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AsiaOne
11-07-2025
- Entertainment
- AsiaOne
My Chemical Romance sparks speculation on new music with teasing clues on Instagram, Entertainment News
My Chemical Romance (MCR) have sparked speculation they have new music on the way. The emo legends have posted a cryptic image that has fans going wild trying to figure out what it means. A picture depicting a stage light was captioned on the band's Instagram: "A dagger, a dagger, Please fetch me a dagger." The art also features the clue "Time: 7:11:25:00". In 2022, MCR released their first new music in almost a decade, the single The Foundations of Decay. In February, Frank Iero kept tight-lipped on rumours about a new My Chemical Romance album. The guitarist and backup vocalist insisted that there was no news to tell with regards to new material. Asked if there is anything to "report" about a follow-up to 2010's Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys, he told NME: "No, sorry. "When that stuff — if that stuff were to happen, we will tell you. We will tell you in the way we want to tell you." The 43-year-old musician also stayed schtum about the Long Live The Black Parade Tour heading across the pond to the UK. He said: "It's been long-documented that we are huge fans of the UK — this is a home away from home for us. "We've done things where the first place we played for a record release was in the UK. It's always felt like a place that we love and that we hold very dear. But, to tell the future? It would be remiss to do that." At present, the US tour is due to wrap up Sept 13 at Tampa's Raymond James Stadium in Florida. MCR — made up of brothers Gerard and Mikey Way, Ray Toro and Frank — broke up in 2013 before releasing new song The Foundations of Decay nine years later. Before their current tour, they had kept a low-profile following their March 2023 reunion run, besides a headline slot at When We Were Young Festival last October. The I'm Not Okay (I Promise) band's former drummer Bob Bryar was tragically found dead in November, at the age of 44. MCR asked fans "patience and understanding" as they navigate the shocking passing of their ex-bandmate. In a statement shared with various outlets at the time, their spokesperson said: "The band asks for your patience and understanding as they process the news of Bob's passing." Bob replaced Matt Pelissier as the drummer in My Chemical Romance, after the band released Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge in 2004. He toured with them for many years, before his sudden and unexplained exit from the group in 2010. [[nid:715269]]
Perth Now
10-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
My Chemical Romance send fans into frenzy with cryptic post
My Chemical Romance have sparked speculation they have new music on the way. The emo legends have posted a cryptic image that has fans going wild trying to figure out what it means. A picture depicting a stage light was captioned on the band's Instagram: "A dagger, a dagger, Please fetch me a dagger." The art also features the clue "Time: 7:11:25:00". In 2022, MCR released their first new music in a almost decade, the single The Foundations of Decay. In February, Frank Iero kept tight-lipped on rumours about a new My Chemical Romance album. The guitarist and backup vocalist insisted that there was no news to tell with regards to new material. Asked if there is anything to 'report' about a follow-up to 2010's Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys, he told NME: 'No, sorry. 'When that stuff – if that stuff were to happen, we will tell you. We will tell you in the way we want to tell you.' The 43-year-old musician also stayed schtum about the Long Live The Black Parade Tour heading across the pond to the UK. He said: 'It's been long-documented that we are huge fans of the UK – this is a home away from home for us. 'We've done things where the first place we played for a record release was the UK. It's always felt like a place that we love and that we hold very dear. But, to tell the future? It would be remiss to do that.' At present, the US tour is due to wrap on September 13 at Tampa's Raymond James Stadium in Florida. MCR - made up of brothers Gerard and Mikey Way, Ray Toro and Frank - broke up in 2013 before releasing new song The Foundations of Decay nine years later. Before their current tour, they had kept a low-profile following their March 2023 reunion run, besides a headline slot at When We Were Young Festival last October. The I'm Not Okay (I Promise) band's former drummer Bob Bryar was tragically found dead in November, at the age of 44. MCR asked for fans "patience and understanding" as they navigate the shock passing of their ex-bandmate. In a statement shared with various outlets at the time, their spokesperson said: "The band asks for your patience and understanding as they process the news of Bob's passing." Bob replaced Matt Pelissier as the drummer in My Chemical Romance, after the band released Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge in 2004. He toured with them for many years, before his sudden and unexplained exit from the group in 2010.
