Saturday night’s Tsongas Arena lineup vacillated between two distinct musical idioms – call it metal-core, punk-pop or plain old whiner’s delight, but never has rock ‘n’ roll this volatile sounded so tuneful.
Opener Reggie and the Full Effect played a short set of throttling hardcore (complete with uvula-scraping screams), blended with curiously radio-friendly riffs.
Alkaline Trio followed with a dexterous, authoritative performance.Alternating between two lead vocalists, the Chicago-based band played with a seasoned maturity that made for the gig’s most pleasant surprise.
Plenty of body surfing and a mosh pit had elevated the event to pandemonium by the time New Jersey quintet My Chemical Romance hit the stage.
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Rocker Gerard Way is begging My Chemical Romance fans not to buy the group's hit new album "Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge" this week and donate the money to charity instead.
The singer wants fans to plough money into relief efforts for the victims of Hurricane Katrina and believes album money should be given away instead.
"If you're gonna go buy our record this week, don't buy our record just donate to the Red Cross or anything you think can help the hurricane victims," Way said, speaking on MTV's Total Request Live show yesterday.
Way insists the goth-rockers are planning to do everything
OREM - It took just a few songs of My Chemical Romance's set Wednesday for the combination of glam-rock moves, hard-rock riffs and unabashed adoration from fans to spark a memory.
It was a memory of Tommy Gnosis, the beautiful man-child in "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" who copied Hedwig's songs and style and turned them into platinum. I'm not saying My Chemical Romance leader Gerard Way and his band stole anything that was on display at the nearly full McKay Events Center, but the group owes a debt to the artists who no doubt inspired "Hedwig;"
It was a fine affair for Darcie Denkert's A Fine Romance. The book, which is about the musical love affair between Broadway and Hollywood, had its release party on October 20 at the Times Square Studios. Subtitled "The Magic. The Mayhem. The Musicals," the tome is an amalgam of everyone--and everything--you'd want to know about material that went from Broadway to Hollywood and vice versa. Several Broadway stars were on hand to toast the author--and to help the terrific causes that the book serves: all proceeds benefit the Actors' Fund as well as the Motion Picture Television Fund.
Source: broadway.com
Two 2005 MTV Video Music Award nominees and one of the most popular bands ever to emerge from the Valley are among seven concerts currently planned for the Mesa Amphitheatre this fall.
My Chemical Romance visits the Mesa Amphitheatre Sept. 27. Nominated for Best Rock Video at this year’s MTV awards, the New Jersey-based band will perform their hits "Helena" and "I’m Not Okay (I Promise)" on Sept. 27. Then, Fall Out Boy will come to Mesa on Oct. 26. The Chicago band received the 2005 MTV2 Video Music Award for their current hit, "Sugar, We’re Goin’ Down."
In November, goth-rock pioneers
Jumping onstage dressed in black like a soldier, lead singer Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance was more than ready to battle the crowd. Pumping his fist in the air and grasping a microphone stand covered with red roses while crimson lights gleamed on his pasty complexion, Way widened his black eyelined eyes and looked down upon the crowd.
He yelled at fans as thousands of bodies meshed and pushed in front of the stage, dying to get closer to their favorite emo-punk band while drummer Bob Bryar slammed on his kit, guitarists Ray Toro and Frank Iero strummed with a