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3 days ago
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My Chemical Romance Debut New Song at L.A. Show
Yara Sameh 'The Black Parade' marched through Los Angeles over the weekend, as My Chemical Romance played back-to-back shows at Dodger Stadium on July 26-27. The shows come as part of the alternative emo rock group's 'Long Live the Black Parade Tour' — the band's first stadium trek where it plays its era-defining 2006 album in its entirety. The Dodger Stadium setlist included the full record followed by hits from the band's other releases, covers and a never-before-heard song. The group's performance of 'Black Parade' was a full-on theatrical production. To the beat of a militaristic drum, with actors depicting despots and soldiers, the band took the stage donned in black marching band uniforms evoking the album's original concept art. An energetic crowd swayed, sang and moshed along to the iconic 14 tracks while cheering along front man Gerard Way, who played the part of the album's protagonist in a redemptive and fatalistic arc. After fireworks, a wardrobe change and a cello interlude, the band took a second stage in the middle of the crowd for an additional set. The song selection varied from Saturday to Sunday night, but both included cuts off of 'Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge' and 'Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys.' On Saturday, the band also debuted an unreleased single titled 'War Beneath the Rain," a powerful rock ballad about memory and fate. Fittingly, Way dedicated the debut performance to Doug McKean, an audio-engineer who collaborated with My Chemical Romance on the song and also worked on 'Black Parade.' McKean died of a brain hemorrhage in 2022. Way introduced the song saying, 'I don't remember how long ago it was, but before the band broke up, we had a studio in North Hollywood and we were making a record that never came out. This was one of the songs we really loved from it. It was just us in the studio with our friend Doug McKean. He was there recording it. His family's here tonight. I want this to go out to them.' 'War Beneath the Rain' marks My Chemical Romance's second unveiling of new music since the band reunited in 2019. In 2022, the band released 'The Foundations of Decay,' marking their first single in nearly a decade. It's yet to be determined whether 'War Beneath the Rain' will receive a studio release, or whether the band will showcase more unreleased tracks along the tour. However, fans at Dodger Stadium were quick to capture the song and share videos of the performance across social media. Next, My Chemical Romance heads to Arlington, TX on August 2 before touring up and down the east coast through September. The tour then takes a pause until the band heads to Latin America in 2026, with dates lined up in Santiago, Chile, and Mexico City, Mexico. read more New Tourism Route To Launch in Old Cairo Ahmed El Sakka-Led Play 'Sayidati Al Jamila' to Be Staged in KSA on Dec. 6 Mandy Moore Joins Season 2 of "Dr. Death" Anthology Series Don't Miss These Movies at 44th Cairo Int'l Film Festival Today Amr Diab to Headline KSA's MDLBEAST Soundstorm 2022 Festival Arts & Culture Mai Omar Stuns in Latest Instagram Photos Arts & Culture "The Flash" to End with Season 9 Arts & Culture Ministry of Culture Organizes four day Children's Film Festival Arts & Culture Canadian PM wishes Muslims Eid-al-Adha News Israeli-Linked Hadassah Clinic in Moscow Treats Wounded Iranian IRGC Fighters Arts & Culture "Jurassic World Rebirth" Gets Streaming Date News China Launches Largest Ever Aircraft Carrier News Ayat Khaddoura's Final Video Captures Bombardment of Beit Lahia Videos & Features Tragedy Overshadows MC Alger Championship Celebration: One Fan Dead, 11 Injured After Stadium Fall Lifestyle Get to Know 2025 Eid Al Adha Prayer Times in Egypt Business Egyptian Pound Undervalued by 30%, Says Goldman Sachs Arts & Culture South Korean Actress Kang Seo-ha Dies at 31 after Cancer Battle Sports Get to Know 2025 WWE Evolution Results Arts & Culture Lebanese Media: Fayrouz Collapses after Death of Ziad Rahbani
See - Sada Elbalad
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- See - Sada Elbalad
My Chemical Romance Debuts New Song at L.A. Show
