My Chemical Romance

By Maura Johnston Best International Band: 30 Seconds To Mars Best British Band: Bullet For My Valentine Best Live Band: Machine Head Best Album: Avenged Sevenfold Best Video: Coheed & Cambria, "Feathers" Inspiration Award: Metallica Kerrang! Icon Award: Slipknot

By Maura Johnston So My Chemical Romance is going to perform a cover of a Bob Dylan track for the movie adaptation of The Watchmen, and initial reports that the cover would be "All Along The Watchtower" sent me to YouTube in search of other covers of the song. (There are many of them, as you probably know.) The sto...

By Anthony Miccio Sam was a fan of alternative rock bands such as the Foo Fighters and Slipknot, as well as so-called Emo music championed by bands such as Blink 182 and Good Charlotte. It has become increasingly popular with British teenagers since its inception in America two decades ago.

By mjohnston 12 Fall Out Boy - Thnks Fr Th Mmrs 48 My Chemical Romance - Welcome To The Black Parade 56 All-American Rejects - It Ends Tonight 76 Linkin Park - What I've Done 81 Dashboard Confessional - Stolen 87 Fall Out Boy - This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race 95 Linkin Park - Shadow Of The Day

By jharv Rolling Stone has named the most recent comeback from the (for the time being anyway) president of Def Jam the No. 1 single of 2007. And at No. 2... Randy Newman. (We give up.) At least Lil Wayne placed ahead of the Boss. (Bet that made for some fun editorial meetings.) The full 100 is after the jump, but fi...

By Jess Harvell Villain Of The Year: 1. Jared Leto - 30 Seconds to Mars 2. Pete Wentz - Fall Out Boy 3. Gerard Way - My Chemical Romance 4. Marilyn Manson 5. Ian Watkins - Lostprophets Best Band: 1. My Chemical Romance 2. Lostprophets 3. 30 Seconds to Mars 4. HIM 5. Fall Out Boy

By jharv 2. Kanye West, Graduation 3. Amy Winehouse, Back To Black 4. Daughtry 5. Colbie Caillat, Coco 6. Linkin Park, Minutes To Midnight 7. High School Musical 2 8. Timbaland, Shock Value 9. John Mayer, Continuum 10. Hairspray (Soundtrack) 11. Fall Out Boy, Infinity On High

By Maura Johnston I'm an uncontrollable radio-flipper when I'm stuck in a car, and this weekend, during the approximately 30 hours that I spent being shuttled around Long Island's highways, the radio was playing an unrelenting mix of "No One," that Chris Brown/T-Pain song, "Apologize," and, for some re...

By mjohnston Between the My Chemical Romance-inspired outfits, the karaoke-on-cough-syrup cover (so as to better make the dance "dramatic," I guess, although this cover is seriously veering into "you ruined my favorite song" territory), and the fact that Garth and Hough seem to be either in "jazz...

By Kate Richardson Gerard: *Rolls over onto his side, annoyed." Gerard: Eh... William: What's wrong, Gerard? Are you upset that Mikey's out with Brendon? Gerard: No, that's not it. Gerard: Just...don't touch me. My Chemical Romance talks to The 'Campus' [The Maine Campus]

By Maura Johnston For those of you keeping score: MTV2 didn't cut the word "murder" from a 2-ish a.m. viewing of Chamillionaire's video for "Hip Hop Police"--despite its dropping the same word from "Teenagers" by My Chemical Romance approximately 24 hours earlier. Can't someone over at 1515 Broadway give G...

By Maura Johnston Dreary High School Gathering Place MCR: Auditorium. Nirvana: Gym. My Chemical Romance - Teenagers (real music video) [YouTube] Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit [YouTube] Here We Are Now: My Chemical Romance "Teenagers" [Obtusity]

By Maura Johnston This new My Chemical Romance clip may be pretty standard, but it does raise two questions. One: Was the whole standing-in-front-of-flames look so cool that it was worth roasting the drummer? (Our answer: Not so much.) And two: Why, oh why, didn't they release "Teenagers" as a single instea...

By Maura Johnston Despite Warner's best efforts--strict quotas on who could hear it before its Oct. 24 release date, fake names and industrial-strength copy protection on the few CDs that did get shipped out --My Chemical Romance's new album, The Black Parade, made its way to Idolator's hard drive earlie...

By Brian Raftery A few weeks ago, we posted a fairly low-quality MP3 of the new My Chemical Romance single, "Welcome To The Black Parade," and just sorta let it hang there. It was early on in the game, and we weren't bothering ourselves with value-added elements like "context" or "opinion." And frankly, we th...