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MJ LENDERMAN & THE WIND TOUR DATES:

TUESDAY FEBRUARY 27: PERTH FESTIVAL with WEDNESDAY. Tickets on sale here.
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 29: SYDNEY @ THE FACTORY THEATRE with WEDNESDAY. Tickets on sale here.
SATURDAY MARCH 2: SEASONAL FRUIT, BRISBANE @ FELONS BARREL HALL. Tickets on sale here.
TUE MAR 5 – MELBOURNE: BRUNSWICK MUSIC FESTIVAL @ HOWLER with Quality Used Cars. * SOLD OUT!
FRIDAY MARCH 8: THEATRE ROYAL CASTLEMAINE with Wednesday +Parsnip. Tickets on sale now.
SUNDAY MARCH 11: GOLDEN PLAINS FESTIVAL, Meredith Supernatural Amphitheatre.

MJ Lenderman and his band hail from Asheville, North Carolina and are renowned for their righteously ragged live sets. MJ Lenderman’s latest single “Knockin” is a lightning-in-a-bottle distillation of what makes him one of the most captivating songwriters in recent memory, aptly described by Brooklyn Vegan as a “rollicking fusion of country and rock, twangy and heavy at once”.

A tangle of warped pedal steel and scuzzed out guitar; a voice reminiscent of the high-lonesome warble of a choirboy; the keen observations and reflections of a front stoop philosopher. MJ Lenderman’s songs snake their way from a lo-fi home recording to something glossier made with longtime friends at a hometown studio, but the recording setting doesn’t seem to matter much – at its core, a Lenderman song rings true.

His music spans stories about everything from a relationship disintegrating outside the high-end butcher shop to a love song built around a t-shirt kiosk at the airport, or the malaise of a grill rusting in the rain. Lenderman stories are delivered with a loping, easy vibe – a shrug of the shoulders, off-the-cuff fuzzy riffs and rock ‘n’ roll distortion culminating in alt-country cacophony.