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Bandcamp / Buy Sam Beam just sorta stumbled into Iron & Wine. When he moved to Tallahassee to attend graduate school at Florida State University’s College of Motion Picture Arts in the late 1990s, writing songs was merely a hobby. It was more like an extension of his filmmaking, and he didn’t think much of the music he did make, at least not until a friend lent him a four-track recorder. Setting his songs to tape and playing them back, Beam could actually hear them for the first...

New Music Reviews (5/10) KEXP Each week, Music Director Don Yates shares brief insights on new and upcoming releases for KEXPs rotation. These reviews help our DJs decide on what they want to play. See what we added this week below (and on our Charts page), including new releases from Squid, Bright Green Field (Warp) This British band’s debut full-length is an inventive blend of jittery post-punk with jazz, ambient, funk, prog and other styles. Produced by Dan Darey, the album ...

(5 out of 5 stars) "I first heard a few cuts of "The Creek Drank the Cradle" via some MP3s a good friend sent me. Having *no* idea who "Iron & Wine" was, I was immediately taken by the lo-fi, harmonious, hushed vocals, and soft, slow, easy pacing. I swore that this had to be some lost recording from the late 1960s from some unknown progressive (for the 60s) folk/blues/country inspired band. It sounded nice, but I didnt end up listening much for a few weeks. After getting the album and learni...

Gigulate Iron & Wine Announce Unearthed Album Recorded Before Their Debut: Hear “Calm On The Valley” In 2002, before beardy indie-folk became a cliché, Sam Beam broke out in a big way with The Creek Drank The Cradle, his debut album as Iron & Wine. It’s not like those hushed lo-fi home recordings were the first songs Beam ever recorded, though. Today he has announced an unearthed album recorded in the late ’90s, when he was a student at Florida State University’s College of Motion Pi...

Little Oblivions reflects upon the chaos we are currently living through, as well as a reflection of Baker’s own run-ins with adversity.

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SHARE From BTS to Dolly Parton: the 2020 books that tell the stories of some of musics biggest names This year saw the release of a number of titles that pull back the curtain on the music industry Bring That Beat Back: How Sampling Built Hip-Hop by Nate Patrin Can’t Slow Down: How 1984 Became Pop’s Blockbuster Year by Michaelangelo Matos Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics, by Dolly Parton with Robert K. Oermann Indian Sun: The Life and Music of Ravi Shankar, by Oliver Craske Larg...

Ed Sheeran’s Afterglow is the Christmas song we never even knew we needed The pop star has come out of retirement with a beautiful surprise seasonal song that has none of the brashness of our usual festive tunes 21 December 2020 • 2:57pm The singer has taken a break from his newborn to write a Christmas song for fans needing a pick-me-up Just when you thought things couldn’t get any worse, Ed Sheeran releases a new single. I’m joking, of course. It is genuinely a treat to have Britain�...

This week we look back to our 33 rd anniversary show, recorded in 2016, with our Song of the Week by Iron & Wine. 1 of 5  — Tift Merritt-2016 2 of 5  — Andy Shauf-2016 3 of 5  — Paper Bird 2016 4 of 5  — Todd Burge 2016 5 of 5 With an ear for cinematic folk music, critically-acclaimed singer Sam Beam, who performs and records as Iron & Wine, does "We Two Are A Moon" as ...