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One evening back in May, Sunflower Bean found themselves in the woods of upstate New York, caked in 200 pounds of clay. They were shooting Shake, a short film to accompany their EP of the same name, and their goal was to look as muddy as possible — a direct reference to Nine Inch Nails’ iconic Woodstock 1994 performance.

In the backyard of their Airbnb, the rock trio stood on a piece of tarp, performing the title track while routinely being hosed down to make them appear authentically muddy. “You have the idea...

Sunflower Bean have dropped the scorching new single “Teach Me to Be Bad” off their upcoming EP Shake.

“I don’t even know your name,” Julia Cumming sings in the opening lines across a searing riff. “But I love you all the same.” According to the band, the track is about “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.”

As with the title track, “Teach Me to Be Bad” is paired with a video.

Sunflower Bean are back with the riotous rocker “Shake,” the title track to their upcoming EP of the same name.

The track opens with a searing Master of Reality-style guitar riff, paired with a video of the New York trio caked in mud. Directed by Isaac Roberts, the clip is part of a 14-minute video the band made for Shake. It will feature each track and reflect the natural elements earth, wind, fire, and metal. The “Shake” video, seen below, represents earth.

Shake, their first EP since 2019’s King of the Dudes,...

Last week, Carnegie Hall resonated with the spirit and songs of Sinéad O'Connor and Shane MacGowan as an expanded lineup of luminaries took to the stage for a historic tribute concert.

Amanda Palmer and Billy Bragg Perform at tribute to Sinead O'Connor and Shane MacGowan

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This profound celebration, organized by City Winery, not only honored the indelible legacies of these iconic musicians but also supported the crucial mission of Pen America with a donation of $65,000 to help them in their mission of advocating for freedom of speech worldwide.

The event, Sinéad & Shane at Carnegie Hall, saw an unprecedented gathering of talent, with performances that spanned the emotional spectrum, from heart-wrenching ballads to uplifting anthems. The night was not just a tribute but a powerful reminder of O’Connor and MacGowan’s profound impact on music and cultural dialogue. The event opened with comments from Roisin Waters...

Irish music royalty Sinéad O’Connor and Shane MacGowan will be honored at an upcoming concert in New York City this spring.

On Monday, Carnegie Hall announced a one-night-only tribute show for the two musicians, featuring the likes of Cat Power, Dropkick Murphys, and David Gray on March 20, with 100 percent of net proceeds going to charity. The event, featured as a St. Patrick’s Day celebration on March 20, is being billed as “Sinéad & Shane at Carnegie Hall.”

Glen Hansard, Amanda Palmer, Eugene Hütz, the Moutain Goats, Julia Cumming of Sunflower Bean,...

An all-star Sinéad O’Connor and Shane MacGowan tribute concert will take place in New York City this spring.

The one-night-only tribute show goes down just after St. Patrick’s Day on March 20th at Carnegie Hall, and will feature performances from Cat Power, The Mountain Goats, Glen Hansard, Dropkick Murphys, Amanda Palmer, David Gray, Bettye Lavette, Gogol Bordello’s Eugene Hutz, Sunflower Bean’s Julia Cumming, Kat Edmonson, and the Resistance Revival Chorus.

The occasion comes after O’Connor’s passing at 56 in July of 2023 and MacGowan’s death at 65 in November of 2023. Billed as “Sinéad & Shane at Carnegie Hall,” the tribute will celebrate the two Irish icons with covers of both artists’ songs.

Get tickets to “Sinéad & Shane at Carnegie Hall” here.

Several of the artists set to play the concert paid tribute to O’Connor and MacGowan last year with covers of their songs. Amanda Palmer took on...

Anna Delvey, who falsely claimed she was a wealthy German heiress and scammed approximately $275,000 from donors, is being sued by ex-lawyer, Audrey Thomas, for unpaid legal fees of over $150,000.

Delvey’s story inspired the Netflix series, Inventing Anna.

The suit comes just as the 32-year-old has launched her new podcast, The Anna Delvey Show. The first two guests were comedian Whitney Cummings and rock star Julia Cumming.

Delvey, whose real name is Anna Sorokin, started posing as a German heiress after she settled down in the Big Apple in 2013.

She bounced around different hotels, ignoring the bills, defrauding wealthy socialites and duping multiple banks.

It was not until October 2017 that Sorokin was finally arrested during a sting operation and was found guilty of eight charges in 2019. She was sentenced to four to 12 years in prison, fined $24,000 and ordered to pay restitution of about $199,000. The court has estimated that she has stolen around $275,000 throughout the years.

Amid Anna Sorokin‘s house arrest in a New York apartment building that has been condemned as imminently perilous to life, she’s attempting to capture outside attention and relieving her boredom in the most quotidian way: starting a podcast.

“So many people became famous for bad things and were able to kind of segue it into something different,” she recently told The Associated Press in her East Village apartment.

“The main theme of my podcast is productive rule-breaking,” she said of “The Anna Delvey Show”.

For now, she wants to reimagine her public image to shake her reputation of being a con artist and a scammer.