Yahoo
12-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Emo is back at Warped Tour. Millennials are paying to reminisce.
Simple Plan released its debut album, No Pads, No Balls, in 2002. More than 20 years later, the band was among the first announced to join a bill of pop-punk mainstays like the Starting Line and Bowling for Soup at the 2025 Vans Warped Tour. Warped Tour isn't the only place to catch beloved bands of emo's past. Weezer is headlining the inaugural Minnesota Yacht Club Festival alongside Fall Out Boy and Green Day in July. Come October, Blink-182 and Panic at the Disco lead the roster of bands playing at the When We Were Young Festival in Las Vegas. The festival's website says Panic at the Disco is playing its 2005 album, A Fever You Can't Sweat Out, in its entirety. If these festival lineups are any indication, emo is back in a big way — and nostalgia is driving its resurgence. See for yourself — The Yodel is the go-to source for daily news, entertainment and feel-good stories. By signing up, you agree to our Terms and Privacy Policy. Recognized as a subgenre of punk rock, emo emerged in the mid-1980s in Washington, D.C., and is characterized by emotional and personal lyrics. The genre entered mainstream culture in the early 2000s as bands like Dashboard Confessional and Jimmy Eat World signed with major record labels and had pivotal performances on television shows like MTV Unplugged and Saturday Night Live, respectively. As the decade continued, Fall Out Boy, My Chemical Romance and Paramore took the genre to unprecedented popularity. Not only a style of music, emo is also an aesthetic. Members of 'the scene,' or community, often wore T-shirts with band names or logos, skinny jeans and shoe brands like Vans or Converse during the subculture's peak in the mid-aughts. 'Emo as a popular genre only goes back to the turn of the millennium. So I think pretty much as soon as you could have nostalgia for it, you started seeing it with tours in the 2010s,' Chris Payne, music journalist and author of Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo's Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008, told Yahoo Entertainment. More than offering fans the opportunity to reminisce and dig back into their favorite genre, festivals that use nostalgia for their lineups '[make] a lot of money,' Payne said. But running a music festival of any scale has become increasingly difficult. 'In the 2010s, it was sort of this boom in the festival industry where everyone in industry circles [was] like, 'When is the bubble going to burst?' It was all these huge festivals that were basically based on Coachella and Bonnaroo and Lollapalooza, where [the acts were] across all genres,' Payne said. 'So many of them were popping up all over the country.' Among those music festivals were Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Del.; Panorama Music Festival in New York City and Sasquatch Music Festival in George, Wash. Payne explained that these events were canceled, in part, due to the 'overconsolidation of the music industry' and 'the need to 'scale' everything.' 'As the 2010s went on and especially post-pandemic, that bubble kind of burst. What you see now is the more specialized festivals are the ones that are doing much better, because that big model just wasn't sustainable,' he said. 'You couple specialized festivals with nostalgia ... and that, I think, is really a reliable moneymaker.' Payne said the demographic buying tickets for these tours, now in their 20s and 30s, 'are the ones who have the money to spend now.' 'The people who were the core fans of the music when it was at its commercial peak ... they're [a] much more bankable demographic now,' he said. This summer, Warped Tour is back for the first time since 2019 to celebrate its 30th anniversary. Rather than return to its traveling festival roots, it will instead consist of three pop-up festivals in Washington, D.C., from June 14 to 15; Long Beach, Calif., from July 26 to 27; and Orlando from Nov. 15 to 16. 'I think a really important thing to highlight with this is just how grueling Warped Tour was when it was a touring festival,' said Payne of the toll it took on bands performing. 'There were so many shows in so few dates. The tour was so grueling just on your body. Getting up so early, driving all night, getting very little sleep, being in the sun all day. When you're not playing, you're trying to hustle to sell things and set up. ... Once alternatives to that arose, artists just didn't want to do Warped Tour anymore.' From Jan. 27 through Feb. 26, artists playing the 2025 Warped Tour will be unveiled daily as part of the '30 Days of Warped' campaign. The rollout strategy has received mixed responses from current ticket holders and past festival attendees who say they'd rather know the lineup up front. 