Mumford & Sons have cancelled their headlining slot at Bonnaroo this Saturday due to Bassist Ted Dwane being unable to perform after undergoing an operation to remove a blood clot from his brain earlier in this week. The platinum-selling British folk outfit cancelled all remaining tour dates, including upcoming appearances at Telluride Bluegrass Festival and [...]

The initial lineup for the 2013 Bonnaroo Festival was announced today. Topping the bill are Paul McCartney, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, Bjork, Wilco, Mumford & Sons, R. Kelly and Wu-Tang Clan. Fans are calling it the best, most diverse lineup in years. Bonnaroo will run from June 13-16; tickets go on sale 2/23. Check [...]

At noon Eastern today, “Weird Al” Yankovic will address a very serious manner — the lineup for the 2013 Bonnaroo festival, which will be held June 13-16 in Manchester, Tennessee. You can watch the whole thing unfold in the video below (click here for our real-time updates). To whet your appetite, there will be a [...]

In advance of his upcoming third album, singer-songwriter Willy Mason will release Don’t Stop Now, a new EP, on January 14. The record is the Massachusetts folkie’s first for Communion Records, the British label co-founded by Mumford and Sons keyboardist Ben Lovett. We spoke with Mason about his songwriting heroes, hooking up with Communion, co-writing [...]

Divine Fits, indie rock’s latest super-group, is comprised of Spoon’s Britt Daniel, Wolf Parade/Hansdome Furs frontman Dan Boeckner, and drummer Sam Brown of The New Bomb Turks. Their 2012 debut A Thing Called Divine Fits has earned them rave reviews. You can catch them on Letterman tonight, and on tour in December (they’ll be opening [...]

Mumford & Sons’ impressive debut appearance on Austin City Limits from 2011 re-airs this weekend on PBS. To whet your appetite, watch the band perform “Lover Of The Light,” an unreleased track that ended up being one of the highlights on their new album Babel. For more on Mumford, Read our current cover story and [...]

(Photos by Joshua Black Wilkins) See more photos from our cover shoot here. On a late summer morning in Louisville, a stage is being set up in front of the Ohio River. Security guards in orange vests have put a long, temporary fence around the area, creating a makeshift venue where tonight’s concert will be [...]

Mumford & Sons pose for our November/December 2012 cover shoot in Louisville, Kentucky.

Mumford and Sons are the latest band to record a live session for Daytrotter, and there’s is certainly among the most unique. The band cut their session during their Gentlemen of the Road tour, capturing the eight recordings in a high school auditorium in Dixon Illinois and their own tour bus. Joining them on this [...]

If you want to legitimize your band in the pantheon of rock and roll, you can do a whole lot worse than a duet with Emmylou Harris. The silver-haired songwriter’s discography includes collaborations with Roy Orbison, Willie Nelson and Neil Young, and her contributions to albums by Bob Dylan and Gram Parsons are legendary. She’s [...]

If you tuned into Saturday Night Live this weekend, we feel bad for you (the show hasn’t seemed this uninspired in a long time). However, you did get a double shot of new Mumford and Sons, so we commend you for that. The band peeled off high-energy, surging versions of Babel’s current single “I Will [...]

Mumford & Sons and Emmylou Harris have been confirmed for an episode of CMT Crossroads. The show will be taped in Nashville this week to an invitation-only audience. The concert will feature the English folk rock band and the American singer-songwriter sharing the stage together and is set to air on September 20th. This will [...]