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Our New York trio Sunflower Bean, vocalist and bassist Julia Cumming (she/her), guitarist and vocalist Nick Kivlen (he/him), and drummer Olive Faber (she/her), have released their first fully self-produced and recorded project, SHAKE, today. The EP features some of Sunflower Bean’s heaviest, most immediate and loudest music to date. Influenced by the doom-laden, heavy metal sound of the likes of Black Sabbath, the EP is an embrace of rock tropes and excess, and recalls the sound of the band’s earlier projects, Show Me Your Seven Secrets and Human Ceremony.

Out alongside the release of the EP, is a 14-minute performance based video to showcase each track via an interpretation of the natural elements: earth, wind, water, fire, and metal. The short film debuted at a special event at NYC’s Roxy Cinema earlier this week, which featured a Q&A with the band and the film’s director Isaac Roberts, as well as a viewing of the cult 1975 Dario Argento film, Deep Red. Watch the SHAKE short film in its entirety above now, and read more about it via Rolling Stone.

Charly Bliss release a video for “I’m Not Dead”, a highlight from their recently released critically acclaimed new album FOREVER.

“I wrote this song at the start of covid when I thought I was going to die and I was sad that I hadn’t partied more, if this was truly the end“, Eva Hendricks explains. Video director, Charly Bliss’ own Dan Shure, says “We thought this song needed a music video. Eva and I have both become huge fans of Murder She Wrote, so this was the perfect chance to make a fun, creative lyric video. We shot this on an iPhone literally one day after we wrapped the Back There Now video (which was also my birthday). We started writing the song over zoom, alongside K.Flay. Over a year later, as the song went through a few different versions, we finally ended up with this soaring fuzzy power pop hit.”

Plus, Charly Bliss are kicking off their North American tour in support of FOREVER tonight, in Washington, DC. Their energetic and jovial live show, which Pitchfork recently called “a giddy, heart-racing time,” is not to be missed! All tour dates and tickets available on their website.

New York trio Sunflower Bean have shared the second slice of their first fully self-produced and recorded project, Shake. The EP, which will be released on September 27th, has already been praised for its grungy, return-to-roots sound, following the release of its title track. Today, the band doubles down on this exciting direction with new single “Teach Me To Be Bad”. A song, the band explain, about how “a chance meeting with a special person can change your life forever. It can be exhilarating and frightening to fall madly for someone you barely know.”

The music videos for “Teach Me To Be Bad” and “Shake” are part of a 14-minute performance based video to showcase each track via an interpretation of the natural elements: earth, wind, water, fire, and metal. Sunflower Bean have also announced an exclusive premiere of that short film at Roxy Cinema in NYC on September 25th. The event will include a premiere of the full video, Q&A with the band and director Isaac Roberts, as well as a screening of the cult 1975 Dario Argento film, Deep Red. Tickets are available now.

Today Hinds return with “The Bed, The Room, The Rain And You”, the final single before they release their new album VIVA HINDS in its entirety next month, and the only song on the album sung in both English and Spanish.

On the new single, Carlotta Cosials & Ana Perrote note, “It’s a love song that has nothing to do with being with the other person or even whether it is reciprocated. We’re talking about the most simple version of it. Love is like a magic shelter that you can take everywhere with you.” On the music video, they add, “we started this adventure of directing all the music videos of this album with a bag full of imagination and dreams. the friends, the bikes, the dancing, a business that never existed, the body guards of beck, and ice-creams, hollywood, and surrealism and tiny houses. very slowly we wanted to guide you and place your attention in what we really do: music. For ‘The bed, the room, the rain and you,’ we wanted to finish the story with where everything started: recording the album.”

Charly Bliss today release “Back There Now”, the jaunty final single from their anticipated new album FOREVER, out this Friday! The song arrives with a tongue-in-cheek video directed by the band’s Dan Shure.

“One of the craziest things about getting older is growing away from the things you did when you were young(er) and stupid(er). But then I’ll read something or hear a song that takes me right back to the dramatic insanity of my early twenties love life, and I’m forced to acknowledge the freaky glutton for pain and heartache who’s still somewhere inside of me no matter how deeply I’ve buried her,” Eva Hendricks says of the song.

Dan Shure on the “Back There Now” video: “What originally began as us trying to make a cool video with limited budget, became a sort of deeper meta video about that exact situation. We’re SERVING expensive-looking pop video, but then at the end the facade crumbles. People sometimes think that indie musicians are rich and famous when, in reality, the members of Charly Bliss all have other jobs to support ourselves. In the video you see us on these various modes of transportation and you’re not quite sure what the destination is… but we’re moving! This video was SO fun to direct as a member of the band because we got to both make fun of these tropes of expensive pop videos, while also kind of living that fantasy. It feels very Charly Bliss to me!”