Out Today : Car Seat Headrest - 'Faces From The Masquerade'
'Faces From The Masquerade', the new live album from Car Seat Headrest is available today via all streaming platforms, finer record stores (terrible ones, too) and direct from the Matador Store.(shirt available as a bundle or separately, exclusively on the Matador store)
‘Faces From The Masquerade’ Tracklist:
1. Crows (Live at Brooklyn Steel)
2. Weightlifters (Live at Brooklyn Steel)
3. Fill in the Blank (Live at Brooklyn Steel)
4. Hymn (Live at Brooklyn Steel)
5. Hollywood (Live at Brooklyn Steel)
6. Bodys (Live at Brooklyn Steel)
7. Something Soon (Live at Brooklyn Steel)
8. 1937 State Park (Live at Brooklyn Steel)
9. Sober to Death (Live at Brooklyn Steel)
10. Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales (Live at Brooklyn Steel)
11. It's My Child (I'll Do What I Like) (Live at Brooklyn Steel)
12. Can’t Cool Me Down (Live at Brooklyn Steel) (VINYL ONLY)
13. Beach Life-In-Death (Live at Brooklyn Steel)
14. Deadlines (Live at Brooklyn St
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Video : Car Seat Headrest - "Sober To Death" (Live)
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Ahead of the release of new live album 'Faces From The Masquerade' this Friday, December 8th, Car Seat Headrest today share a video of the band performing the song "Sober To Death".
“Another track not originally slated to be a part of this tour – it came up often enough in the polls that it soon got locked in,” says frontman Will Toledo of “Sober To Death,” taken from the album 'Twin Fantasy'. “I think this hushed version gave everyone a welcome chance to breathe. While this video is taken from our performance at the Wiltern in Los Angeles rather than the Brooklyn Steel shows featured in 'Faces From The Masquerade', it captures the same feeling of spontaneity and community that was present throughout the tour.”
The album’s title is a nod to the band’s original tour announcement, which kindly asked audiences to mask up (for obvious reasons) and also invited fans to “accoutre yourself in whatever further costumery you please” for an evening of “music, dancing, and identity loss.” It also alludes to the by now familiar custom-made gas mask worn by frontman Will Toledo at shows, complete with an expressive LED display for eyes. In addition to the group’s four core members - Toledo, guitarist/backing vocalist Ethan Ives, bassist Seth Dalby and drummer Andrew Katz - they were joined on the tour by keyboard player Ben Roth.
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Coming December 8 : Car Seat Headrest - 'Faces From The Masquerade'
"Bodys" (Live)
(photo by Emilio Herce)
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‘Faces From The Masquerade’ Tracklist:
1. Crows (Live at Brooklyn Steel)
2. Weightlifters (Live at Brooklyn Steel)
3. Fill in the Blank (Live at Brooklyn Steel)
4. Hymn (Live at Brooklyn Steel)
5. Hollywood (Live at Brooklyn Steel)
6. Bodys (Live at Brooklyn Steel)
7. Something Soon (Live at Brooklyn Steel)
8. 1937 State Park (Live at Brooklyn Steel)
9. Sober to Death (Live at Brooklyn Steel)
10. Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales (Live at Brooklyn Steel)
11. It's My Child (I'll Do What I Like) (Live at Brooklyn Steel)
12. Can’t Cool Me Down (Live at Brooklyn Steel) (VINYL ONLY)
13. Beach Life-In-Death (Live at Brooklyn Steel)
14. Deadlines (Live at Brooklyn Steel)
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 issues.
The three night residency is captured on 'Faces From The Masquerade' - a double album’s worth of live performances that finds Car Seat Headrest at their most playful, exuberant, and precision honed.
The album title is a nod to the band’s original tour announcement, which kindly asked audiences to mask up (for obvious reasons) and also invited fans to “accoutre yourself in whatever further costumery you please” for an evening of “music, dancing, and identity loss.” It also alludes to the by now familiar custom-made gas mask worn by frontman Will Toledo at shows, complete with an expressive LED display for eyes. In addition to the group’s four core members - Toledo, guitarist/backing vocalist Ethan Ives, bassist Seth Dalby and drummer Andrew Katz - they were joined on the tour by keyboard player Ben Roth.
From the slow burning and atmospheric ‘Crows’ (“It always felt like the right track to start off the Masquerade tour,” Toledo notes in the album liner notes on the 8-minute opener, “it was gloomy, it was dancey, and in ten years we’d never played it live”) to the mosh-pitting and anthemic ‘Fill In The Blanks’ (“We went back to a big, fat rendition similar to the original for this tour, not the funky version we’d been rolling on the Twin Fantasy tour”) to the sprawling and epic ‘Beach Life-In-Death’ ("We re-arranged this one to have a bit more restraint up until the breaking point on “-dooooooggssss?” You wanna keep things dynamic with a 13+ minute song”), to the revisionist ‘Deadlines’ (“After experiencing various mutations throughout the recording process of Making a Door Less Open, this song got ANOTHER revamp for the live show to turn it into the climactic dance monster it always wanted to be”), Faces From The Masquerade is simultaneously a joyride through the greatest hits and a conversation with the devoted and ever-growing following that has formed around the band, their songs and live communions.
