Reunited emo rock band My Chemical Romance will play their biggest local show to date when they headline Target Field on Aug. 24.
Tickets go on sale at noon through Ticketmaster. Indie rock veterans Sleater-Kinney open.
Lead singer Gerard Way and drummer Matt Pelissier formed the band in New Jersey shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks. Way said seeing the World Trade Center towers fall made him realize “music was this thing I secretly wanted to do.” Way’s younger brother Mikey joined the group on bass and named them after Irvine Welsh’s novel “Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance.”
After releasing their 2002 debut album “I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love” on an independent label, My Chemical Romance signed to Reprise Records. Thanks in large part to heavy touring, the band’s 2004 effort “Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge” went triple platinum, as did its follow-up “The Black Parade.”
My Chemical Romance made “The Black Parade” with Green Day producer Rob Cavallo and took a much more mainstream approach, earning many comparisons to Queen. For their next record, 2010’s “Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys,” the band embarked on an arena tour that brought them to the X in September 2011. Two years later, they broke up without citing any specific reasons.
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In 2019, the band announced they were reuniting for what fans thought was a one-off show that December at a Los Angeles theater. It sold out in four minutes and grossed $1.4 million. In January 2020, they revealed a full North American tour that sold out in less than six hours, but it was delayed several times due to the pandemic. The band finally hit the road in 2022 and sold out the venue formerly known as Xcel Energy Center that September.
This summer, My Chemical Romance sold more than 450,000 tickets to their stadium tour of 10 North American markets. As they did at those shows, the band will be playing “The Black Parade” in full during the 2026 tour.
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