'I think their rollout has been terrible,' Pat Egan, 35, from Philadelphia, who was once a regular Warped Tour attendee, told Yahoo. 'Obviously there will be bigger artists that get announced. I think we've seen one to two of those. But for me, personally, there hasn't been a band announced so far that would make the ticket, travel, hotel, et cetera worth going.' Egan says this year's tour is 'Warped in name only.' 'You've got people forking over a lot of money to go relive their youth and, if the price were $40, and it was hitting 35 cities, it would be great value,' he explained. 'But it's not. It's over $200 and that's why I think a lot of folks are having buyer's remorse.' During Warped Tour's peak, it cost between $20 and $30, on average, to see 70 to 100 bands play over the course of a day, Pollstar reported. Ticket prices for this year's Warped vary by location. Two-day general admission passes for the now sold-out D.C. and Long Beach dates started at $259.98. For the Orlando dates, two-day general admission passes start at $229.98. The festival's founder, Kevin Lyman, hasn't spoken out about the rise in Warped ticket prices. But Pasquale Rotella, the founder of Insomniac, a music event promotion company, told Rolling Stone, '[Lyman's] been really committed to making this about the people, and making sure that people can afford to come.' In comparison, When We Were Young, a one-day festival that boasts more than 50 bands, costs $325 for general admission. Tickets are now sold out. The festival's organizers are considering adding a day two to accommodate demand and have asked fans to join its waitlist. Tickets for the Minnesota Yacht Club have also sold out. The festival's general admission passes started at $295, allowing fans to see 25 bands over three days. Elder emos, it seems, are willing to pay to see the artists they love — some may prefer to know what to expect. Emily Mejia, 24, from Lakeland, Fla., told Yahoo she welcomes the lineup's slower rollout. She has tickets to attend the Warped Tour dates in Orlando. 'I am very excited to be attending the Orlando dates. Unlike many people I've seen online, I'm already excited to see the majority of artists announced so far, so I'm just waiting to see what else we get,' she said. Appeasing veteran Warped attendees and attracting new ones presents a challenge. Some older fans argue that continuing to spotlight older, more established artists in the scene is robbing the community of up-and-coming talent, which they believe is the whole point of a tour like Warped. 'If Lyman brought back Warped Tour the way I remembered it, I wouldn't go,' said Egan. 'There wouldn't be enough bands for me where it would be worth it. But I desperately want him to bring it back because not having [Warped] the way it was is depriving the current teenagers who are into the scene, and it sucks.' Teenagers constituted a large portion of the '00s emo subculture. At the time, 'lack of female representation and abuse in the scene' were, according to Payne, 'part and parcel' of the culture. Since 2015, members of various bands have been accused of sexual misconduct, including with minors, at Warped Tour. The culture of pop-punk tours has been increasingly scrutinized in the years that followed. 'It's a strange part in punk's history because if you trace it back, so much of this was founded on standing up for marginalized people and having a safe scene. And as the subculture gets more mainstream, it becomes more difficult to keep those progressive tenets alive without the roots getting severed,' explained Payne. 'Unfortunately, a lot of that did happen as the music got more popular. A lot of those roots were getting severed.' While Payne believes the aughts were 'a bit more repressed' than people remember, he's noticed a shift toward increased safety and diversity at newer festivals. 'You can tell there's a lot more queer people there,' he said of attending When We Were Young in 2023. 'They probably were there in the years past too, in the aughts, but because of where the culture was at, people were probably less encouraged to dress how they wanted to or be themselves.' The scene and festival landscape appear to be changing, but nostalgia remains at the center when it comes to music. Simple Plan announced its Warped return by donning Dickies and Vans in an Instagram video as the band's second single, 'I'd Do Anything,' played in the background. Bowling for Soup released a surprise cover of Blink-182's 'Rock Show' to ring in its return to the festival. On Instagram, the Starting Line shared archival footage of themselves playing at prior Warped dates between 2003 and 2007 to celebrate being added to the lineup. With Warped Tour 2025, looking to the past has proven to be a prominent way for older bands to drum up excitement in the present.