“I’m on 24/7 house arrest. I’m only allowed to leave for my parole check-ins, my Ice check-ins and for medical emergencies,” she said. Behind her is a life-size cutout of her likeness — created by artist Kenny Schachter — which, like Sorokin herself, is wearing an ankle monitoring device.

From Inventing Anna to a newly invented career. On Tuesday, Anna Delvey — the convicted fraudster and fake socialite who served as inspiration for Netflix’s Inventing Anna — announced that she’ll be releasing a weekly podcast and a debut single.

Delvey, who’s currently on house arrest, will work with podcast company Audio Up on The Anna Delvey Show, a new project which will feature interviews with the likes of Emily Ratajkowski, Julia Fox, Julia Cumming, Jeremy Harris, and Whitney Cummings.

Given her legal status and house arrest, the project...

Exclusive: Anna Delvey, the fake heiress who was the inspiration behind Shonda Rhimes’ Netflix series Inventing Anna, is getting into the podcast business.

Delvey, who is currently under house arrest after being convicted of a series of crimes including attempted grand larceny, is launching a weekly podcast series – The Anna Delvey Show.

She has teamed up with Audio Up, the company behind The Playboy Interview, and Sean Glass’ Reunion Audio on the project.

The series will feature guests including Julia Cumming, Whitney Cummings, Julia Fox, Jeremy Harris, Emily Ratajkowski and Kenny Schachter. Listen to the trailer below.

It will be recorded from Delvey’s East Village apartment given her house arrest. Delvey and her guests will discuss traditional concepts of right and wrong while unpacking what it means to be a rule breaker in 2023.

Delvey will also use the podcast to debut her first single, featuring original words and lyrics...

There are tons of great indie covers of classic rock songs. Today’s indie bands have many great classic rock bands to inspire them. Here is a list of the 10 best instances.

Best Coast | Clasos/Getty Images 10. ‘Rhiannon’ – Best Coast

Indie band Best Coast’s cover of Fleetwood Mac’s “Rhiannon” is interesting. It appeared on the various artists’ album, A Tribute to Fleetwood Mac. They definitely made it their own. The piano as the backbeat isn’t the best, but guitarist and vocalist Bethany Cosentino’s singing is excellent on the classic rock tune.

9. ‘Gold Only Knows’ – Jr Jr

Jr Jr’s cover of The Beach Boys’ classic “Gold Only Knows” is a perfect example of an indie cover of a classic rock song. It blends the two genres, which are separated by multiple decades. The lyrics are classic rock, but the vibe, mood, and sound are all indie rock.

A freak thunderstorm that hit Austin around 9 p.m. on Thursday threw off what was shaping up to be SXSW’s biggest day: All outdoor events after that hour were canceled outright (including some highly anticipated sets, like Lil Yachty at the Moody Amphitheater), while other showcase schedules got all jumbled up. But it had already been a full day of exciting new sounds before the storm hit — and when the clouds lifted at 11 p.m., there was more to come. Here are the best things we saw on day...

The Big Climate Thing, a multi-day festival set to take place in New York City next month with the War on Drugs, Flaming Lips, Sheryl Crow, and more, has been postponed.

The Climate Control Projects, which was set to host the event, said in a statement, “Collectively, we felt that if we couldn’t produce the event in a way that met the high standards for participation, impact and sustainability that are the foundation of The Big Climate Thing, then it was the responsible choice to postpone until we can.

In the spring of 2020, Julia Cumming felt lost. The pandemic had just shut down live music, disrupting countless livelihoods, and for Sunflower Bean — the New York rock trio with such a ceaseless commitment to performing in bars, clubs, and theaters that they were once named the city’s hardest-working band by a local listings site — it hit with particularly dizzying force.

“Those first 10 weeks were bleak,” says Cumming, Sunflower Bean’s bassist and one of two lead singers in the band. “So much of my self-worth was based on being a performer.

The riotous peak of the Strokes’ get-out-the-vote concert rally with Bernie Sanders on Monday night came at the very end, when the opening notes of “New York City Cops” ripped through the Whittemore Center Arena in Durham, New Hampshire. Within seconds, fans were storming the college hockey arena’s stage, and a few New Hampshire cops were trying in vain to shut it all down as Julian Casablancas howled about their big-city colleagues: “They ain’t too smaaaaaaaaart!”

“My head’s spinning a little,” Casablancas tells Rs after the show,...

The Counting Crows aren’t touring this year beyond a handful of festival dates, but frontman Adam Duritz is keeping busy by co-hosting the podcast Underwater Sunshine with his buddy James Campion. Here are five songs he played on it recently that really blew his mind.

Sunflower Bean, ”Come for Me”

I went to see this band play in Brooklyn not long ago and it was such an in-your-face rock show. They are a trio led by Julia Cumming, who reminds me of a lot of Seventies punk singers. The...

Growing up on Long Island, Nick Kivlen and Jacob Faber barely knew any other kids at their high school who listened to rock & roll. “You don’t know that rock music exists in this age unless someone shows you,” says Faber, 20. But they found it: Kivlen, also 20, obsessed over Metallica and Minor Threat before discovering Obama-era indie (“The first Beach Fossils album changed my life,” he says), while Faber, a talented jazz saxophonist, realized it was more fun to drum along to Nirvana and Foo Fighters records at home.