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  WATCH: Iron and Wine Perform New Album Live

  January 6, 2011 – Iron and Wine will release their excellent major-label debut Kiss Each Other Clean on January 25, but Wednesday night Sam Beam and his band of folkies did something unusual for bands who are about to drop a new album: They teased the set by performing the entire thing live, from front-to-back. …
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  Hear It: Iron and Wine's Glossy Pop Ballad

  December 17, 2010 – Iron and Wine won't release their major-label debut Kiss Each Other Clean until early next year, but frontman Sam Beam has offered an early look at the record with the new song "Tree By the River." Grab it (in exchange for your email address) here. Back in October, Beam told SPIN the new album was a "focused pop record" and reflected the AM Gold he heard in his youth. …
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  The 27 Winter Albums That Matter Most

  November 29, 2010 –  …
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  Iron and Wine Goes Major on New LP

  October 11, 2010 – After releasing four albums on indie label Sub Pop, Iron and Wine is jumping over to the big leagues: frontman Sam Beam has signed with major label Warner Brothers and is prepping a new album, Kiss Each Other Clean, which is due out in January. The album will be Beam's first since 2007's The Shepherd's Dog. Before dropping his major label debut, Beam has lined up a nine date tour for November. …
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  New Albums from Eminem, Green Day, and 8 More

  May 19, 2009 – Here's a rundown of the essential albums available online and in record stores today: Eminem, RelapseSlim Shady gets back to his blood-soaked roots.Read Review >> Green Day, 21st Century BreakdownBillie Joe Armstrong is still deeply, elaborately bummed -- sorry, Obamaniacs! Read Review >> Tori Amos, Abnormally Attracted to SinMessage? Awesome. Medium? Not so much. …
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  Iron and Wine Kick Off U.S. Tour

  May 5, 2009 – The crowd at Seattle's Vera Project was pin-drop quiet for the 70-minute duration of Iron and Wine's sold-out tour opener Monday night. The youth volunteer-run venue in the urban fairgrounds of Seattle Center, not far from the Space Needle, is an anomaly in the local scene: all-ages means no bar; no drinking means no loud drunkards talking during the show. …
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  Ben Kweller Reviews S.F.'s Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Fest

  October 9, 2008 – This past weekend, San Francisco's Golden Gate Park welcomed the eighth annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, with its truly eclectic bill, including Gogol Bordello, Emmylou Harris, Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, Elvis Costello, Iron & Wine, and Bonnie "Prince" Billy, among others. Another performer: country-lovin' indie-rocker Ben Kweller. Kweller played, but he also watched scores of live sets. …
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