MJ Lenderman joined Yo La Tengo on stage in New York on Sunday (December 29) to cover Bob Dylan “ check out footage below.
The collaboration took place at the latest night of Yo La Tengo s Hannukah residency at the Bowery Ballroom in the city, which sees the band play every night until January 1.
Lenderman and his band The Wind were the opening act on the night and he later popped up again during Yo La Tengo s set to play a version of ˜Something There Is About You , a track from Dylan s 1974 album ˜Planet Waves .
Sonic Youth s Steve Shelley was also on drums for the performance, and you can watch footage captured from the show below.
@stevenhyden.bsky.social something there is about you featuring MJ, yo la tengo, Steve shelley
Yo La Tengo played:
˜You Are Here
˜Ohm
˜The Ballad Of Red Buckets
˜Tonight s Episode
˜Let s Do It Wrong
˜Something There Is About You
˜Don t Have To Be So Sad
˜Nowhere Near
˜Deeper Into Movies
˜Drug Test
˜Out The Window
˜Sudden Organ
˜Sugarcube
˜Mushroom Cloud Of Hiss
It is not the first noteworthy event to have taken place during Yo La Tengo s current residency “ on Saturday, the post-punk band The Soft Boys reunited to open the show and later joined Yo La Tengo for an encore that included songs by The Beatles and The Velvet Underground. Other guests to have joined them so far in the residency include Superchunk s Mac McCaughan, Wilco s Pat Sansone and comedian Fred Armisen. Proceeds from the shows go to Coalition For The Homeless.
Elsewhere, Lenderman recently covered Counting Crows ˜A Long December in his hometown of Asheville, North Carolina.
His fourth album ˜Manning Fireworks was released in September and landed a spot on NME s 50 best albums of 2024 list. The track ˜She s Leaving You was also included in NME s 50 best songs of 2024.
Breakup songs can contain multitudes: despair, uncertainty, full-throated resentment. MJ Lenderman s writing on ˜She s Leaving You , on the other hand, is characterised by a shrugging, clear-eyed sadness, leaning into the abject silence of heartbreak in its refrain: It gets dark, we all got work to do, NME wrote. Slacker rock melancholia at its most enlightened.
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