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Ariel Pink & Winston Marshall Unveil Politically Charged Collaboration ’Rudolph’s Laptop’
Ariel Pink and former Mumford & Sons member Winston Marshall have teamed up for a political new collaboration titled “Rudolph’s Laptop,” which takes aim at Hunter Biden’s 2020 laptop controversy, in which President Joe Biden’s son’s laptop was found abandoned at a Delaware computer shop. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news The conservative duo joined Tucker Carlson Tonight this week to promote their new collaboration, which was co-composed by Pink and Marshall along with Two Door Cinema Club’s Alex Trimble. “Rudolph, what have you done?/ They found your laptop, it’s a smoking gun,” Pink sings in the track. In 2021, Pink’s record label removed him from its roster following his attendance the January 6 insurrection. Mexican Summer an...
Marcus Mumford Didn’t Want to ‘Terrorize People’ With Addressing of His Traumatic Past on Solo Debut
Marcus Mumford felt he was covering such potentially triggering terrain on his solo debut, (self-titled), out tomorrow on Capitol Records, that the Mumford & Sons frontman ran every line by a trauma specialist. “I said, ‘Look, I don’t want to terrorize people, I don’t want to activate people for the sake of it. But this feels true to me in every sense,’” he tells Billboard. Mumford confronts his demons from the very first line of the album’s very first song. “Cannibal” calls out the person who sexually abused Mumford when he was six: “I can still taste you and I hate it/ That wasn’t a choice in the mind of a child and you knew it,” he sings calmly, before the song bursts into an explosion of energy as he shifts the narrative to learning to forgive and begin ...
Winston Marshall Leaves Mumford and Sons After Endorsing Andy Ngo’s Book
Back in March, Mumford & Sons banjoist Winston Marshall tweeted his support for right-wing provocateur Andy Ngo following the release of his book Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan To Destroy Democracy and was criticized widely for calling him a “brave man.” A few days later, Marshall stepped away from the band temporarily and now, he’s out of the band permanently. In a post on Medium, Marshall outlined his decision to leave the band. “I believed this tweet to be as innocuous as the others. How wrong I turned out to be,” he wrote. Continuing, Marshall said that anyone calling him a “fascist was ludicrous beyond belief” and that 13 members of his family were murdered during the Holocaust and that his grandmother survived it. Following the initial blowback, Marshall said de...
Marcus Haney on Photo Book Documenting Last Innocent Decade of Concerts
The cover of James Marcus Haney’s new photo book, Fantatics, doesn’t feature a massive arena crowd or rowdy mosh pit — any of the obvious concert imagery one might expect. Instead, it shows two people mid-kiss: eyes largely closed, mouths agape, seemingly transfixed amid a sea of strangers. Haney has “no idea” who they are. “I took one photograph of them, and I don’t think they even registered that a photograph was taken,” he tells SPIN with a laugh. “I hope they are together and married with kids or something. If they see themselves on a bookshelf somewhere, I hope that’s a good thing.” In this case, the image illuminated Haney’s purpose for the book: documenting the personal — and often intimate — side of the concert experience from 2010 through the early pandemic. “Right from the b...
