Dec
Album of the Year
- The Black Keys, El Camino
- Fun., Some Nights
- Mumford & Sons, Babel
- Frank Ocean, Channel Orange
- Jack White, Blunderbuss
Best Rock Performance
- Alabama Shakes, “Hold On”
- The Black Keys, “Lonely Boy”
- Coldplay, “Charlie Brown”
- Mumford & Sons, “I Will Wait”
- Bruce Springsteen, “We Take Care Of Our Own”
Best Rock Song
- Jack White, “Freedom At 21”
- Mumford & Sons, “I Will Wait”
- The Black Keys, “Lonely Boy”
- Muse, “Madness”
- Bruce Springsteen, “We Take Care of Our Own”
Best Americana Album
- The Avett Brothers, The Carpenter
- John Fullbright, From The Ground Up
- The Lumineers, The Lumineers
- Mumford & Sons, Babel
- Bonnie Raitt, Slipstream
Best Song Written for Visual Media
- Arcade Fire, “Abraham’s Daughter” (from The Hunger Games)
- Mumford & Sons, “Learn Me Right” (from Brave)
- Marc Shaiman & Scott Wittman, “Let Me Be Your Star” (from Smash)
- Bret McKenzie, “Man or Muppet” (from The Muppets)
- T-Bone Burnett, Taylor Swift, John Paul White & Joy Williams, “Safe & Sound” (from The Hunger Games)
Producer of the Year
- Dan Auerbach
- Jeff Bhasker
- Diplo
- Markus Dravs (including his work on Mumford & Sons’ Babel)
- Salaam Remi
Best Long Form Music Video
- Big Easy ExpressMumford & Sons, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros & Old Crow Medicine ShowEmmett Malloy, video director; Bryan Ling, Mike Luba & Tim Lynch, video producers[S2BN Films]
- Bring Me Home - Live 2011SadeSophie Muller, video director; Roger Davies, Grant Jue & Sophie Muller, video producers[Epic]
- Radio Music SocietyEsperanza SpaldingPilar Sanz, video director; Esperanza Spalding, video producer[Heads Up International]
- Get AlongTegan & SaraSalazar, video director; Nick Blasko, Piers Henwood, Sara Quin & Tegan Quin, video producers[Warner Bros.]
- Up From the Sky DownU2Davis Guggenheim, video director; Belisa Balaban, Brian Celler, Davis Guggenheim & Ted Skillman, video producers[UMe/Interscope/UMG/Mercury]
Nov
Learn Me Right
“Learn Me Right” | Birdy [with Mumford & Sons] | Disney PIXAR’s Brave Soundtrack
Brave is now available on Blu-ray and DVD. Pick up your copy of the film today!
Jul
Interview with Mumford & Sons' Winston and Ben
PureFM La Radio interviewed Winston Marshall and Ben Lovett of Mumford & Sons while the band were in Belgium for Rock Werchter on 30th June 2012. Most of the interview is conducted with Winston speaking French, so you can read the translation below.
Special thanks to Amélie Guérin for translating the interview!
Interviewers: Sylvestre Defontaine (SD) and Emilie Mazoyer (EM)
SD: Emilie.
EM: Yes my dear Sylvestre. Ben, Winston, hello!
EM: And a bilingual band! Finally, in this studio, it was about time.
SD: Mumford & Sons are among us. From beyond the Channel, rumors reach us; a second album will be released soon.
Winston: Yeah, yeah, that’s true.
SD: And since the debut album has been successful, Sigh No More, which was released in 2009, everybody said, everybody wondered, what will happen, what will we hear? So you have to tell us more about this, now that we caught you.
Winston: We can tell the record will be out in September, September 23rd*. We are very happy and proud of the new record, but we can’t tell you the name.
EM: Why?
Winston: Not yet, we are not ready.
SD: Wait!
Winston: When we know we’ll tell you.