Yahoo
11-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Emo is back at Warped Tour. Millennials are paying to reminisce.
Simple Plan released its debut album, No Pads, No Balls, in 2002. More than 20 years later, the band was among the first announced to join a bill of pop-punk mainstays like the Starting Line and Bowling for Soup at the 2025 Vans Warped Tour. Warped Tour isn't the only place to catch beloved bands of emo's past. Weezer is headlining the inaugural Minnesota Yacht Club Festival alongside Fall Out Boy and Green Day in July. Come October, Blink-182 and Panic at the Disco lead the roster of bands playing at the When We Were Young Festival in Las Vegas. The festival's website says Panic at the Disco is playing its 2005 album, A Fever You Can't Sweat Out, in its entirety. If these festival lineups are any indication, emo is back in a big way — and nostalgia is driving its resurgence. See for yourself — The Yodel is the go-to source for daily news, entertainment and feel-good stories. By signing up, you agree to our Terms and Privacy Policy. Recognized as a subgenre of punk rock, emo emerged in the mid-1980s in Washington, D.C., and is characterized by emotional and personal lyrics. The genre entered mainstream culture in the early 2000s as bands like Dashboard Confessional and Jimmy Eat World signed with major record labels and had pivotal performances on television shows like MTV Unplugged and Saturday Night Live, respectively. As the decade continued, Fall Out Boy, My Chemical Romance and Paramore took the genre to unprecedented popularity. Not only a style of music, emo is also an aesthetic. Members of 'the scene,' or community, often wore T-shirts with band names or logos, skinny jeans and shoe brands like Vans or Converse during the subculture's peak in the mid-aughts. 'Emo as a popular genre only goes back to the turn of the millennium. So I think pretty much as soon as you could have nostalgia for it, you started seeing it with tours in the 2010s,' Chris Payne, music journalist and author of Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo's Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008, told Yahoo Entertainment. More than offering fans the opportunity to reminisce and dig back into their favorite genre, festivals that use nostalgia for their lineups '[make] a lot of money,' Payne said. But running a music festival of any scale has become increasingly difficult. 'In the 2010s, it was sort of this boom in the festival industry where everyone in industry circles [was] like, 'When is the bubble going to burst?' It was all these huge festivals that were basically based on Coachella and Bonnaroo and Lollapalooza, where [the acts were] across all genres,' Payne said. 'So many of them were popping up all over the country.' Among those music festivals were Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Del.; Panorama Music Festival in New York City and Sasquatch Music Festival in George, Wash. Payne explained that these events were canceled, in part, due to the 'overconsolidation of the music industry' and 'the need to 'scale' everything.' 'As the 2010s went on and especially post-pandemic, that bubble kind of burst. What you see now is the more specialized festivals are the ones that are doing much better, because that big model just wasn't sustainable,' he said. 'You couple specialized festivals with nostalgia ... and that, I think, is really a reliable moneymaker.' Payne said the demographic buying tickets for these tours, now in their 20s and 30s, 'are the ones who have the money to spend now.' 'The people who were the core fans of the music when it was at its commercial peak ... they're [a] much more bankable demographic now,' he said. This summer, Warped Tour is back for the first time since 2019 to celebrate its 30th anniversary. Rather than return to its traveling festival roots, it will instead consist of three pop-up festivals in Washington, D.C., from June 14 to 15; Long Beach, Calif., from July 26 to 27; and Orlando from Nov. 15 to 16. 'I think a really important thing to highlight with this is just how grueling Warped Tour was when it was a touring festival,' said Payne of the toll it took on bands performing. 'There were so many shows in so few dates. The tour was so grueling just on your body. Getting up so early, driving all night, getting very little sleep, being in the sun all day. When you're not playing, you're trying to hustle to sell things and set up. ... Once alternatives to that arose, artists just didn't want to do Warped Tour anymore.' From Jan. 27 through Feb. 26, artists playing the 2025 Warped Tour will be unveiled daily as part of the '30 Days of Warped' campaign. The rollout strategy has received mixed responses from current ticket holders and past festival attendees who say they'd rather know the lineup up front. 