Mercury News, California — Best Coast, Dwight Yoakam, Iron and Wine delivered some of Saturday's best sets at the inaugural Napa festival. more info

Consequence of Sound — Sam Beam's band delivers material from Ghost on Ghost. more info

Consequence of Sound — Sam Beam beefs up the sound once again on his band's fifth full-length. more info

The Good, The Bad and The Unknown — If my poll tells me anything, it's that most of you out there still don't know anything about Record Store Day...or you just don't care about records.  That's okay.  But if you love music...you should know a little something about vinyl.  See, vin... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — The big music releases this week include Iron and Wine's Ghost on Ghost, The Flaming Lips' The Terror, and Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Mosquito. Way To Blue - The Songs Of Nick Drake collects covers of the iconic singer-songwriter's music... more info

Consequence of Sound — A blooming and prismatic story about growth through love. more info

DrownedInSound — In an attempt to not be typecast as just a creaky voiced troubadour, Sam Beam has produced such a musically and lyrically 'busy' record that it results in near sensory overload at times. Read the full story on DrownedinSound.com more info

KEXP Seattle — We like to believe Sam Beam is one of our own. Though he hails about as far away as you can get, from South Carolina and later Florida, the first three Iron & Wine albums were released on Seattle’s celebrated label Sub Pop. And of course, KEXP was ... more info

Chorus.fm — You can now stream Iron & Wine's fifth full-length, titled Ghost on Ghost, over at NPR (http://www.npr.org/2013/04/07/176046723/first-listen-iron-and-wine-ghost-on-ghost). The record drops next week. more info

Consequence of Sound — Sam Beam's "rewarding" fifth record comes one week early. more info