WEDNESDAY Share New Single & Video "Bitter Everyday"
WEDNESDAY
.RELEASE NEW SINGLE + VIDEO “BITTER EVERYDAY”
BLEEDS OUT SEPT 19TH VIA DEAD OCEANS
2025 FALL TOUR DATES ANNOUNCED
Wednesday share “Bitter Everyday,” the blistering new single from the North Carolina band’s anticipated new album, Bleeds, due out September 19th via Dead Oceans. The song arrives with a video by Ben Turok shot in Lake Santeelah in Western North Carolina.
“‘Bitter Everyday’ is a song formed around my desperate desire to tell the story about how in 2019 this lady came up on our porch at like 3 in the morning when Jake and our friend Andrew were out there drinking and playing guitar,” Hartzman explains. “She asked them if she could sing them a song she had written, she had an incredible voice. They recorded a voice note of it and showed it to me the next morning when I woke up. I knew which lady it was, she was a houseless person who walked around the downtown area a lot. Weeks later, I was walking home from work and I saw a photo of her on a telephone pole. It was an old mug shot of her, and she was done up in juggalo makeup. The description on the paper said she was wanted for murder. The chorus is an homage to Iris DeMent's song ‘Easy's Gettin' Harder Everyday.’”
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.
With Bleeds Wednesday present an intoxicating collection of narrative-heavy Southern rock that—like many of the most arresting passages from the band’s discography—thoughtfully explores the vivid link between curiosity and confession.
The album’s previously released singles “Elderberry Wine,” “Wound Up Here (By Holdin On),” and “Pick Up That Knife” have established the Bleeds as one of the most anticipated of the year. Collectively 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, The Needle Drop, Los Angeles Times, Associated Press and a performance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
WATCH THE “BITTER EVERYDAY” 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:
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 @ Debase r#
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
# w/ Bleary Eyed
WATCH THE “ELDERBERRY WINE” VIDEO
WATCH THE “WOUND UP HERE (BY HOLDIN ON)” VIDEO
WATCH THE “PICK UP THAT KNIFE” VIDEO
WATCH THE LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT PERFORMANCE
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Photo Credit: Graham Tolbert
