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Music: Rock/Pop Iron & Wine w/ Califone

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Sam Beam's creative growth over the last five years is more than a little miraculous. Though his early recordings as Iron & Wine were textbook lo-fi indie folk, there was a precision to his approach — a sense that every slide guitar and gently intoned vocal had its place. Leaping ahead a few stylistic light-years, Beam's outstanding new album, The Shepherd's Dog, sees Iron & Wine's mosaic expanding to encompass an entire band's worth of strategically placed musical tiles. The record plays like a folk-based version of Talking Heads' Remain in Light, flitting through genres as previously un-Iron & Wine-y as Afrobeat and dub. Americana-loving, noise-and-melody tinkerers Califone join the bill tonight.

– Todd Goldstein

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