The Modern Age » mhow http://www.themodernage.org A blog about music, pop culture, the Strokes, Jack White, kittens, and cute boys. Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:19:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Fantastic Foreigners Dazzle: Mumford & Sons and The Middle East http://www.themodernage.org/2010/05/25/fantastic-foreigners-dazzle-mumford-sons-and-the-middle-east/ http://www.themodernage.org/2010/05/25/fantastic-foreigners-dazzle-mumford-sons-and-the-middle-east/#comments Tue, 25 May 2010 07:42:45 +0000 laura http://www.themodernage.org/?p=7926

Last week I headed over to Music Hall of Williamsburg to catch what turned out to be a truly awesome show — British headliners Mumford & Sons and Aussie openers The Middle East.

The room was already packed when The Middle East took the stage. Comprised of seven band members, this band is capable of such a huge, lush sound that is grand and quite beautiful. Their recorded stuff really does not do their live show justice. I was blown away by how absolutely lovely the songs sounded and the term “next big thing” instantly popped into my head as they played one gorgeous song after another.

Punctuated with the sounds of horns, accordions, keyboards, guitars, and drums the tunes soared through the air — songs like “Blood” and “I could see how folks who love bands like Arcade Fire or Polyphonic Spree would have a lot to like in this band. Truly music that deserves a big open field and thousands of people swaying to and fro. Don’t be surprised if you’re looking back on this post in about two years and exclaiming, “Dagnabbit! She was right!”

Headliners Mumford and Sons were a bit late getting to the stage (taking some extra time to get an old timey haircut perhaps?), but proved to be well worth the wait. With solid, jamming tunes, and introspective lyrics, the quartet was impressive.

Some hilarious inter-song banter by singer Marcus Mumford feeling like a fat Englishman while spending the earlier part of the day roaming around the natural habitat of Williamsburg hipsters wearing skinny jeans and Ray Ban sunglasses.

Probably one of my favorite songs they did that night (besides the obvious — “Little Lion Man” and “The Cave”) was a new-ish song called “Lover of the Light.” Love the big booming drums and tempo of the song.

For the encore Mumford brought The Middle East back on stage for a big ol’ jam out — and the audience got behind this joining of forces with hooting, hollering, foot stomping, and clapping. What an absolutely entertaining night!

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More at Second Doubles, Mike from The Middle East’s Blog, Mumford and Sons Blog

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Once again another stellar show from The Dead Weather, this time at the Music Hall of Williamsburg.

The band performed songs off their debut album, Horehound, as well as one new song, “No Horse”:

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