Whitney Pastorek
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My Chemical Romance Dazzle Album Release Party
To celebrate the release of fourth album Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys, emo standard bearers My Chemical Romance used their recent metamorphosis into the action heroes of a fully-realized comic book universe to trick out LA's House of Blues as a skewed MCR-branded carnival, complete with midway games and costumed video villains wandering the parking lot. But despite the heightened atmospherics - and the presence of graphic novel legend Grant Morrison in an upstairs balcony - the band appeared to have little interest in following the bombast and melodrama of 2006's The Black Parade with another extreme theatrical venture.