'I think their rollout has been terrible,' Pat Egan, 35, from Philadelphia, who was once a regular Warped Tour attendee, told Yahoo. 'Obviously there will be bigger artists that get announced. I think we've seen one to two of those. But for me, personally, there hasn't been a band announced so far that would make the ticket, travel, hotel, et cetera worth going.' Egan says this year's tour is 'Warped in name only.' 'You've got people forking over a lot of money to go relive their youth and, if the price were $40, and it was hitting 35 cities, it would be great value,' he explained. 'But it's not. It's over $200 and that's why I think a lot of folks are having buyer's remorse.' During Warped Tour's peak, it cost between $20 and $30, on average, to see 70 to 100 bands play over the course of a day, Pollstar reported. Ticket prices for this year's Warped vary by location. Two-day general admission passes for the now sold-out D.C. and Long Beach dates started at $259.98. For the Orlando dates, two-day general admission passes start at $229.98. The festival's founder, Kevin Lyman, hasn't spoken out about the rise in Warped ticket prices. But Pasquale Rotella, the founder of Insomniac, a music event promotion company, told Rolling Stone, '[Lyman's] been really committed to making this about the people, and making sure that people can afford to come.' In comparison, When We Were Young, a one-day festival that boasts more than 50 bands, costs $325 for general admission. Tickets are now sold out. The festival's organizers are considering adding a day two to accommodate demand and have asked fans to join its waitlist. Tickets for the Minnesota Yacht Club have also sold out. The festival's general admission passes started at $295, allowing fans to see 25 bands over three days. Elder emos, it seems, are willing to pay to see the artists they love — some may prefer to know what to expect. Emily Mejia, 24, from Lakeland, Fla., told Yahoo she welcomes the lineup's slower rollout. She has tickets to attend the Warped Tour dates in Orlando. 'I am very excited to be attending the Orlando dates. Unlike many people I've seen online, I'm already excited to see the majority of artists announced so far, so I'm just waiting to see what else we get,' she said. Appeasing veteran Warped attendees and attracting new ones presents a challenge. Some older fans argue that continuing to spotlight older, more established artists in the scene is robbing the community of up-and-coming talent, which they believe is the whole point of a tour like Warped. 'If Lyman brought back Warped Tour the way I remembered it, I wouldn't go,' said Egan. 'There wouldn't be enough bands for me where it would be worth it. But I desperately want him to bring it back because not having [Warped] the way it was is depriving the current teenagers who are into the scene, and it sucks.' Teenagers constituted a large portion of the '00s emo subculture. At the time, 'lack of female representation and abuse in the scene' were, according to Payne, 'part and parcel' of the culture. Since 2015, members of various bands have been accused of sexual misconduct, including with minors, at Warped Tour. The culture of pop-punk tours has been increasingly scrutinized in the years that followed. 'It's a strange part in punk's history because if you trace it back, so much of this was founded on standing up for marginalized people and having a safe scene. And as the subculture gets more mainstream, it becomes more difficult to keep those progressive tenets alive without the roots getting severed,' explained Payne. 'Unfortunately, a lot of that did happen as the music got more popular. A lot of those roots were getting severed.' While Payne believes the aughts were 'a bit more repressed' than people remember, he's noticed a shift toward increased safety and diversity at newer festivals. 'You can tell there's a lot more queer people there,' he said of attending When We Were Young in 2023. 'They probably were there in the years past too, in the aughts, but because of where the culture was at, people were probably less encouraged to dress how they wanted to or be themselves.' The scene and festival landscape appear to be changing, but nostalgia remains at the center when it comes to music. Simple Plan announced its Warped return by donning Dickies and Vans in an Instagram video as the band's second single, 'I'd Do Anything,' played in the background. Bowling for Soup released a surprise cover of Blink-182's 'Rock Show' to ring in its return to the festival. On Instagram, the Starting Line shared archival footage of themselves playing at prior Warped dates between 2003 and 2007 to celebrate being added to the lineup. With Warped Tour 2025, looking to the past has proven to be a prominent way for older bands to drum up excitement in the present.
