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NME Award Nominations

Congratulations MCRmy! You are nominated for the “Best Fan Community” at the 2012 NME Awards! Voting for the category begins on page 23 so cast your vote!

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My Chem On Chimes of Freedom Compilation

My Chem's song "Desolation Row" (Live From Osaka) is featured on the compilation album Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International. Amnesty is streaming all 76 tracks on their Facebook page. Listen here.

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Love will tear us apart...

The new "Demo Lovers" Zip- Up Hoodie featuring artwork from "Three Cheers From Sweet Revenge" has just launched in the official MCR online store. It also features one of MCRs classic logos printed on the back.

Head to the online store!

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Epiphone Phant-o-matic Contest Winner

Thank you to everyone that shared their favourite memories of Danger Days. We received over 3,000 entries! Congrats to PuresaPoison who will receive a Epiphone Phant-o-matic guitar designed by Frank and signed by MCR. Read their favourite memory below:

I'm going to keep this short for you, I'm guessing you'll have to go through hundreds of stories, and I really don't want you to waste a lot of time.
I don't have this grandious story, but it's beautiful to me.
So I don't see my dad very often, so when I do, I make the most of it.
My dad was driving me home from school, radio on low and sun falling behind the rolling mountains.
I begin to hear the first notes to The Kids From Yesterday. Me being the weirdo I am dive towards the nob and begin to blast the song.
Singing and dancing in my seat.
My dad looks over to me and smiles.
It was one of those small smiles. The ones where you feel so greatfull to have something you love there with you.
So he smiles and turns up the volume even more. He chimes in with me, which totally throws me off.
He looks over to me again and smirks. For some reason, he knew why I was confused.
"You play this song on your bass all the time," He laughs and starts to harmonize with Gerard's voice.
I grin and roll down the windows.
We speed off into the sunset. Just us two, no one there to spoil it. And now whenever I hear that song, I think of him, and what he might be doing. And when I ride down that street, I have to sing that song.
My dad is a kid from yesterday.
On day I'll be too.
We'll live forever in the lights we make because we are the kids from yesterday
Cheesy I know, but true.
Thank you so much, from me and my dad. -PuresaPoison

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Big Day Out Fan Interview

Big Day Out gave fans the opportunity to submit their questions for My Chem to answer. Watch their responses in the video below.

My Chem will be performing at Big Day Out in addition to headlining dates. For info, visit the Tour Page.

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"The Kids From Yesterday" Music Video

Hello friends... Here is the official video for our new single "The Kids From Yesterday" . This will be the last single released from our album Danger Days, and we decided what better song to end on than our collective favorite. This song means a lot of different things to us individually and we hope it speaks to you as well. When deciding what kind of video would work the best with the song we immediately thought of a "video collage" ...something that would show the progression of the band over the past 10 years leading up to one of our most memorable moments, closing the Reading and Leeds festivals this past summer. We began collecting footage and literally stumbled upon an incredible video done by a talented young lady named Emily Eisemann. She had made a fan video, put it up on YouTube and it summed up what we had been trying so very hard to make, perfectly. So we gave her a call, put our videos together, and the rest, as they say, is history.



We'll let Emily give you a bit more insight as to how things came about:

I heard my first My Chemical Romance song seven years ago. They were everything I wasn’t; defiant and unashamed, confident in their individuality and refusing to apologize for their flamboyancy. It’s easy to shoulder the fears and expectations of life like a burden and sink beneath them. Much harder is finding the inspiration to be something (motherfuckers); to lock eyes on the horizon and tell the world, You just watch me run, and never, ever look back.

My Chemical Romance did that for me album after album. I found a foothold in their music and see a reflection of my life in their art, which welcomes us with open arms and never treats us as ‘lesser’ for being female, or gay, or just massive amounts of nerdy. I can hardly articulate the importance of this. It was only recently that I began to try, but I found that with words alone I lack the eloquence to encapsulate what the band means to me.

I thought a video, though, might work.
And really, I couldn’t have done it to any other song. The Kids From Yesterday is my favorite track off of Danger Days. The song is nostalgic; a coming of age anthem about the fear of growing so used to life’s drudging complacency that you forget what it is like to hear the music when your heart begins to break. It’s moving on from idealistic youth, but never forgetting who you were, who you are, and what you owe that to. It’s a journey, both a finale and a prelude. It’s about leaving things behind and flying by the seat of your pants. You never know when the end will come, so hold on tight – or, perhaps, Take my fucking hand – and set off to make something of yourself, because you only live once, you only live now, and the world is what you make of it. In a reflection of words written over ten years ago now, oh, how wrong you would be to think that immortality meant never dying.

I wish I could wax poetic about the intricacies of videomaking, but the fact is that I’m just a girl with a laptop and a knack for procrastination. I drew flow charts, downloaded nearly enough videos to crash my laptop, and spent some nights grumbling discontentedly about fonts. It took a brief entry into a hermit-like existence, a happy neglect of homework, rather too many potato chips and a single all-nighter to finish.

