Last year, Sam Beam released his first Iron & Wine album in six years, Beast Epic. It was nominated for a Grammy, and Beam apparently had more solid material where that came from because later this month he's releasing a new EP, Weed Garden, made up of songs that were written during that same six-year…

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, and all of those songs didn't make it onto Beast Epic. And next month, Beam will release…

Track features on the compilation 'Archive Series Volume No. 1'

Earlier this year, Sam Beam’s beard-folk project Iron & Wine released the old-unreleased-songs collection Archive Series Volume No. 1, compiling music that Beam recorded around the same time as he made his 2002 debut The Creek Drank The Cradle. One of those songs was the lovely, minimal “Everyone’s Summer O...

Earlier this month, Iron & Wine’s Sam Beam and Band Of Horses’ Ben Bridwell announced that they would be releasing a covers album called Sing Into My Mouth. They’ve just shared the first two tracks from the record to coincide with their appearance on Letterman last night. One of them is a cover of Sade&...