Wednesday Release Single “TV in the Gas Pump,” Announce Tour Dates

With the days leading up to their highly anticipated fourth album, Rat Saw God, winding down, Asheville, North Carolina-based rockers Wednesday are back with one more single, “TV in the Gas Pump.” After “Bull Believer,” “Chosen to Deserve” and “Bath County” rocked everyone’s world, Wednesday are switching gears with a softer offering. “TV in the Gas Pump” is, as video director Lewis Dahm says, a sonic translation of the “Arresting Beauty of the American South.” It’s the perfect final leg before the album’s full release on April 7 via Dead Oceans.

Frontwoman Karly Hartzman has always had a unique way of delivering poetic articulations of what beauty really lives within the off-kiltered, grime-soaked parts of her environment, and “TV in the Gas Pump” is a perfect example of it. Through imagery of surreal rest stop pilgrimages and American iconography, Hartzman paints a portrait of her surroundings, all of which could be applicable to a streak of highways nestled anywhere between Middle America and the Deep South. “People standin’ with their arms crossed / In the line at the Panera Bread / At a rest stop / Violently came up / In a Dollar General / You took too much / Jake walked into a Starbucks / TV in the gas pump / Blares into the dark,” she sings.

“This is the first song I’ve written about being on the road, and I really just wanted to collect all that imagery you ingest on tour,” Hartzman says. “A few images that made it in the song include: the never ending gas station stops that blend together and the dystopian gas pump advertisements, a stressful experience in a Panera Bread and a story of coming up from taking what you thought was a microdose of shrooms in a Dollar General.”

To accompany the single, the band have also announced a string of US and EU tour dates, which will begin at the end of March in Athens, Ohio. On April 8, they will host a free, 18+ record release event at TV Eyes in Ridgewood, New York.

Watch the video for “TV in the Gas Pump” here.

Wednesday’s upcoming tour dates:

3/31 – Athens, OH @ Ohio University (Lobster Fest)
4/1 – Athens, GA @ 40 Watt Club ^
4/26 – Atlanta, GA – Terminal West *
4/27 – Birmingham, AL – Saturn *
4/28 – New Orleans, LA – Gasa Gasa *
4/30 – Dallas, TX – Club Dada *
5/1 – Austin, TX – Mohawk *
5/3 – Albuquerque, NM – Sister *
5/4 – Tucson, AZ – Club Congress *
5/5 – Los Angeles, CA – Teragram Ballroom !
5/6 – San Francisco, CA – Independent *
5/8 – Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios *
5/9 – Vancouver, BC – Fox Cabaret *
5/10 – Seattle, WA – Neumos *
5/11 – Spokane, WA – Lucky You Lounge *
5/12-14 – Salt Lake City, UT – Kilby Block Party
5/13 – Boise, ID – The Shredder *~
5/15 – Denver, CO – Larimer Lounge *
5/17 – Kansas City, MO – recordBar *
5/18 – St. Louis, MO – Off Broadway *
5/19 – Little Rock, AR – Stickyz Rock N Roll Chicken Shack *
5/20 – Memphis, TN – Growlers *
5/21 – Nashville, TN – Basement East *
5/27 – Berlin, DE – Schokoladen
5/28 – Groningen, NL – Vera
5/29 – Amsterdam, NL – Paradiso Upstairs
5/31 – Brussels, BE – Botanique
6/1 – Paris, FR – L’International
6/3 – Barcelona, ES – Primavera Sound
6/5 – Manchester, UK – YES Basement
6/6 – London, UK – The Lexington
6/7 – Bristol, UK – Rough Trade
6/9 – Porto, PT – Primavera Sound
6/10 – Madrid, ES – Primavera Sound
6/11 – Madrid, ES – Primavera in the City
6/15 – Charlotte, NC – Neighborhood Theatre #
6/16 – Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle #
6/17 – Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer @#
6/18 – Washington, DC – Black Cat #
6/20 – Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg #
6/21 – Cambridge, MA – Sinclair #
6/22 – Montreal, QC – Bar Le Ritz #
6/23 – Toronto, ON – Horseshoe Tavern #
6/24 – Grand Rapids, MI – Pyramid Scheme %
6/26 – Chicago, IL – Metro #$
6/27 – Milwaukee, WI – Cactus Club #
6/28 – Minneapolis, MN – Turf Club #
6/30 – Columbus, OH – Ace of Cups #
7/1 – Asheville, NC – The Orange Peel #

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