Our friends across the sea, KERRANG!, are running a little contest. What’s it for? Well if you didn’t notice the photo, you should have your eyes checked. HAHA! I’m kidding, kidding. In all seriousness, they are running a contest for the Best Rock Band in the World, and ours truely (MCR) are nominated!
Who decides? YOU DO! That’s right, you can sway the vote. So hop to it! Tell all your friends that even remotely like MCR! Link everyone on your myspace! Go to every forum you post on and get the word out. Let’s get them the title… BEST ROCK BAND IN THE WORLD!
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If you didn’t know, My Chemical Romance will be playing the Beale Street Music Festival a.k.a. Memphis in May, on Friday May 2, 2008. The lineup has been announced and I must say it’s a bit depressing. Usually they have MUCH more to offer as far as “big” names, but I digress.
Tickets for 1 day, 2 days, or a weekend pass, are now on sale at Ticketmaster.com
Click Here for the ENTIRE lineup.
Click here for the M in M official site.
Click here to purchase tickets to the festival.
My Chemical Romance has added another stop on the tour!
This time it’s San Jose, California on April 2, 2008. Tickets will go on sale via Ticketmaster on March 8, 2008, 10:00am. The concert will be held at the San Jose, Civic Auditorium.
Click Here for more ticket information from Ticketmaster on the date.
Click Here to view the venue, seating info and more.
Click Here to view all the U.S. Tour dates so far.
Maybe I am the last to know, but I have finally got a confirmation of just what’s going to be on this DVD/CD combo. I might have guessed it, but I didn’t want to, as they say, “count my chickens before they hatch”.
A UK music news site, Albumvote.co.uk, is reporting the set to include: one DVD with various live performances, one DVD with the complete and final concert as “The Black Parade”, and a CD containing all The Black Parade tracks in live form.
I guess my hopes of a small diary style situation on one of them, has been crushed. Oh well, I will enjoy whatever is on all three. They never cease to make this chick happy, with regard to their DVD’s and CD’s. There is still no official release of what the cover looks like. We have seen it in the advertisements for their upcoming concerts, but it was a miniscule photo, to say the least.
Where the site got their info isn’t completely clear as they did not release their source, but they are stating the release date to be April 21st. This could be the European date for release and not the U.S. I will know more about that soon, hopefully.
Click Here for the photos we have of the cover so far.
I been plugging along at this site now, for about a month. My intention was to bring you new, up-to-date info on MCR and all that goes along with them and their lives. I also strive to bring you photos, videos, and articles and other quirky things that I feel might interest you.
So to help me out… how do you think MyChemicalFreak.com measures up? Is it worth your time coming here? Are there things you would like to see on here that you aren’t getting? Let me know!
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If you live in the NYC area, this is your chance to see Mikey Way and Matt Rubano host a karaoke party! Yes, you read that right! The two of them, along with Karaoke Killed the Cat, are hosting the release party for “Ultragrrrl’s Guide to the Best Karaoke Tunes”, tonight.
The event is being held at Angels & Kings, 9:30pm. The open-bar is brought to you by Trump Vodka and Pabst Blue Ribbon. Ages 21+ only please.
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Right now all the guys are on break for a few weeks. When the break is over they will set off on another tour, as we all know, before heading back to the studio to record their fourth record. The first stop on this U.S. leg is Tempe Music Festival in Tempe, Arizona.
Held at Tempe Beach Park, the festival starts off on Friday, March 28th with My Chemical Romance, Puddle of Mudd and Dorsey heading the bill. The festival extends through Saturday with other acts including Fergie, from the Black Eyed Peas.
If you haven’t bought tickets there is still time. Head over to Ticketmaster.com for yours!