Elsewhere, Ethan Ives takes the lead on the fevered ‘It’s My Child (I’ll Do What I Like)’, a track originating from his side project Toy Bastard before joining the CSH fold. “As far as simply getting to ball out as a band, ‘It’s My Child’ always felt like the highlight of the whole show to me”, says Toldeo.
'Twin Fantasy' favorite 'Sober To Death' became something of a focal point as well as a mini-TikTok trend throughout the tour, with the song receiving reverential singalongs night after night wherever it was played. “Another track not originally slated to be a part of this tour - it came up often enough in the polls that it soon got locked in. I think this hushed version gave everyone a welcome chance to breathe, especially this night in New York, where people were getting so wild it felt necessary to dial things down for a few minutes.“
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Bandcamp Friday : Snail Mail - 'Valentine' ,14% Off, Plus A Plethora Of Matador Catalog Titles Available On BC For The First TIme
Bandcamp are waiving their revenue share today (Friday, February 4) and with the unselfishness being contagious, we’re putting Snail Mail’s ‘Valentine’ on sale for 14% off today only
https://matadorrecords.bandcamp.com/music
New to Bandcamp this week:
Pavement – Slanted & Enchanted: Luxe & Reduxe (digital only)
Pavement – Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain: LA’s Desert Origins (digital only)
Lucy Dacus – “Kissing Lessons” download / 7” pre-order (Out June 3)
Circuit des Yeux – “The Manatee” (digital only)
And there's new-to-Bandcamp catalog titles from Bailter Space, Body/Head, CEREMONY, Chavez, Kurt Vile, Lucy Dacus, Mary Timony, MUZZ, Perfume Genius, Snail Mail, Spoon, Stephen Malkmus, Steve Gunn, and The New Pornographers.
Car Seat Headrest - 2022 North American Dates
It is with great excitement that we can, at long last, share the news that Car Seat Headrest will be hitting the road this spring. In March, the band will launch an extensive run of dates – traveling the East Coast, West Coast, and points between. Find a complete itinerary below.
From the band :
"You are formally invited to a venue near you to partake in The CAR SEAT HEADREST MASQUERADE TOUR for a night of music, dancing, and identity loss.
We are deeply excited to crawl out of our pit and onto the spot lit stage once more. For a few hours on a spring night, you too can slip out of your mind and into the ever-changing shared world of the theater.
We ask that you wear a mask (you know which kind) and invite you to accouter yourself in whatever further costumery you please. Proof of COVID-19 vaccine or a negative test will be required. At some venues only proof of vaccine will be accepted - check your local venue to receive details."
Exclusive to this jaunt, the band will be selling a limited-edition tour-only CD, 'The MADLO EPs', which compiles this summer’s digital-only releases, 'MADLO: Influences' and 'MADLO: Remixes'.
stream / download ‘MADLO Influences’
stream / download ‘MADLO : Remixes’
Car Seat Headrest On Tour, Dates On Sale This Friday
Wednesday, March 16 Palace Theater, St. Paul MN #
Thursday, March 17 Pabst Theater, Milwaukee WI #
Friday, March 18 The Vic Theater, Chicago IL #
Sunday, March 20 The Majestic, Detroit MI #
Tuesday, March 22 Danforth Music Hall, Toronto ON #
Friday, March 25 MASS MoCA, North Adams MA #
Saturday, March 26 House of Blues, Boston MA #
Sunday, March 27 State Theatre, Portland ME #
Tuesday, March 29 Brooklyn Steel, Brooklyn NY #
Wednesday, March 30 Brooklyn Steel, Brooklyn NY #
Friday, April 1 Franklin Music Hall, Philadelphia PA #
Saturday, April 2 The Anthem, Washington DC #
Monday, April 4 The Jefferson Theater, Charlottesville VA #
Tuesday, April 5 The Orange Peel, Asheville NC #
Thursday, April 7 The Ritz, Raleigh NC #
Friday, April 8 The Senate, Columbia SC #
Saturday, April 9 The Tabernacle, Atlanta GA #
Sunday, April 10 Brooklyn Bowl, Nashville TN #
Friday, April 22 Paramount Theater, Seattle WA
Saturday, April 23 Roseland Theater, Portland OR #
Sunday, April 24 McDonald Theater, Eugene OR #
Tuesday, April 26 Ace of Spades, Sacramento CA #
Wednesday, April 27 The Warfield, San Francisco CA
Friday, April 29 House of Blues, San Diego CA
Saturday, April 30 The Wiltern, Los Angeles CA #
Sunday, May 1 The Van Buren, Phoenix AZ
Wednesday, May 4 Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater, Austin TX #
Thursday, May 5 White Oak Music Hall, Houston TX #
Friday, May 6 Granada Theater, Dallas TX #
Saturday, May 7 Tower Theater, Oklahoma City OK #
Sunday, May 8 Grinders KC, Kansas City MO #
Tuesday, May 10 Ogden Theatre, Denver CO #
Wednesday, May 11 Fox Theatre, Boulder CO #
Friday, May 20 The Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver BC %
# w/ Bartees Strange
% w/ Floral Tattoo
