Marcus Mumford, “(self-titled).” With Marcus Mumford as the chief songwriter and patriarchal namesake his band, you wouldn’t be faulted for thinking of Mumford & Sons as a solo project. Yet there are things so personal that are better owned entirely by the person who experienced them. (Self-titled) is an…

Insert Foot vs. Winston Marshall and the rule of responsible stupidity. Original photo: Joaquin Cabello/STAFF. Don’t you hate it when someone, whose work you enjoy, does something really stupid? This week it was Mumford & Sons banjo player Winston Marshall, who last week tweeted to right-wing journalist Andy Ngo,…

The Raconteurs perform during radio station Live 105’s Not So Silent Night at SAP Center in San Jose on Dec. 7, 2019. Photos courtesy RADIO.COM. SAN JOSE — Some of the biggest names in alt-rock descended on the SAP Center on a soggy Saturday night in the South Bay…

Mumford & Sons perform at Chase Center in San Francisco on Sept. 19, 2019. Photos: Joaquin Cabello. SAN FRANCISCO — One year, they were playing Popscene to a couple hundred people. Fast forward a decade, and they were being handed the John Steinbeck Award by two of the Bay Area’s premier…

San Jose State University and Stanford Live will present Mumford & Sons with the John Steinbeck Award in a ceremony and acoustic performance at the Bing Concert Hall on Sept. 18. Tickets will be sold to the event, with proceeds benefiting the Steinbeck Service Fellowship created by Nick Taylor of the…

Since the release of Wilder Mind in 2015, Mumford & Sons have experimented with breaking out of their folk rock bubble. Their new album, Delta, positions itself as a somewhat experimental, yet entirely familiar, addition to the band’s discography. If Wilder Mind made a stab toward Top 40 alt-rock, Delta doesn’t quite…

At 54 years old, and 26 years after his most famous band’s debut, guitarist Tom Morello is releasing The Atlas Underground, an album of collaborations with a variety of contemporary musicians. The Atlas Underground Tom Morello Oct. 12 This stage of Morello’s career recalls Santana, who released 1999’s Supernatural at…

Photos: Celine Teo-Blockey PASADENA– Arroyo Seco Weekend proved a success, delivering a multi-generational music festival with something for everyone. Held in the shadow of the Rose Bowl on June 24 and 25, its slant toward jazz and funk brought out the Pasadena locals, armed with their deck chairs and picnic…

Pasadena’s inaugural Arroyo Seco Weekend festival will forego EDM in favor of jazz and funk during its two-day, 30-act lineup. Charles Bradley & His Extraordinaires, New Orleans torchbearers the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and the Meters share the bill with headliners Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers and Mumford & Sons, along with indie rock…

Photos: Tim Durkan SANTA CLARA — On its own, U2 performing its 1987 breakout album, The Joshua Tree, is significant for two reasons. Foremost, it means the Irish band has accepted its position as a legacy band with a storied songbook that the casual fan prefers over new material. But…