Hayley Williams
It’s been a tough year for public media amid federal funding cuts, and Nashville Public Radio music-discovery station and indie radio darling WNXP stood at risk. The loss of Music City’s biggest listener-funded station would be devastating to the local indie ecosystem. As a newly independent artist, Hayley Williams had a load of songs to release and no rules for how to do it. So the Paramore frontwoman chose to debut the first single from what would become her first indie solo album Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party on WNXP. She went so far as to drop off a burned CD of “Mirtazapine,” her ode to antidepressants, at the station. It was a fittingly creative move for her new project and a sweet display of solidarity and support for independent music everywhere
