When Sam Beam visited Conan as the show’s musical guest last night, he brought plenty of help with him. In this case, Beam’s Iron And Wine project was a total mob: A string quartet, a trio of background singers, and another trio of horn players, as well as the standard guitar/bass/drums/keyboard configuration. On the show [...]

In support of their latest album Ghost on Ghost, Iron & Wine played Late Night With Jimmy Fallon last night. Check out the band’s performance of “Grace for Saints and Ramblers” below.

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According to director Hayley Morris, she made her video for “Joy,” a delicate song from Iron And Wine’s new album Ghost On Ghost, by “projecting hand-painted water color animations into stop-motion landscapes.” This sounds like an incredible amount of work! And in so doing, she created a sense of...

Sam Beam’s built the name of his Iron And Wine project through earnest, unadorned folk-rock. But the first two track we’ve heard from his new album Ghost On Ghost, “Lovers’ Revolution” and “Grace For Saints And Ramblers,” are loose and jazzy things. Today, we learn whether the...