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It’s been a blast

Before we rip the curtain off of this new album, let’s have a little bit of fun. One thing we can’t help but notice, is just how unbelievably artistically talented you all are. People send us video clips and CD’s all the time of them performing our songs in every imaginable way. Be it solo, full band, acoustic, electric, electro, interpretive dance…we’ve seen just about everything, and it never ceases to amaze and inspire us.

We thought it would be awesome to finally showcase the best of the best of these videos, and reward you handsomely. From now until June 14th, we will be accepting entries for the very first My Chemical Romance YouTube cover contest. All you need to do is video tape yourself covering your favorite MCR song in whichever style you feel and follow the instructions below to enter the contest. We will review the entries and announce the champion and future owner of a signed guitar while showcasing some of our favorite entries.

Warm up those fingers and vocal chords! The sky’s the limit really, think outside the box and show em how it’s done.

Love you guys, we will catch up soon!

Mikey

HOW TO ENTER:

1) Record your own cover of your favorite MCR song and post the video to YouTube and post it as a video response to THIS VIDEO.

2) Come back to THIS PAGE and enter your video link. You must be registered and logged in to mychemicalromance.com to enter, so if you haven’t already, CREATE AN ACCOUNT HERE.

3) You can submit as many videos as you want, but they must be new (don’t submit anything that you put up on YouTube a year ago), and they must be yours.

Good luck!

and reminded me of this awesome moment. Good times, can’t wait to do it again!

Only 200 of each print in the series will be made available. All photos featured in the series were taken by Frank from the studio where the band is working on their new album.

Each photo print will feature a special embossed logo and will be individually hand numbered, signed and stamped on the back by Frank Iero.

Each print is $30 on its own, but if you purchase “patience and chaos” and “come and get me motherfucker” together, it’s only $50.

We’ll pick one winner randomly out of all of the people who decode all of the song titles correctly to be the winner of a rare Welcome To The Black Parade picture disc 7” vinyl record.

Also, check out two new studio photos from Frank in the Media section.

The contest ends on May 5th, 2010. Good luck!

- A patchworked telegram bale
- Nod Teeth
- Oh overtaken tofu hymn
- Revery Cited Me
- Yank to moi
- Shirtsleeve paths
- Shove so woeful
- Fair thrashed fools
- Hooey Soft thug
- In mucky rabble
- Forward lousy or so
- Evil Hedge Milk
- On toilsome drivel
- Snog on swindlers
- Amourously reverent loveliness
- O hi fogy fusion moon southwesterner birthright

In case you’re a little bummed out that you didn’t win, there are two new studio photos from Frank that should cheer you right up. Enjoy!

A Road Less TravelledThis documentary charts the entire history of My Chemical Romance from their earliest days spent playing to a local following, to their signing with a major label, to the taking of their music and message to a global audience, to becoming the blueprint for a hundred tame copycats. The film gives the inside story of this extraordinary act through exclusive interviews, location shoots, previously unpublished photographs and footage, and a wealth of other material, which all at once makes for a fluid and focused insight into the past, present and future of MCR. Also features extras such as photo gallery, the MCR interactive challenge and digital contributor biographies, plus the ‘beyond DVD’ section for the true collectors.

The story of their formation is legendary, their rise to fame has been extraordinary and their influence is everywhere – and now the eyeliner crowd’s favourite band are roaring back into the fray. Gerard Way’s group has been a lesson in ‘how to connect’ for young bands across the world, moving from their New Jersey roots to global superstardom in a few short years. MCR’s combination of dark theatricality, a message that resonates globally and melodies that’ll hook you from mile away have been the catalyst for the intense connection that fans have forged with this extraordinary collective.
This two disc set allows Chem fans everywhereto get closer than ever to their heroes, with the most thorough and entertaining DVD documentary yet about MCR, covering their entire history and including exclusive interviews, contributions from those who have been intimately involved throughout their history and the finest music journalists and writers analysing recordings and performances by the group.
Also included is a CD interview disc containing more than an hour of rare audio interviews with the band in which they all reveal more than they have ever done previously.

happy 3rd week of April! Things have been super crazy on the My Chem front; songs written and recorded, coffee consumed…lots of coffee, babies being ultrasounded, crazy ideas becoming reality, and absolutely no sleep for the caffeinated and weary…ever.

To all the collectors out there who snatched up the limited edition art prints 1&2, congrats and thank you’s all around, we hope you enjoy them. Its rare we get to do something really special like this, and it feels good to offer you guys something a little more personal than just another t-shirt design. (but if tshirts is whatcha crave, there are new designs coming soon I promise.). Installments 3&4 will be revealed next month, so keep checking back. Register to the site now to receive updates and info on prints and other My Chem related topics before anyone else. In the mean time here are two new pics from the studio for your inspection.

And for all of you thinking about entering the speed-reading lyrics contest, Good Luck! I cannot wait to see these videos, channel the micro machines guy and let it rip. Oh and NO CHEATING! Mumblers and people who speed up video tape will be disqualified and farted upon by my gaseous dog, Professor Buckley.

Now without any further adieu….what everyone looks forward to every April…another installment of:

A VERBAL HISTORY: Catchphrases of the Modern Age as told by My Chemical Romance.

Episode 19- “I don’t mean to step on the dog…”

It was a warm spring night at the local recording studio when auxiliary musician Jamie Muhoberac first coined the popular phrase “I don’t mean to step on the dog”. Jamie, who has worked on the last 2 MCR records and is most famous for “pizza organ” and “crazy ray gun sounds”, uttered the now infamous line as he literally almost stepped on Raymond Toros beloved Yorkshire Terrier, Jack Bauer. It was not long before the phrase found a home in the heart and on the lips of today’s youth. Appearing on tshirts and bumper stickers the phrase quickly replaced Jesus’s quote to the apostles, “I don’t mean to shit on anyone’s birthday cake here, but one of you is going to betray me.” as today’s most popular way to tell people you’re not trying to bum them out, before saying something that will definitely bum them out. Witnesses to the invention of Jamie’s catch phrase were quoted as saying “It just makes more sense. I mean really, when’s the last time someone shit on your B-Day cake? And if it did end up happening, you can only experience that feeling once a year! Where as in today’s day and age someone literally steps on a dog every 3 and a half minutes.” (This statistic does not include Albania or Puerto Rico, and therefore cannot actually be proven.)

xofrank