For those of us lucky enough to get a glimpse of the solar eclipse this week, it was a moment to pause and look skyward (with NASA-approved protective glasses, of course), mouths agape and brains abuzz with the wonders of […]
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After a few years flexing different muscles with collaborative records, Sam Beam is back with his own signature hush of thoughtful Iron & Wine folk songs on Beast Epic. Often so dreamy they could put you to sleep, Iron & […]
I’ve written a lot about how much the crowdfunding world dries up in the summer, as acts turn their focus away from the studio and into the clubs and concert halls. Well, if this week’s new batch of campaigns popping […]
Earlier this year, for the first time in No Depression’s 22 years, we became a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Now, as a nonprofit niche music publication, we quite literally cannot continue to make our quarterly journal and run this website without your […]
Sam Beam, the bearded auteur behind Iron & Wine, has a freak folkie’s obsession with nature, a fondness for Biblical allusions as well as general old timeyness that suggests Smog or Palace, and a showman’s gift for combining the two. […]
It hasn’t taken Sam Beam very long to overhaul his guy-at-home-with-guitar persona. If you’d heard The Creek Drank the Cradle, Iron & Wine’s spare, lo-fi debut, in 2002, it would have been rather difficult to imagine this musical evolution. Creek […]
Quiet, contrary to contemporary common wisdom, is not the new loud — it’s the new dull. Yet with each passing month a new crop of bedroom folkies surfaces, all entertaining illusions of being anointed the next Bob Dylan while oblivious […]
Sam Beam is of that sort, it should be said. The demented genius one-man-band archetype. You know, the same sort as Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails) and Conor Oberst (Bright Eyes). Which really just means two things, likely: 1) Sam […]
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