Mikey Way

It’s hard to believe that My Chemical Romance are celebrating the 18th anniversary of their debut album, I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love. July 23, 2002 changed our world and formally introduced us to a band who would influence us more than we could ever know at the time.  Of all […]

What’s your favorite era of My Chemical Romance? Is it the scrappy semi-hardcore flailing on I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love? That modern emo signpost, Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge? The classic-rock throwback of The Black Parade? Or maybe the rockin’ dystopia of Danger Days? The correct answer is none of […]

By 2006, scene culture had grown roots in every mainstream area possible. Myspace took over as the primary mode of social media communication, and bands spread like wildfire once they uploaded music. It was a whirlwind year, as music became more accessible to a larger group of people, Hot Topic brightened its lights and studded […]

In a back catalog overflowing with radio-friendly hits and roof-raising singalongs, it’s easy for some monumental tracks to slip under the radar. Emo juggernauts My Chemical Romance are no exception, despite only having four albums’ worth of songs to define their career. Delving into their discography with a magnifying glass, a laser gun and an […]

My Chemical Romance superfans have something to celebrate May 30—the 13th anniversary of the band’s release of the “Teenagers” music video.  There’s no other way to describe it than angst. When we saw this The Black Parade era video for the first time in 2007, we felt seen and had an undeniable desire to run […]

Sometimes after a band break up, a band member will bounce back to save our broken hearts from drowning in sadness with an amazing solo project. Other times, musicians complete and record a tracklist on their own that doesn’t fit in with their main band.  Here are 10 solo project debuts that we just couldn’t […]

Before being cast as Number Five on the Netflix series The Umbrella Academy, Aidan Gallagher admired My Chemical Romance’s deeply conceptualized concepts that helped shape him as a singer-songwriter. Read more: Here’s when we’re finally getting ‘The Umbrella Academy’ season 2 Tell me about your experience hearing My Chemical Romance for the first time in […]

The 2004 alternative music community turned out to be a pivotal moment in time for scene bands. As the two previous years set the foundation for the genre, it quickly expanded. Musicians started to experiment more on albums with genres outside of emo, punk and pop. It was the year scene music established that it […]

Providing the world can behave itself for five minutes, My Chemical Romance’s reunion tour is right around the corner. With four iconic albums and a six-year hiatus under their belts, the name of these emo legends is once again on the tip of everybody’s tongues. So while you’re digging out your old merch and playing […]

Electric Century is set to have a new graphic novel as well as a corresponding album to go along with it. The new graphic novel is titled Electric Century and is due out this fall through Z2 Comics. The record will be the first for Electric Century since 2017’s For The Night To Control. Electric Century formed […]

It feels like everyone is spending their time social distancing by playing the new Animal Crossing game on the Nintendo Switch. Animal Crossing: New Horizons dropped March 20, and people have been playing it addictively since.  Because the game is so customizable, people have discovered you can actually play several scene songs in the game, […]

When the new millennium broke, the alternative music community was heavily saturated with popular genres such as punk, pop punk and emo. Lying dormant, a new alternative music sound and scene was awaiting its time to shine. In 2002, it absolutely exploded. It was virtually impossible to go a day without hearing Simple Plan’s latest […]

Beloved director Kevin Smith is a huge music fan and more specifically, he’s a fan of My Chemical Romance. The director and film writer hosts a podcast called Fatman Beyond and in a recent episode he reveals a My Chemical Romance song as the one he would be most likely to turn into a film. Read More: Watch Machine […]