Live Review: MJ Lenderman w/ This Is Lorelei @ 9:30 Club — 5/15/25
If you were to design a musician in a lab to appeal to me, you’d be hard pressed to do better than MJ Lenderman. One of the most interesting figures to emerge in the last several years from the indie rock scene, his music combines the elements of much of the music I love: the alt-country of Jason Molina and the Drive-By Truckers (he covered Patterson Hood’s “Uncle Disney”), the roots rock of the Counting Crows, and the songcraft of Warren Zevon and Bob Dylan (his encore included a deep cut, “Something There Is About You”). He even has a song about professional wrestling (“TLC Cage Match”) that made into his recent set, the first of two nights at the 9:30 Club.
