Car Seat Headrest share new single ‘CCF (I’m Gonna Stay With You)’, off The Scholars, a bold new rock opera and the band’s first studio album in five years, released May 2nd. The record’s soaring, uplifting opener is accompanied by a video, featuring illustrations of the characters who appear across The Scholars designed by cartoonist Cate Wurtz. Set at the fictional college campus Parnassus University, the album’s songs are populated...
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Car Seat Headrest announce The Scholars, a bold new rock opera that isn’t just a new chapter for the premiere standard bearers of young internet rockers but also a spiritual rebirth, and the band’s first studio album in five years. Watch ‘Gethsemane,’ an 11-minute, multi-part epic (directed by Andrew Wonder) that conveys the spiritual journey and yearning at the heart of the new album. Set at the fictional college campus Parnassus University, the...
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On March 28th-30th 2022, Car Seat Headrest played three consecutive sold out nights at Brooklyn Steel in New York. An air of celebration, community and showmanship was present, made all the more palpable as the shows were far from a certainty – they took place amidst a year which saw the band having to postpone or cancel a large swath of their North American tour dates due to ongoing health...
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Car Seat Headrest have made two new EPs available to stream and download – MADLO: Influences and MADLO: Remixes. The former comprises covers of four tracks the band has cited as influences on Making A Door Less Open, including takes on songs by David Bowie, Nine Inch Nails, Kate Bush, and The Who. The latter is a 5-track EP of remixes that includes re-works by Superorganism, Scuba, yeule, Dntel, and...
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Car Seat Headrest release Making A Door Less Open, their hugely anticipated new album, available in distinct track listings and mixes for digital, CD and vinyl. The album features critically acclaimed singles ‘Martin’ (currently on the BBC 6 Music playlist), ‘Hollywood’, ‘There Must Be More Than Blood’ and ‘Can’t Cool Me Down’, which have already collectively surpassed 6 million streams on DSP’s. A recent New York Times profile describes MADLO...
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Car Seat Headrest today reveal dreamy nigh-on 8-minute epic ‘There Must Be More Than Blood’, ahead of the release of their new album Making A Door Less Open on May 1st. The release is accompanied by a special acoustic performance of the song by front man Will Toledo in character as ‘Trait’. In its mesmeric slow burn, album centerpiece ‘There Must Be More Than Blood’ presents another facet of the...
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Car Seat Headrest has released ‘Hollywood’, the latest single taken from his hotly anticipated album Making A Door Less Open, released May 1st. Accompanied by an animated video by Sabrina Nichols featuring Toledo’s alternate persona ‘Trait’, ‘Hollywood’ is an a simultaneously exhilarating and terrifying haunted ride through Tinseltown that sees Car Seat Headrest embarking on adventurous new roads. Speaking to SiriusXM, Toledo said: “This song is about Hollywood as a...
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Car Seat Headrest share a new song, ‘Martin.’ Listen and watch the lyric video, with bandleader Will Toledo in the character of ‘Trait’ below. The track is taken from the band’s forthcoming new album Making A Door Less Open, set for release May 1. Described by Toledo as “one of the favorite songs that he’s ever written”, ‘Martin’ is a soaring and majestic ode of life-affirming pop. Created over the...
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Making A Door Less Open, the new album from Car Seat Headrest and the first set of brand-new songs since 2016’s Teens Of Denial, is set for release May 1. The band have shared ‘Can’t Cool Me Down’, a staple of their live sets over the past year, from the forthcoming album, and its accompanying video. Created over the course of four years, Making a Door Less Open is the result...
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Record Store Day is just around the corner, tomorrow in fact! With a host of special events, acts, prizes, and so forth coming from records stores across the Country, and globe, so to speak. Find our special releases for Record Store Day 2018 below, along with some special in-store performances: Courtney Barnett Sunday Roast/City Looks – Pretty 12″ Featuring a brand new track ‘City Looks Pretty’ – about life on the road –...
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Car Seat Headrest releases new album Twin Fantasy – the re-recorded, re-imagined new version of the 2011 self-released Bandcamp masterpiece of the same name. The band will tour Australia next week. Further tour details below. Will Toledo always knew he would return to Twin Fantasy. Will’s first love, rendered in the vivid teenage viscera of stolen gin, bruised shins, and weird sex, was an event too momentous for the medium assigned to record...
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Car Seat Headrest unveil another preview from forthcoming new album Twin Fantasy, out Friday 16 February. Listen to album opener ‘My Boy (Twin Fantasy)’ below! The song commences with the sparse declaration of “my boy, we don’t see each other much,” and blossoms into a towering climax, with the life-affirming mantra of “It’ll take some time, but somewhere down the line / We won’t be alone” standing as the statement-of-intent for the record’s...
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Car Seat Headrest releases ‘Cute Thing’, the latest track to be previewed from forthcoming new album Twin Fantasy – a re-recorded, re-imagined new version of the 2011 self-released Bandcamp masterpiece of the same name – which will be out February 16. Listen below! ‘Cute Thing’ is an ecstatic multi-part epic of unbridled yearning, flirtation, and abandon – pairing masterfully layered production with a combustible house-party reverie. With a seven-piece band...
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Will Toledo’s 2011’s Bandcamp masterpiece, Twin Fantasy, has been re-recorded and re-imagined and will come out on Friday 16 Feburary. The album will be available on digital, vinyl and as a double CD including both Twin Fantasy (2017 version) and Twin Fantasy – Mirror To Mirror (re-mastered 2011 version). The announcement comes with the release of ‘Nervous Young Inhumans’ and its accompanying video. It is a frenetic, anthemic, split-screen choreographed...
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Car Seat Headrest will be playing their biggest Australian shows to date early next year. Kicking off at Sydney City Limits Festival on 24th February, in Perth on 25th February, in Melbourne on 27th February and Brisbane on 1st March. Full tour details below! Car Seat Headrest began in 2010 when 17-year-old Will Toledo started gathering his thoughts and setting up a makeshift recording studio in his family’s car. Touching...
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‘War Is Coming (If You Want It)’ is the new release from Car Seat Headrest. “This is a song about not murdering people” says Will Toledo of the band. Listen below! The demo version, ‘War Is Coming (If You Want It) [March Mix]’, cannot be heard anywhere anymore, having been made available for purchase via Bandcamp for just 24-hours on August 4th, to support their fundraiser for the Transgender Law...
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