Iron & Wine's Sam Beam decided to change things up a bit for his fourth proper studio album, Kiss Each Other Clean, jumping onto a major label drawing on a sunnier sound and slicker production. The ...

Iron & Wine plays “Singers and the Endless Song,” which the artist rarely performs live. Iron & Wine plays “Singers and the Endless Song,” which the artist rarely performs live. The performance ...

What do Kendrick Lamar, U2 and Roxy Music have in common? (SOUNDBITE OF IRON & WINE AND BEN BRIDWELL SONG, "I STILL HAVEN'T FOUND WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR") SIMON: All their songs, ranging from hip-hop to ...

Last year, the voluminously bearded folk dude Sam Beam, who records as Iron & Wine, released Beast Epic, his first album in six years. As you might imagine, he wrote a lot of songs in those six years, ...

Band names are curious things. They can arise from the strangest of circumstances. Iron & Wine, the name Sam Beam chose for his band — well, more accurately, his one-man project that sometimes ...

Iron & Wine have announced Who Can See Forever, a new concert documentary and live album that will be out November 17 via Sub Pop. Here’s the official word: Captured by director Josh Sliffe at Haw ...

Judging from the trance-inducing, whispered meditations of Iron & Wine, the group’s singer and songwriter, Sam Beam, should be far less affable and more nonchalant. But his music, starting with the ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Samuel Beam is a man with a raw, soulful voice, sporting hearty facial hair and surrounded by some ...

Easy as it is to complain about the sorry state of radio programming, the overwhelming album sales of lip-synchers, and the now-bordering-on-mindless-regurgitation trend of ‘80s New Wave revivalism, ...