When soft became the new loud in indie circles a few years ago, Iron and Wine quickly stepped ahead of the pack as the most arresting of the whispery new-folk artists. Led by the gentle-voiced Sam ...

On his 2001 debut, The Creek Drank the Cradle, Iron & Wine's Sam Beam emerged as a premier chronicler of bare-bones Southern Gothic folk misery, melding bleakness and timeless beauty with nothing ...

Veteran folk-rock act Iron and Wine will release "Ghost on Ghost," the follow-up to 2011's "Kiss Each Other Clean," on Apr. 16 through Nonesuch Records. The album will be Iron and Wine's first on ...

(See past episodes of Name That Band! here.) This week: Iron & Wine’s Sam Beam, whose stellar new album, Kiss Each Other Clean, is due January 25, the same date that the Austin, Texas ...

Bon Iver kicked off a good evening for bearded guys by picking up four Grammy nominations last night, then a pair of sweet-voiced beardos took over the talk shows: Iron and Wine hit The Tonight ...

With his high forehead and thick, bushy beard, Iron and Wine's Sam Beam looks like he could be carved from granite. But the music he played at the Wiltern Tuesday -- both alone and with the Tucson ...

Greenbelt Harvest Picnic organizers ousted Iron and Wine from this year's show because of a dispute over the band's contract, the prominent folk act says. The harvest picnic's organizers first ...

You could say the same about the music he makes under the "nom de disque", Iron & Wine. Beam's success has grown steadily and organically since the release of his first album, The Creek Drank the ...