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. …

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 …

Tourist feat. Ardyn: We Stayed Up All Night

There is a moment in time, perhaps at five or six or even seven in the morning after the night has been spent dancing or talking to friends with fervor, when the sun quietly and powerfully rises in the distance. Tourist’s track “We Stayed Up All Night” captures this beautifully. Now, the song—which features vocals from Katy Pearson of Ardyn—has a Daniel Brereton-directed music video …