Aug 28, 2024 By Andy Von Pip

New York trio Sunflower Bean has released their latest single, “Teach Me to Be Bad,” as they gear up for the launch of their upcoming EP, Shake. More

Jul 26, 2024 By Mark Redfern (and Marina Malin)

Welcome to the 24th Songs of the Week of 2024. This week’s list covers the last week. This week Andy Von Pip, Caleb Campbell, Marina Mallin, Matt the Raven, and Scotty Dransfield helped me decide what should make the list. We considered over 20 songs and narrowed it down to a Top 12. More

Jul 24, 2024 By Marina Malin

New York trio Sunflower Bean have announced their first self-produced and recorded EP, Shake. They have also shared their lead track—which is also the title track—“Shake.” More

Apr 19, 2024 By Mark Redfern

Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of our new print issue, Issue 72, The ’90s Issue, which features interviews with musicians and film directors known for their work in that decade and has The Cardigans and Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth on the two covers. As well as articles on Britpop, shoegaze, and the TV show Twin Peaks (for which we spoke to much of the cast), the issue includes interviews with Garbage, The Cranberries, Pavement, Lisa Loeb, Supergrass, Spiritualized, Lush, Ride, Velocity Girl, Gus Van Sant, Penelope Spheeris, Terry Gilliam, Stereo MC’s, Semisonic, Blonde Redhead, Sleater-Kinney, and more. More

May 06, 2022 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)

Welcome to the 18th Songs of the Week of 2022. There were lots of strong contenders this week, including a new supergroup, two songs from a new album that featured no advance singles, and tracks from artists across the globe (including Sweden, Australia, New Zealand, and England). We’ve got 11 songs this week, since one artist has two different songs on the list. More

May 05, 2022 By Mark Redfern

New York trio Sunflower Bean are releasing a new album, Headful of Sugar, tomorrow via Mom + Pop. Now they have shared the album’s fifth, and final, pre-release single, “In Flight,” via a video. More

Apr 06, 2022 By Mark Redfern

New York trio Sunflower Bean are releasing a new album, Headful of Sugar, on May 6 via Mom + Pop. Now they have shared the album’s fourth single, “I Don’t Have Control Sometimes,” via a video featuring a man who can’t take off a Sunflower Bean T-shirt, no matter how hard he tries. More

Mar 07, 2022 By Joey Arnone

New York trio Sunflower Bean have shared a video for their new single “Roll the Dice.” It is the latest release from their forthcoming album, Headful of Sugar, which will be out on May 6 via Mom + Pop. More

Feb 11, 2022 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)

Welcome to the sixth Songs of the Week of 2022. More

Feb 08, 2022 By Joey Arnone

New York trio Sunflower Bean have announced the release of a new album, Headful of Sugar, which will be out on May 6 via Mom + Pop. They have also shared a video for a new single from the album, “Who Put You Up To This?,” and have announced a North America/U.K. tour for this year. More

Oct 14, 2021 By Joey Arnone

New York trio Sunflower Bean have announced a new U.S. 2021-2022 tour. The band has concurrently released a new single, “Baby Don’t Cry,” which is out now via Mom + Pop. More

Sep 18, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Welcome to the 37th Songs of the Week of 2020. Just as we were finishing up this week’s list we got word that beloved Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died. As if 2020 couldn’t get any worse. R.I.P. a true legend, the Notorious RBG. More

Sep 17, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

New York trio Sunflower Bean have shared a brand new song, “Moment in the Sun,” via a video for the track. “Moment in the Sun” is a bright pop song about “the importance of spending time with the ones you love,” as a press release puts it, and is their first new song of 2020. More

Mar 30, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Yves Tumor (aka Sean Bowie) is releasing a new album, Heaven to a Tortured Mind, this Friday via Warp. Now he has shared another song from it, “Romanticist/Dream Palette.” More

Mar 01, 2019 By Mark Redfern

Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of our new print issue, Issue 65, which is out now nationwide (on newsstands, in such stores as Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million, and elsewhere) and available to buy directly from us here. The issue features Mitski on the front cover and boygenius (Julien Baker + Phoebe Bridgers + Lucy Dacus) on the back cover. More

Feb 11, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Beck and Cage The Elephant have teamed up for some co-headlining tour dates, with support from Spoon. Other support acts include Sunflower Bean, Wild Belle, and Starcrawler. The tour is dubbed “The Night Running Tour,” the dates happen this July and August, and tickets go on sale to the general public this Friday at 10 a.m. local time. More

Mar 23, 2018 By Adam Turner-Heffer

Those looking for a return to Viet Cong, look away now. At this point it might just be easier to think of Preoccupations as a different band, as their latest album New Material shares a lot more in common with the first, self-titled Preoccupations album than their debut under their former name. Luckily, this is no bad thing, even if different, as Preoccupations have yet again created a gothy, atmospheric post-punk cracker. More

