Final evening, Wednesday made their tv debut performing their new track, “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 solid 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 had been all there on the late-night stage. Lenderman just lately 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 Saw God. Based on Hartzman, it’s a love track about “creating simply the suitable surroundings for achievement,” as a result of there’s “a fragile stability 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 once they performed “Wristwatch,” the MJ Lenderman hit, on The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon.
Revisit the interview “Wednesday’s Curdled Beauty” and examine Rat Noticed God at No. 32 in “The 100 Best Albums of the 2020s So Far.” Plus, take a look at Walden Inexperienced’s new monitor evaluation of “Elderberry Wine.”