Inspired by folk, rock, country, and bluegrass, the London-based Mumford & Sons feature singer/guitarist/drummer Marcus Mumford, vocalist and banjo/Dobro player Winston Marshall, vocalist/keyboardist Ben Lovett, and vocalist/bassist Ted Dwane. The foursome started playing together in 2007; though they were playing with other bands at the time, they bonded over their shared love of rootsy music. Mumford & Sons quickly became a part of London's underground folk scene, which included acts like Laura Marling and Noah and the Whale. Mumford & Sons are pleased to announce the details of their upcoming North [...]
Valentine's Day or no Valentine's Day, the weekend is here and there is more than enough going on to make it worth getting out of your house I know I have said it before and I am going to say it again now, Philly somehow has these weekends that are just packed with so many great concerts that you wish you had a clone to make it to all of them. This weekend is one of those. From a local band's record release show for a highly anticipated album to a newly crowned Grammy award winner's [...]
Ten or twelve years ago, Creed frontman Scott Stapp was on TV, talking about Zeppelin. I don't remember exactly what he said, but it was something along these lines: Zeppelin were, in their time, the biggest band in the world, and critics detested them until the popular consensus surrounding them simply became impossible to ignore; this was now, presumably, Creed's time to make the same leap into acceptance. That didn't happen, obviously. Creed sucked too completely. But Stapp was right about Zeppelin and the levels of critical disdain directed their way. In the first of his great column [...]
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First Guest Post By: Heather Having been a fan of Mumford & Sons' debut, Sigh No More, I was thrilled to hear of their recently released new album. Babel does not disappoint. The unique qualities that made their first album cling to me are intact and refined in this sophomore effort. Unlike many bands and [...]
Another must-see band and another great ticket fiasco rears it`s non-transparent `sold out` head. The hugely popular London based Folk-Rock band Mumford and Sons are the latest in a long line of quality artists riding the commercial wave of mysterious ticket sales, the 2009 debut album `Sigh No More` and the highly anticipated September follow-up `Babel` have catapulted the four-piece into multiplex and Arena filling idols. A nice play on words with the tour title, November brings smaller, more intimate shows while December you`re more and likely watching little dots from the rafters or a fifty foot wide plasma, but [...]
With fall and the corresponding build up to Christmas shopping now in full swing, we're finally getting a plethora of new releases every week. This round is no different, featuring several awesome new records, including the latest from Mumford & Sons , a new effort from 4AD's Efferklang and Wild Honey Pie favorites The Soft Pack, Frightened Rabbit and Melody's Echo Chamber . Apples - Efterklang // Buy Danish electro-rock outfit, Efterklang (@efterklang), stun on their [...]
Mumford & Sons seem to have figured out that there is more than one way to put together a song. This tweaking of their songwriting technique gives this album a decent flow, and makes it a much smoother listen than Sigh No More . Mumford & Sons' debut album, Sigh No More, sold millions of copies based on the strength of its two singles, "Little Lion Man" and "The Cave". All credit to the band and Glassnote Records, because it would have been difficult to find two better songs from Sigh No More to spring on an unsuspecting [...]
Our guest earlier today live on the Morning Show, Sera Cahoone tops this week's list of new releases with her third solo effort. The Seattle singer-songwriter - formerly, and sometimes still, drummer - improves upon her last two excellent albums with what our Music Director, Don Yates, calls, "an often-gorgeous set of haunting country-folk with a rootsy, atmospheric sound fleshed out with acoustic guitars and pedal steel along with occasional banjo, violin, keyboards and more on a consistently strong set of poignant, emotionally bare songs pairing her increasingly assured vocals with accompaniment by her ace regular backing band [...]
"We wanted to do something unashamed," says Ben Lovett . "We're confident and happy to be where we are as a band - everything that's happened with us has exceeded expectations, and it's all been a surprise, it's all much bigger than what we were prepared for. So when we came to recording this record we had a choice: to shy away from that, or to realise that people dig what we're doing, and make something robust, with that energy." It was December 2010, and Mumford & Sons had been on the road since [...]
