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  Mumford & Sons Cancel Bonnaroo Set as Bassist Recovers From Brain Surgery

  June 14, 2013 – Mumford & Sons have canceled their Saturday night headlining performance at Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival 2013. The band made the announcement on Thursday via their Facebook page, just days after bassist Ted Dwane received emergency surgery for a blood clot that was discovered on the surface of his brain. According to the statement, Dwane is currently recovering, but the U.K. …
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  Splendour in the Grass 2013 Lineup: Frank Ocean, TV on the Radio, the National, Wavves

  April 24, 2013 – Frank Ocean, the National, Mumford & Sons, TV on the Radio, James Blake, Empire of the Sun, and Wavves are headed to the land down under for this year's Splendour in the Grass festival. …
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  Who Charted? Mumford Are Still Winning and Baauer Is Still (Harlem) Shaking

  February 27, 2013 – First! Yeah, it's still Mumford and Sons on top, with Babel riding that Album of the Year Grammy high all the way to the bank (note the MasterCard logos above, hovering like flies around the dollar-eyed guffawing banjo-diddlers). We do not consider it good news that one of SPIN's Worst New Music recipients sold 66,000 more copies according to Nielsen SoundScan, even if that figure is rather low for a No. …
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  SPIN's Director of the Year Tom Scharpling on 2012's Buzziest Music Videos

  December 6, 2012 –  When Tom Scharpling isn't hosting the much-loved, free-form The Best Show on WFMU or interviewing the likes of Fucked Up's Damian Abraham for his Low Times podcast, he's directing charmingly low-key, ingeniously high-concept music videos. …
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  Who Charted? Mumford Make Room for Macklemore, MGK in Top 10

  October 17, 2012 – First! To quote our Worst New Music-branded review of Mumford and Sons' new yawner, Babel: "Ah, fuck." The banjo boys are holding strong at the top of the Billboard 200 with 96,000 units moved. …
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  Mumford & Sons Outsell Everyone With Biggest Debut Week of 2012

  October 3, 2012 – This ain't no sham: As projected, Mumford & Sons' sincerely unadventurous second LP Babel had the biggest debut sales week of the year, according to Billboard. Moving more than 600,000 copies, the British folk-rockers handily beat out 2012 releases by Justin Bieber, Madonna, and Pink.In fact, the Mumfords just about doubled the unit-shifting performance of some of pop's biggest stars. …
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  Mumford & Sons Are Somehow Bigger Than Justin Bieber, Madonna

  September 27, 2012 – Mumford & Sons' otherwise underwhelming second LP Babel is on track to have the biggest debut sales week of the year, putting it ahead of 2012 releases by Justin Bieber, Madonna and Pink by roughly twice as many units moved. According to Billboard, it could sell 600,000 copies.That Babel will sit at the top of next week's Top 10 on the Billboard 200 album sales chart is a given at this point. (Bieber's No. …
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  Mumford and Sons, 'Babel' (Gentlemen of the Road/Glassnote)

  September 24, 2012 – The first album Marcus Mumford ever paid attention to, he has said, was Slow Train Coming, which came out in 1979, eight years before he was born. You know, Bob Dylan's first Christian one: "It may be the devil, or it may be the Lord, but you're gonna have to serve somebody."The album was Marcus' mom's copy. …
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  Mumford & Sons Drop Details on Upcoming 'Babel'

  July 30, 2012 – Over the past few years, while Mumford & Sons were rocketing from playing small, hushed clubs on the London folk circuit to stamping their feet on the main stages at the Coachella and Glastonbury festivals, they learned something about how to make a record. …
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  Mumford & Sons Promise Darkness But No Craziness on Fall LP 'Babel'

  July 16, 2012 – Last month, Mumford & Sons dropped a twee 36-second trailer that hinted via maritime flag signals that the their follow-up to the ridiculously successful debut Sigh No More would be called Babel. …
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