Yara Sameh 'The Black Parade' marched through Los Angeles over the weekend, as My Chemical Romance played back-to-back shows at Dodger Stadium on July 26-27. The shows come as part of the alternative emo rock group's 'Long Live the Black Parade Tour' — the band's first stadium trek where it plays its era-defining 2006 album in its entirety. The Dodger Stadium setlist included the full record followed by hits from the band's other releases, covers and a never-before-heard song. The group's performance of 'Black Parade' was a full-on theatrical production. To the beat of a militaristic drum, with actors depicting despots and soldiers, the band took the stage donned in black marching band uniforms evoking the album's original concept art. An energetic crowd swayed, sang and moshed along to the iconic 14 tracks while cheering along front man Gerard Way, who played the part of the album's protagonist in a redemptive and fatalistic arc. After fireworks, a wardrobe change and a cello interlude, the band took a second stage in the middle of the crowd for an additional set. The song selection varied from Saturday to Sunday night, but both included cuts off of 'Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge' and 'Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys.' On Saturday, the band also debuted an unreleased single titled 'War Beneath the Rain," a powerful rock ballad about memory and fate. Fittingly, Way dedicated the debut performance to Doug McKean, an audio-engineer who collaborated with My Chemical Romance on the song and also worked on 'Black Parade.' McKean died of a brain hemorrhage in 2022. Way introduced the song saying, 'I don't remember how long ago it was, but before the band broke up, we had a studio in North Hollywood and we were making a record that never came out. This was one of the songs we really loved from it. It was just us in the studio with our friend Doug McKean. He was there recording it. His family's here tonight. I want this to go out to them.' 'War Beneath the Rain' marks My Chemical Romance's second unveiling of new music since the band reunited in 2019. In 2022, the band released 'The Foundations of Decay,' marking their first single in nearly a decade. It's yet to be determined whether 'War Beneath the Rain' will receive a studio release, or whether the band will showcase more unreleased tracks along the tour. However, fans at Dodger Stadium were quick to capture the song and share videos of the performance across social media. Next, My Chemical Romance heads to Arlington, TX on August 2 before touring up and down the east coast through September. The tour then takes a pause until the band heads to Latin America in 2026, with dates lined up in Santiago, Chile, and Mexico City, Mexico. read more New Tourism Route To Launch in Old Cairo Ahmed El Sakka-Led Play 'Sayidati Al Jamila' to Be Staged in KSA on Dec. 6 Mandy Moore Joins Season 2 of "Dr. Death" Anthology Series Don't Miss These Movies at 44th Cairo Int'l Film Festival Today Amr Diab to Headline KSA's MDLBEAST Soundstorm 2022 Festival Arts & Culture Mai Omar Stuns in Latest Instagram Photos Arts & Culture "The Flash" to End with Season 9 Arts & Culture Ministry of Culture Organizes four day Children's Film Festival Arts & Culture Canadian PM wishes Muslims Eid-al-Adha News Israeli-Linked Hadassah Clinic in Moscow Treats Wounded Iranian IRGC Fighters Arts & Culture "Jurassic World Rebirth" Gets Streaming Date News China Launches Largest Ever Aircraft Carrier News Ayat Khaddoura's Final Video Captures Bombardment of Beit Lahia Videos & Features Tragedy Overshadows MC Alger Championship Celebration: One Fan Dead, 11 Injured After Stadium Fall Lifestyle Get to Know 2025 Eid Al Adha Prayer Times in Egypt Business Egyptian Pound Undervalued by 30%, Says Goldman Sachs Arts & Culture South Korean Actress Kang Seo-ha Dies at 31 after Cancer Battle Sports Get to Know 2025 WWE Evolution Results Arts & Culture Lebanese Media: Fayrouz Collapses after Death of Ziad Rahbani
Yahoo
4 days ago
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- Yahoo
Why My Chemical Romance is bigger than it's ever been
