Everything Is Emo is Hayley Williams’ emo 101. During each hour long episode, Hayley shares her love of the music that shaped the 90s through to the current day, reflecting on classic albums, her favourite new artists and offering a first-hand account of fronting one of the post popular bands from the emo scene.

Across the 20-part series for Back To Back Sounds: Amplified, Hayley shares personal memories, nostalgia and incredible music from the likes of Jimmy Eat World, Wet Leg, My Chemical Romance, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Panic At The Disco, The Postal Service and of course, Paramore.

Hayley Williams says: “Not long ago, people started calling me a “veteran” of my scene and of the music industry. It sounds so funny to me because most of the time I still feel like a fan. The serious truth is I have, in fact, grown up in this scene for the last two decades. I guess that’s a pretty long time. I’m really excited to have the opportunity to publicly nerd out about bands and songs that make my favourite subgenre feel like home to me. And while it will be fun to take some trips down memory lane, I’m just as excited, if not more, to play music from new artists I’m discovering all the time.

"Everything Is Emo is meant to feel like a conversation with other fans of the genre, young and (ahem) old. There’s going to be plenty of interaction, which I hope will feel somewhat reminiscent of the message boards and forums I used to frequent as a teenage scene kid.

More than anything, I hope music fans and artists alike will be psyched to hear a highly considered spectrum of “EMO” in all its forms. And yeah, of course you’ll hear some Paramore.”

Everything Is Emo with Hayley Williams is available from 29th April on Back To Back Sounds: Amplified, on BBC Sounds.