium in August to the MVT and grassroots music scenes in the U.K.

“Touring independent music venues is like this. The most passionate organizers are the ones who do it on a shoestring and are often one bad season away from crumbling, Opus Kink said in a statement. “Support for these venues and humans is starting to glimmer in the ashes through donations and awareness and the work of groups like MVT, but as always, unfortunately, it must also take wresting a more fundamental and top-down offering from the industry to really stay the decimation of grassroots live music culture in this country. In the meantime, please enjoy the sounds of some of the artists who help to keep alive the places that birthed them, and please buy this record so you can do that too. And remember to thank Satan.”

Music Venues Trust added: “This compilation is a celebration of everything that makes grassroots music culture so vital. Every track is a reminder that these spaces are not just stepping stones—they are sacred spaces of culture, rebellion, and connection. Buying this record is doing more than raising funds; it’s an act of beautiful support and solidarity at a time when the grassroots still aren’t valued for their essential contribution to the pipeline of talent in this country. A huge thank you to Opus Kink and every artist on this record!”

A Hideous Collective tracklist

Zayn Malik may have found fame in a boy band, but his daughter, Khai, is all about a certain girl group: BLACKPINK.

As shared by the former One Direction star Sunday night (July 27) on Instagram Stories, he and his 4-year-old little girl — whom he shares with ex-girlfriend Gigi Hadid — attended one of the K-pop foursome’s recent concerts. Most recently, BLACKPINK played two back-to-back nights at New York City’s Citi Field starting Saturday (July 26).

“@BLACKPINKOFFICIAL THANK YOU :)” Malik wrote, sharing a photo of himself in the crowd, holding Khai in his arms as they both raise a hand in the air. “ME & KHAI LOVED IT.”

After more than a year of break time as members ROSÉ, JENNIE, LISA and JISOO pursued solo projects, BLACKPINK finally reunited earlier in July for a global trek called the Deadline World Tour. So far, the quartet has played shows in Goyang, South Korea; Los Angeles; Chicago; Toronto; and now, NYC.

Malik’s special father-daughter date with Khai comes just a couple of months ahead of her fifth birthday. Last year, the former celebrated his little one turning 4 with an emotional post on Instagram, writing at the time, “Beyond proud to call you my daughter … grateful for every second I get to spend next to you, as you become the incredible person I know you already are.”

The singer welcomed Khai with Hadid in September 2020. The former couple dated on and off beginning in 2015 before calling it quits in 2021 following a dispute between Malik and the model’s mother, Yolanda Hadid. Nevertheless, Gigi recently said that she and her ex retain only “love and a feeling of camaraderie” for one another.

“Zayn and I do our custody schedules months in advance,” she told Vogue in a March cover story. “That doesn’t mean that it doesn’t change here and there, but we help each other out and have each other’s backs.”

Now past the 10-year mark since he left One Direction, Malik currently seems to be gearing up to release new music. Earlier in July, he shared a teaser for a song on which he raps about facing racism during his boy band days, spitting, “I’m a convert to the concert, and I did that for inflation/ ‘Cause I worked hard in a white band, and they still laughed at the Asian.”

His last album, Room Under the Stairs, dropped in May 2024 and reached No. 15 on the Billboard 200.