MJ Lenderman carried out a shock set on the opening of New York Metropolis’s new Night time Membership 101 on New 12 months’s Eve. Try the footage beneath.
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The venue, named after its deal with at 101 Avenue A, is positioned on the positioning of New York’s iconic Pyramid Membership, which closed completely in 2021 after shutting its doorways through the COVID pandemic.
Opened in 1981, Pyramid Membership held early performances from Madonna, Purple Sizzling Chilli Peppers and Nirvana. It’s also the place LGBTQIA+ icons similar to drag queen RuPaul first took the stage in New York Metropolis.
Night time Membership 101, operated the crew behind Brooklyn venue Child’s All Proper, rang within the new 12 months with their first present, dubbed their ‘New 12 months’s Rocking Eve’. The set was billed as Water From Your Eyes “+all our buddies dwell and DJ (TBA)”, which was later confirmed to be Lenderman, Voyeur, Amiture, and Toast.
Lenderman’s set noticed him play a string of covers, together with Pink Floyd’s ‘Want You Have been Right here’, George Strait’s ‘Amarillo By Morning’, Neil Younger’s ‘Lotta Love’, and America’s ‘Sister Golden Hair’. Try the footage beneath.
Days earlier than his New 12 months’s Eve efficiency, Lenderman joined Yo La Tengo on stage in New York to cowl Bob Dylan.
The collaboration befell throughout Yo La Tengo’s Hannukah residency on the Bowery Ballroom within the metropolis, which noticed the band play each night time till January 1.
Lenderman and his band The Wind have been the opening act on the night time and he later popped up once more throughout Yo La Tengo’s set to play a model of ‘One thing There Is About You’, a monitor from Dylan’s 1974 album ‘Planet Waves’.
Sonic Youth’s Steve Shelley was additionally on drums for the efficiency. Click on right here to see footage.
Elsewhere, Lenderman just lately lined Counting Crows’ ‘A Lengthy December’ in his hometown of Asheville, North Carolina.
His fourth album ‘Manning Fireworks’ was launched in September and landed a spot on NME’s 50 greatest albums of 2024 record. The monitor ‘She’s Leaving You’ was additionally included in NME’s 50 greatest songs of 2024.
“Breakup songs can include multitudes: despair, uncertainty, full-throated resentment. MJ Lenderman’s writing on ‘She’s Leaving You’, then again, is characterised by a shrugging, clear-eyed disappointment, leaning into the abject silence of heartbreak in its chorus: “It will get darkish, all of us obtained work to do,” NME wrote. “Slacker rock melancholia at its most enlightened.”
