WEDNESDAY Share New Single "Pick Up That Knife"
WEDNESDAY
RELEASE NEW SINGLE + VIDEO “PICK UP THAT KNIFE”
NEW ALBUM BLEEDS OUT SEPT 19TH VIA DEAD OCEANS
2025 FALL TOUR DATES ANNOUNCED
Wednesday release “Pick Up That Knife,” the rattling and grungy new single from the band’s recently announced forthcoming album, Bleeds. "’Pick Up That Knife’ is a song that revolves around feelings of helplessness, when every minor inconvenience hurts double cause you're close to giving up. It's also about when our pedal steel player Xandy threw up in the moshpit during the Death Grips set at Primavera Sound in 2023," band leader and generational songwriter Karly Hatzman explains.
Wednesday’s recently released singles “Elderberry Wine” and “Wound Up Here (By Holdin On)” have established Bleeds as one of the most anticipated albums of the year. They have garnered wide critical praise, including Best of 2025 mid-year lists, the coveted ‘Best New Track’ distinction by Pitchfork, adulation from TIME Magazine, GQ, NPR, Rolling Stone and a performance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Bleeds is out September 19th via Dead Oceans.
With Bleeds Wednesday present an intoxicating collection of narrative-heavy Southern rock that—like many of the most arresting passages from the North Carolina band’s discography—thoughtfully explores the vivid link between curiosity and confession.
Bleeds is a patchwork-style triumph of literary allusions and outlaw grit, of place-based poetry and hair-raising noise. Karly Hartzman—founder, frontwoman, and primary lyricist—credits Wednesday’s tightened grasp on their own identity to time spent collaborating on previous albums, plus a tour schedule that’s been both rewarding and relentless. “Bleeds is the spiritual successor to Rat Saw God, and I think the quintessential ‘Wednesday Creek Rock’ album,” Hartzman said, articulating satisfaction with the ways her band has sharpened its trademark sound, how they’ve refined the formula that makes them one of the most interesting rock bands of their generation.
WATCH THE “PICK UP THAT KNIFE” VIDEO
Just like Rat Saw God, one of the defining rock & roll records of the 2020s so far, Bleeds came together at Drop of Sun in Asheville and was produced by Alex Farrar, who’s been recording the band since Twin Plagues. Hartzman again brought demos to the studio, where she and her bandmates—Xandy Chelmis (lap steel, pedal steel), Alan Miller (drums), Ethan Baechtold (bass, piano), and Jake “MJ” Lenderman (guitar)—worked as a team to bulk-up the compositions with the exact right amounts of country truth-telling, indie-pop hooks, and noisy sludge. More than ever, the precise proportions were steered by the lyricism—not only its tone or subject matter, but also the actual sound of the words, as well as Hartzman’s masterfully subjective approach to detail selection.
Wednesday is going on tour in support of Bleeds this fall. The tour includes a west coast run with support from Friendship and an east coast leg with Daffo as support. Tickets are available now via wednesday.band. All dates below.
TOUR DATES:
07/26 - 07/27 – Portland, OR @ Project Pabst
09/27 – Austin, TX @ LEVITATION Festival
10/09 – Santa Fe, NM @ Tumble Root *
10/10-12 – Las Vegas, NV @ Best Friends Forever Festival
10/11 – Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom *
10/14 – Solana Beach, CA @ Belly Up Tavern *
10/17 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Fonda Theatre *
10/18 – Oakland, CA @ The Fox Theater *
10/20 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Soundwell *
10/22 – Ft. Collins, CO @ Aggie Theatre *
10/23 – Denver, CO @ Gothic Theatre *
11/10 – Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer ^
11/11 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel ^
11/12 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel ^
11/13 – Montreal, QC @ Club Soda ^
11/15 – Toronto, ON @ Concert Hall ^
11/16 – Detroit, MI @ Majestic Theatre ^
11/17 – Chicago, IL @ The Riviera Theater ^
11/19 – Cleveland, OH @ Globe Iron ^
11/20 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Roxian Theatre ^
11/21 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club ^
02/04 – Copenhagen, DK @ Pumpehuset
02/05 – Oslo, NO @ Parkteatret
02/06 – Stockholm, SE @ Debaser
02/08 – Hamburg, DE @ Molotow Musikclub
02/09 – Berlin, DE @ Lido
02/10 – Munich, DE @ Strom
02/11 – Milan, IT @ Circolo Arci Bellezza
02/14 – Bilbao, ES @ Bilborock
02/15 – Madrid, ES @ Copernico
02/16 – Barcelona, ES @ La Nau Locales de Ensayo (La Nau)
02/19 – Brussels, BE @ Botanique Orangerie
02/20 – Paris, FR @ Le Trabendo
02/21 – Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso Noord
02/23 – Bristol, UK @ The Fleece
02/24 – Leeds, UK @ The Leeds Irish Centre
02/25 – London, UK @ Electric Ballroom
* w/ Friendship
^ w/ Daffo
WATCH THE “ELDERBERRY WINE” VIDEO
WATCH THE “WOUND UP HERE (BY HOLDIN ON)” VIDEO
WATCH THE LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT PERFORMANCE
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