Watch MJ Lenderman cowl Pink Floyd and Neil Younger to open Night time Membership 101 in New York

MJ Lenderman carried out a shock set on the opening of New York Metropolis’s new Night time Membership 101 on New Yr’s Eve. Try the footage beneath.

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The venue, named after its handle at 101 Avenue A, is situated on the location of New York’s iconic Pyramid Membership, which closed completely in 2021 after shutting its doorways throughout 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 resembling drag queen RuPaul first took the stage in New York Metropolis.

Night time Membership 101, operated the group behind Brooklyn venue Child’s All Proper, rang within the new 12 months with their first present, dubbed their ‘New Yr’s Rocking Eve’. The set was billed as Water From Your Eyes “+all our pals reside 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 Yr’s Eve efficiency, Lenderman joined Yo La Tengo on stage in New York to cowl Bob Dylan.

The collaboration came about throughout Yo La Tengo’s Hannukah residency on the Bowery Ballroom within the metropolis, which noticed the band play each evening till January 1.

Lenderman and his band The Wind had been the opening act on the evening 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 observe 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 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 finest albums of 2024 listing. The observe ‘She’s Leaving You’ was additionally included in NME’s 50 finest songs of 2024.

“Breakup songs can comprise multitudes: despair, uncertainty, full-throated resentment. MJ Lenderman’s writing on ‘She’s Leaving You’, however, is characterised by a shrugging, clear-eyed unhappiness, leaning into the abject silence of heartbreak in its chorus: “It will get darkish, all of us received work to do,” NME wrote. “Slacker rock melancholia at its most enlightened.”