Photos: Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness

The pit inside Newport Music Hall was fit to bust when Andrew McMahon and the Wilderness took the stage just after nine o’clock on Wednesday night. Seated at a grand piano adorned with an astronaut’s helmet and a cityscape diorama – a nod to the cover art of the band’s latest album Zombies On Broadway – McMahon launched into their most recent single “Fire Escape.”
McMahon’s compositions favor big, singable choruses and supernatant melodies, and his