The Shepherd's Dog has been out on shelves for a few months but still stands strong against any releases that have come out since. The refreshingly creative album doesn't reveal all its thrilling ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. No phrase can make the heart sink quite like “singer-songwriter.” Patchouli seems to ...

Call me "male," but I just don't get the whole "Twilight" phenomenon. I have nothing against the book, movie or their fans — except for the way they seem to eclipse any music with which they come into ...

There's a metaphor somewhere in Sam Beam's hair. Something that equates his newly expansive locks with the richer, full-bodied sound he now peddles as Iron and Wine. Something that correlates the ...

Better than: Cheap beer chilled in the river and chugged at noon. Unlike weak revivalists, fourth-generation freaky folks, and other bullshitters, Sam Beam's version of Americana has never lapsed into ...

Twentysomethings, for once, didn't have to worry about bumping into their parents Monday night at the Fox Theatre. Austin-based Iron and Wine played a nearly sold-out show at the Fox, a theater that ...

Rarely does a popular songwriter so drastically shift into an entirely different creative direction and sound so great in doing so that their original style is hardly missed at all. The year 2007 ...

Early in a solo performance by Iron and Wine frontman Sam Beam, the singer played a soft and gentle rendition of "Sodom, South Georgia," a tender piece from Our Endless Numbered Days. I had never seen ...

If, as he sings on “Lovesong of the Buzzard,” “No one is the savior they would like to be,” then Sam Beam has found peace in his trespasses. The singer/songwriter is still fascinated with biblical ...

Iron & Wine will return this September with the follow-up to Our Endless Numbered Days, Shepherd's Dog. The new LP - tracklisting below - is to be released via Sub Pop. Of it, and his recent touring ...

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