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Light in the dark: Inside Manchester Orchestra’s The Million Masks Of God Andy Hull and Robert McDowell talk faith, forgiveness, grief and Manchester Orchestra’s excellent new album The Million Masks Of God. Words: Mischa Pearlman In 1900, The Wild Knight & Other Poems, an early collection of poetry by English philosopher and essayist GK Chesterton, was published. One of the poems found within its pages is a simple four verse rumination on getting older called Gold Leaves, which details the shifting nature of the protagonist’s idea of what God is, as well as how his search for Him ...

Loma Vista  On The Million Masks Of God, Manchester Orchestra’s main songwriters, Andy Hull and Robert McDowell, applied a recently revised approach that was inspired by their experiences writing and recording the soundtrack to the 2016 film, “Swiss Army Man.” This approach was to compose cinematic concept albums meant to form a single narrative that should be listened to in one sitting. Hull and McDowell began implementing this technique on the last Manchester Orchestra album, 2017’s A Black Mile To the Surface and fully embraced it on this, their seventh album. In addition, The...

The latest release from the Georgia boys is out this Friday Share this article: Nearly 15 years after the release of their debut album,  I’m Like a Virgin Losing a Child, Manchester Orchestra have established themselves as a career indie rock band. As they prepare to release The Million Masks of God this Friday (April 30), the band has seen every album chart in the top 40 on the  Billboard 200 since hitting mainstream rock radio with 2009’s “I’ve Got Friends” and even their 2014 acoustic album ( Hope, the followup to that same year’s Cope) landed in the top 100. It’s a le...

Blake Shelton beat all of his fellow coaches to win a shy country singer for his team as the blind auditions continued on Monday's episode of The Voice. Avery Roberson, a 20-year-old musician from Rutherdforton, North Carolina, scored a four-chair turn from the coaches for his take on Tim McGraw's If You're Reading This. The clarity and purity of his voice earned him a standing ovation, even though his performance was quiet and unassuming just like him. Country star: Blake Shelton beat all of his fellow coaches to win a shy country singer for his team as the blind auditions continued on Mond...

'Blinding Lights' and more hits the Grammys left in the dark By Mesfin Fekadu The Associated Press NEW YORK — The wattage in The Weeknd's "Blinding Lights" wasn't strong enough to compete at the Grammys — but the song isn't the only electrifying No. 1 hit that the Recording Academy snubbed. The Weeknd joins an exclusive club of songs that were crowned biggest hit of the year by Billboard but fell short at the Grammy Awards. It's been 10 years since a song that dominated the year in music didn't garner a nomination at the Grammys, and that was "TiK ToK," the drunken party anthem and multi-...