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Out Today : Car Seat Headrest - 'MADLO : Influences', 'MADLO : Remixes'
(art by Cate Wurtz)
(art by Cate Wurtz)
(photo : Carlos Cruz)
Today, 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 1 Trait Danger
stream / download 'MADLO Influences'
stream / download 'MADLO : Remixes'
Tracklists
MADLO: Influences
1. Golden Years (David Bowie)
2. Substitute (The Who)
3. March of the Pigs (Nine Inch Nails)
4. Running Up That Hill (Kate Bush)
MADLO: Remixes
1. Martin (Superorganism Remix)
2. Martin (1 Trait Danger Remix)
3. Weightlifters (Scuba Remix)
4. Deadlines (yeule Remix)
5. Life Worth Missing (Dntel Remix)
stream / purchase 'Making A Door Less Open'
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WATCH: Car Seat Headrest on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Last night Car Seat Headrest shared their first late night performance of 2020, playing "Can't Cool Me Down" from their new album Making A Door Less Open on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
Through December 1st, Making A Door Less Open (along with all other releases excluding pre-orders) is 25% off on the Matador Webstore.
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2020's Albums Of The Year (And Almost Everything Else) ; 25% Off At The Matador Store
so there's another (possibly less important) campaign happening and we'll be damned if Matador's not gonna figure squarely in the album of the year results. So here's your chance to stuff the (virtual) ballot box and save 25% on any of our vaunted 2020 releases. We're so intent on buying your affections, you can save 25% on anything from the label catalog except preorders.
Out Today : Car Seat Headrest - 'Making A Door Less Open'
The long-awaited new album from Car Seat Headrest, 'Making A Door Less Open' is available today from all streaming services and can be purchased on the still surviving, if not entirely thriving LP and CD formats (track listings below).
Digital Tracklist
01 Weightlifters
02 Can’t Cool Me Down
03 Deadlines (Hostile)
04 Hollywood
05 Hymn (Remix)
06 Martin
07 Deadlines (Thoughtful)
08 What’s With You Lately
09 Life Worth Missing
10 There Must Be More Than Blood
11 Famous
Vinyl Track List
A01 Weightlifters
A02 Can’t Cool Me Down
A03 Hollywood
A04 There Must Be More Than Blood
B05 Hymn
B06 Deadlines
B07 Martin
B08 What’s With You Lately
B09 Life Worth Missing
B10 Famous
CD Track List
01 Weightlifters
02 Can’t Cool Me Down
03 Hollywood
04 Martin
05 Hymn (Remix)
06 There Must Be More Than Blood
07 Deadlines
08 What’s With You Lately
09 Life Worth Missing
10 Famous
11 Deadlines (Alternate Acoustic) [Bonus Track]
12 Hollywood (Acoustic) [Bonus Track]
stream / purchase 'Making A Door Less Open'
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Car Seat Headrest - "There Must Be More Than Blood"
(art by Cate Wurtz)
(photo by Carlos Cruz)
Car Seat Headrest unveil a new song, “There Must Be More Than Blood,” ahead of the release of the forthcoming 'Making A Door Less Open', out May 1. .In addition, Will Toledo's self-directed video premiered earlier this morning after a dramatic (aren't they all?) YouTube countdown.
In its mesmeric slow burn, album centerpiece “There Must Be More Than Blood” presents another facet of the broad palette found on 'Making A Door Less Open', with Toledo placing emphasis on the individual songs, each with its own special energy.
stream / download "There Must Be More Than Blood"
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VIDEO : Car Seat Headrest - "Hollywood"
Video directed by Sabrina Nichols
Illustration by Cate Wurtz
Car Seat Headrest release a new song, “Hollywood” today accompanied by a Sabrina Nichols-directed video and an acoustic version of the song.
“Hollywood” is taken from the band’s forthcoming new album 'Making A Door Less Open', out May 1.
“This song is about Hollywood as a place where people go to
make their fantasies come to life, and they end up exploiting
other people and doing terrible things to maintain their fantasy,”
says bandleader Will Toledo, whose alter ego Trait appears in
the video in animated form. “There's this terror you're going to
lose the fantasy, and you're going to have to face the facts, and
some people will do anything to avoid facing that. It’s about that fear, and the pain of being subjugated to someone else's fantasy against your will, and it's all tied together under this banner of this physical location of Hollywood that we all know about and dream about, but none of us really want to think about what is going on behind the scenes there.”
stream / download "Hollywood"
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Car Seat Headrest have cancelled their summer tour dates due to COVID-19, with plans to reschedule. Read a statement from Will Toledo here.
