Iron and Wine

The latest AUK Podcast now available this week featuring the brilliant Sam Beam of Iron and Wine

March 13, 2026 Keith Hargreaves 0

This week’s podcast sees Keith chatting with Sam Beam following the release of Iron and Wine’s latest Hen’s Teeth. It’s an illuminating insight into process and creativity with a genuine musical genius. There are also new […]

Video: Iron and Wine “Roses” – Laugh into each other’s empty mouth

March 13, 2026 Andrew Frolish 0

The much-loved Iron and Wine, also known as multi-instrumentalist and producer Sam Beam, has released the third single from his brand new album, Hen’s Teeth. Released on 27th February 2026 via Sub Pop, this is the […]

Iron And Wine “Hen’s Teeth”

February 23, 2026 Paul Kerr 0

Sam Beam delivers a companion album to 2024’s Light Verse Punted in the publicity handout as a “sibling” album to 2024’s Light Verse, primarily as many of the songs contained here originated at the same sessions, […]

Sounds from beyond the Shed 219 “Nothing to see here”

February 2, 2026 Keith Hargreaves 0

I said in last week’s column that I was attending the AUK Writers weekend in Buxton this last weekend. I also said that what happens in Buxton generally stays in Buxton. And therefore, I must report […]

Iron and Wine announce their eighth album for February – it’s a rare thing!

January 9, 2026 Keith Hargreaves 0

Iron & Wine, the solo project of multi-instrumentalist and producer Sam Beam, has announced their eighth full-length album, “Hen’s Teeth”, is due out on February 27th via Sub Pop and available to preorder here. To accompany […]

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Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

March 23, 2026 0

Dead Goat has announced the release of their first album, which is self-titled and comes out this Friday (26th March) via AV8 Records. Who are they, you ask? Well, individually, they are each accomplished artists in […]

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

March 23, 2026 0

Superb fourth from Canadian song thrush. Mud Blood Bone is Cat Clyde’s fourth album and arrives just over four years since its predecessor, Down Rounder. In between times, Clyde released a live album, Live At Rare […]

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

March 23, 2026 0

Marah is at their best when singing about lonely urban streets where bums warm their hands around trash fires in rusty 50-gallon cans, transvestite prostitutes wrap their feather boas a little tighter against an unforgiving 4:00 […]

Interviews

Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

March 12, 2026 0

Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]

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Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

March 4, 2026 2

At 55, Glen Phillips sounds both reflective and lightly amused when he talks about the band he co-founded as a teenager in Santa Barbara, California. Four decades later, Toad the Wet Sprocket is still touring, still […]

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Interview: Hall of Fame Songwriter Beth Nielsen Chapman on what makes a good song

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The latest AUK Podcast now available this week featuring the brilliant Sam Beam of Iron and Wine

Video: Iron and Wine “Roses” – Laugh into each other’s empty mouth

Iron And Wine “Hen’s Teeth”

Sounds from beyond the Shed 219 “Nothing to see here”

Iron and Wine announce their eighth album for February – it’s a rare thing!

Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

Jack Studer “Falling Forward”