Podbit · Call Her Daddy
After being told by people she knew personally that she'd never succeed as a solo artist, Chloe's debut performance at the VMAs ended with her sobbing in the wings, surrounded by her whole family. It wasn't about the platinum record — it was about proving it to herself.
Kendrick Lamar invited Marcus backstage after his Bonnaroo headline set. Marcus walked in to find Kendrick stripping down to his underwear — and Marcus called it pure gumption.
Marcus quit TikTok before releasing his new record. He didn't want any comment to spoil his own experience of the album. It's the first record he's released without reading a single word of press — and he feels free.
Marcus started drumming on pots and pans in the kitchen, took it seriously through school, then quit college to be Laura Marling's session drummer. That first job in music led directly to Mumford & Sons.
Mumford & Sons hired all their favourite musicians as a house band and rode a train across America, learning special guests' songs the day before performing them. Everyone got paid equally. Whatever was left after the expensive trains got shared out.
In Australia on the opening night of the Prizefighter tour, Mumford & Sons started a new song that went so catastrophically wrong — everyone in the wrong key and wrong time — that they just stopped halfway through and never restarted it. Marcus wanted to fall through the floor.
T-Bone Burnett found unused Bob Dylan lyrics from the 1960s in shoeboxes at Big Pink and asked if musicians could set them to music. Dylan said yes. Marcus joined Elvis Costello, Jim James and others to write and record songs for them — with Sam Jones documenting everything.
When Ira Losco won Eurovision in 2002, the entire family's life changed overnight. Jacqui reflects on what it meant to be the sister at the centre of that cultural moment, including the conflicting feelings of pride and being overshadowed.
Rick Rubin told David Senra he is a 'lazy workaholic' who has to force himself into the studio every day — he would rather sit outside in the sun. What keeps him going is not love of the process but addiction to that one magical moment when everything clicks.
Don Cornelius was a mid-century integration-minded Black businessman who had spent his career building toward mainstream acceptance on Black terms. When hip-hop arrived in the '80s, he saw it as a step backward — the opposite of everything smooth he stood for — and his on-air awkwardness with artists like Public Enemy made it painfully visible.
We use essential and analytics cookies to run Vuci. To understand how the site is used: Privacy Policy.
Install Vuci on your phone
Add it to your home screen for a faster, app-like experience.
Install Vuci on your phone
Tap the Share button, then “Add to Home Screen”.
A new version is available
Reload to get the latest Vuci.