The Lumineers

while we're on the subject of bands that sound nothing like either nirvana or the lumineers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5ppIEiqg8Y

this thread contains multitudes

yeah. dig that lamps.
also, to be fair, blog dude didn't really float those bands as new nirvanas, more as examples of current bands "with balls" (while also calling out balls as a musical criteria). anyway, got me curious, and now i have discovered some cool bands. thanks, lumfords thread.

http://journalofmusic.com/sites/default/files/images/inline/manhattansyndrome-585x336.jpg

:(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Pk_2dVPjms

fits thread overall, but these two ladies have kind of amazing voices

Blame Seattle.

thx seattle for macklemore and the lumineers

u fuckers

always knowed it werent denvers fault *snaps suspenders*

yeah, but denver is definitely responsible for the flobots who in some ways are like a combo of macklemore and the lumineers...and about ten other terrible things.
http://www.denver.org/secure/Images/Upload/flobots.jpg

i wonder how much time those guys spend hanging around abandoned dirt lots. seems authentic.

I believe this is a prophesy coming to pass:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtAGthTm5d4

Ha!

I miss the comfort in being twee.

Or tweed, take your pick.

'Violin Players With 'TUDE' = innocuous thing that makes me irrationally angry

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzpt0caJON1r9l2zqo1_400.jpg

https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSzygXDUc3ENZ7wgirfP1uAD5yIjv6btFC1f5ZjBr4hQIKKi6MQPg

"punk" volin players used to be a thing. right? kilts. doc martins.

And Doctors of Madness!

They're playing Mumford & Sons on the local mainstream country radio, btw. Which is ironic, because that band is more country than a lot of the country country radio plays.

ok, the loews jingle that just played during a spotify commercial break involved a lumineersian "ho! hey!" in the background. i think that "ho! hey!" thing is going to become a real "thing", and continue to show up in unexpected places.

yeah before you know it they'll be shouting "ho!" and "hey!" in rap songs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fty29zmxndo

okay NOW I can listen to that stupid song

LOL

lol. i enjoyed this thread a lot, especially my back and forth with contenderizer on the topic of "authenticity."

the girl from the lumineers seems likable to me. smiling, unpretentious, and not wearing a fedora.

the only bits i've seen of the video are from what i just posted, and in her limited screen time i don't understand why she looks so jubilantly happy. and why the other guy suddenly looks so jubilantly happy when nothing in the song's tone in that moment suggests jubilant happiness. or why they're singing in the video at all when it only sounds like there's one male voice during the whole verse??

she's just happy about lyfe

someone posted about this festival on fb and i looked up the festival and omg
http://www.gentlemenoftheroad.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYYYAeSWOlI

I notice Haim have been roped in.

In 2012 we began hosting our Gentlemen of the Road Stopovers, a global series of events in small cities and towns around the world. We spent months selecting unique places, creating venues, building the lineups, planning the aftershows, and getting to know the local people who helped make the whole thing work. The results were some of the most amazing and memorable shows we've ever played – and we've played a lot of shows! We hope those of you who made it had as much fun as we did.

This year we've expanded the lineups, changed the format, and worked to improve the experience in ways big and small. We have new towns, new countries, new artists, and new campsites that will become an intimate part of each event. Plus tons of surprises you'll have to see for yourselves! We really couldn't be more excited. But the spirit of the project remains: a music festival that celebrates local people, food and culture, where everyone pitches in and everybody gets something back.

Please join us if you can.

Mumford & Sons

You annoying fucksticks.

"Gentlemen of the Road Stopovers" really sounds like a euphemism for a homosexual rendezvous at a highway rest stop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASO_zypdnsQ

http://cdn.gentlemenoftheroad.com/cdn/resized/cdn/images/_large/MSusatour2012HiResDigitalSelectsIMG_6198-2-300x200.jpg
http://cdn.gentlemenoftheroad.com/cdn/resized/cdn/images/_large/GOTRgalwayJMH-IMG_2425-300x200.jpg

people seem to be having a good time

haha, i was about to write something like "hey let these people have their fun," but that thumbs up banner lollllllz

That's a hand-made woodcut 'like' stamp from when social networks were more authentic.

That Harry Caray thing is perfect.

they were on Colbert last night. drummer had suspeders and a dirty tshirt. the bassist wore a knit cap, a tie, glasses, and was BAREFOOT. I hate them forever.

I left the room during the break before they came on. Didn't turn off the tv, but didn't watch.

Yeah let these people have a good time but yeah suspenders and fedoras are dumb then again all popular music has lame fashion cues and performance mask attached to it are they really any lamer than the rock band that refuses to smile

Sometimes you just got to move from Brooklyn into your friends place in Denver to make it big, the world is a strange place

I had friends who went to one of those Gentlemen of the Road deals somewhere out from here. They were really impressed that the Mumford dudes played basketball with their kids. My friends' kids, that is. I think the Mumfords are too young to have kids.

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02427/mumford3_2427266b.jpg

I'm hoping the Americana thing is eventually going to lead to some steampunk group blowing up and going mega-mainstream.

troy seems pretty authentic when i drive through it. there's a grain elevator right at the edge of town, i think. dunno how much traction americana gets around here, tho, because people who live here don't live far enough away from here to mythologize it that way. mostly it's just actual bluegrass festivals or else trace adkins summer country jam type of stuff. also juggalos and jamband fans.

don't know how you'd celebrate local food unless skyline has a location there. cassano's pizza i like but that's no reason to make this one of only 3 u.s. stops.

or stopovers, whatever.

i don't know if it's this band or which of the dueling banjos bands it is, but i swear that it takes a lot of agitation to make me turn off the radio in disgust and the song i have heard yesterday and today has brought me to that point

i think it might be mumfords but who the f knows all i can hear are the stupid banjos and some quasi-xtian sounding heavily harmonized male singing about waiting
i can try to have sympathy for people who like this song, but i seriously hope i never have to listen to it again

I think that's Mumford. I just found out the other day that his parents are the founders/leaders of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vineyard_Churches_UK_and_Ireland which makes perfect sense.