My Chemical Romance

Emo is Dead, Long Live Emo: 30 Bands Making it Safe to Hurt Again

It's a confusing time to be an emo fan. My Chemical Romance recently called it quits, while Fall Out Boy, surprisingly, have the #1 album in the country. That album, however, is a far cry from the sound old heads remember from the Take This to Your Grave era. Bro, are you even emo anymore? See also ... More >>

Ten Things My Chemical Romance Fans Can Do RIGHT NOW to Cope With the Band's Breakup

In the wake of what, apparently, was the greatest band of all time -- My Chemical Romance -- breaking up, hundreds upon hundreds of unstable fans are currently struggling to put the pieces of their broken lives back together. There's a change.org petition requesting that MCR provide a proper worldwi ... More >>

The Six Coolest Members of Otherwise Uncool Bands

By Ryan Wasoba Bands are collections of people. In any such group, some people will be cooler than others. Even in an uncool rock band, there will be cool people. Here are the six coolest members of uncool bands. Cool? Cool. See also: Top 10 Douchiest Guitarists of All Time

Westchester Punk: Flyers Of The 914

In this week's issue, we headed north to tell the story Westchester's punk rock scene from the mid '90s into the late aughts. Here, find a collection of flyers advertising local shows, courtesy of Morgan Storm's Allison Gray and the Genuine Imitations' Dave Haack. Note the opener in slide 6—it ... More >>

A Brief Overview Of The Seven (!) Music Festivals Happening In The New York Area This Weekend

Summer might not semi-officially start until next weekend, but our fair city is getting a head start on jamming the schedule with as much music as possible. This weekend there are at least seven multi-musician extravaganzas happening in New York and New Jersey. Which one is most right for you? Our h ... More >>

The Promise Ring

Running The Numbers: The Four-Disc, 73-Track Bob Dylan Covers Comp With Miley, Ke$ha, Lenny, And Many Others

​Today Amnesty International releases Chimes Of Freedom, a really, really huge compilation of bob Dylan covers by artists both canonized and obscure. Trying to analyze such a huge undertaking can only be done in one way: Mathematically. Amount of music in this collection: 73 songs on four CD ... More >>

20 Questions Brought Up By The Grammy Nominations

Last night's Grammy nominations show was full of pomp, eyeliner, and people on Twitter becoming very confused. Here's the complete list of nominees; below, 20 questions that we're still wrestling with some 14 hours after the broadcast signed off. 1. "Super Bass": Robbed or totally robbed? 2. Now t ... More >>

Live: blink-182 Like It Hot And Wet At Jones Beach

Honda Civic Tour: Blink 182/My Chemical Romance w/Alkaline Trio Nikon At Jones Beach Theater Sunday, August 7 Better than: A five percent chance of rain. On the way to Jones Beach last night, leery of the weather that had cut short the final day of Escape To New York some 70 miles east, I checke ... More >>

Coheed & Cambria

Q&A: My Chemical Romance's Gerard Way on Vampires, Glee, And Liza Minnelli

​ My Chemical Romance's fearless leader talks about mocking his own concept albums and rebelling vicariously through his hair. What are your favorite post-apocalyptic movies? Night of the Comet, Mad Max obviously--I actually prefer the first one. A Boy and His Dog. I think those are like the ... More >>

The Ten Best Musician/Comic Artist Friendships

Grant Morrison in the video for My Chemical Romance's "Sing" Grant Morrison is a U.K. comic book writer known for known for highly singular--or insane, if you prefer, in a good way--takes on established mainstream properties like X-Men and Doom Patrol as well as his own, peyotesque original series ... More >>

Top 10 Guitar Hero Tracks To Commemorate The Series' Untimely Death

No thanks​As announced yesterday, Activision is pulling the plug on their Guitar Hero franchise, signaling the end of the iconic plastic-guitar video-game series, which began in 2005 and has since offered six main games and countless expansions. To celebrate this weird, wonderful be-your-own-r ... More >>

Was 2010 The Best Year For Music Ever? American Idol Wobbles, R&B Thrives, And The '90s Rise Again