SD: Superstitious maybe…
Winston: We can say that there‘ll be songs on the new record.
EM: That’s a good news
Winston: It starts like this. There’ll be some songs rather long, and others rather short. We’ll play some new material today.
EM: Tonight?
Winston: Tonight indeed.
EM: Tonight at the Werchter gig, you’ll play new song?
Winston: There’ll be 4 or 5 I think from the upcoming record.
EM: How did you learn to speak French so well?
Winston: I’m a bit embarrassed, uh… Oh God! I should be better, because my mother is French and she speaks to me in French. I understand, but I’m not fluent.
EM: You could do a song in french, it’d be fun.
Winston: Yeah, yeah, actually Vampire Weekend did Pastic Bert…cover.
EM: Plastic Bertrand, « ça plane pour moi, moi, moi… »
SD: Plastic Bertrand, who is Belgian by the way.
Winston: Yes, it’s true. I saw this in Paris, and I think it’s great. But we are not good enough in French. We already have trouble to speak it, so singing in French…
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SD: You have done a song with Birdy, I think so, I read it somewhere. A song for the soundtrack of the upcoming movie from Disney Pixar. How did it happen? We know that Birdy is well, a bit shy.
EM: Oh she’s the young girl who covered Bon Iver?
SD: Yes, she is. She came to our studio with her parents and she said no interviews. I want to play, but no interviews.
EM: How old is she?
Ben Lovett: She is 16, yeah, fantastic singer and we just, we got host to be involved in the film by Pixar, we are very excited by the opportunity, the children inside of us, were like very excited, exactly, you’ll not take the opportunity down. We though we’ll collaborate with Birdy because she has got such a wonderful voice and it suits to the film and you’ll see it.
EM: What’s the movie?
Ben: It’s called Brave.
(then the woman translates into French what has just been said in English)
SD: Thank you very much.
Winston: Thank you
SD: Release of the record between September 23rd and 25th* let’s say. We’ll see what’s the name of the record!
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*Mumford & Sons have since announced that their second album, indeed titled ‘Babel’, will be released on these dates in various countries.
Jun
Learn Me Right
“Learn Me Right” [full version]
Performed by Birdy [with Mumford & Sons]
From Disney PIXAR’s Brave Soundtrack
Jun
Learn Me Right [teaser]
“Learn Me Right” [teaser]
Performed by Birdy [with Mumford & Sons]
From Disney PIXAR’s Brave Soundtrack (to be released June 19, 2012)
Jun
(via mumfordistheword)
Jun
Here’s an exclusive interview with Marcus Mumford of Mumford & Sons, in which he discusses how the band got involved with recording for Pixar’s upcoming film Brave, the liberating differences between album and cinematic songwriting, and working with Birdy on the song “Learn Me Right.”
Jun
Exclusive B-Roll footage from Pixar’s Brave! Watch from about 2:15-3:25 to see Mumford & Sons in the studio with Birdy recording new song “Learn Me Right” for the soundtrack. An excerpt from the orchestral score is playing over the video, but you can hear snippets of the song come through!
Jun
Mumford & Sons and Birdy recording new song “Learn Me Right” for the upcoming Pixar film Brave.
Jun
Birdy joins Mumford & Sons in the studio to record new song “Learn Me Right” for the upcoming film Brave by Pixar.
Jun
Here is an exclusive interview with Birdy about collaborating with Mumford & Sons on the song “Learn Me Right” for the upcoming film “Brave” by Pixar!
May
Birdy, Mumford & Sons team up for new song "Learn Me Right" on Disney-Pixar's "Brave" Soundtrack
Photo courtesy of Walt Disney Records.
When you think “Pixar soundtracks,” you probably think of Randy Newman — but for this summer’s ‘Brave,’ the studio is going in a whole new direction, featuring a new track from the 16-year-old U.K. singing sensation known as Birdy, with added support from Mumford and Sons.
