
Sunflower Bean
Mississippi Studios
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Portland
Monday, June 9 at 8 pm PDT
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Monday, June 9 at 8 pm PDT
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w/ Gift
Sunflower Bean:
Time marches relentlessly on, but it can pass unnoticed unless you find a way to capture it. For the entirety of their remarkable career, Sunflower Bean has made monuments of fleeting moments, by turning them into art, bottling them as song. They broke onto the scene as teens wise beyond their years with Human Ceremony, captured the melancholia of nascent adulthood on Twentytwo in Blue, and confronted the alienation of life under late capitalism on Headful of Sugar. Now in their Saturn Return, the band is b ack with the most hard-fought and vulnerable album of their career: Mortal Primetime.
“You get to decide what your prime is, and you fight for it,” Cumming says. “This is ours, and that can’t be taken away by circumstance. We can’t take it away from each other. This moment, where we are now, is what we’ve always fought for.” That confidence is earned, because Mortal Primetime almost didn’t happen. In the years since Headful of Sugar, the members of Sunflower Bean drifted from one another as they pursued new projects and confronted personal challenges, tragedies and transformations. Synonymous with New York, the band lost guitarist/vocalist Nick Kivlen to California, leaving vocalist/bassist Cumming to write songs alone for the first time in the band’s history. Soon after, she separated from her long-time partner, informing much of her songwriting. Additionally, drummer Olive Faber birthed a new project, Stars Revenge, after coming out as transgender around the last album cycle. Despite the wealth of success they’d experienced together as a band – from the stages of Glastonbury and Lollapalooza, to touring with Beck, Interpol, and The Pixies – Sunflower Bean struggled to tend to their collective fire and tensions rose. The three friends grew up together and spent their twenties in the spotlight, but away from it, they struggled to make sense of who they were outside of Sunflower Bean. The future seemed finite – it felt like time was up.
Gift:
Brooklyn’s psychedelic rock quintet Gift celebrates living fully in the present on their debut album Momentary Presence. Inspired by Ram Dass' Be Here Now, bandleader TJ Freda channels his search for peace through turbulent yet beautiful soundscapes, alongside bandmates Jessica Gurewitz, Kallan Campbell, Justin Hrabovsky, and Cooper Naess. The album blends shoegaze, dream pop, noise rock, and post-punk, exploring themes of psychic destabilization, balance, and self-doubt. Produced in Freda’s Brooklyn apartment, it features layered tracks like the serene “Feather” and experimental “Dune.” Momentary Presence is a meditation on overcoming anxiety, heartbreak, and personal crisis. The band’s live shows, known for their improvisational energy, have sold out in Brooklyn. With its emotionally resonant message, Gift’s music is set to reach a global audience.
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