Iron & Wine: Claim Your Ghost

The lead track on Iron & Wine’s brand new Beast Epic album, “Claim Your Ghost” wins listeners from the start. It’s been four years since Iron & Wine, namely Sam Beam and collaborators, has released new music. There’s much here for longtime fans to love—beauty and sadness mingling throughout, lyrics of thoughtful consideration, empowered arrangements—but a renewed simplicity defines the album from start to finish. …

Premiere: “So Small” by Cody & Danz

A new DIY-style video accompanies the rocking collaborative track

In the midst of two bright and ever-burgeoning solo projects, Danz of Computer Magic and Cody Crump sat together one day to write a track. The process went so well that they ended up with an EP’s worth of collaborative music, released this July under the moniker Cody & Danz. The ease of their collaboration, despite living on opposite coasts, is reflected in the tracks—joyous, …

Phantogram: Funeral Pyre

With their eerie, emotional (and NSFW) video for “Funeral Pyre“—found on last year’s album Three—Phantogram have unleashed an experience that’s set just outside the passenger window of a moving automobile. Traveling in slow-motion, the scenes of the Gianluca Minucci-directed video address everything from violence and sex to the extraordinary and even the ordinary. Truly compelling, the visuals engage with an unexpected power supported by the …