Gerard Way poster in Kerrang! Magazine.
(Source: stopdreaming-startsomething)
March 21, 2012
February 29, 2012
My Chemical Romance Big Day Out live shot posters in Kerrang! Magazine.
View all here.
Ray Toro poster in next week’s issue.
(Source: stopdreaming-startsomething, via extra-mcrupdates)
February 24, 2012
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February 15, 2012
Gerard Way raves about LostAlone in this week’s NME Magazine.
February 8, 2012
New interview with Gerard Way
Gerard Way bounds into a mobile cabin backstage at the Sydney Big Day Out like a man on a mission. Which, given that My Chemical Romance are due onstage in forty five minutes, he is. Looking lean and talking fast, dressed head-to-toe in black and with his eyes hidden behind dark sunglasses, today he deals in short, sharp answers- but then there are warm-ups to do, and the clock is ticking. This current run of Big Day Out shows represents the end of the touring cycle behind 2010’s Danger Days… album- the perfect time, then, to catch up on what’s next…
HOW’S YOUR 2012 SHAPING UP?
“Really great. We just got a new studio. We rented a building [in Los Angeles], but it wasn’t a functioning studio, so we’re making our own studio. So now we’ll have our own resources to put out a lot more music.”
HAS THE WRITING PROCESS FOR A NEW ALBUM BEGUN?
“Yeah. The cool thing is we’ve spent a lot of time writing new material on the road this time. We didn’t do that before Danger Days…”
WHAT DO YOU PUT THAT DOWN TO?
“I think just not being burnt out. Really enjoying and reconnecting with making music again, just being inspired, whereas after Black Parade we weren’t inspired to do much at all besides disappear.”
HAVE YOU FINISHED ANY SONGS?
“No, we’re still working it out.”
CAN YOU DESCRIBE THE SOUND?
“I don’t describe it.”
CAN YOU COMPARE IT TO ANYTHING?
“That’s the same question! But it’s different. We’re extremely excited.”
HAVE YOU STARTED THINKING ABOUT YOUR LYRICS?
“No. I guess it’s just going to depend on how the next six months of my life go, ‘cause that’s usually what they reflect.”
WHEN YOU THINK BACK ON DANGER DAYS… -ITS RECEPTION, THE TOURING- DID EVERYTHING GO AS YOU’D HOPED?
“Yeah, especially once we had played Reading and Leeds. That was a big moment for that album, ‘cause we leaned heavily and intentionally on it for that set, and it made us really proud of it.”
WOULD YOU HAVE DONE ANYTHING DIFFERENT?
“No, we’d never do anything different. It’s impossible.”
WHAT ARE YOUR HOPES FOR 2012?
“I hope that the construction goes well on our new studio so we can get recording as soon as possible.”
HOW HANDS ON WILL YOU BE WITH THE CONSTRUCTION?
“We’ll hire people to deal with acoustics. Visually, I’ll handle a lot of the stuff- we’ll all have a hand in designing the way it’ll look and feel.”
HOW WOULD YOU SUM UP THE FEELING IN THE BAND?
“Fantastic. Going on ten years now, we love being in the band. It’s something you can never leave or escape or get away from, and that’s a great thing.”
HOW’S JARROD ALEXANDER SETTLING IN ON DRUMS?
“He’s so great, he’s the sweetest guy, great fucking player. We didn’t have a lot of time to learn each other’s intricacies, but now we have and it’s come together very well.”
IS THERE A SENSE OF PERMANENCE WITH HIM?
“We don’t talk about permanent drummers. The band is us [Gerard, his brother Mikey, and guitarists Frank Iero and Ray Toro] and there can never be permanence. It’s impossible to think about it even in the next five years. But we love playing with him.
SO WILL THERE BE A NEW ALBUM THIS YEAR?
“It’s impossible to say. But working early is always a good sign.”
WILL IT BE ACCOMPANIED BY A NEW IMAGE?
“I’m sure- it would be boring if it wasn’t.”
ANY THOUGHTS ON WHAT THAT MIGHT BE?
“No, that would give away a bit of the music.”
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From the latest issue of Kerrang! Magazine. Interview transcribed by me (sorry in advance, if there’s any mistakes).
February 1, 2012
December 13, 2011
Frank Iero in Guitar World magazine.
Photo by Justin Borucki.
Article scan, here.
Transcription:
“The best music happens when you have a personal connection to it,” My Chemical Romance guitarist Frank Iero says. “That same philosophy can extend to the instrument you hold in your hands: if a guitar means something special, you’re bound to do great things with it.”
Iero expects many great things to come of his new Epiphone Wilshire Phant-o-Matic model, not all of them musical. A portion of each guitar’s sale will benefit the Multiple Sclerosis Association of America (MSAA), a cause that Iero has championed ever since the disease afflicted his father, who is both a drummer and a music teacher.
“MS is terrible for anybody, and all of the stories are important,” Iero says. “In the case of my father, it’s been hard because it affects his playing, and that’s a major part of who he is. So when Epiphone came to me and asked me to work on a guitar, I knew I had to do whatever I could to try to help him and everybody else with MS.”
A longtime Epiphone fan, Iero describes the Phant-o-Matic as “a fantastic, moderately priced Frankenstein-type guitar.” Borrowing features from the company’s classic Sixties Wilshire model as well as the Gibson Les Paul, he fashioned an instrument that he says “can handle anything from jazz to metal. It’s got the sounds, it’s got a great feel, and it’s built for wear and tear. I’ve been playing it onstage, and it rocks!”
Iero says fans will hear the Phant-o-Matic on the next My Chemical Romance album. “We’re still coming up with a theme and songs,” he says. “One thing we know for sure, though: we’re going to do something that’s never been done before.”
(Source: countfrankula)
October 12, 2011
New poster of My Chemical Romance with Blink-182 in Kerrang! Magazine.
(Source: stopdreaming-startsomething)
September 28, 2011
September 6, 2011
NME Magazine scans - Reading Festival review and an interview with Gerard Way.
Full sizes of scans:
August 24, 2011
August 10, 2011
August 9, 2011
My Chemical Romance on the cover of Kerrang! Magazine.
August 3, 2011
Kerrang! Magazine Scans.
Frank Iero is number five on Kerrang’s 50 Greatest Rockstars list.
July 20, 2011
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