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VIDEO : Car Seat Headrest - "Martin"
(illustrator : Cate Wurtz)
The second track from the forthcoming Car Seat Headrest album, 'Making A Door Less Open' (out May 1), "Martin" is available today ; the band-created lyric video is viewable above.
Car Seat Headrest's April date at North Adams' MASS MoCA has been rescheduled to September 4.
stream/download "Martin"
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Car Seat Headrest on tour :
Wednesday, May 27 Palace Theatre, St. Paul MN *
Thursday, May 28 The Pabst Theater, Milwaukee WI *
Friday, May 29 Vic Theatre, Chicago IL @
Saturday, May 30 Vic Theatre, Chicago IL @
Tuesday, June 2 Majestic Theatre, Detroit MI *
Wednesday, June 3 Danforth Music Hall, Toronto ON *
Thursday, June 4 Danforth Music Hall, Toronto ON *
Saturday, June 6 House of Blues, Boston MA *
Sunday, June 7 State Theatre, Portland ME *
Tuesday, June 9 Brooklyn Steel, Brooklyn NY *
Wednesday, June 10 Brooklyn Steel, Brooklyn NY *
Thursday, June 11 Brooklyn Steel, Brooklyn NY *
Saturday, June 13 Franklin Music Hall, Philadelphia PA *
Sunday, June 14 The Anthem, Washington D.C. *
Tuesday, June 16 The Ritz, Raleigh NC *
Wednesday, June 17 The Orange Peel, Asheville NC (On sale Noon local time this Friday) *
Thursday, June 18 The Senate, Columbia SC *
Friday, June 19 Tabernacle, GA *
Saturday, June 20 Brooklyn Bowl Nashville, Nashville TN *
Thursday, July 9 The Commodore, Vancouver BC+
Saturday, July 11 Paramount Theatre, Seattle WA+
Sunday, July 12 Roseland Theater, Portland OR+
Tuesday, July 14 The Warfield, San Francisco CA+
Friday, July 17 Observatory North Park, San Diego CA+
Saturday, July 18 The Wiltern, Los Angeles CA+
Sunday, July 19 The Van Buren, Phoenix AZ+
Wednesday, July 22 Stubb’s, Austin TX+
Thursday, July 23 White Oak Music Hall, Houston TX+
Friday, July 24 Granada Theater, Dallas TX+
Saturday, July 25 Tower Theatre, Oklahoma City OK+
Sunday, July 26 Crossroads KC at Grinder's, Kansas City MO+
Tuesday, July 28 Ogden Theatre, Denver CO+
@ w/ Ron Gallo
* w/ Twin Peaks
+w/ Porridge Radio
+w/ Porridge Radio
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Coming May 1 : Car Seat Headrest - 'Making A Door Less Open'
(album art : Cate Wurtz)
"Can't Cool Me Down", Produced by Dos Rios Films, Lyric Animation by Marisa Gesualdi
(photo by Carlos Cruz)
'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 first single, “Can’t Cool Me Down,” a staple of their live sets over the past year, from the forthcoming album, and its accompanying video, are out today.
Created over the course of four years, 'Making a Door Less Open' is the result of a collaboration between Car Seat Headrest, led by Will Toledo, and 1 Trait Danger, a CSH electronic side project consisting of drummer Andrew Katz and Toledo’s alternative persona, “Trait.”
'Making A Door Less Open' sees Toledo embarking on new and imaginative roads to songwriting and recording, placing emphasis on the individual songs, each with its own “special energy,” rather than attempting to draw a coherent storyteller narrative through the album as he has in the past, resulting in his most dynamic and open-ended work to date.
stream / download "Can't Cool Me Down"
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This album was made from January 2015 to December 2019, starting as a collection of vague ideas that eventually turned into songs. I wanted to make something that was different from my previous records, and I struggled to figure out how to do that. I realized that because the way I listened to music had changed, I had to change the way I wrote music, as well. I was listening less and less to albums and more and more to individual songs, songs from all over the place, every few days finding a new one that seemed to have a special energy. I thought that if I could make an album full of songs that had a special energy, each one unique and different in its vision, then that would be a good thing.
Andrew, Ethan, Seth and I started going into the studio to record songs that had more finished structures and jam on ideas that didn’t. Then I would mess with the recordings until I could see my way to a song. Most of the time on this album was spent shuttling between my house and Andrew’s, who did a lot of the mixing on this. He comes from an EDM school of mixing, so we built up sample-heavy beat-driven songs that could work to both of our strengths.
Each track is the result of an intense battle to bring out its natural colors and transform it into a complete work. The songs contain elements of EDM, hip hop, futurism, doo-wop, soul, and of course rock and roll. But underneath all these things I think these may be folk songs, because they can be played and sung in many different ways, and they’re about things that are important to a lot of people: anger with society, sickness, loneliness, love...the way this album plays out is just our own interpretation of the tracks, with Andrew, Ethan and I forming a sort of choir of contrasting natures.
