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Metallica Land Sixth No. 1 Album

Jason Tate

Metallica tops the Billboard charts this week.

Metallica scores its sixth No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart with the arrival of Hardwired… to Self-Destruct. The set debuts atop the list with 291,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Nov. 24, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 282,000 were in traditional album sales.

Screenplay Based on The Menzingers ‘On the Impossible Past’

The Menzingers
Jason Tate

Adam Reiss has written a screenplay based upon The Menzingers’ On the Impossible Past. The entire thing has been put online for fans to read and give feedback.

Hi. I’m Adam. I wrote a screenplay called “On the Impossible Future.” I’ve created this website to share it with whoever might read it because I’ve been working on this for years and I’ve reached a point in the creative process where I desperately need fresh eyes to look it over and give me feedback. All of my friends are probably sick of reading drafts (even if they’re too nice to tell me).

Emo Nite Announces Two-Year Anniversary Show

Emo Night
Jason Tate

Emo Nite has announced their two-year anniversary lineup:

Tyson Ritter & Nick Wheeler of The All-American Rejects (acoustic), Aaron Gillespie of Underoath/The Almost (acoustic), Jordan Pundik (New Found Glory) DJ Set, Craig Owens (Chiodos / BXC) DJ Set, Cartel (DJ Set), Set Your Goals DJ Set, State Champs DJ Set, Captain Cuts (DJ Set), Fil Thorpe-Evans (Neck Deep) DJ Set, Tyler Posey (DJ Set), The Rocket Summer (DJ Set), My American Heart (DJ Set), Brian Logan Dales (The Summer Set) DJ Set, Ham On Everything (DJ Set), Team Up (UK) DJ Set, Emo Nite Bawltimore (DJ Set), Movements, I Don’t Know How But They Found Me, Tillie, Luna Shadows, Love Nothing

Tickets are now on sale.

A Day to Remember’s Lawsuit Completes; Band Awarded $4 Million Verdict

A Day to Remember
Jason Tate

Law 360 is reporting that A Day to Remember has been freed from their Victory Records’ contract and awarded a $4 million verdict.

An Illinois federal jury released Florida-based rock band A Day To Remember from a 2006 recording contract Tuesday, finding that the band had fulfilled the five-album deal and awarding its members $4 million in withheld proceeds from music and merchandise sales.

Following a two-week jury trial and a day and a half of deliberations, an eight-person jury returned a multipage verdict that largely favored the band, also known by the initials ADTR, in a legal dispute against record label Victory Records Inc. that began in 2011.

The Quest to Make a True Blue M&M

The New York Times
Jason Tate

Malia Wollan, writing for The New York Times:

The team of color scientists hovered in their white coats and hairnets, staring down at a clear plastic box full of strangely colored M&Ms. “They look like pebbles, ugly little pebbles,” said Rebecca Robbins, the color-chemistry manager for Mars Chocolate. She propped open the lid to show off a muted array of gray, tan, mauve, pale purple and sickly pink chocolate nuggets. Each attenuated shade was the disappointing outcome of an early attempt by Mars to replace a bright, artificial dye with natural pigments extracted from algae, roots, seeds and other parts of plants. Not a single piece of candy in this tackle box of failure looked edible — let alone tempting.