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

See Full Page