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Marcus Mumford Says Band ‘Put a Real Effort’ Into Picking Rarities, Classics & Surprising Live Tunes For New SiriusXM Pop-Up Channel
Marcus Mumford says his band has combed their archives for favorite tracks, rarities, collaborations and live tracks for new pop-up SiriusXM channel.
Mumford & Sons could have done the usual promotional run to get fans hyped for their upcoming Rushmere album, the folk rock trio’s first in seven years. And while singer Marcus Mumford will surely sit down for some interviews and the band have booked a run of intimate promo gigs in New York and the U.K. through April 3, one of the things the group’s frontman tells Billboard they wanted to do this time around was find a way to deeply connect with fans where they already are. “When the SiriusXM team suggested it we leapt at it,” Mumford says of the channel he promises will feature hand-picked songs from across the band’s catalog, as well as some of their favorite collaborations with artists including The National’s Aaron Dessner on the Grateful Dead’s “Friend of the Devil,” and “special moments” with Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen and Joni Mitchell, among others.
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