MCR made it to number 4 in Time Out New York’s “Five emo bands that don’t suck”. Although they unfortunately get lumped into the emo category, at least they are recognized as being a decent band.

4 My Chemical Romance Gerard Way’s inventive combo set the gold standard for emo flamboyance with 2006’s The Black Parade.

Other bands in the countdown include Paramore and The Get Up Kids. View the rest of the lineup here.

My Chemical Romance are nominated at Alternative Press as “The Most Important Band Of The Decade”. Vote here now.

Unfortunately, Desolation Row was beaten for “Scream Song of the Year 2009″ by Linkin Park’s “New Divide”. Thanks to everyone who voted nonetheless. To view the winners in other categories visit the categories list here.

For any of you UK fans who are missing an album from their collection, Bullets, Revenge and Black Parade are all in the HMV autumn sale. Bullets is £4.99 and Revenge and Black Parade are both £3.99. Order them online at HMV.com or get down to your local store and pick up a copy.

Mike Devlin posted an article at Calgary Herald two days ago on his top ten songs spooky enought for the Twilight: New Moon soundtrack. Vampires Will Never Hurt You was featured at number 8.

8. My Chemical Romance, “Vampires Will Never Hurt You” (2002)
New Jersey rockers My Chemical Romance grew considerably less introspective once they got famous, but there’s bemoaning aplenty on the band’s 2002 debut, I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love. What the album’s second single (which never charted anywhere) never lacked was contempt for the world; “Vampires” uses the plight of the undead as a powerful metaphor for modern society.

The full countdown can be found here.

A huge thanks to Wendy for submitting this news. Here is Famous Last Words/Cancer from Summer Sonic 2009.

Mikey posted a link to this video on his twitter page 11 hours ago. It’s This Is How Disappear/Mama from the Summer Sonic festival. It was performed on August 7th 2009 at the Chiba Marine Stadium in Japan. Incase you missed it, here is Welcome To The Black Parade from the same show.

Ain’t that just the coolest?. This unique Black Parade cake was custom made by Sugar Mama’s Sweets for a fans birthday. To find out more about how the cake was made, and see more pictures, head on over to Sugar Mama’s Sweets.

An article was posted at the entertainment/showbiz site JAM! earlier today. The subject being,

weird baby names, and as you might have already guessed, Bandit got a mention.

When it comes to the latest batch of crazy baby names, chances are at least one of the parents is in a band.
Like My Chemical Romance’s Gerard Way, who dubbed his first-born, a daughter, by the way, Bandit Lee.

Other weird baby names mentioned are Joel Madden’s and Nicole Richie’s son Sparrow James Midnight Madden, and Pete Wentz’s and Ashlee Simpson’s son Bronx Mowgli Wentz. You can view the full article here.

Good old Ray posted five new in-studio pictures at the official site earlier today. They have been added to the gallery.