Sep
Sep
I hadn’t seen this yet, but there’s been such an onslaught of new interviews, I might have missed this.
Winston and Marcus with German Rolling Stone. Both being creepily erudite and sweet to one another.
Sep
RollingStone: Mumford & Sons Save the Day on 'SNL'
From RollingStone.com:
By Logan Nicklaus
September 23, 2012 11:20 AM ET
…The highlights of last night’s episode came despite its host – starting with Mumford & Sons. The crowd-pleasing nü-Bluegrass group stood like pillars, side by side at the front of the stage, and intertwined their harmonies beautifully. Backed by a horn section for “I Will Wait,” they brought a terrific spirit to Studio 8H – a hoedown meets Dave Matthews Band. Their second performance of the night, “Below My Feet,” highlighted lead singer Marcus Mumford doing his best impression of Dick Van Dyke’s one-man-band from Mary Poppins: singing, playing the bass drum using one foot, tambourine with the other foot, and quite capably strumming his acoustic guitar, all at the same time.
…The writers did Gordon-Levitt no favors by putting him in a retread sketch, done countless times, sitting in a bar alongside Jason Sudeikis, Keenan Thompson, and Bill Hader. The best buddies tell their most embarrassing and personal stories, before swinging their beers and joining in the chorus of the Beatles’ “You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away.” It was essentially a cover sketch – a tribute, sure, but just a knock-off of the original.
The saving grace of this sketch, much like the episode itself: Mumford & Sons, who played the Beatles cover band, Hey Dude.
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Click through to read the rest of the article on RollingStone.com.
Click here to watch videos of Mumford & Sons’ performances on the September 22nd episode of Saturday Night Live, including their appearance as Beatles cover band, Hey Dude.
Sep
Winston Marshall and Marcus Mumford of Mumford & Sons chat to Rolling Stone about how to feel British in the USA.
Aug
Marcus Mumford & Winston Marshall performing at Pier A Park in Hoboken on August 1, 2012.
This photo, by Joe Papeo, is included in Rolling Stone’s collection of the Hottest Live Photos of 2012.
See more from Mumford & Sons’ concert in Hoboken by clicking here.
Jul
I have only heard "Feel The Tide" on the Deluxe Edition Live At Shephard's Bush Empire. Is there a studio recording I can download? Such a beautiful song!
“Feel The Tide” was originally released on the Love Your Ground EP, and you can listen to it here, but I can’t post it for download due to copyright restrictions. Sorry about that! For my followers who have never heard the live version that was released as part of the Sigh No More Deluxe Edition, click here to listen and click here to watch a video of the performance.
While we’re at it, here’s a bit of trivia for you: “Feel the Tide” was “pretty much the first song [Marcus] ever wrote.” -RollingStone
Thanks for the question!
Jul
Mumford & Sons Announce New Album: 'Babel'
Inside the folk-rockers’ second album, due out September 25th
By: PATRICK DOYLE
July 16, 2012 2:00 AM ET
Photo by Rebecca Miller
From RollingStone.com:
Since releasing their sleeper-hit debut LP, Sigh No More, in 2009, Mumford & Sons have barely stopped touring – circling the globe multiple times in three years. “It’s been tough,” says bassist Ted Dwane. “We’re all in relationships in London, and it’s hard to be away from our families. But for us, this is an absolute dream come true.” And the folk rockers are heading right into the next phase: Their second LP, Babel, hits stores on September 25th, and this summer they launch their biggest tour yet.
Mumford & Sons wrote the majority of the LP on their tour bus and during soundchecks over the past two years. “The road has rubbed off into the album,” Dwane says. “It’s full of aliveness.” While they knocked out their first album in just five weeks, they’ve spent a full year and a half recording the follow-up, mostly due to their busy touring schedule. Sigh No More producer Markus Dravs (who has also worked with Coldplay and Arcade Fire) returned for the sessions, joining the band at four different studios throughout its native England. “Being away so much for the last couple of years is inevitably a theme on the record,” Dwane says, “because it’s something that we’ve all shared.”
Photos: Mumford & Sons Take America
Expect heavier emotions this time around. “You might hear a little bit more of a slight flavor of darkness on a couple songs,” Dravs adds. “My Love Don’t Fade Away” and “Ghosts That We Knew,” which the band has been playing live for months, are desperate pleas for companionship in rough times; on “Below My Feet,” frontman Marcus Mumford seems to mourn a loved one, howling, “For all my sweat, my blood runs weak.” And the band rocks harder than ever on “Lover of the Light,” packing the arrangement with horns, distorted banjo and rollicking drums.