I think my main hope for the world of music is that it will continue to grow by taking from the past, with a consciousness of what still works now. Exciting moments in music always form at a crossroads - a new genre emerges from the pieces of existing ones, an artist strips down a forgotten structure and makes something alien and novel. If there is a new genre emergent in our times, it has not yet been named and identified, but its threads come from new ways of listening to all types of music, of new methods of creating music at an unprecedented level of affordability and personal freedom, of new audiences rising up through the internet to embrace works that would otherwise be lost, and above all from the people whose love of music drives them to create it in the best form they possibly can. Hopefully it will remain nameless for some time, so it can be experienced with that same newness and strangeness that accompanies any and all meaningful encounters with music.
“Yea but ?what’s with the mask”
Bob Dylan said, “if someone’s wearing a mask, he’s gonna tell you the truth...if he’s not wearing a mask, it’s highly unlikely.” He never actually wore a mask onstage so I don’t know why he said that. But I decided to start wearing a mask for a couple of reasons. One, I still get nervous being onstage with everybody looking at me. If everyone is looking at the mask instead, then it feels like we’re all looking at the same thing, and that is more honest to me. Two, music should be about enjoying yourself, especially live music, and I think of this costume as a way to remind myself and everyone else to have some fun with it. I don’t think it changes anything else about the songs or how you feel about them to be able to drop it for a second and have fun with it. If you can’t do that then you’re in a bad place...
The character comes from another project Andrew and I have been working on called 1 TRAIT DANGER. This is something Andrew started doing on tour—recording ideas for his own songs as they came to him, and forcibly enlisting everyone else to participate. It appealed to me because it was nothing like Car Seat Headrest, and the ideas cracked me up. Before we knew it we had two albums released, a video game that was almost impossible to beat, and a growing number of people who seemed to be enjoying it all. It’s been a great outlet for weird and untenable musical experiments, and the live performances have been a blast. I play a character called TRAIT, and we’ve been working out the backstory as we go. I think he spent a lot of time in classified government facilities before getting into the music business.
This is the kind of stuff that kept us going while we were working on MADLO. We were in our own little world and free to try any idea we “Yea but ?what’s with the mask”wanted. A lot of the ideas for 1 Trait bled over to the Car Seat tracks, and vice versa. You just can’t make music without first creating your own environment around it...sound’s always gotta travel through something. This time it was a mask.
—trait
Vinyl Track List
A01 Weightlifters [5:38]
A02 Can’t Cool Me Down [5:08]
A03 Hollywood [3:23]
A04 There Must Be More Than Blood [7:21]
B05 Hymn [3:02]
B06 Deadlines [5:03]
B07 Martin [3:27]
B08 What’s With You Lately [1:37]
B09 Life Worth Missing [4:52]
B10 Famous [2:49]
CD Track List
01 Weightlifters [5:41]
02 Can’t Cool Me Down [5:09]
03 Hollywood [3:22]
04 Martin [3:32]
05 Hymn (Remix) [2:48]
06 There Must Be More Than Blood [7:22]
07 Deadlines [5:05]
08 What’s With You Lately [1:37]
09 Life Worth Missing [4:52]
10 Famous [2:52]
11 Deadlines (Alternate Acoustic) [Bonus Track] [3:07]
12 Hollywood (Acoustic) [Bonus Track] [3:10]
Digital Tracklist - TBD
Ticket Presale Info
Album Preorder / Ticket Presale info: Initial preorders of 'Making A Door Less Open' via the Matador Store will come with a presale code for the U.S. tour.
