Over the past few years, Asheville, North Carolina, singer-songwriter MJ Lenderman has become every indie-rock fan’s favorite dude — the Craig Finn or Stephen Malkmus or Jeff Tweedy of the mid-2020s. He plays guitar in the great North Carolina band Wednesday, and in 2022, he put out the fantastic breakthrough …
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M J Lenderman has no idea where to go. It’s mid-July and downtown Durham, North Carolina, is hot and empty. The first bar we try is closed, so now we’re searching Google Maps for another. “The Pour Taproom — looks kind of bright in there,” he says with deadpan concern. …
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North Carolina-based singer and songwriter MJ Lenderman has shared the video for the second single “Joker Lips” off his upcoming album Manning Fireworks. The LP arrives Sept. 6 via Anti-. In the visual, Lenderman strums his guitar alongside band The Wind amid an overgrown field in Western North Carolina. “Joker …
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MJ Lenderman will embark on a North American tour this fall in support of his upcoming album Manning Fireworks. The trek kicks off on Oct. 4 in Atlanta, Georgia, making stops in cities that include dual nights in Chicago (Oct. 16 and 17 at Thalia Hall) and Brooklyn, New York …
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North Carolina singer-songwriter MJ Lenderman has announced his next album, Manning Fireworks (out Sept. 6 via Anti-), with a new song, “She’s Leaving You.” The track finds Lenderman flexing his characteristically clever and candid songwriting skills, delivering a sardonic assessment of a cheating husband’s grim midlife crisis that still maintains …
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When Katie Crutchfield finished making Tigers Blood, her sixth album as Waxahatchee, she was struck by a strange, new sensation: It was done, and it was good. “In the past, I’ve anxiously listened to my records before they come out a lot, searching for mistakes — and then of course …
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“Drank someone else’s juice and left only the rind,” Katie Crutchfield boasts on her excellent new Waxahatchee album, Tigers Blood. She’s got a right to sound cocky. The long-time indie-rock underdog hero won herself a lot of new fans with Saint Cloud, her 2020 breakthrough hit, going for a laid-back …
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It’s been three years since we’ve had a new Waxahatchee album, but the wait is over: Katie Crutchfield will release Tigers Blood on March 22 via Anti-. Crutchfield previewed the long-awaited album with the lead single “Right Back to It,” a duet with Wednesday’s MJ Lenderman. It’s an Americana burner …
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Asheville, North Carolina rocker MJ Lenderman is back with a new single, “Rudolph,” which marks his first offering for his new label, Anti-. “Rudolph” pairs pure guitar crunch with swooning pedal steel as Lenderman conjures scenes of discarded, destroyed Christmas ornaments and surreal visions of Pixar outtakes (“Deleted scene of …
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