MCR Cover Contest

posted by Mikey on Jun 4, 2010 06:17pm

Dearest Friends,

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!

MCR Title Anagram Contest

posted by Jeff on May 1, 2010 07:18pm

We’ve seen how fast you can read, now it’s time to see how good your decoding skills are. Each of the lines below is an anagram of a My Chemical Romance song title. Go through and decode them all, then submit your answers HERE.

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

MCR hits the cover of Alternative Press

posted by Jeff on Nov 19, 2009 01:13pm

My Chemical Romance will grace January’s issue of Alternative Press with the most anticipated album of 2010. Each band member will have their own cover, and subscribers to the magazine will receive a special edition with all 5 members. Check out the cover with all 5 of them, and then check out the covers for Gerard, Ray, Frank, Mikey and Bob. Head over to altpress.com to become a subscriber if you aren’t already.

MCR in Rolling Stone and Kerrang!

posted by Jeff on Nov 16, 2009 04:11pm

MCR are featured in the new issues of Rolling Stone and Kerrang, with photos and interviews with the guys from the studio. Pick up a copy of each to read all about the upcoming album.

Mixing Update!!!

posted by Ray on Nov 10, 2009 7:07pm

Mixing with our good buddy Rich Costey is going great. So far, he’s mixed 9 songs, and they all sound fucking stellar. He had an interesting process where he started out mixing some of the looser songs first, and then ramped up to the denser stuff. Our goal in mixing is to make it loud, and then make it louder then that. “Still Alive” was an early one, and he brought a real heaviness and aggressiveness to that song. Song is very drum and bass oriented, very different for us, but still rocks at the same time. A bit of Queen influenced guitar harmonies helps on that song.

“Save Yourself” was another early one, a mix of Judas Priest metal and 80′s arena rock. That song went through a lot of different permutations, and finally we settled on this vibe that took us to new territory. We then got into a song called “The Only Hope For Me Is You,” and that’s where things really starting clicking with Rich. What was great was each song would just sound better and bigger than the last. As some of you had guessed from a twitter thing of mine (I refuse to call it a tweet), David Campbell did a bit of work on the record, and that’s one of the songs he arranged for. Costey did this crazy effect with the strings going into the last chorus that blew me away. One of my favorite tracks. (click “read more” for more!)

“Trans Am” and “Death Before Disco” came next. “Disco” you may have heard at the Roxy shows or from Youtube videos of Summersonic. So happy with the way that mix turned out. I have to drive REALLY FAST when I listen to it. I think that’s a hallmark of a great rock song. “Trans Am” is an epic take on “Born To Run” in 4 minutes. When we wrote this song, it was HUGE for us. Really opened our hearts and ears during the writing process. Frank, thanks for noodling and G, good ear to make a song out of it. You guys will love this song. Another favorite. Looking forward to more mixes, we got coming up “Kiss The Ring,” which we also played at Roxy. I really can’t wait for “Black Dragon Fighting Society,” our ode to Misfits punk. Song kinda shreds!

Mixing is a great thing. The ideas continue to flow, and like they say, writing is never done. FYI any of the song titles mentioned are still tentative, you know how we like to change things up!!!

Ray