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Alice Cooper Disses On Mumford & Sons Or The Lumineers

by Roger Wink, VVN Music on July 14, 2013

in News

Alice Cooper is not a Mumford & Sons fan and he think The Lumineers suck too.

In an interview with Fuse TV, Alice Cooper took on the current popularity of groups like Mumford and Son, saying they should not be called rock.

Cooper said that “Rock bands don’t have accordions or lutes….or flutes” (although Jethro Tull might object to that last one) and added that, while Mumford and Son may qualify as folk-rock, they certainly are not a rock-and-roll band like the Foo Fighters.

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