Mar 16, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

New York trio Sunflower Bean are releasing a new album, Twentytwo in Blue, on March 23 (which is next Friday) via Mom + Pop. Previously the band shared videos for “I Was a Fool” and “Crisis Fest,” as well as the audio for almost title track “Twentytwo” (which was one of our Songs of the Week) and a video for “Twentytwo.” More

Mar 06, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

New York trio Sunflower Bean are releasing a new album, Twentytwo in Blue, on March 23 via Mom + Pop. Previously the band shared videos for “I Was a Fool” and “Crisis Fest,” as well as the audio for almost title track “Twentytwo” (which was one of our Songs of the Week). More

Feb 23, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

It was a crazy good week for new songs. So much so that we could only narrow down this week’s Songs of the Week to 12 tracks, as opposed to our normal 10. Speedy Ortiz almost made the list with “Lucky 88,” the first single off their newly announced new album Twerp Verse, but then it would’ve been 13 songs and we gave into superstition. More

Feb 22, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

New York trio Sunflower Bean are releasing a new album, Twentytwo in Blue, on March 23 via Mom + Pop. Previously the band shared videos for “I Was a Fool” and “Crisis Fest.” Now they have shared another song from the album, almost title track “Twentytwo.” Listen to the ballad below, followed by the band’s upcoming tour dates. More

Jan 12, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

New York trio Sunflower Bean have announced a new album, Twentytwo in Blue, and shared a new song, “Crisis Fest.” Twentytwo in Blue is due out March 2. It includes “I Was a Fool,” a song the band shared back in November. More

Jan 10, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

SXSW (aka South By Southwest), the annual conference/festival in Austin, Texas, previously announced the first round of 2018 musical performers, as well as the second round. Now they have announced the third round of artists to be performing during the music portion (there’s also film and interactive portions) in 2018 and it’s a long list featuring 570 artists! More

Nov 03, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

New York trio Sunflower Bean released their debut album, Human Ceremony, on Fat Possum in 2016. Now the band has signed with a new label, Mom + Pop, and have shared a new song, “I Was a Fool.” You can listen to the song below. More

Aug 09, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

New York trio Sunflower Bean released their debut album, Human Ceremony, on Fat Possum back in January. Now the band has shared a new video for “Come On.” Ruby June directed the clip, which is a fairly simple but very stylish video featuring the band in a blank studio space. More

May 06, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of our May/June 2016 issue (out May, June, and into July), which has shipped out to subscribers and stores and will be on all newsstands soon. It will also soon be available digitally via Under the Radar‘s app, and the magazine apps Zinio, Readly, and Readbug. The issue features M83 on the cover. More

Mar 09, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

New York trio Sunflower Bean released their debut album, Human Ceremony, on Fat Possum back in January. Now the band has shared a new video for “Easier Said.” Charlotte Hornsby and Jesse Ruuttila directed the clip, which showcases lead singer Julia Cumming as she rides a motorcycle and the band performs the song in a field. More

Mar 04, 2016 By Mark Redfern

Under the Radar magazine is excited to reveal the full lineups, poster, and set times for its three SXSW 2016 events: two day parties on Wednesday, March 16 and Thursday, March 17 and one official nighttime showcase on Wednesday, March 16. The lineups include Car Seat Headrest, Julien Baker, Hinds, Eleanor Friedberger, Everything Everything, Caveman, Still Corners, Yuck, Sunflower Bean, Petite Noir, Girls Names, Gwenno, MONEY, Cullen Omori, TEEN, Mass Gothic, Younghusband, and more. More

Oct 20, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

SXSW (aka South By Southwest), the annual conference/festival in Austin, Texas, has announced the first round of artists to be performing during the music portion (there’s also film and interactive portions) in 2016 (its 30th year). The list is short on big names, but a huge part of SXSW is discovering new artists. More

Apr 29, 2015 By Laura Studarus

Last night DIIV and Sunflower Bean performed at Baby’s All Right in New York. More

Mar 28, 2019 By Mark Redfern

For Under the Radar‘s 16th Annual Artist Survey we emailed some of our favorite artists a few questions relating to the last year, plus some fun personal questions. We asked them about their favorite albums of the year and their thoughts on various notable 2018 news stories involving either the music industry or world events, as well as some quirkier personal questions. More

Mar 11, 2016 By Marty Hill

You don’t have to wear floral shirts and flares to record your guitars backwards, just ask Sunflower Bean‘s Jacob Faber. His band owe more stylistically to the black-clad cool of The Velvet Underground than Woodstock ‘69, they make some of the most arresting psychedelic rock of recent times, but Sunflower Bean don’t have time for revivalism. More

Mar 28, 2018 By Michael Watkins

Upon the release of their debut album in 2016, there didn’t appear to be a lot to shout about in regard to Sunflower Bean. Hyped up, as with many a modern day band, their stylings felt neat and measured—hardly words you’d want associated with a first impression, especially as a band made up of three, all of whom were barely scraping twenty. More