My Chemical Romance

Why Is "Accidental Racist" So Ridiculous? Because Brad Paisley And LL Cool J Just Won't Speak For Themselves

So I finally listened to "Accidental Racist," and the upshot is that now I kind of want to write some Brad Paisley-LL Cool J fanfiction. Nothing weird--that would be Brad Paisley/LL Cool J fanfiction, and there's a huge and scary difference--just Brad Paisely and LL Cool J hanging out at the video s ... More >>

Does Reubens Accomplice's I Blame the Scenery Hold Up More Than a Decade Later?

See also: Reubens Accomplice Returns With Sons of Men (Download) See also: Reubens Cubed: Reubens Accomplice Makes a Bi-Coastal Album While Still Keeping a Desert Address If the rest of Reubens Accomplice's forthcoming Sons of Men sounds anything like "I'm Leaving," it's bound to be a great album. ... More >>

Reubens Accomplice Returns With Sons of Men (Download)

See also: Reubens Accomplice --It's Not a Dill Spear, Either See also: Reubens Cubed: Reubens Accomplice Makes a Bi-Coastal Album While Still Keeping a Desert Address You know you're in trouble when bloggers start resorting to cryptozoological terms to describe your long-awaited third record. It' ... More >>

Mike Kennedy, What Are You Listening To?

​Mike KennedyKennedy is a comedian and producer at the Speakeasy Comedy Lounge. He co-headlines the Tempe Improv Thursday, April 19. When you put your key in the ignition and turn on the radio, what station would play right now? I would've said X 103.9-FM a month ago, but now it's sports radio 91 ... More >>

Ke$ha Does Bob Dylan; Plus Three Other Pop Artists You've Probably Misjudged

​Ke$ha is sort of awful, but not for the reasons you think. Yeah, her music is terrible. It's fun music you don't really need to think about. But it's alleged that the songstress is smarter than people give her credit for. It's rumored that she scored a 1500 on her SATs and has a 140 IQ. She even ... More >>

Fall Frenzy, Braids, Casablanca Lounge, Mean Streets, and the Rainbows Festival Over the Weekend

Fall Frenzy: blink-182, Jimmy Eat World, Matt & Kim, and Halocene Arizona got a special show last night, a combination of the yearly Fall Frenzy event and The Honda Civic Tour. Jimmy Eat World took My Chemical Romance's spot and locals Halocene shared the stage with Matt & Kim and blink-182 for an e ... More >>

Fall Frenzy: blink-182, Jimmy Eat World, Matt & Kim, and Halocene

Arizona got a special show last night, a combination of the yearly Fall Frenzy event and The Honda Civic Tour. Jimmy Eat World took My Chemical Romance's spot and locals Halocene shared the stage with Matt & Kim and blink-182 for an evening of fun and nostalgia.

Matt Johnson of Matt & Kim Talks SB 1070, Fighting Kim, and Getting Naked in Times Square

​You'll never see another musical duo that's as energetic and excited about playing music as indie rockers Matt & Kim. There's just two of them, but they put on one hell of a great show. The first thing their concertgoers often notice is how happy they are when they perform: vocalist/keyboardi ... More >>

Kickin' It: Artists Who Have Kicked Fans Out of Shows or Gotten Themselves Kicked Out

"Get the fuck out of my show right now!" Tell it like it is, Dave Grohl.​Every so often, you find yourself at the same concert as that one guy who's an attention-hungry douchebag that starts a fight in the crowd. At some shows you sort of expect it, but it seems to happen all the time.Some serious ... More >>

Bono and The Edge Spice Up 'American Idol' Finale With 'Spider-Man' Performance

​Bono and The Edge of U2 will be performing with the cast of the musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark on American Idol's live season finale Wednesday night, according to Billboard.The Spider-Man Broadway musical, for which they composed the music, has been delayed numerous times due to numerous c ... More >>

Blink-182 Schedules a Show in Tempe, Minus Boycotting Tourmates My Chemical Romance

Wikimedia CommonsBlink-182 drummer Travis Barker​My Chemical Romance may still be participating in Sound Strike, but punk band Blink-182 hasn't scratched Arizona from its tour itinerary. Per the band's website, Blink-182 will be performing at the Tempe Beach Park Amphitheatre on September 30. Bl ... More >>

May 24 In Blogs: Phoenix Comicon, Blink-182, Four Peaks, and the MCSO

​​​In the 24-hour news cycle, it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries:

Maroon 5 Still on Sound Strike, Publicist Says Phoenix Show Announcement was a "Mistake"

​Maroon 5 is still participating in The Sound Strike and will not play Phoenix on September 17 as announced earlier today."There is no date in AZ I was given the wrong info for our release and it was a mistake," says the band's publicist, Carleen Donovan of Press Here Publicity.Asked whether there ... More >>

The Sound Strike Suffers Major Defections, Blocks Journalists from Facebook Page

​The Sound Strike has hit a rough patch.Yesterday, a federal appeals court again blocked SB 1070, which you can read all about on our Feathered Bastard blog, meaning the extremist Arizona immigration law will likely never take effect. That's great news for people who support the state's migrant co ... More >>

Fact-Checking The Sound Strike's Claims About the Arizona Boycott

​The Sound Strike, the musical boycott of Arizona organized last year in the wake of a controversial immigration law, is crowing about its success. The boycott is lead by former Rage Against The Machine singer Zach de la Rocha. It persists even though SB 1070 -- like an "eerily similar" measure p ... More >>

Six New Times Contributors Name Their Top 10 Records of 2010

From Print: Blogs Teased in Our 11/18 Issue

​This week, New Times ran a list in our print publication highlighting some of the most interesting posts published at Up On The Sun over the past week. Here are links to those posts.Has My Chemical Romance also abandoned the Sound Strike boycott of Arizona?Which song by local band Gospel Claws h ... More >>

My Chemical Romance Re-Boycotting Arizona? WTF?

