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Black Friday and Record Store Day are two very different holidays. Where Black Friday is about finding the cheapest deals at the most convenient place, Record Store Day is all about shopping locally at independent stores. Now, in an attempt to get more people to support their local record stores, RSD is coming at us […]

The Front Bottoms and Manchester Orchestra will be heading out on a co-headlining run later this year. Read more: Watch All Time Low perform new song “Birthday” acoustic The Front Bottoms and Manchester Orchestra are hitting the road later this year for a North American co-headlining run. Support for the 20-date treck has yet to be […]

[Photo by: Manchester Orchestra and Julien Baker/Youtube, Matt and Kim/Caleb Kuhl] Watch new music videos from Matt And Kim, Trivium and more—plus, don’t miss Manchester Orchestra and Julien Baker's cover of Pedro The Lion. Check out the news you might have missed today below! Read more: Bullet For My Valentine dedicate song to Suicide Squad’s Margot Robbie, […]

[Photos by: Lindsey Byrnes, Anton Corbijn, Mike Dempsey] The 2018 lineup for this June's Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival has finally been announced, and the stellar group of acts features Paramore, the Killers, Manchester Orchestra, LANY and many, many more! See it all below. Read more: Coachella 2018 lineup announced—see it here Eminem and Muse […]

[Photo by: Paramore/Lindsey Byrnes, The Menzingers/Charles Wrzesniewski, Julien Baker/Nolan Knight] Festival season is just around the corner, and Boston Calling's lineup has been released—and features plenty of acts you're bound to know and love. Featuring the Killers and Jack White as two of their headliners, other notable names include Paramore, Queens Of The Stone Age, Portugal. The Man […]

Manchester Orchestra A Black Mile To The Surface FILE UNDER: Wondrous, widescreen rock ROCKS LIKE: Fleet Foxes, My Morning Jacket, Band Of Horses WHAT'S DIFFERENT: Where to start? A Black Mile To The Surface sounds more like the logical follow-up to 2011’s complex Simple Math than it does 2014’s nonetheless great, grungy Cope. Here, Manchester […]

Manchester Orchestra’s keyboardist Chris Freeman has left the band after 10 years, saying in a post on the group’s Facebook page that he will be taking on his own new projects. “I’ve come to a place in my career where I’ve decided to go down a new path and pursue my own projects,” Freeman says. […]

Manchester Orchestra know how to throw one heck of a party. Serving as the ultimate holiday party hosts, the Atlanta-based rockers have consistently rounded up their friends for a blissful night full of camaraderie and rock ‘n’ roll. Tonight, the band presents the 6th annual The Stuffing at the Center Stage Atlanta Music Complex, which […]

At an acoustic show in New York City last night, Manchester Orchestra frontman Andy Hull brought out Brand New's Jesse Lacey for a breathtaking performance of “Where Have You Been?” About halfway through the song, they were joined by a third vocalist, Kevin Devine. You can check out a fan-shot video of the performance below. Watch: Here’s Taylor […]

Manchester Orchestra were performing at Carson Creek Ranch in Austin, Texas, on Saturday, when a music-hating storm attacked them onstage. Everyone in the band is okay, thankfully, but they said it was easily the scariest moment they’ve ever experienced onstage. Watch the freaky videos below, where a dark storm hits the stage out of nowhere.  […]

Manchester Orchestra have debuted a music video for their song, “The Ocean,” which is taken from their studio album, Hope. Check out the clip below and let us know your thoughts. Hope is a re-imagination of Cope, their most recent album, which came out earlier this year.  “We were noticing that all the beautiful, slow stuff was working […]

Manchester Orchestra have announced the release of Hope, a re-imagination of Cope, their most recent album, which came out earlier this year. Hope is available digitally everywhere, beginning today, via Loma Vista Recordings.  The album will be released on CD and vinyl on November 18. Get it now on iTunes. Purchasing tickets for any date of […]

Pete Wentz revealed in a recent interview with Billboard that Fall Out Boy are writing new music. Read a snippet of the interview below: “What is coming up for you guys musically? We’re writing. I was just listening to something Patrick had written in the trailer. So we’re writing, finishing out the album cycle in South Africa in […]

From tweeting to pinning, being plugged in is a norm for today's Internet age. Thanks to all of the social media sites (Vine, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, etc.), fans and musicians have a chance to connect outside of the typical venues of meet and greets or shows. From silly vines to epic live photos, you can […]

Manchester Orchestra, who have already showed off their chops covering Weezer classics, recently covered the theme song for nostalgic ‘90s TV show The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air. The band performed the cover with Kevin Devine at a show in Buffalo, New York. Check out the interesting take on Will Smith’s flow below, and let us […]

Balance and Composure vocalist Jon Simmons has announced that he will be taking a two-show leave from the band’s current tour with Manchester Orchestra due to a family emergency. The band is continuing on, however, as they will be having “special friends” fill in. These acquaintances they're speaking of will most likely be other musicians on the tour, […]

Manchester Orchestra recently teamed up with original Weezer bassist Matt Sharp to perform covers of “Tired Of Sex” (the opening track off Pinkerton) and “Say It Ain’t So” (taken from The Blue Album) at their House Of Blues show in West Hollywood, California. Watch the covers below, and let us know how you think the […]