Morning Music Notes – Underage farm rocks

Mumford & Sons finishing new albums
Mumford & his Sons have announced that they are putting the finishing touches on their second album. Every interview on the planet has quickly shifted from “are you surprised at the success of your first album” to “how do you deal with the pressure of your first album?” and the band is taking it in stride:

The fact that the first record did well was great, but it didn’t make our lives. It’s just a by-product of what we do, which is record music and play gigs.

Good answer from a VERY good band.
Via GigWise…

New Acts Added to Coolest Festival EVER!
I love the concept of the underage festival – we’ve never been, as the staff at PHM are all alarmingly old. Whereas 13-17 year olds can alternatively attend:
a) Regular festivals, where they can have beer spilled on them by alarmingly old, alarmingly drunk PeteHatesMusic staff;
b) Other music industry ‘teen’ events – which are typically $150 a seat pop star concerts, where more money is spent attempting to sell the audience brand loyalty than inspiring them to love music.
The Underage Festival has just added Hadouken! Jessie Ware, and Tribes to a lineup that already includes Fixers, Maverick Sabre, Zulu Winter, Pulled Apart by Horses, and more… You better believe that at least one teenager at that festival starts a band that we all love in 10 years – and isn’t THAT what it should be about?
A much less ranty version via UnderageFestival.com…

Dreezy and Breezy Brawl…zy
Remember that east-coast-west-coast hip hop “war”? Remember how intense and scary it seemed, and how (frankly) interesting, engaging, and genuine its combatants seemed? This is not that.
MTV.com has posted a timeline to the brawl – giving a blow-by-blow account of how the hip-hop stars’ entourages got into a bottle-hurling brawl in NYC this week.
Via MTV…

STREAM – new album from Reverend & the Makers
Reverend and the Makers claim to have “cheered the fuck up” (that’s an amazing quote!) on their new album. Take a listen for yourself @NME…

What is the best music biopic of all time?
While our choice is still the David Bowie story: Labyrinth, some good writers at The Guardian have recommended some different ones… Check out the list Via Guardian...