​My Chemical Romance may be re-boycotting Arizona over SB 1070. Yesterday we pointed out that the band had formerly joined The Sound Strike during the height of the outrage over our state's crazy immigration law, SB 1070. Then they announced a date at Tempe's Marquee Theatre (without any comment) ... More >>

Nov. 16 In Blogs: Russell Pearce, ASU, My Chemical Romance, Chris Bianco, and the Zachary Marco Murder

​​​In the 24-hour news cycle, it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries:

My Chemical Romance Issues Statement About Re-Boycott: They're Offically Back On The Sound Strike

​Wishy-washy Sound Strikers My Chemical Romance have posted a short and sweet statement about their re-boycott of Arizona.We want to apologize to all our fans for the cancellation of our Phoenix show on May 24, 2011. This show should have never been booked due to our affiliation with Zach de la Ro ... More >>

My Chemical Romance Un-Boycotting Arizona: List of Sound Strike Deserters Grows

​New Jersey-based pop-punk-emo band My Chemical Romance seems to have deserted the Sound Strike.The band was on an old list of acts boycotting Arizona over the super-stupid immigration law SB 1070 -- which was gutted by the courts before it took effect -- but announced today a Marquee Theatre show ... More >>

There Is No Tempe Music Festival this Weekend. There is, However, a TMF-Branded "Garage Band" Contest

​Tempe Music Festival was supposed to be this weekend at Tempe Beach Park. That plan was scrapped back in February when organizers decided they needed to take a year off before mustering the resources to host another two-day event.What do we get instead? The finals of the festival's Garage Band Co ... More >>

The Used

Jagermeister Tour

Jägermeister Tour

Tempe Music Festival, Country Thunder, Bruce Springsteen and (Way) More Over the Weekend

Wait! Before you check out all the content from our weekend coverage, grab a big cup of coffee and relax. It was a big weekend and as such, there's a lot here. Take it in and enjoy it.  Tempe Music Fest 2009 This weekend Tempe Music Fest 2009 united us once again from scattered Valley citizenry t ... More >>

10 Emo Songs That Don’t Suck

My Chemical Romance Give Fans Inside Look to Making of 'Desolation Row'

Brooding rockers My Chemical Romance have posted a making-of-the video for their track "Desolation Row" on the band's MySpace page.The track is a cover of a Bob Dylan song and is featured on the Watchmen soundtrack. Fans will hopefully see a new album drop later this later from the band, wh ... More >>

Flaming Lips, Matisyahu Headlining McDowell Mountain Music Festival

On Friday, Tempe Music Festival announced a pretty uninspired lineup (Kid Rock, Three Doors Down) for April 3 and 4 at Tempe Beach Park. It was better than I was expecting (ahem, nothing) but it certainly didn't pack the punch of last year's event, headlined by Fergie and My Chemical Romance.Turns o ... More >>

The Top 10 Concept Records of All-Time

In anticipation of Queensrÿche's upcoming new album, we take a look at our picks for the "Top 10 Concept Albums of All-Time," ordered from least to most outstanding, with apologies to Iron Maiden's Seventh Son of a Seventh Son and Styx's Kilroy Was Here for just barely missing the list.

Dear Teenage Girls, Do You Really Like These Tokio Hotel Dudes?

So I've never pretended to be an expert on the mind of the adolescent female, and I hate to sound like an out-of-touch old man, but I really don't get this Tokio Hotel thing. Last night at Phooson, they prompted a wave of shrieks at almost every turn, being topped only by Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz ... More >>

Reggie and the Full Effect

Last Stop: Crappy Town
(Vagrant Records)

Over the Weekend

You can't swing a Gin Blossom without hitting a concert this weekend

Better Than Petty?: Hypothetical Super Bowl halftime shows

Smashing Pumpkins

Zeitgeist
(Martha’s Music/Reprise)

Walter Alias

It's the end of the world as they sing it

To The Death

My Chemical Romance conceptualizes doom with Liza Minnelli

Kittie

Funeral for Yesterday
(X of Infamy)

The Top 10 selling CDs at Circles, 800 North Central Avenue

Chart-busters for the week

Singles Going Steady

The best end-to-end albums from a singles-driven year

My Chemical Romance

The Black Parade
(Reprise)

The Lashes

Get It
(Red Ink/Columbia)

Dream On

Alive and picking

Pop Rocks

Ten albums that'll snap and fizz in your ear buds all winter long

This Game Bites

The new Castlevania is the last nail in the franchise's coffin

Killswitch Engage

Oh, what fun it is to slay

Knight Riders

Los Olivos Park hosts the other ren fair

What's Selling

Top 10 selling CDs at Zia Record Exchange (1940 W. Chandler Boulevard in Chandler) for October 18 through 24

Vans Warped Tour

Hundreds of bands converge on Peoria Sports Complex