Rock on TV Preview: My Chemical Romance and Panic! at the Disco Bring Emo Back to Late Night

My Chemical Romance performs at the Itunes Festival in London.

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Flamboyant, theatrical emo rock may not be as popular as it was back in the mid-Aughts, but you'd never know that from looking over tonight's late night television listings. First up, Panic! at the Disco will hit the Tonight Show, where they will play a number from their latest record Vices and Virtues. An hour later, My Chemical Romance will stop by Late Night with Jimmy Fallon to play a cut from their extraordinarily energetic and deeply underrated fourth album Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys. It's a good night to wear some guyliner!

Imelda May - Conan, TBS 11:00 p.m.

Panic! at the Disco - Tonight Show with Jay Leno, NBC 11:35 p.m.

Drive-By Truckers - Late Show with David Letterman, CBS 11:35 p.m.

Eric Church - Jimmy Kimmel Live, ABC 12:00 a.m.

Joe Jonas - Lopez Tonight, TBS 12:00 a.m.

My Chemical Romance - Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, NBC 12:35 a.m.

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“Baby Got Back”

Sir Mix-a-Lot | 1992

While watching a Budweiser commercial during the Super Bowl, Sir Mix-a-Lot thought the skinny female models in the ad didn’t represent reality. So he wrote this ode to ample bottoms, featuring its famous to-the-point lyric: “I like big butts and I cannot lie.” MTV banished the video, featuring shaking booties and sexually suggestive fruit, to 9 p.m. or later. “I thought my career was over,” he told Rolling Stone. “Then I called Rick Rubin, and I told him the video was banned, and he was like, 'Great!' We sold another 2 million records.”

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