But Mumford made sure not to stray too far from the earnest, mostly acoustic approach that made them stars. “The ingredients are very much the same: the four core instruments and a lack of a drummer, which can give it that strange, simple, unique sort of sound,” Dwane says. “I don’t think we were looking to be too crazy and experimental.” Adds Dravs, “The idea was always ‘If it ain’t broke, why fix it?’”
Beginning August 1st in Hoboken, New Jersey, the group will take the new songs on a 15-date summer U.S. tour, including two sold-out gigs at Colorado’s Red Rocks. “The main challenge we’ve faced as a band in the last year is working out how to play these larger audiences and keep it feeling like our show,” says Dwane. “A lot of the time, if you go into an arena, they’re pretty uninspiring. But we try to create an atmosphere.” In between gigs, the bandmates will play four of what they call “Gentlemen of the Road Stopovers” – staging their own outdoor festivals in small cities like Portland, Maine, and Bristol, Tennessee, with friends including Dawes, St. Vincent and Justin Townes Earle, plus local food and retailers. “Basically, we wanted to take all of the things we love from the smaller festivals like Telluride Bluegrass Festival in Colorado,” says Dwane. “So many festivals now are just so enterprising, and it’s all about cutting every corner.”
Mumford & Sons are feeling energized now that their singer has recovered from a broken hand sustained in June, which forced them to cancel two U.K. festival dates. “It was bad,” says Dwane. “Everyone was like, ‘Fuck, you know, this is really bad.’ But he’s just about back on top. Looking back at this last few weeks, the spirit is uncrushable. Everyone just mans up. Everyone gets on with it.”
Babel track list:
“Babel”
“Whispers in the Dark”
“I Will Wait”
“Holland Road”
“Ghosts That We Knew”
“Lover of the Light
“Lovers’ Eyes”
“Reminder”
“Hopeless Wanderer”
“Broken Crown”
“Below My Feet”
“Not With Haste”
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Click through to see Mumford & Sons’ upcoming tour dates. Please note that the September 25th release date is for the USA only. All other release dates can be found here.
Apr
Marcus and Ted give a sample of what Mumford & Sons’ new album will sound like. Click here to watch!
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Dec
Hey! I was wondering if you knew what band (if any) Ted played in before joining Laura and then forming Mumford and Sons? Keep the Mumford love strong :D
From RollingStone.com:
[Photograph by James Minchin III for RollingStone.com]
Before joining Mumford & Sons Ted Dwane had been playing bass in a punk band called Sex Face.
Nov
Do you have a link to an article/interview where the boys recount a time when they were in a full elevator with Justin Bieber and Winnie suggested the youngest person leave the first? I hope you know what I'm talking about!
Yes, I’ve got it, actually! That tidbit of information was included in the Rolling Stone article “God, Beer & Banjos” (Issue 1136, August 4, 2011):
The headiest moment of all came in February, when Mumford & Sons got to perform at the Grammys with Bob Dylan, backing him on “Maggie’s Farm” after playing “The Cave” by themselves. [Marcus] Mumford says Dylan didn’t say much - “I think he was nervous” - though he did give them one instruction: “He told us to ‘keep stomping.’” The rest of the weekend turned out to be just as surreal: They met Usher and Gwyneth, got high-fives from R. Kelly, and shared a very crowded elevator with fellow Best New Artist nominee Justin Bieber and his security detail, during which [Winston] Marshall cheekily poposed that “the youngest passenger should leave.” (“We were a bit drunk and English,” [Ted] Dwane says, smiling.)
Click here to see photos and snippets of the article at RollingStone.com!
Sep
Love this blog! What is your favorite audio recording of "Below My Feet"?
Thank you so much! And what a difficult question that is for me to answer… I just can’t narrow it down (click each to go to the audio posts and listen to each):
“Below My Feet” in Nashville, November 2010
“Below My Feet” in Telluride, June 2011
“Below My Feet (Acoustic Sample)” from Gentlemen of the Road
And let’s not forget this one:
That last one is courtesy of mumfordmania. :)
Sep
I really need THIS album…
If these “songs” are on Mumford and Sons’ new album, it shall be the greatest album of all time.
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Aug
Still loving all the pictures taken by James Minchin III for Mumford & Sons’ Rolling Stone feature; see the rest of the exclusive photos over at RollingStone.com.
Aug
God, Beer & Banjos - Rolling Stone August 4th Issue. 1280x870. Saw a smaller pic posted and thought I’d upload this larger one I have. I have it even bigger (like 3000xSomething), if anyone wants it.
Awesome!
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