Album Preorder presale begins at 3pm Wednesday, February 26th
General on-sale is 10am local time Friday February 28th
Car Seat Headrest on Tour, New Dates in Bold
Saturday, April 25 MASS MoCA, North Adams MA (preview performance)
Wednesday, May 27 Palace Theatre, St. Paul MN *
Thursday, May 28 The Pabst Theater, Milwaukee WI *
Friday, May 29 Vic Theatre, Chicago IL @
Saturday, May 30 Vic Theatre, Chicago IL @
Tuesday, June 2 Majestic Theatre, Detroit MI *
Wednesday, June 3 Danforth Music Hall, Toronto ON *
Thursday, June 4 Danforth Music Hall, Toronto ON *
Saturday, June 6 House of Blues, Boston MA *
Sunday, June 7 State Theatre, Portland ME *
Tuesday, June 9 Brooklyn Steel, Brooklyn NY *
Wednesday, June 10 Brooklyn Steel, Brooklyn NY *
Thursday, June 11 Brooklyn Steel, Brooklyn NY *
Saturday, June 13 Franklin Music Hall, Philadelphia PA *
Sunday, June 14 The Anthem, Washington D.C. *
Tuesday, June 16 The Ritz, Raleigh NC *
Wednesday, June 17 The Orange Peel, Asheville NC (On sale Noon local time this Friday) *
Thursday, June 18 The Senate, Columbia SC *
Friday, June 19 Tabernacle, GA *
Saturday, June 20 Brooklyn Bowl Nashville, Nashville TN *
Thursday, July 9 The Commodore, Vancouver BC
Saturday, July 11 Paramount Theatre, Seattle WA
Sunday, July 12 Roseland Theater, Portland OR
Tuesday, July 14 The Warfield, San Francisco CA
Friday, July 17 Observatory North Park, San Diego CA
Saturday, July 18 The Wiltern, Los Angeles CA
Sunday, July 19 The Van Buren, Phoenix AZ
Wednesday, July 22 Stubb’s, Austin TX
Thursday, July 23 White Oak Music Hall, Houston TX
Friday, July 24 Granada Theater, Dallas TX
Saturday, July 25 Tower Theatre, Oklahoma City OK
Sunday, July 26 Crossroads KC at Grinder's, Kansas City MO
Tuesday, July 28 Ogden Theatre, Denver CO
@ w/ Ron Gallo
* w/ Twin Peaks
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OUT NOW: Car Seat Headrest - "I Haven’t Done Shit This Year, Part 3"
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Photo by Mikeal Beland[/caption]Car Seat Headrest have released the final installment of I Haven’t Done Shit This Year, a three-part documentary on the band in partnership with TIDAL. The documentary, available to members and non-members of TIDAL alike, is titled Working In Progress, offering a rare behind-the-scenes glimpse as the band work in the studio, practice room and live on stage on new song ‘Stop Lying to Me’, slated for a forthcoming Car Seat Headrest album.
Speaking to TIDAL on the documentary and new song, Will Toledo says “I think the plan is for it to be on the next record, but it really is still a work in progress. It's stitched together in a video from various sessions; I'm still really not sure what the final piece is going to look like. I've really been thinking it over and changing stuff that could be better.” Read the full interview and watch parts 1 & 2 of the documentary here.
Stream Car Seat Headrest's newly released live album Commit Yourself Completely.
Car Seat Headrest On Tour
Sunday, August 11th Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles CA *
Thursday, August 15 Paredes de Coura Festival, Tábua PT
Saturday. August 17 Green Man Festival, Crickhowell UK
Friday, September 6 Oregon Zoo, Portland OR * (SOLD OUT)
Saturday, September 7 Marymoor, Redmond WA *
Sunday, September 8 Marymoor, Redmond WA *
November 16-17 Corona Capital – Mexico City MX
* with Death Cab For Cutie
Car Seat Headrest Online
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Out Today : Car Seat Headrest - 'Commit Yourself Completely'
The live Car Seat Headrest album 'Commit Yourself Completely' is out today and is available via all (well, most) popular streaming and download options.
(poster by Alexis Politz)
Tracklist
1. Cosmic Hero (Live at the Tramshed, Cardiff, Wales)
2. Fill In The Blank (Live at Newport Music Hall, Columbus, OH)
3. Drugs With Friends (Live at La Lune des Pirates, Amiens, France)
4. Bodys (Live at La Lune des Pirates, Amiens, France)
5. Cute Thing (Live at O2 Forum Kentish Town, London, England)
6. Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales (Live at O2 Forum Kentish Town, London, England)
7. Destroyed By Hippie Powers (Live at the Crystal Ballroom, Portland, OR)
8. Ivy (live at the Capitol Theater, Olympia, WA)
9. Beach Life-in-Death (Live at Crossroads, KC, Kansas City, MO)
Car Seat Headrest on tour :
Saturday, June 22nd College Street Music Hall, New Haven CT
Sunday, June 23rd Firefly Festival, Dover DE
Tuesday, June 25th Asbury Hall at Babeville, Buffalo NY
Wednesday, June 26th House of Blues, Cleveland OH
Thursday, June 27th Deluxe at Old National Centre, Indianapolis IN
Friday, June 28th Cannery Ballroom, Nashville TN
Saturday, June 29th Bogart’s, Cincinnati OH
Tuesday, July 2nd Wooly’s Des Moines IA
Wednesday, July 3rd The Waiting Room, Omaha NE
Sunday, August 11th Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles CA *
Thursday, August 15 Paredes de Coura Festival, Tábua PT
Saturday. August 17 Green Man Festival, Crickhowell UK
Friday, September 6 Oregon Zoo, Portland OR * (SOLD OUT)
Saturday, September 7 Marymoor, Redmond WA *
Sunday, September 8 Marymoor, Redmond WA *
November 16-17 Corona Capital - Mexico City MX
* with Death Cab For Cutie
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Coming June 17 : Car Seat Headrest - 'Commit Yourself Completely'
('Commit Yourself Completely' album sleeve photo by Veronica Anderson)
"Fill In The Blank" (Live at Newport Music Hall, Columbus, OH)
Car Seat Headrest today announces Commit Yourself Completely – a new nine-track live album that will be released only via digital means June 17th. Culled from performances across the UK, US and France, the nine-track album spans material from 2016’s breakout Teens Of Denial and 2018’s reimagined epic Twin Fantasy – as well as the first officially released recording of longtime live staple ‘Ivy’ by Frank Ocean. A filmed version of the performance of ‘Fill In The Blank’ which appears on the album, recorded in Columbus, Ohio, can be seen now above.