Twelve years after a breakup that didn't stick — and one year shy of the 20th anniversary of its biggest album — My Chemical Romance is on the road this summer playing 2006's 'The Black Parade' from beginning to end. The tour, which stopped Saturday night at Dodger Stadium for the first of two concerts, doesn't finally manifest the long-anticipated reunion of one of emo's most influential bands; My Chem reconvened in 2019 and has been performing, pandemic-related delays aside, fairly consistently since then (including five nights at Inglewood's Kia Forum in 2022 and two headlining appearances at Las Vegas' When We Were Young festival). Yet only now is the group visiting sold-out baseball parks — and without even the loss leader of new music to help drum up interest in its show. 'Thank you for being here tonight,' Gerard Way, My Chem's 48-year-old frontman, told the crowd of tens of thousands at Saturday's gig. 'This is our first stadium tour, which is a wild thing to say.' To mark the occasion, he pointed out, his younger brother Mikey was playing a bass guitar inscribed with the Dodgers' logo. Read more: All 43 of Billy Joel's Hot 100 hits, ranked from worst to best So how did this darkly witty, highly theatrical punk band reach a new peak so deep into its comeback? Certainly it's benefiting from an overall resurgence of rock after years dominated by pop and hip-hop; My Chem's Dodger Stadium run coincides this weekend with the return of the once-annual Warped Tour in Long Beach after a six-year dormancy. Then again, Linkin Park — to name another rock group huge in the early 2000s — recently moved a planned Dodger Stadium date to Inglewood's much smaller Intuit Dome, presumably as a result of lower-than-expected ticket sales. The endurance of My Chemical Romance, which formed in New Jersey before eventually relocating to Los Angeles, feels rooted more specifically in its obsession with comic books and in Gerard Way's frank lyrics about depression and his flexible portrayal of gender and sexuality. ('GERARD WAY TRANSED MY GENDER,' read a homemade-looking T-shirt worn Saturday by one fan.) Looking back now, it's clear the band's blend of drama and emotion — of world-building and bloodletting — set a crucial template for a generation or two of subsequent acts, from bands like Twenty One Pilots to rappers like the late Juice Wrld to a gloomy pop singer like Sombr, whose viral hit 'Back to Friends' luxuriates in a kind of glamorous misery. For much of its audience, My Chem's proudly sentimental music contains the stuff of identity — one reason thousands showed up to Dodger Stadium wearing elaborate outfits inspired by the band's detailed iconography. In 2006, the quadruple-platinum 'Black Parade' LP arrived as a concept album about a dying cancer patient; Way and his bandmates dressed in military garb that made them look like members of Satan's marching band. Nearly two decades later, the wardrobe remained the same as the band muscled through the album's 14 tracks, though the narrative had transformed into a semi-coherent Trump-era satire of political authoritarianism: My Chemical Romance, in this telling a band from the fictional nation of Draag, was performing for the delectation of the country's vain and ruthless dictator, who sat stony-faced on a throne near the pitcher's mound flanked by a pair of soldiers. The theater of it all was fun — important (if a bit crude), you could even say, given how young much of the band's audience is and how carefully so many modern pop stars avoid taking political stands that could threaten to alienate some number of their fans. After 'Welcome to the Black Parade,' a bearded guy playing a government apparatchik handed out Dodger Dogs to the band and to the dictator; Way waited to find out whether the dictator approved of the hot dog before he decided he liked it too. Yet what really mattered was how the great songs still are: the deranged rockabilly stomp of 'Teenagers,' the Eastern European oom-pah of 'Mama,' the eruption of 'Welcome to the Black Parade' from fist-pumping glam-rock processional to breakneck thrash-punk tantrum. Indeed, the better part of Saturday's show came after the complete 'Black Parade' performance when My Chem — the Way brothers along with guitarists Frank Iero and Ray Toro, drummer Jarrod Alexander and keyboardist Jamie Muhoberac — reappeared sans costumes on a smaller secondary stage to 'play some jams,' as Gerard Way put it, from elsewhere in the band's catalog. (Its most recent studio album came out in 2010, though it's since issued a smattering of archived material.) 