Waxahatchee and MJ Lenderman at Brooklyn Paramount (Gallery + Recap)
Rob Moderelli on April 22, 2026
Waxahatchee and MJ Lenderman, photo by Ari Cummings
Waxahatchee and MJ Lenderman took their co-headline tour to Brooklyn, N.Y. on Sunday for a performance at the Brooklyn Paramount. In a comforting living room set lined with lamps and a plush dog, the indie-Americana trailblazers pooled their talents for a review of their celebrated repertoires, followed by an encore of covers.
Following an opening set from alt-country singer-songwriter Brennan Wedl, who welcomed Waxahatchee for “Will You Still Want Me When The Crazy Comes Out?,” the headlining duo took the stage with support from Cole Berggren on banjo and keyboard and Colin Croom on pedal steel, lap steel and electric guitar. Waxhatchee and Lenderman alternated between their songs for the entirety of the main set, beginning with “Manning Fireworks,” the title track from Lenderman’s 2024 album, and Waxahatchee’s Tigers Blood cut “Evil Spawn.”
Waxahatchee and Lenderman went on to introduce “Brawson’s,” a new Lenderman original, and cover Gillian Welch’s “Wrecking Ball” before their intimate, laid-back set culminated in a closer of “Right Back to It,” the artists’ duet from Tigers Blood. The band returned for an encore with Iris DeMent’s “My Life,” then called Wedl up to support treatments of Lucinda Williams’ “Abandoned,” The Jayhawks’ “All the Right Reasons” and Kathleen Edwards’ “Six O’Clock News.”
Get an inside look at Sunday’s show in the gallery below, courtesy of photographer Ari Cummings. Find tickets and more information on the ongoing tour at mjlenderman.com and waxahatchee.com.
Last year, Lenderman and Waxahatchee connected for Snocaps, the surprise-released self-titled debut of a new project from twin sisters Katie and Allison Crutchfield, with backing from Lenderman and Brad Cook, who has been Waxahatchee’s go-to producer since 2020’s Saint Cloud. All four artists play multiple instruments across tracks that merge the sisters’ songwriting styles in a tangle of glowy, heavy, warm indie rock, with some subtle hints of their power-pop and punk background and Katie’s current country leanings. Read more about the album here.