A young band had their dreams come true when they signed with a major music label. The dream turned nightmarish when the rising emo band was told to write with Nickelback.

“When I finished RIOT! I handed it in to the label, and they didn’t think there was a hit” says David Bendeth who produced the 2007 breakthrough album. “They didn’t hear anything on there. The head of Warner Bros. said we are going to get Chad Kroeger of Nickelback to write Hayley a hit”.

“When I told the band what was happening, they went nuts as you could imagine, because we worked 4 or 5 months on that record, and they were teenagers. You can imagine the outburst they had putting everything in their lives into the record”.

I got back to the label and said look, no offense, but I’m not doing it, and they FLIPPED and said, “You don’t have control of this band, you do what we tell you to do”.

Eventually, the band got their way and released the record they wanted and delivered the radio hit Misery Business that later appeared on Olivia Rodrigo’s album called ‘good 4 u’ but with a slightly different arrangement.

Check out the full interview here.

Olivia Rodrigo has added two members of Paramore to the writing credits of her single “Good 4 U”. Why? Rodrigo’s hit song is very similar to Paramore’s 2007 hit song Misery Business. They both share an identical verse and chorus accompanied with a rock production.

Paramore singer Hayley Williams and ex-guitarist Josh Farro are now listed as co-writers of the song.

Check out the Mashup.

Check out the song and the video for Freak You Out by Blip Blip Beep.

The NYC indie electro-pop trio have shared the stage with Geographer, My Dear Disco, and Paramore.

They will perform at the Rockwood Stage in New York on May 6th.

For fans of Depeche Mode, New Order, etc.

contact: stu@914music.com

Check out the song Still Reaching by unsigned Fictionist.

This alt/rock indie act is one of the sixteen bands chosen by Rolling Stone Magazine for their “So You Want to Be A Rock & Roll Star” contest.

You can check them out on March 18th at Sammy’s in Utah.

contact: paul@sagemgmnt.com

17 year old singer/song-writer Kourtney Heart just signed to Jive Records.

She has taken influence from artists like Brandy, Beyonce, Paramore, Keisha Cole, Leona Lewis, and Rihanna.

Her YouTube channel can be viewed here.

Contact: danielrfriedman@aol.com