Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In August 2022, Allison Crutchfield, an A&R executive at ANTI- Records, traveled to Asheville, N.C., on a mission to sign the ...

MJ Lenderman won the hearts of indie rock lovers with the release of his 2022 album Boat Songs. His last single, “Rudolph,” released in July, kept fans happy. On Monday, August 7, he made them even ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “My live show sounds different from the records, because when I’m in the studio I’m playing most of the instruments,” the ...

Alternative rock band Wednesday will officially be downsizing. Well, at least for their future live shows. Yesterday (February 21), MJ Lenderman, the group’s longtime guitarist, revealed that he won’t ...

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MJ Lenderman reveals in a new interview that he will no longer tour with Wednesday — the Asheville indie rock band where he’s served as lead guitarist since 2018 — but he will continue to take part in ...

Last year, the former Wednesday guitarist Mark Jacob Lenderman released Manning Fireworks, his breakout solo LP. It was one of our favorite albums of 2024, and it turned Lenderman into an indie-level ...

Back in late February, less than six months after MJ Lenderman released Manning Fireworks, his 2024 deadpan-sophisticate ringer of a breakthrough album, he told me that maybe it was time for his tour ...

The FADER’s 2024 Songs of the Summer bracket is divided into four March Madness-style regionals, and the winner of the Slacker was MJ Lenderman’s “She’s Leaving You” Below, Cady Siregar explains why ...

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 ...

Near the end of his new album, Manning Fireworks, MJ Lenderman deadpans over a crunchy guitar riff, “Every day is a miracle / Not to mention a threat.” That could be a Zen koan about the human ...