Welcome to Sound of the City's year-in-review rock-critic roundtable, an amiable ongoing conversation between five prominent Voice critics: Rob Harvilla, Zach Baron, Sean Fennessey, Maura Johnston, and Rich Juzwiak. We'll be here all week! At least one song on this record is really good!​Gent ... More >>

My Chemical Romance Go . . . Styx

The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys is all wasteland and no heart

This Week's Voice: AraabMuzik, My Chemical Romance, Orange Juice, Bill Frisell, Marc Ribot, and More

My Chemical Romance go . . . Styx. Photo by Neil Krug.​In this week's Village Voice, Brandon Soderberg profiles the 21-year-old rap producer AraabMuzik, Christopher R. Weingarten is not impressed with the new record from My Chemical Romance, Francis Davis praises new efforts from Bill Frisell, ... More >>

'101.9 RXP Yule Rock Presents My Chemical Romance'

The Gaslight Anthem And My Chemical Romance, Together At Last, At Roseland

Not My Chemical Romance​'Tis the season for super-goofy, radio-station-helmed holiday shows that corral together often wildly disparate acts in the name of yuletide cheer and forced promotion, and while Z100's Jingle Ball is the mother of them all (could a preview of the Dream/Kardashian music ... More >>

The 50 Worst Songs of the '00s, F2K No. 20: Gym Class Heroes, "Taxi Driver"

F2K is a countdown of the 50 worst songs of the decade. Track our progress here. Since emo already ruined rock music for a generation, why not just take rap too?

Thanksgiving Playlist 2009: 100-Plus Songs Better Than Your Grandma's Lumpy Squash

Two years ago, William Bowers compiled this playlist. Any further additions? This holiday's abstract mandate can be sorta barren for us patriotically-challenged atheist vegetarians who maintain cosmic equidistance from our bloodkin. The term for it is even weird: "Thanksgiving" is a syntactical c ... More >>

Paramore Finally Bust Up the Lonely Tears Boys Club

Emo's Femme Fatale, Hayley Williams

A Thanksgiving Playlist

Panic at the Disco's Pretty.Odd.

PATD's frantic follow-up, though a bit schizo, is still earnest and triumphant at heart

Pazz & Jop: 2006's Top 25 Albums

Provincializm #16: Thank-Rock Playlist

Live: Fall Out Boy's Arena Emo

When Now Wasn't Soon Enough

Everything great—and everything you forgot was lousy—about British guitar-rock

Coheed & Cambria's Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV: Volume II: No World for Tomorrow

Emo-prog just about as cumbersome as the title

Separation Saturday Night

Deadpan humor and clever histrionics redeem Okkervil River's classic-rock bathos

The Used's Lies for the Liars

An ambitious step forward that coulda been, but ain't

Music Videos Get Small

Live: El-P Really Isn't All That Irritating

Let the Indie-Rock Chart-Wars Begin

In Defense of Ultragrrrl

Sarah Lewitinn has become New York’s premier tastemaker—and that's what makes the haterati squirm

Live: Emo Titans My Chemical Romance

Fall Out Boy's Self-Obsessed Emo

Hellogoodbye: Emo Doesn't Always Suck

How to Be an American Idiot

The Internet may eventually kill "the album" as a concept, but 2006 kept the concept album alive

The Polyphonic We

Critics were simply flabbergasted by harmonies in 2006, but we all needed them

Emo Goes Crazy

The Year's Best Music Videos

Noise from the Front

Actual audio from the Voice music section, October 25 through 31, 2006

Blackened Meatloaf

MCR's valedictorian sonic bombast soothes detention sufferers nationwide

Music Videos: Epic Once Again

Beyonce and Jay-Z's "Deja Vu": Jam of the Summer?

Showbiz Kids

Emo-metal extravaganza opts for spectacle over substance

Forever Young

The joyous clamor of today's youth punches you in the nose

Mariah Carey Beats 50 Cent on Billboard Year-End List?

Horoscope

Another Good Kick

Thrift-shop-dapper Scottish new wave revival standard bearers approach the perfect beat