Wednesday and Mannequin Pussy Storm Nashville on the Rolling Stone Rock Tour

The Bitch Cabal Image Credit: Nicole Mago for Rolling Stone The members of Mannequin Pussy and Wednesday come together backstage for a Bitch Cabal group shot. Image Credit: Nicole Mago for Rolling Stone The Rolling Stone Rock Tour has featured must-see performances from Geese, Bleachers, Die Spitz, Wet Leg, and MJ Lenderman over the past couple of years. Truth Club Image Credit: Nicole Mago for Rolling Stone Truth Club, an indie band that shares a home state of North Carolina with Wednesday, opened the show. The Huddle Image Credit: Nicole Mago for Rolling Stone Shortly before taking the stage, Mannequin Pussy’s Marisa Dabice, Kaleen Reading, Colins Regisford, and Maxine Steen take a moment for a group huddle. She’s Got Heaven Image Credit: Nicole Mago for Rolling Stone Marisa Dabice formed Mannequin Pussy with her friend Athanasios Paul back in 2010. The lineup has changed a bit over the years, and Paul departed in 2021, but they’ve grown exponentially more popular with each passing year. Their 2024 LP I Got Heaven was a huge critical favorite, even if their band name has made it hard for them to land TV bookings outside of Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney. Mighty Maxine Image Credit: Nicole Mago for Rolling Stone Guitarist Maxine Steen joined the band in 2021, and was a key architect of I Got Heaven. She’s playing here alongside touring member Carolyn Hayne. Bear Image Credit: Nicole Mago for Rolling Stone Colins “Bear” Regisford has been Mannequin Pussy’s bassist since 2016, and he steps up to the mic every single night to belt out the protest song “Pigs is Pigs.” Miss Missy Image Credit: Nicole Mago for Rolling Stone Dabice faced enormous pressure to change the band’s name once they started to gain a following, but she refused. “I think we all expected that the world would become less puritanical,” she told Rolling Stone in 2023, “but in fact the opposite is true.” Loud Bark Image Credit: Nicole Mago for Rolling Stone Mannequin Pussy and Wednesday draw largely young fans to their shows. “We’re often playing to people that are 15 and just discovering rock music for the first time,” Dabice said in 2023. “I don’t think the barometer for rock is what’s on the cover of Rolling Stone or the top of the Spotify charts. It’s at these types of shows, where people are experiencing a collective catharsis.” Ok? Ok! Ok? Ok! Image Credit: Nicole Mago for Rolling Stone After two years of grueling road work in support of I Got Heaven, Mannequin Pussy entered the studio earlier this year to cut their fifth album. Over the past few months, they’ve been sprinkling in new songs like “Material Gains.” Doll Parts Image Credit: Nicole Mago for Rolling Stone Karly Hartzman formed Wednesday a little under a decade ago, and eventually brought drummer Alan Miller, pedal steel player Xandy Chelmis, bassist Ethan Baechtold, and guitarist MJ Lenderman into the fold. Lenderman has been focusing on his solo career over the past two years, and guitarist Jake “Spyder” Pugh has taken his spot in the touring band. Wednesday Evening Image Credit: Nicole Mago for Rolling Stone Wednesday played nine songs from their 2025 LP Bleeds at the Truth, and added in a cover of “Lonely Girls” by Lucinda Williams. In the Wings Image Credit: Nicole Mago for Rolling Stone Mannequin Pussy bassist Colins “Bear” Regisford watches Wednesday’s set from the side of the stage. Townies Image Credit: Nicole Mago for Rolling Stone Members of Wednesday rock out during the show. “Karly Hartzman is the kind of writer who can whisk you right into a stranger’s life with just a few words,” Rolling Stone‘s Rob Sheffield wrote earlier this year. “Her songs add up to a rootsy portrait of small-town heartache, as she evokes her cast of losers and ­dreamers, exploring the loneliest ­cor­­ners of American life. It’s like encountering Eudora Welty if she learned her licks playing in Southern hardcore bands.” Wound Up Here Image Credit: Nicole Mago for Rolling Stone Karly Hartzman broke up with longtime partner MJ Lenderman shortly before cutting Bleeds, but they finished the record together and remain on good terms. “I was really at a breaking point exhaustion-wise,” she told Rolling Stone in 2025. “But I think I’m definitely more proud of it than any other thing we’ve ever made.”