Cassie Whitt
Playing guitar with knives: breaking down My Chemical Romance’s “The Foundations of Decay”
Thursday evening, My Chemical Romance had the absolute audacity to drop “The Foundations Of Decay,” their first new song since 2014’s “Fake Your Death” without warning. The band fully disrupted reality as we had known it, waking slumbering souls, tearing us out of the comfort of resignation we’d been living in that new music would simply never come.
OK, that’s a little dramatic, ...
From action figures to jumpsuits, these are the 23 rarest My Chemical Romance collectibles
Pick any given day to search “My Chemical Romance” on eBay, and you will be bombarded with thousands of exorbitantly priced listings. But is that Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys California 2019 boxset actually worth $3,000?
Some o...
Which song should you listen to under the blue moon based on your zodiac sign?
It’s probably not as fancy as you think. We’ve heard people cheering about the “blue full moon on Halloween” for a while now, and it sounds very exciting. But we need to get a couple of things straight first: The blue moon isn’t actually blue. It’s simply what the full mo...
Creeper discuss next era: “There are no fast songs on this record”
Creeper vocalist Will Gould marvels about how strange it is to try to describe their impending album to us, throwing out a list of influences as scattered as a string of whats-its in a Dr. Seuss poem.
In the new Creeper era, Roy Orbison will meet David Bowie and Type O Negative to have a cocktail with Suede by the Hollywood Walk Of Fame...
Which My Chemical Romance universe character are you?
My Chemical Romance are not only fantastic musicians but also fantastical world-builders. With each era comes new characters, who are either directly addressed within the walls of the album or through exterior art.
From The Black Parade to Danger Days, some characters are more covert than others, but they all bring something unique to the world of MCR...
My Chemical Romance return sparks fan theories over new imagery
Since the My Chemical Romance return announcement, the band have remained relatively quiet. We’ve gotten a couple of new show and festival appearance announcements, but fans are absolutely desperate for some clue as to what else might be going on below the surface.
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QUIZ: Build an altar and we’ll tell you which witch you are
Are you a good witch? Or a bad witch? We’re here to determine just that by pairing your magical soul to one of our fictional sister’s. Do you have the cunning prowess of Rowena from Supernatural? The independent spirit of Queenie from American Horror Story? The clever...
‘The Black Parade’ by My Chemical Romance was cursed—here’s proof
The Black Parade from My Chemical Romance is widely ranked among the best rock records of the past 20 years by the general public, but what is not quite as widely known is how making the album tried to rip the band apart.
During the album cycle, so many misfortunes befell MCR that fans started to refer to them as byproducts of “The Black Parade curse.” Eve...
New Years Day’s Ash Costello shows us her “Skeletons”
It’s been three years since New Years Day released previous LP Malevolence, so naturally fans are getting antsy. In today’s debut of “Skeletons” from the band’s yet-to-be-titled album due out this spring, we see a brand-new NYD, one who mix almost mechanically heavy riffs with free-spirited pop. Is it what we’ve come to expect from o...
Here’s what witches actually do on Halloween (and beyond)
As Halloween approaches, many of you will be grabbing your costumes, and perhaps you’re going for the classic witch look. At present, it’s easy to procure not only a “costume,” but a whole witchy wardrobe. Alternative clothing companies make it easy to wear witchcraft literally on your sleeve with endless designs and occult slogans. Even Sephora tried to ...
10 types of show crowds you’ll encounter in your life
In this scene, we go to a lot of shows. Way more than the average music fiend, we would venture to guess. And though many of our experiences within crowds will be largely similar, there are some that stand out, for their bizarre factor, for the characters involved or for the way they enhance (or ruin) your experience...