Click Here for the official Tempe Festival Site
Click Here for directions to Tempe Beach Park
Click Here for MCR’s complete tour schedule, to date (more venues to be added)
My Chemical Romance has been booked to play the X Fest in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on April 25, 2008. 2theadvocate.com and WNXX 104 the X, is reporting MCR to play the festival on Friday the 25th. Other acts for the festival include:
My Chemical Romance
Puddle of Mudd
Finger Eleven
Atreyu
Story of the Year
Billy Talent
Meriwether
Tickets go on sale March 6, 2008 at all Ticketmaster outlets and online at Ticketmaster.com.
If you live near 104 the X listening area, they are running a contest for your chance to win tickets before they are availble. Click Here for info on the contest and 104’s official site.
Thanks to MCRime for the tip!
Reprise has just released a statement containing a list of U.S. tour dates booked to date. At the end of the statement, there is an asterisk followed by the words “more to come”.
Mikey had stated in his email, sent through Reprise to everyone on their mailing list, that the Madison Square Garden performance would be the perfect goodbye to “The Black Parade” tour. Many are thinking this means that is the last stop on the new U.S. tour. For those of you who do not have a tour date near you, maybe there is still hope!
Below is the statement sent out by Reprise…
Last American Shows Before Platinum-Selling Rock Band Begin Work on New Album
BURBANK, CA–(February 29, 2008) – My Chemical Romance, who traveled the globe last year in support of their platinum-selling album “The Black Parade,” will return to the U.S. in March for a month-plus tour — the last series of dates before the band take time off to write a new album. The tour, which features support from Billy Talent and Drive By, begins March 28th in Tempe, AZ, and will hit mid-size theaters across the country. My Chemical Romance made a deliberate decision to play more intimate venues this time around after spending months of performing in U.S. arenas on the Projekt Revolution tour with Linkin Park and Taking Back Sunday over the summer.
“We are really excited about the tour,” the band said in a statement posted on its website (www.mychemicalromance.com). “Our good friends Billy Talent and Drive By are coming with us. We could not think of a better tour to go away from ‘The Black Parade.’ We wanted to come to these places. We selected them. We wanted to get away from big shows for a while. When we started this thing, we could feel you guys right in front of us. It is time for that to happen again.”
My Chemical Romance is also putting the finishing touches on an upcoming CD/DVD titled “The Black Parade is Dead!,” which was filmed over several weeks in October 2007.
Released in October 2006, “The Black Parade” shot to No. 2 on Billboard’s Top 200 album chart, selling more than 240,000 copies its first week of release. The album was hailed by critics and has spawned four Modern Rock smash singles, including the latest, “Teenagers,” which hit the No. 1 spot on MTV’s “TRL.”
My Chemical Romance tour dates with Billy Talent and Drive By:
3/28 Tempe, AZ @Tempe Beach Park
3/29 Tuscon, AZ @Rialto Theatre
3/30 Las Vegas, NV @The Joint
3/31 Las Vegas, NV @The Joint
4/3 San Francisco, CA @Warfield
4/4 San Francisco, CA @Warfield
4/6 Irvine, CA @Bamboozle Left
4/8 Portland, OR @Crystal Ballroom
4/9 Portland, OR @Crystal Ballroom
4/11 Salt Lake City, UT @Great Salt Air
4/14 Denver, CO @Fillmore Auditorium
4/15 Kansas City, KS @Memorial Hall
4/17 Chicago, IL @Congress Theatre
4/18 Chicago, IL @Congress Theatre
4/19 Detroit, MI @The Fillmore at State Theatre
4/20 Detroit, MI @The Fillmore at State Theatre
4/22 Cleveland, OH @The Agora Theatre
4/28 Austin, TX @Stubb’s
4/30 Birmingham, AL @Sloss Furnace
5/2 Memphis, TN @Beale Street Festival
5/3 St. Louis, MO @Pageant
5/4 Columbus, OH @Lifestyle Pavillion
5/6 Philadelphia, PA @Electric Factory
5/7 Philadelphia, PA @Electric Factory
5/9 New York, NY @Madison Square Garden (with Drive By & Taking Back
Sunday)
*more to come (<—- the “more to come” referred too)
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