Iron & Wine- The Creek Drank The CradleLabel: Sub Pop Released 2002 Iron and Wine is the one guy and his tape deck project of Samuel Beam. It's an ode to an older South, defined by traditional values, pastoral imagery, and arcane manners. Beam teaches cinematography at a local Miami college, and this connection with film shows in the construct of his songs. It's arresting stuff; intimate "American Gothic" style portraits and landscapes with traditional sounding backdrops, and laced with

The Diamond Sea

F*** You Aurora

and indeed a product of today

May 26  Seattle

This new half-speed master release for Record Store Day is part of the Two Tone Records 40th Anniversary celebrations

jangly guitars that make it impossible to not bounce your head along to

The riffs are massive

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One Chance

Medicine at Midnight is the new album from Foo Fighters

there's no way anyone could have predicted the eventual impact made by a mail-order album designed in a pair of West Coast bedrooms

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