The new song, titled ‘Learn Me Right,’ is the sole pop cut on the soundtrack, which mostly consists of more traditional, Celtic-flavored material, including an original Patrick Doyle score and a pair of performances from singer Julie Fowlis. According to a press release, producer Katherine Sarafian says, “‘Learn Me Right’ is an amazing song. I feel something every time I hear it. Mumford and Sons sketched out a piece that would do justice to the culminating moment of the movie, underscoring the emotion, heart and the lessons learned between mother and daughter. They really found that moment of truth in the story we were trying to tell and it takes the movie to a new level at the end.”
“I love it because it tells a story,” adds Birdy. “Although it has a lot of emotion, it’s also very upbeat and you want to dance to it, which is why it works so well.”
“It’s quite fun doing a song for a movie rather than for an album,” says Mumford and Sons’ Marcus Mumford. “We liked the idea of having an orchestra in the background and having a girl like Birdy sing — it’s been quite liberating.”
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May
'Brave' Soundtrack Features Mumford & Sons
Details are starting to squeak by in the lead-up to the June 22nd launch of Disney/Pixar’s newest bauble, “Brave.” The first details of the “Brave” soundtrack (it will be released physically, unlike “Toy Story 3” and “Up,” which were exclusively digital downloads) have emerged from Amazon (via UpcomingPixar), and it looks like the disc is set to include tracks featuring Gaelic singer Julie Fowlis, a song featuring Birdy along with indie darlings Mumford & Sons (presumably over the closing credits) and a pair of songs featuring members of the cast (Billy Connolly and Emma Thompson, most notably). The rest of the tracks are orchestral cues from Patrick Doyle’s score.
This is Doyle’s first score for Pixar, and more to the point is the first Pixar score not composed by Thomas Newman, Randy Newman or Michael Giacchino. Doyle did a pretty bang-up job for his dark Disney overlords last summer on Marvel’s “Thor,” which is probably what helped him secure the gig. A lot of the song titles could be considered spoilery, so we’ll tread lightly, but the song that Billy Connolly sings is about the movie’s mythical bear (remember the movie was originally, more creatively called “The Bear and the Bow”), so we’re guessing this will be some kind of musical number where Connolly’s character (King Fergus) lays out the stakes for our young heroine.
And speaking of the king, he takes center stage in one of two new photos released from the film (courtesy of SlashFilm). In the first, it showcases leading lady Princess Merida (Kelly Macdonald) sparring jovially with her king father, while her mother, Queen Elinor (Emma Thompson), looks on. The second still shows the local townspeople tying up the once-titular bear and Merida defending it. This undoubtedly comes from the second part of the movie, after Merida has run away from the kingdom and made a dark deal with a very witchy woman (Julie Walters), and we actually know surprisingly little about the film’s plot, so we’ll stay away from guessing.
All will be revealed when “Brave” opens on June 22nd. The soundtrack hits a few days before on June 19th.
“Brave” Soundtrack Details
01. “Touch the Sky” (Performed by Julie Fowlis)
02. “Into the Open Air” (Performed by Julie Fowlis)
03. “Learn Me Right” (Performed by Birdy – with Mumford & Sons)
04. “Fate and Destiny” (score)
05. “The Games” (score)
06. “I Am Merida” (score)
07. “Remember to Smile” (score)
08. “Merida Rides Away” (score)
09. “The Witch’s Cottage” (score)
10. “Song of Mor’du” (Performed by Billy Connolly and Cast)
11. “Through the Castle” (score)
12. “Legends Are Lessons” (score)
13. “Show Us the Way” (score)
14. “Mum Goes Wild” (score)
15. “In Her Heart” (score)
16. “Noble Maiden Fair (A Mhaighdean Bhan Uasal)” (Performed by Emma Thompson and Peigi Barker)
17. “Not Now!” (score)
18. “Get the Key” (score)
19. “We’ve Both Changed” (score)
20. “Merida’s Home” (score)
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