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The attack of the MCR Venganza vest

My Chemical Romance — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:56:49 -0000

Watch a showdown between an unlucky guy and an MCR Venganza vest.
CLICK HERE for the pain.

MCR store – 50% off of a lotta stuff...

My Chemical Romance — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:23:22 -0000

The My Chemical Romance online store has just marked down a bunch of merch up to 50% off. Some of it is on its last run and there are only limited quantities left, so this may be the last chance to get some classic MCR merch.

Also on any purchases over $50 you will receive a free “Entombed T-Shirt.” (image will be shown)

CLICK HERE to head to MCR’s sale section.

And PS – the band just headed into the studio, so keep checking mychemicalromance.com for updates from the band on the rock-related progress.

New TBS tomorrow!!!

My Chemical Romance — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:26:53 -0000

Hey everybody! Our good friends in Taking Back Sunday have a new record coming out tomorrow! These guys took us out on tour many years ago, and have always been great to us. Plus they wrote our warm up anthem, Cut From The Team. That song shreds! They remain some of the best and genuine guys in the business, and its really exciting to see them back with a new member and a new record. We met Matt Fazzi when we played with TBS at Electric Factory, and knew right away he'd be a great fit for this band. Plus he's handsome, I think that's a requirement to be in TBS...

The record is called New Again, and I'm really digging it. I've been listening to the stream on their MYSPACE page. So far my favorites are "Swing," "Catholic Knees," and "Carpathia." Great work guys! Pick it up tomorrow at a store near you!

MCR Head Into The Studio, Headline Summersonic, and More

My Chemical Romance — Wed, 27 May 2009 17:48:28 -0000

MCR IN THE STUDIO

In the next few weeks, My Chemical Romance will head into the studio to record their fourth full-length album with producer Brendan O’Brien. He has previously worked with AC/DC, Mastodon, Bruce Springsteen, and Pearl Jam, among others. He’s good.

SEE MCR’S VIDEOS ALL ON ONE PAGE

Check out all the MCR videos on one lovely page. CLICK HERE to make your eyes happy. Stay tuned to the site for more additions and updates from the band.

MCR TO HEADLINE SUMMER SONIC IN JAPAN

My Chemical Romance will be headlining both of the Summer Sonic Festival
dates in Japan. The first show is on August 7th in Tokyo, and the second is
August 8th in Osaka, Japan. CLICK HERE for more info.

SPECIAL SALE AT THE MCR STORE

If you haven’t got the Venganza vest/USB yet, starting on 5/27 12AM PST, you
can buy it for a mere $39.99, but this sale only lasts for 48hrs, so get on
it.

Also within that 48hrs you can get 10% off your entire purchase on
everything else in the store using the code MCR10*. CLICK HERE to head to the MCR store.

*MCR10 coupon excludes Venganza Vest/USB.

See MCR in Japan in August

My Chemical Romance — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:27:00 -0000

It's officially official. MCR will be playing on August 7th at the Summer Sonic Festival in Tokyo, and August 8th at the Summer Sonic Festival in Osaka, Japan. Click here for more info.

VENGANZA! is Here, 24 Hour Sale & New Contest

My Chemical Romance — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 02:48:11 -0000

Hey there. If you pre-ordered the VENGANZA! USB/vest bundle, you should receive it very soon. The bundles have begun shipping! If you still haven't ordered this exclusive limited edition bundle, get it HERE.

If you want to win one, just guess how many Red Bull cans that have been sent to Jeff Watson at Warner and email your answer to mcrvenganzacontest@gmail.com. Also, the My Chemical Romance OFFICIAL STORE is having a 24 hour sale on April 15th. Starting at 12AM PST on the 15th, there will be a different special running in the store once every 2 hours. Make sure to read this 24 hour timeline first so you don't miss out on anything:

All day: Free Black Parade t-shirt with every mask order (until supplies last)
12AM: Extra 20% off sale items
2AM: Buy any tee, get any other tee 30% off
4AM: 20% off miscellaneous items
6AM: $5 off juniors items
8AM: 20% off accessories (includes VENGANZA! vest/USB)
10AM: 50% off shipping for orders over $30
12PM: $5 off masks
2PM: $5 off regular priced t-shirts (excludes juniors)
4PM: Free Three Cheers promo poster with every order (until supplies last)
6PM: $5 off hoodies 8PM: Free shipping on orders over $75
10PM: 20% off music (excludes VENGANZA! vest/USB)

UPLOAD YOUR LIVE MCR PHOTOS AT PHOTOBUCKET

My Chemical Romance — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:41:52 -0000

Photobucket has a new MCR page where you can upload your own live pics of MCR. CLICK HERE to check it out.

Get "¡VENGANZA!"

My Chemical Romance — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:51:24 -0000

On April 14th, My Chemical Romance will release "¡VENGANZA!" - a collection of nine never-before-seen live videos, straight from the encore set of the Mexico City show from October of 2007. They all come stored on a limited edition bullet-shaped USB drive, along with with exclusive photos of the band from show. And it's only available for pre-order right now at the MCR online store. You¹ll get a brand new, custom-designed !Venganza! vest, and as a bonus, every pre-order includes an instant MP3 download of the Live tracks "Give 'Em Hell, Kid" and "Helena." US residents, you will get your "!VENGANZA!" vest/USB bundle on or around April 10, 2009. Pre-order here.

Plus, Buzznet is also holding a contest where they're giving one of these things away. All you gotta do is submit an original image you designed that says ¡VENGANZA! Check it out here.

*This is available for International Purchase. If you are having any issues contact MCR Fan Support:
E-mail address: wbr@b3custserv.com
Phone Number: (866) 759-4843

BEHIND THE SCENES OF DESOLATION ROW!

