Final evening, Wednesday made their tv debut performing their new music, “Elderberry Wine,” on The Late Present With Stephen Colbert. The Asheville, North Carolina, indie-rock band performed in entrance of a mock front room setup forged on the partitions, full with the brand new single paintings in a body, flowery wallpaper, wall sconces, and low-lit lamps. Watch a replay under.
The core Wednesday lineup of singer-guitarist Karly Hartzman, guitarist and vocalist MJ Lenderman, pedal metal participant Xandy Chelmis, bassist Ethan Baechtold, and drummer Alan Miller have been all there on the late-night stage. Lenderman not too long ago revealed, nonetheless, that, whereas he stays a member of Wednesday within the recording studio, he’ll not tour with the band. His most up-to-date solo album, Manning Fireworks, got here out final autumn.
“Elderberry Wine” is the primary new music from Wednesday following their 2023 album, Rat Noticed God. In accordance with Hartzman, it’s a love music about “creating simply the best surroundings for success,” as a result of there’s “a fragile steadiness that must be created, particularly in love, for 2 lives to intersect with out poisoning one another.”
Technically, each Lenderman and Hartzman already made their late-night TV debut final September after they performed “Wristwatch,” the MJ Lenderman hit, on The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon.
Revisit the interview “Wednesday’s Curdled Magnificence” and examine Rat Noticed God at No. 32 in “The 100 Finest Albums of the 2020s So Far.” Plus, take a look at Walden Inexperienced’s new observe assessment of “Elderberry Wine.”
