Not that many people released music videos in the first week of the year, though I can't quite figure out why. The world is back at work, it's cold outside, and we need flashy images to occupy our…   Read Story »

Iron & Wine's Kiss Each Other Clean is nearly a year old now, but it's still giving. In the new video for the Kiss track "Godless Brother In Love," attractive young people hang out at backyard…   Read Story »

Last night, Iron & Wine's Sam Beam brought his voluminous beard and his expansive backing band to the stage of The Tonight Show to perform "Flightless Bird, American Mouth (Wedding Version)," his…   Read Story »

One day a year just isn't enough for the people behind Record Store Day, the annual celebration of independent vinyl retailers. So for the second year running, the Record Store Day people have…   Read Story »

In an interview about the fourth Iron & Wine studio album, Kiss Each Other Clean, Sam Beam told SPIN he'd planned to make his major label debut, "more of a focused pop record." To his ears Kiss…   Read Story »

Iron & Wine visited The Greene Space to perform all of Kiss Each Other Clean, in order, for the NPR Music First Listen series. Sam Beam is backed by a full band for this hour-plus concert, which is…   Read Story »

The anticipated next album from Iron & Wine, Kiss Each Other Clean, is out in January. Sam Beam and co. released "Walking Far From Home" as a Record Store Day Black Friday single. Here's another…   Read Story »

This new Iron & Wine single, "Walking Far From Home," was released this past week as a limited-edition Record Store Day Black Friday single. (The song also appears on Sam Beam & Co.'s…   Read Story »

This past weekend Larmer Tree Gardens, near Salisbury, Wiltshire, hosted the fifth annual End Of The Road Festival. This year's lineup continued the festival's peripheral deviation from its folk,…   Read Story »

A couple of days ago Frog Eyes frontman/Swan Lake member Carey Mercer sent us a link to an article in the Edmonton Journal that discussed a clause in the contracts signed by performers at the 2010…   Read Story »