“This is a compilation of songs from shows we played in 2018,” says Will Toledo. “We recorded every show we did that year, and I went through about 50 of them to get the final tracklist for this album. This isn’t necessarily the best possible version of each track, but it’s some of the most fun we’ve had on stage. I particularly remember the show we did in the small French town of Amiens, maybe the smallest show we did that year, and how great it felt to be up in people’s faces with everyone plugging in to the music right away. The recordings we made of the shows came out very clean, so rather than try to artificially recreate how it sounded in the different venues night to night, I tried to give the whole album that in-your-face feeling, like we’re playing the songs right in front of you. When you’re onstage with everything happening at once, you never really know what it sounds like in the room anyways; all you know is how the music is feeling. Hopefully this will give you a sense of what these shows felt like.”
A snapshot of the 7-person lineup featuring members of Naked Giants experienced by crowds worldwide over the last two years, Commit Yourself Completely offers a visceral, loose and ebullient take on these much-loved songs, as well as an an incandescent capstone of a formative touring period as Car Seat Headrest readies his next studio album. Musicians featured on the album are Will Toledo (vocals), Seth Dalby (bass), Ethan Ives (guitar, vocals), Andrew Katz (drums, vocals), Grant Mullen (guitar, vocals) Gianni Aiello (guitar, keyboards, vocals), Henry LaVallee (additional percussion).
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Photo by Mikeal Beland[/caption]Tracklist
1. Cosmic Hero (Live at the Tramshed, Cardiff, Wales)
2. Fill In The Blank (Live at Newport Music Hall, Columbus, OH)
3. Drugs With Friends (Live at La Lune des Pirates, Amiens, France)
4. Bodys (Live at La Lune des Pirates, Amiens, France)
5. Cute Thing (Live at O2 Forum Kentish Town, London, England)
6. Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales (Live at O2 Forum Kentish Town, London, England)
7. Destroyed By Hippie Powers (Live at the Crystal Ballroom, Portland, OR)
8. Ivy (live at the Capitol Theater, Olympia, WA)
9. Beach Life-in-Death (Live at Crossroads, KC, Kansas City, MO)
Car Seat Headrest on tour :
Saturday, June 22nd College Street Music Hall, New Haven CT
Sunday, June 23rd Firefly Festival, Dover DE
Tuesday, June 25th Asbury Hall at Babeville, Buffalo NY
Wednesday, June 26th House of Blues, Cleveland OH
Thursday, June 27th Deluxe at Old National Centre, Indianapolis IN
Friday, June 28th Cannery Ballroom, Nashville TN
Saturday, June 29th Bogart’s, Cincinnati OH
Tuesday, July 2nd Wooly’s Des Moines IA
Wednesday, July 3rd The Waiting Room, Omaha NE
Sunday, August 11th Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles CA *
Thursday, August 15 Paredes de Coura Festival, Tábua PT
Saturday. August 17 Green Man Festival, Crickhowell UK
Friday, September 6 Oregon Zoo, Portland OR * (SOLD OUT)
Saturday, September 7 Marymoor, Redmond WA *
Sunday, September 8 Marymoor, Redmond WA *
November 16-17 Corona Capital - Mexico City MX
* with Death Cab For Cutie
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Car Seat Headrest - New Summer 2019 Dates
Though Car Seat Headrest's current North American run recommences this Thursday in Boston, MA, the band have confirmed 9 additional summer show. Pre-sale begins Tuesday at 10am local time.. You can sign up for the presale (password TODAY ONLY) at https://carseatheadrest.com/tourdates. You'll receive a text and email 10 minutes before tickets go on sale. General onsale begins Friday at 10am local time.