'I'm Not Okay (I Promise)' was blistering atomic pop, while 'Summertime' thrummed with nervy energy; 'Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)' was as delightfully snotty as its title suggests. The band reached back for what Way called his favorite My Chem song — 'Vampires Will Never Hurt You,' from the group's 2002 debut — and performed, evidently for the first time, a chugging power ballad called 'War Beneath the Rain,' which Way recalled cutting in a North Hollywood studio 'before the band broke up' as My Chem tried to make a record that never came out. The group closed, as it often does, with its old hit 'Helena,' a bleak yet turbo-charged meditation on what the living owe the dead, and as he belted the chorus, Way dropped to his knees in an apparent mix of exhaustion, despair, gratitude — maybe a bit of befuddlement too. He was leaving no feeling unfelt. Get notified when the biggest stories in Hollywood, culture and entertainment go live. Sign up for L.A. 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Los Angeles Times
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
Why My Chemical Romance is bigger than it's ever been
Twelve years after a breakup that didn't stick — and one year shy of the 20th anniversary of its biggest album — My Chemical Romance is on the road this summer playing 2006's 'The Black Parade' from beginning to end. The tour, which stopped Saturday night at Dodger Stadium for the first of two concerts, doesn't finally manifest the long-anticipated reunion of one of emo's most influential bands; My Chem reconvened in 2019 and has been performing, pandemic-related delays aside, fairly consistently since then (including five nights at Inglewood's Kia Forum in 2022 and two headlining appearances at Las Vegas' When We Were Young festival). Yet only now is the group visiting sold-out baseball parks — and without even the loss leader of new music to help drum up interest in its show. 'Thank you for being here tonight,' Gerard Way, My Chem's 48-year-old frontman, told the crowd of tens of thousands at Saturday's gig. 'This is our first stadium tour, which is a wild thing to say.' To mark the occasion, he pointed out, his younger brother Mikey was playing a bass guitar inscribed with the Dodgers' logo. So how did this darkly witty, highly theatrical punk band reach a new peak so deep into its comeback? Certainly it's benefiting from an overall resurgence of rock after years dominated by pop and hip-hop; My Chem's Dodger Stadium run coincides this weekend with the return of the once-annual Warped Tour in Long Beach after a six-year dormancy. Then again, Linkin Park — to name another rock group huge in the early 2000s — recently moved a planned Dodger Stadium date to Inglewood's much smaller Intuit Dome, presumably as a result of lower-than-expected ticket sales. The endurance of My Chemical Romance, which formed in New Jersey before eventually relocating to Los Angeles, feels rooted more specifically in its obsession with comic books and in Gerard Way's frank lyrics about depression and his flexible portrayal of gender and sexuality. ('GERARD WAY TRANSED MY GENDER,' read a homemade-looking T-shirt worn Saturday by one fan.) Looking back now, it's clear the band's blend of drama and emotion — of world-building and bloodletting — set a crucial template for a generation or two of subsequent acts, from bands like Twenty One Pilots to rappers like the late Juice Wrld to a gloomy pop singer like Sombr, whose viral hit 'Back to Friends' luxuriates in a kind of glamorous misery. For much of its audience, My Chem's proudly sentimental music contains the stuff of identity — one reason thousands showed up to Dodger Stadium wearing elaborate outfits inspired by the band's detailed iconography. In 2006, the quadruple-platinum 'Black Parade' LP arrived as a concept album about a dying cancer patient; Way and his bandmates dressed in military garb that made them look like members of Satan's marching band. Nearly two decades later, the wardrobe remained the same as the band muscled through the album's 14 tracks, though the narrative had transformed into a semi-coherent Trump-era satire of political authoritarianism: My Chemical Romance, in this telling a band from the fictional nation of Draag, was performing for the delectation of the country's vain and ruthless dictator, who sat stony-faced on a throne near the pitcher's mound flanked by a pair of soldiers. The theater of it all was fun — important (if a bit crude), you could even say, given how young much of the band's audience