I could never have expected that one day, I would be contacted by the overwhelmingly lovely people of My Chem’s management and asked, in exchange for compensation, to contribute what I had made to the official video for Kids. Not after an era of spectacular Killjoy videos with whose Trans-Ams, inclusion of legendary comic book writers, and badassery, my own creation could never compete.

I am thrilled if other fans watch my work, and humbled to know that the band themselves has done the same. The idea that it was wanted for an official release, however, left me flailing. The idea that I could literally thank My Chemical Romance for saving me from having to drop out of college, watch my entire future slip through my fingers, fall short of every single one of my dreams, and possibly live in a cardboard box, left me not knowing what to say or feel. I think I just sat there, quietly shitting myself.

So, yeah. That’s how that happened.

I hope you guys can forgive the length and rambling nature of this. In summary: Overwhelming joy! Artistic fulfillment! This band is fucking awesome. Thank you, thank you, thank you, and I love you all. -Emily

Watch Emily's original video

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Win A Chance To See MCR Side Stage In Australia

For your chance to watch My Chemical Romance from the side of the stage in your Australian city, tell us in 25 words or less tell us what character you would create for yourself if you were a part of the Fabulous Killjoys, and Why!

One winner and an accompanying guest will be chosen to watch via side stage for an Australia show in their city. Limit one entry per person. Contest ends January 19, 2012 at 9am PST. Winner and guest must be aged 15+ and provide their own transportation to the show.

To submit your entry, go to My Chemical Romance's Facebook Page and leave a comment on the contest post.

MCR will be playing Big Day Out and additional headlining shows. Visit the Tour Page for all the information.

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Win a meet & greet with My Chem at Big Day Out Auckland

CoupedeMainMagazine.com is offering My Chem fans in New Zealand a chance to win a meet and greet for them and a friend at Big Day Out Auckland. All you have to do is create an original Killjoys comic strip.

Enter here

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Win an Epiphone Phant-o-matic Designed By Frank & Signed By MCR

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For the last two days, we've been releasing photos of a prize we will be giving away to a lucky My Chem fan- a Wilshire Phant-o-matic Epiphone guitar designed by Frank. Learn more about the guitar on Epiphone.com. All you have to do is send in your favorite memory associated with Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys.

Here's how to enter:
- Register on MyChemicalRomance.com
- Fill out the form to submit your entry

Some entries may be featured on MyChemicalRomance.com and MCRmy.com!

One fan will be chosen to win the guitar. Contest ends 12/21 at 12 noon PST.

The Epiphone Wilshire Phant-o-matic guitar is also available now in the official My Chemical Romance Online Store (link to store).

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Yo Gabba Gabba

We love Yo Gabba Gabba. And I love DJ Lance. These are some drawings I did after talking to series creator Christian Jacobs and getting really inspired. We talked a lot about Hoth and we definitely wanted a Yeti. Thanks to James Dewees and the awesome people at YGG, that dream was realized.

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My Chemical Romance On Yo Gabba Gabba

My Chem will be a special musical guest on the Yo Gabba Gabba! episode “A Very Awesome Christmas” on December 18 at 8pm on Nick Jr. The band will perform “Every Snowflake's Different (Just Like You)”.

Check your local listings for more information and watch MCR's performance.

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Mikey Way’s New Squier Signature Bass

Get a sneek peek at Mikey’s new Fender Squire Signature Bass coming in 2012 on Fender.com

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My Chem In December’s iTunes

The MCR tracks “Teenagers” and “I’m Not Okay (I Promise)” are featured in the December iTunes WeMix where both tracks are specially priced.

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Killjoy Jacket Design Contest Winners

Thank you to all the killjoys that submitted entries for the Killjoy Jacket Design Contest! There were hundreds of submissions and the quality of the entries and the amount of effort everyone put into the designs was overwhelming. Here are the winners:

Grand Prize:

by. WolfMistress

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iUno Ano, Mucho Dangeroso!

Jeez, time flies friends. Where did the hours go? One year ago today Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys was released into the world. I honestly cant believe its already been a year. I must say a year into any of our other records and it felt like we wrote the songs a lifetime ago... But with this one it kinda still feels brand new somehow. I dont know how to explain it. But maybe thats a testament to the way we feel about this record. I dont think every stone has been unturned with this one yet.

The great thing about records is they dont die, they age. Some gracefully like a fine wine, and others just wrinkle and wither. Only time reveals a records true inner beauty. Time spent together, getting to know one another, falling in love... In love with it's imperfections. This year has been a journey for us, and for you all. Together we have made new friends and lost old ones. We have celebrated and cried. Made love and waged war. We have grown as people and found our true selves along the way. We've traveled many miles and eventually found our way back home. We have lived the most dangerous of days to the fullest and more times than not, come out on top.

All of us are forever endebted to our incredible support systems. The ones that have been there from the beginning, and would never turn their backs. It is because of you that we have found the incredible strength inside to be ourselves, and to ultimately not give a shit what anyone thinks.

We are anxiously looking forward to contaminating Australia with you next year. But until then live dangerous, be yourselves, and dont ever give a fuck.

xoFrank&MCR