stream / purchase 'Twin Fantasy'
Car Seat Headrest on tour (new shows in bold)
Thursday, February 14 Royale, Boston MA
Friday, February 15 Mass MoCA, North Adams MA
Saturday, February 16 Madison Square Garden, New York NY *
Sunday, February 17 Rams Head Live, Baltimore MD
Monday, February 18 The National, Richmond VA
Wednesday, February 20 Georgia Theatre, Athens GA
Thursday, February 21 The Moon, Tallahassee FL
Friday, February 22 The Beacham Theater, Orlando FL
Saturday, February 23 The Orpheum, Tampa Bay FL
Tuesday, February 26 Tipitina's, New Orleans LA
Wednesday, February 27 White Oak Music Hall, Houston TX
Thursday, February 28 Emo's, Austin TX
Friday, March 1 Canton Hall, Dallas TX
Saturday, March 2 Paper Tiger, San Antonio TX
Wednesday, May 1 Red Rocks Amphitheater, Morrison CO &
Saturday, June 22nd College Street Music Hall, New Haven CT
Sunday, June 23rd Firefly Festival, Dover DE
Tuesday, June 25th Asbury Hall at Babeville, Buffalo NY
Wednesday, June 26th House of Blues, Cleveland OH
Thursday, June 27th Deluxe at Old National Centre, Indianapolis IN
Friday, June 28th Cannery Ballroom, Nashville TN
Saturday, June 29th Bogart’s, Cincinnati OH
Tuesday, July 2nd Wooly’s Des Moines IA
Wednesday, July 3rd The Waiting Room, Omaha NE
Sunday, August 11th Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles CA +
* with Interpol, Snail Mail
% with Interpol
+ with Death Cab For Cutie
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Great Music For Terrible Times : 25% Off Holiday Sale
Dear Citizens of Earth,
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OUT NOW: Car Seat Headrest 'Twin Fantasy (Mirror to Mirror)' White Vinyl
Car Seat Headrest have officially released the white vinyl edition of Twin Fantasy (Mirror to Mirror), the 2011 version that Will Toledo revisited early this year to create Twin Fantasy (Face to Face). Available for the first time on colored vinyl, purchase the 2xLP via the Matador Webstore here. Car Seat Headrest are currently on tour in the UK. The band returns to touring North America early next year surrounding their performance at Madison Square Garden with Interpol and Snail Mail on February 16.
Stream Twin Fantasy (Mirror to Mirror)
Car Seat Headrest On Tour
Saturday, November 10 Rolling Stone Weekender Weissenhauser Strand, DE
Sunday, November 11th Pumpehuset, Copenhagen DK
Tuesday, November 13th Vera, Groningen NL
Wednesday, November 14th Tivoli, Utrecht NL
Thursday, November 15th Autumn Falls at Vooruit, Gent BE
Saturday, November 17 Rolling Stone Park Rust, DE
Thursday, February 14 Royale, Boston MA
Friday, February 15 Mass MoCA, North Adams MA
Saturday, February 16 Madison Square Garden, New York NY !
Sunday, February 17 Rams Head Live, Baltimore MD
Monday, February 18 The National, Richmond VA
Wednesday, February 20 Georgia Theatre, Athens GA
Thursday, February 21 The Moon, Tallahassee FL
Friday, February 22 The Beacham Theater, Orlando FL
Saturday, February 23 The Orpheum, Tampa Bay FL
Tuesday, February 26 Tipitina’s, New Orleans LA
Wednesday, February 27 White Oak Music Hall, Houston TX
Thursday, February 28 Emo’s, Austin TX
Friday, March 1 Canton Hall, Dallas TX
Saturday, March 2 Paper Tiger, San Antonio TX
! w/ Interpol, Snail Mail
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Car Seat Headrest - "I Haven't Done Shit This Year, Pt. II" (TIDAL)
Car Seat Headrest and TIDAL have debuted the 2nd installment of "I Haven't Done Shit This Year", pt. II being a behind-the-scenes peak at the band's sold-out shows at SF's Fillmore last July. Parts 1 and 2 of of the film can be seen here. There's a 90 free trial available at TIDAL.com/CSHFans.
Previously only available on LP as a Record Store Day exclusive, the remastered 2011 version of 'Twin Fantasy' (aka 'Twin Fantasy - Mirror To Mirror') is available now on all digital services and in record stores starting tomorrow, November 9.
Car Seat Headrest on tour :
Thursday, November 8th Kentish Town 02 Forum, London UK
Saturday, November 10 Rolling Stone Weekender Weissenhauser Strand, DE
Sunday, November 11th Pumpehuset, Copenhagen DK
Tuesday, November 13th Vera, Groningen NL
Wednesday, November 14th Tivoli, Utrecht NL
Thursday, November 15th Autumn Falls at Vooruit, Gent BE
Saturday, November 17 Rolling Stone Park Rust, DE
Thursday, February 14 Royale, Boston MA
Friday, February 15 Mass MoCA, North Adams MA
Saturday, February 16 Madison Square Garden, New York NY !
Sunday, February 17 Rams Head Live, Baltimore MD
Monday, February 18 The National, Richmond VA
Wednesday, February 20 Georgia Theatre, Athens GA
Thursday, February 21 The Moon, Tallahassee FL
Friday, February 22 The Beacham Theater, Orlando FL
Saturday, February 23 The Orpheum, Tampa Bay FL
Tuesday, February 26 Tipitina's, New Orleans LA
Wednesday, February 27 White Oak Music Hall, Houston TX
Thursday, February 28 Emo's, Austin TX
Friday, March 1 Canton Hall, Dallas TX
Saturday, March 2 Paper Tiger, San Antonio TX
! - with Interpol, Snail Mail
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