Wednesday is an American indie rock band from North Carolina that began releasing music in 2018.

Originally a musical collaboration between University of North Carolina students Karly Hartzman and Daniel Gorham, the group expanded into its current iteration as a five-piece outfit composed of frontwoman Karly Hartzman (vocals/rhythm guitar/primary songwriter), Jake “MJ” Lenderman (lead guitar), Xandy Chelmis (lap steel guitar, pedal steel guitar), Ethan Baechtold (bass, piano), and Alan Miller (drums). Lenderman left Wednesday’s touring band in 2025 and was replaced by Jake Pugh aka Spyder, but will continue continue to take part in the group’s studio output.

The band’s name Wednesday subconsciously comes from Karly Hartzman’s appreciation of English jangle pop band The Sundays, especially their 1990 debut album Reading, Writing and Arithmetic. Yet The Sundays' soft guitar music is a far cry from Wednesday’s current musical output, which is mainly an amalgamation of ‘90s-inspired noisy slacker rock with elements of country and shoegaze … also known as “country-gaze.”