My Chemical Romance drops their first single in years with “The Foundations of Decay”

Emo is back, baby and it comes in the form of a new single from genre titans My Chemical Romance. Nobody speak to me until I’ve put on my eyeliner and my custom Vans high tops.  In all seriousness, emo never…

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From the Record Crate: My Chemical Romance – “The Black Parade” (2006)

The mid-2000’s was the last true golden age of popular rock music; a brief, ridiculously giddy moment in which rock bands shed off the creative straightjacket of “alternative authenticity” and fabricated the kind of overblown, heart attack inducing, melodramatic teen…