It seems as though MCR are no longer playing at The TweetHouse at Sundance this year -

We had mentioned a few weeks back that we’d be seeing several big-name bands appear at the SHOP Yoga Studio, the location of the Tweet House. This was based on information provided to us by an event promoter who had contracted to use our space in the evenings. The agreement they signed stated that our attendees would be granted passes to the concerts they were booking.

We had been provided with copies of agreements made with the band’s talent agencies, and had been cc’d on emails with band managers, etc. In addition, one of our teammates had a face-to-face conversation with at least one of the contracted musicians who said they had anticipated seeing us all in Park City.

Regrettably, the promoter who had made these contractual commitments was unable to meet his scheduled financial obligations to the musicians. The result was those contacts lapsed, and the bands are now no longer scheduled to appear.

We are still trying to decipher what actually happened and why, and are digging for more information. We will inform our partners as more specifics become clear.

As a result, the Tweet House has been extended to the evenings on both Saturday and Sunday. The insanely good DJ Menelik will be spinning in the evenings, Mike Relm will be performing live on Sunday at the Hitachi Cocktail Reception, and we’re poised to announce fantastic parties on both Saturday and Sunday night.

We’re looking forward to it and hope to see you there.

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Thanks to imsinkingfast for posting these beautiful scans of Gerard in today’s edition of NME magazine!

We dive in to Rock Week with a look at MCR’s long-awaited Black Parade follow-up.

We’re kicking off Rock Week at MTV News with a look at My Chemical Romance‘s yet-untitled new effort, which sees them ditching the preening and pancake makeup in favor of some seriously strutting riffs and more than a few nods to heavy metal’s studded past.

Here’s what we know about the album, the follow-up to MCR’s ambitious 2006 rock opera The Black Parade: It will most certainly not be The Black Parade II.

More specifically, there will be no high-concept videos, no Queen-biting guitar heroics, no cameos by Liza Minnelli. Gone are the makeup and the uniforms and much of the pretense. Instead, we get MCR: stripped. For nearly a year now, they’ve been talking up the back-to-basics approach they’ve taken for album four, promising, “It’s not going to be hiding behind a wall of fiction or uniforms and makeup anymore … there’s a purity to it,” and calling it their “love letter to rock and roll.”

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Onsale from Wednesday 20 January, here’s what’s in the new mag…

They’ve ditched the rock opera, and they’re going back to their punk roots – it’s the return of My Chemical Romance.