My Chemical Romance — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:26:22 -0000

See the making of My Chemical Romance's 'Desolation Row' exclusively HERE!

MCR ON THE NEW ALBUM...

My Chemical Romance — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:17:17 -0000

Check out this article from MTV.com about the sound of the upcoming record! CLICK HERE for more....

GET THE MCR WATCHMEN 12" AT HOT TOPIC STORES

My Chemical Romance — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:31:04 -0000

If you're not the online-buying type and haven't got the limited edition 12" vinyl of "Desolation Row" at MCR's Store, you can get it starting today and all Hot Topic stores. Good times.

A NOTE FOR THE UK FANS

My Chemical Romance — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:47:43 -0000

My Chemical Romance's single 'Desolation Row' is out today in the UK. Download the track for only 50p from 7 Digital. Or download the track and Tyler Bates' 'Prison Fight' (an extract from the Watchmen film score) from iTunes here.

Plus, you can win tickets to the Worldwide Watchmen Premiere, and some other cool Watchmen gear by clicking here.

GET THE NEW VIDEO FOR DESOLATION ROW!

My Chemical Romance — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:28:44 -0000

The new video for "Desolation Row" is officially out today. It's directed by Zack Snyder himself and has lots of visual hints to the upcoming Watchmen movie. Click here to get it now! If you're in the UK, you can get the video on February 8 on iTunes (and you can get the song on February 2).

And If you haven’t ordered your 12” Watchmen picture disc featuring My Chemical Romance's cover of “Desolation Row” and Tyler Bates’ “Prison Fight,” hurry, 'cuz there's a limited number of copies left. Click here to get it.

CHECK OUT A PREVIEW OF THE VIDEO FOR DESOLATION ROW!

My Chemical Romance — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:21:18 -0000

The new video for "Desolation Row" will be available at iTunes tomorrow, but you can get a taste of it by heading over to THIS MTV.COM article now.

NEW SONG TODAY!

My Chemical Romance — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:35:05 -0000

Yay new song!

Actually it's not a new song, it's a cover song, but it's the first music we've recorded since Black Parade. As we are gearing up to start the next album I wanted to pop in and talk about the track we were asked to cover for the Watchmen film by Zack Snyder, which you can get HERE.

Firstly, I'd like to point out that we have never recorded a song for a film. We have allowed a couple of our songs to be used in trailers or end-credits, but since we are usually pretty busy with either recording or touring there has never been time to do something like this before, and even this was kind of tight, as we started it before even finishing our last tour. There have been other offers to do this kind of thing, and usually the timing always made it impossible, but more often than not the project never seemed to fit the band, and we have always passed. But when the chance came to do a cover of one of my favorite artists, Bob Dylan, for a film version of my favorite work of fiction of all time we had to jump at the chance.

Sometimes an interviewer will ask a musician "What's the one record or musical experience, like a concert, that made you want to make music?". Usually people will mention some sort of 7 inch record or a show they saw in a basement that really changed their lives, got them into punk rock, and shaped the way they looked at the world. For me it was Watchmen. At 15 years old, just as I was discovering The Misfits "Walk Among Us" I was reading the first chapter of the graphic novel. It is the one thing I can pinpoint that shaped my views and aesthetics, even down to the way I dressed at the time, not that I walked the hallways in a stained brown trench coat, but I definitely chose more antisocial articles of clothing, like an army jacket, picked up after watching Taxi Driver for the twentieth time, a film I was lead to by the comic. So I would definitely say it's pretty important to me and the band.

The talks started about the same time as Projekt Revolution, and I remember getting on the phone with Zack, who was as excited as I was, somewhere in the middle of the desert as out bus rolled to the next venue. We talked about the comic and he asked what I felt the approach
to the song should be, which was to take a cue from Jim Carroll, who is not only the author of The Basketball Diaries but also a musician, and a pretty great one at that. On his album, Catholic Boy, he has a song called "People Who Died", which I love, as does Frank, as he always includes it in our "Front Of House Mixes" you would hear during set-change during one of our concerts. Zack responded to this approach right away, as he actually used that song to end his remake of "Dawn Of The Dead", which I had totally forgotten about, even though the whole band saw it on opening night and loved it. So the tone was decided upon and then came the length, which initially Zack wanted to be the full version of Dylan's.

Now, I would consider myself a pretty big Dylan fan, especially after having worked with Scott Allie on my comic, as he really got me into him even more than I was before. And while I didn't want to alter the song at all, I found that I had to, due to the new approach and the aggressive nature of the cover. There was simply no way I felt you could make it feel like a trashy punk song and play it for ten minutes...I think it's impossible to keep that kind of energy up without either burning out or boring yourself, as anyone will note that most Ramones songs don't exceed three minutes, and there's a reason for that. Down-strummed til your wrist breaks! Fast and fucking hard!

So back at a hotel in Arizona I sat in a hotel and did a rough arrangement, which clocked in at around 2:40, and I paid careful attention to the lyrics, while losing some of my favorite verses I managed to keep the ones I felt were represented by Alan Moore in the comic. We then started playing the song at sound check, and had so much fun doing it that we decided to play it live, to get warmed up for the recording.

We did some initial tracking in Nashville and then just lived with it for a while. When crunch time came, and after seeing some of the film, I became increasingly unhappy with my vocal performance, and we felt we could get more out of the guitars. So we asked our friend Rich
Costey to help us finish the track and get some new sounds, which he did, in NYC at Electric Ladyland, with the addition of some sweet old Marshall Plexi's, to get a kind of Sex Pistols tone, and we had a blast.

And thats pretty much the story of the song. We're really proud of it, and really excited you finally get to hear it.

Hurm,
G

PS- Special thanks to Bob Dylan for letting us cover the song and for not getting really mad at us for hacking out some of the best lyrics ever written.