L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — The Specials, Iron & Wine, Sylvan Esso, Squeeze, De La Soul and Warpaint will anchor the first-ever Music Tastes Good festival, a three-day event set for late September in downtown Long Beach. Tickets will go on sale May 13 for the independent-foc... more info

Guardian Music — (Sub Pop)Love Letter for Fire’s particular charm lies in its two creators’ hesitance to take centre-stage. Written as conversational duets, the musical magnetism between first-time collaborators Jesca Hoop, California songwriter and adopted Manch... more info

Nialler9 — Iron & Wine’s Sam Beam & Jesca Hoop have teamed up for a collaborative record entitled Love Letter, to be released on April 15th on Sub Pop. Today, the pair have announced a fully-seated Dublin date, live at the Olympia on Tuesday August 30th. Tic... more info

Ryan's Smashing Life — Tomorrow (March 4, 2016) will see the release of Now That We’re Gone, the highly anticipated debut album from Canyon Spells. Perennial favorites of The Outlaw Roadshow, the Nashville-based indie rock band, have time and again to offer some of the b... more info

Stereogum — We’ve come to the end of another year of A.V. Club’s Undercover series, and the final one this time around is from Iron & Wine’s Sam Beam, who does an acoustic take on Gwar’s “Sick Of You.” Crazy, right? It goes about as well as you’d e... more info

Stereogum — Over the years, Iron & Wine has (d)evolved into this overgrown jam-band entity that grosses me out and makes me sad — but it was not always this way! There was a time when Sam Beam was just a man with an acoustic guitar, a four-track recorder, a fl... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — The Atlantic examined the unlikely resurgence in popularity of the works of H.P. Lovecraft. The A.V. Club reconsidered Bob Dylan's classic Blood on the Tracks album. Longreads features an excerpt from Summer Brennan's book The Oyster War. Iron and Wi... more info

Stereogum — Iron & Wine and Band Of Horses’ Ben Bridwell have teamed up to create a collaborative covers album titled Sing Into My Mouth, which is due out next month. “This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)” was originally released on the Talking Heads’ 1... more info

Stereogum — 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 appeara... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — As you may know, Iron & Wine main man Sam Beam and Band of Horses frontman Ben Bridwell are putting out a collaborative covers album called Sing Into My Mouth this year and playing some shows together too. Since... more info