Editor's Letter

If there's one place I'd like to be right now, it's sitting on the porch of Sam Beam's studio in Dripping Springs, Texas, listening to the hum of bugs. Simple, really. Roll a cigarette, listen to some Panda Bear, look out over the hill-country scrub. Much like Jay Gross (see page 17), who sweetly remembers Iron and Wine's music as once - sometime before the release of Garden State - seeming like a kind of "password, a secret handed from person to person". Fascinating to watch a band move from ...