There's only so much banjo one man can take. 'Babel', the latest album from folk rockers Mumford and Sons, is fine in short doses. Take new single I Will Wait for example - by far the catchiest track on the album, it's exactly what you'd expect from the band. But that's the problem with the album at large: it's exactly what you'd expect. [...]
The European dustbowl crooners Mumford & Sons have returned with their highly anticipated sophomore effort Babel. Glass Note Records, 2012 8.5 / 10.0 One cannot argue that over the past two years Mumford & Sons have completely blown up. Prior to Sigh No More, they had only a [...]
Na história contada em Gênesis, Babel é o nome da torre construída pelos descendentes de Noé, que queriam ter seus nomes eternizados por fazerem um monumento tão grande que tocasse o céu. Marcus Mumford deve ter-se sentido tomado de uma ambição parecida ao começar a planejar o segundo álbum de sua banda. Mas, se na história bíblica, Deus castiga a soberba humana ao confundir as línguas dos criadores da torre, de forma que eles não conseguem mais se comunicar e terminar a obra, a Babel do Mumford & Sons conseguiu ser bem sucedida e coloca o [...]
Rolling Stone recently posted this 'video flashback' (which is actually more of an explanation than a flashback) showing how Leonard Cohen got his groove back by pairing up with U2 one night. In the video, Cohen sings "Tower of Song" with Bono and crew, with the accompanying article outlaying the improbable return of Leonard Cohen (and his subsequent world tour) and how this video played a part in it. You can read the article on Leonard Cohen at Rolling Stone here. [...]
Some sentences always come with a qualifier. 'I like Mumford & Sons [ Twitter / Facebook ]' is one of them. They're one of those bands that one always has to justify liking, as their folk rock isn't considered 'acceptable' to like, at least nowadays, after the singles from 20092s Sigh No More became overplayed and people suddenly turned against them. My own variation on this would be, 'I like Mumford & Sons, but the best songs on their debut weren't the singles.' I realised this after a while, and it's something I stand by even now. I'll take Timshel or [...]
Since we first wrote about Mumford & Sons back in February of 2010, the London-based folk-rockers have been on a remarkable meteoric rise unlike any we've seen in quite some time. In just a few short years, the bluegrass-playing blokes have moved from clubs to theaters and outdoor sheds to recently performing for over 15,000 people at a pier in Hoboken, New Jersey as well as their innovative Gentlemen Of The Road summer package tour, which brought them to a number of off-the-beaten path cities across the United States. [...]
andnbsp;Here at BitCandy we love great music videos as much as great songs. andnbsp;And hey great songs and a great video together? andnbsp;Cream!! andnbsp;So we're starting kinda a Best Videos of 2012 column
Mumford & Sons have been added as another great group to play at one of my favorite venues in the world, Red Rocks Amphitheater. This video shows them playing their newest single "I Will Wait" live, and with such energy. I missed this show and was regretting the second I saw friends instagramming how amazing it looked, and the regret has only gotten to an absolute max after seeing this video. This song is on their upcoming Babel album, due out September 24th. Watch and escape to Red Rocks for 5 minutes. Enjoy! [...]
Watch 'I Will Wait' below. Babel is out shortly. Like 'em on Facebook. Click here to view the embedded video. MP3: Mumford & Sons - The Cave (Live On WOXY)
With only a few weeks until the release of the much anticipated Babel , Marcus Mumford et al have decided to drop the official video to its first single, 'I Will Wait'. The track was given a makeshift vid when the song was first released via Youtube earlier this year , however the new clip features the boys giving it everything at a recent gig at the iconic Red Rocks in the States. The venue is just incredible, with the performance matching it in raw power. A Glastonbury 2013 headline slot anyone? [...]
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