When My Chemical Romance’s debut, I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love, first came out on Eyeball Records in 2002, not that many people noticed. After endless touring, positive word of mouth and a great live show, the band started to find a place in the CD players of kids all across the world. It was the kind of humble beginnings that suited these Jersey rockers just fine.
So when their major label debut, Three Cheers For Revenge, came out in 2004, the band didn’t set any expectations. They would have been happy to sell 100,000 records. With their smash single, “Helena", TRL dominance and a headlining tour up their sleeve though, the band has long since smashed the 100,000 sold mark and is on their way to iconic status.
Guitarist Ray Toro spent some time from the road to talk with CityBeat about the last year, the smug in Jersey and Billy Joel. You can catch Ray and the rest of My Chemical Romance tonight at the House of Blues with special guests Alkaline Trio and Reggie and the Full Effect. Doors are at 6 p.m. and if you don’t already have a ticket, you’re not getting in. This show is SOLD OUT!!
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It's been a big year for My Chemical Romance. The New Jersey emo band's second album, last year's "Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge," finally drew the notice of mainstream music magazines like Rolling Stone.
My Chemical Romance also scored a gig opening for Green Day and headlined this summer's incarnation of the Warped Tour. Now, with a third album due in November, the band is headlining on its own, with Alkaline Trio and Reggie and the Full Effect.
The tour stops Sunday, Oct. 16 at the Connecticut Expo Center, 265 Rev. Moody Overpass, Hartford. Tickets are $19.99 for the 7 p.m. show.
Following the massive success of their platinum-selling album Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge, New Jersey's dark darlings, My Chemical Romance, are set to release a CD/DVD combo early next year.
Titled Life On The Murder Scene, the package shows the band's transformation from a bunch of unknown, unappreciated chubby kids to the angsty teen idols they are today. Packed with videos, live performances and a documentary that serves as a complete biography, the DVD is also the key to exclusive online content. The CD half contains some of their rarer demos and tracks that most fans haven't heard, but Reprise
The band performs at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Theater at Continental Arena, East Rutherford. Tickets are $19.99 and $25.
Ray Toro and his band mates miss New Jersey.
They miss the cramped New Brunswick basements where college students crammed to hear their band, My Chemical Romance, until there was barely space left to play. They miss packing Montclair's Bloomfield Avenue Café and Passaic Park's Loop Lounge with their friends. They miss rocking VFW halls.
"It was a crazy, crazy time," Toro said by telephone, as his band prepared to get back in the bus and travel to another city. "There
The hardest-working band in New Jersey, My Chemical Romance, are going to to release CD/DVD set entitled "Life On The Murder Scene" sometime early next year.
According to MCR's label Reprise, the whole package isn't finished just yet, but it's been already unveiled that the CD portion will feature rare tracks and demos, while the DVD is going to be packed with videos, live performances, online content and an exclusive video diary that tells My Chemical Romance's story from the very beginning.
The cover looks quite curiously, while simply replacing the watercolored couple on the front of the band's
Back in the day, New Joisey's My Chemical Romance was a scrawny little quintet singing about vampires and opening for the Movielife and Finch. Of course, "the day" refers to its early 2003 tour -- before MCR upgraded from Eyeball Records to the major label Reprise Records, before its sophomore CD, Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge, sold gold and before vocalist Gerard Way stopped speaking to his former BFF, the Used singer Bert McCracken. In fact, My Chemical Romance v.2.0 is bigger, badder, and more emo and goth (although less intoxicated) than its former self. But catch its first headlining