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2024 March Madness will close out with three days of music as Jonas Brothers, Zedd, and Mumford & Sons headline this year’s NCAA March Madness Music Festival. The three-day event is scheduled for April 5 through 7 at Hance Park in Phoenix and will be free of charge to NCAA Division I tournament attendees. The weekend will open with Zedd headlining the AT&T Block Party on Friday, April 5. Additional performances that day include Remi Wolf and Reneé Rapp. Jonas Brothers will lead the Coke Studio Live…

Mumford & Sons have collaborated with Pharrell on a new single, “Good People,” which marks the British rock band’s first new music since 2019. The group debuted the uplifting song yesterday during Pharrell’s Louis Vuitton menswear autumn/winter runway show at Paris Fashion Week. Mumford & Sons — Marcus Mumford, Ben Lovett, and Ted Dwane — recorded the song with Pharrell in New York and Paris. They enlisted Native Vocalists, a six-piece vocal choir from the U.S. and Canada hailing from Native American…

The rendition came during Mumford & Sons' headlining set at Sommo Fest in Canada The moral arc of the universe may bend toward justice, but it also bends toward Taylor Swift songs. Marcus Mumford acknowledged as much (well, kinda, we’re taking some license here) when he introduced a rendition of “Cowboy Like Me,” featuring Maggie Rogers, at Sommo Fest in Canada over the weekend. The cover came near the end of Mumford & Sons’ headlining set at Sommo Fest, which had already…

That Marcus Mumford wants people to pay attention to what he is singing is made clear by the two Mumford & Sons songs he chooses to open his show: Awake My Soul and The Cave. It is just him and an acoustic guitar for that pair, so the lyrics can be heard. “And now my heart stumbles on things I don’t know / My weakness I feel I must finally show,” he sings in the former; “I’ll find strength in pain / And I will change my ways,” he sings in the latter, which also offers the description of someone as “you…

Marcus Mumford says he doesn’t actually remember writing Cannibal, the extraordinary song that opens his debut solo album, Self-Titled. But he’s very clear about the circumstances leading up to writing it. They began with a collapse into alcohol addiction and binge-eating towards the end of the last Mumford & Sons tour in 2019. “When you’re travelling all the time, you’re able to convince yourself of anything, to make excuses not to take responsibility,” he says. “Oh, I’m on my own, so I can have a few drinks in my…

Marcus Mumford opens his debut solo album with the most personal and straightforward — and probably the finest — song he’s ever released: “Cannibal,” a stark acoustic ballad (at least until it erupts with pounding drums and pealing guitars) about the sexual abuse Mumford endured when he was 6 years old.“I can still taste you and I hate it,” he sings over a hushed beating-heart riff, his dry, papery voice as close as your own thoughts, “There wasn’t a choice in the mind of a child and you knew it.” The song — in which…

By 1930, Lewis Mumford had given up. The radical philosopher-critic found his faith in historical progress – and human potential itself – crushed between the great war and the Great Depression. Salvation came from an unexpected source: the work of a then-obscure novelist of the previous century, Herman Melville.Melville had died 40 years before, his life uncommemorated, his writing dismissed by critics and forgotten by the reading public. Mumford, by contrast, was a rising star in America’s intellectual firmament, an…

Marcus Mumford has opened up about being sexually abused as a child.Ahead of his new solo album, “Self-Titled,” the lead singer of Mumford & Sons spoke with GQ about his latest single, “Cannibal,” a deeply raw and personal song that received a Steven Spielberg-directed music video. “Like lots of people — and I’m learning more and more about this as we go and as I play it to people — I was sexually abused as a child,” Mumford told the magazine. “Not by family and not in the church, which might be some people’s…

Marcus Mumford, frontman of the band Mumford & Sons, has said that he was the victim of childhood sexual abuse.“Like lots of people – and I’m learning more and more about this as we go and as I play it to people – I was sexually abused as a child,” he told GQ magazine. “Not by family and not in the church, which might be some people’s assumption. But I hadn’t told anyone about it for 30 years.”Mumford’s parents were international leaders of the Vineyard Churches, a neocharismatic evangelical Christian…