Look into the crystal ball at next year's Bonnaroo festival and you're likely to see My Morning Jacket and Kings Of Leon backstage, biting their nails and shaking in their boots. Atlanta five-piece Manchester Orchestra is warming up the crowd but running a little too hot, playing songs from third full-length Mean Everything To Nothing, the new standard-bearer of arena-sized Southern rock. Manchester Orchestra surely didn't set out to dethrone Jim James or the Followill brothers, but you don't record an album like this and not expect an upheaval. Mean Everything To Nothing is an immediately satisfying display of grunge-era guitar crunch and 22-year-old frontman Andy Hull's Cobain-esque sneer, which means — you guessed it — a Nirvana comparison and the requisite helping of angst-ridden lyrics. But things aren't as black-and-Bleach-ed as they might seem; Hull, a preacher's son who began writing songs for Manchester Orchestra while in high school, is charting his own coming-of-age course. He wrestles with God and himself, by turns funnily agnostic on "In My Teeth" ("Jesus is coming/He acts my age") and seeking answers on "Shake It Out" ("I felt God lead me into my home/Don't stop, don't ever go"). On "I Can Feel A… read more »