My Chemical Freak: My Chemical Romance All The Time

After releasing their new album, “Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys,” pop rock giants My Chemical Romance set out on the World Contamination Tour, which included a North American leg in recent months. Much to the delight of local fans, the band was booked to perform at the Val Air Ballroom where they played to a sold out audience.

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Memo to Gerard Way and the rest of My Chemical Romance: Being ordinary alternative rock stars doesn’t really suit you.

The band can deliver a conventional mix of punk energy and pop melody reasonably well, as they showed during their sold-out Friday night performance at the Aragon Ballroom, but the best moments in their 90-minute set came when they were musically and emotionally overwrought.

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Win a pair of tickets to Reading or Leeds festival to see My Chemical Romance headline the main stage!

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MCR’s recent performance in Valencia, Spain will broadcast worldwide on MTV World Stage this weekend. Check MTV.com for date/time info for your area!

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My Chemical Romance returned last year in fine form with “Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys,” a CD that offered a significant turn from the band’s darkly hued 2006 rock opera, “The Black Parade.”

What fans didn’t hear was a CD the group recorded with acclaimed producer Brendan O’Brien that was scrapped before the group went on to record “Danger Days.” But bassist Mikey Way doesn’t see the CD as a failure.

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(Actual photos of the guys don’t start until photo number 39)

Mike Pedicone always answered the “What do you want to do when you grow up?” question the same way.

“I said I wanted to play in a huge rock band touring the world,” Pedicone recalled. “Senior year I said the same thing, and the teacher laughed at me in front of the class.”

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My Chemical Romance have re-recorded their hit single ‘Sing’ to help raise funds for victims of the Japan earthquake and tsunami.

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As Japan struggles to recover from last month’s catastrophic earthquake and tsunami, My Chemical Romance have rallied to raise money for victims of the disaster. The band are offering up a re-worked version of their single “Sing” to benefit the Red Cross, which you can hear here and purchase via iTunes.

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