is and how carefully so many modern pop stars avoid taking political stands that could threaten to alienate some number of their fans. After 'Welcome to the Black Parade,' a bearded guy playing a government apparatchik handed out Dodger Dogs to the band and to the dictator; Way waited to find out whether the dictator approved of the hot dog before he decided he liked it too. Yet what really mattered was how the great songs still are: the deranged rockabilly stomp of 'Teenagers,' the Eastern European oom-pah of 'Mama,' the eruption of 'Welcome to the Black Parade' from fist-pumping glam-rock processional to breakneck thrash-punk tantrum. Indeed, the better part of Saturday's show came after the complete 'Black Parade' performance when My Chem — the Way brothers along with guitarists Frank Iero and Ray Toro, drummer Jarrod Alexander and keyboardist Jamie Muhoberac — reappeared sans costumes on a smaller secondary stage to 'play some jams,' as Gerard Way put it, from elsewhere in the band's catalog. (Its most recent studio album came out in 2010, though it's since issued a smattering of archived material.) 'I'm Not Okay (I Promise)' was blistering atomic pop, while 'Summertime' thrummed with nervy energy; 'Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)' was as delightfully snotty as its title suggests. The band reached back for what Way called his favorite My Chem song — 'Vampires Will Never Hurt You,' from the group's 2002 debut — and performed, evidently for the first time, a chugging power ballad called 'War Beneath the Rain,' which Way recalled cutting in a North Hollywood studio 'before the band broke up' as My Chem tried to make a record that never came out. The group closed, as it often does, with its old hit 'Helena,' a bleak yet turbo-charged meditation on what the living owe the dead, and as he belted the chorus, Way dropped to his knees in an apparent mix of exhaustion, despair, gratitude — maybe a bit of befuddlement too. He was leaving no feeling unfelt.
Yahoo
21-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Watch My Chemical Romance Cover Smashing Pumpkins' ‘Bullet With Butterfly Wings'
My Chemical Romance paid tribute to Smashing Pumpkins during their show at San Francisco's Oracle Park over the weekend. The emo punk band performed a rousing cover of the Pumpkins' 1995 hit 'Bullet With Butterfly Wings' as a surprise addition on their Long Live the Black Parade tour, which kicked off earlier this month. The band offered a relatively traditional cover of the song, off Smashing Pumpkins' seminal album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, with frontman Gerard Way putting his own spin on Billy Corgan's vocals. More from Rolling Stone Billy Corgan Reflects on Black Sabbath's Final Show: 'We Have Them in Our Hearts' Billy Corgan, Melissa Auf der Maur Reunite to Perform Smashing Pumpkins' 'The Everlasting Gaze' Billy Corgan on Why He Formed a New Band to Play Smashing Pumpkins Deep Cuts My Chemical Romance continue their tour on July 26 in Los Angeles at Dodger Stadium. They are also set to perform several shows in August and September, with an array of special guests opening the shows, including Garbage, Death Cab for Cutie, and Evanescence. The tour celebrates the 20th anniversary of the band's 2006 album, The Black Parade. Last year, MCR revived the iconic album at the When We Were Young music festival in Las Vegas in October where they performed The Black Parade in full. Since its 2006 release, the concept album has been heralded in the emo music scene and beyond. Rolling Stone named it one of 'The Greatest 500 Albums of All Time.' Last month, My Chemical Romance unveiled a deluxe edition reissue of their LP Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge featuring several previously unreleased live recordings. The four bonus tracks on the collection all come from a session My Chemical Romance did for BBC Radio 1's 'The Lock Up' in 2005. Among the previously unreleased recordings are live versions of 'I'm Not OK (I Promise),' 'Helena,' and 'The Ghost of You,' while also included is a performance 'You Know What They Do to Guys Like Us in Prison,' which was originally released as a B-side on a limited edition UK CD single of 'I'm Not Okay.' Best of Rolling Stone Sly and the Family Stone: 20 Essential Songs The 50 Greatest Eminem Songs All 274 of Taylor Swift's Songs, Ranked Solve the daily Crossword
