Yeah, finally we can see the new MCR video of Desolation Row! I don't know how long this video will be available, due copyright and so on.. but for now: check it out ;]

EDIT: The video is already removed. I'm trying to find a new one.

Yay new song!

Actually it's not a new song, it's a cover song, but it's the first music we've recorded since Black Parade. As we are gearing up to start the next album I wanted to pop in and talk about the track we were asked to cover for the Watchmen film by Zack Snyder, which you can get here.

Firstly, I'd like to point out that we have never recorded a song for a film. We have allowed a couple of our songs to be used in trailers or end-credits, but since we are usually pretty busy with either recording or touring there has never been time to do something like this before, and even this was kind of tight, as we started it before even finishing our last tour. There have been other offers to do this kind of thing, and usually the timing always made it impossible, but more often than not the project never seemed to fit the band, and we have always passed. But when the chance came to do a cover of one of my favorite artists, Bob Dylan, for a film version of my favorite work of fiction of all time we had to jump at the chance.

Read the whole blog on the official MCR site

Britain's in the middle of a cold snap so it must be the first actual week of the new year. To help fend off the bleak mid-winter try some new singles releases including My Chemical Romance, DMT and the Saturdays.

Single Of The Week

My Chemical Romance: Watchmen/Desolation Row

Reprise Records; out January 12th

Sporting a video directed by Watchmen helmer Zach Snyder, Watchmen/Desolation Row is a cracking, raw-edged double A-side from Emo gods MCR.

The five-piece's rendition of Dylan’s Desolation Row leans more toward a re-working than an out-and-out cover, slotting neatly into the forthcoming comic book movie’s soundtrack of 60s and 70s material.

MCR frontman Gerard Way, no stranger to comic books himself as he currently writes a strange superhero title called the Umbrella Academy, says Watchmen/Desolation Row is a road test for the band's new stripped-down punk sound.

They promise to unveil more of this new style later in the year.

This is backed up by the fact they're currently in the studio recording a new non-concept LP, designed to counteract their ambitious and smash hit Black Parade album from 2006.

Taken from inthenews.co.uk