L.A. Times - Entertainment — There s a graduate thesis waiting to happen in exploring the strangely beatific air that surrounds the music of Sam Beam s Iron & Wine. There s a graduate thesis waiting to happen in exploring the strangely beatific air that surrounds the music of Sa... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — There’s a graduate thesis waiting to happen in exploring the strangely beatific air that surrounds the music of Sam Beam’s Iron & Wine. With poetic songs that unspool like oblique parables and a lush beard that would make naturalist John... more info

melophobe — California: I hate you. You get all of Animal Collective to yourself. Portland: Starfucker loves you. Need proof? Scroll down through these tour dates and see that they have scheduled THREE shows for you this year. In a ROW! As far as these other l... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — The biggest music release in months brings several noteworthy releases. Iron & Wine's Kiss Each Other Clean, John Vanderslice's White Wilderness, Destroyer's Kaputt, and Deerhoof's Deerhoof Vs. Evil are all among my most anticipated indie releases of... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — DOWNLOAD: Iron & Wine - Tree By the River (new MP3) Iron & Wine @ Greenespace on 1/5 (more by Aaron Epstein) Friday, January 28, 2011 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm - Live from SoHo: Iron and Wine Iron and... more info

Chorus.fm — Check out a live session from *Iron & Wine* (http://www.absolutepunk.net/ironandwine) for NPR here (http://www.npr.org/2011/01/21/133059550/iron-and-wine-tiny-desk-concert). Submitted by youngmountain more info

Jam! Showbiz Music, Canada — Iron & Wine beams back to the '70s, Pearl Jam and Wanda party on, Robert Pollard gets his kicks, the 'Hawks flock and the Gang's here again. Everybody's having fun this week. more info

LargeHeartedBoy — TeamCoco is streaming the new Iron and Wine album, Kiss Each Other Clean (out January 25th). Aquarium Drunkard interviews filmmaker John Scheinfield about his documentary, Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin’ About Him?). Nialler9 is ... more info

Guardian Music — (4AD)As you might expect of an erstwhile lecturer and father of five with a beard the size of a copse, Sam Beam has scant regard for notions of cool. His fourth album as Iron and Wine is accordingly packed with sounds that a more self-conscious indie... more info

Stereogum — In an interview about the fourth Iron & Wine studio album, Kiss Each Other Clean, Sam Beam told SPIN he’d planned to make his major label debut, “more of a focused pop record.” To his ears Kiss “sounds like the music people heard in their par... more info