“Unfortunately, due to circumstances outside of our control and out of respect for the safety and health of our fans, we regret to inform you that we will be cancelling our May, June & July tours. Our deepest apologies to all who were planning to come out. We were looking forward to playing for you and are working to come back to these cities as soon as possible!
Refunds for cancelled shows will be available at point of purchase. Thank you for your understanding and please be safe out there!”
With guests: Porridge Radio
19 Years and Older (2 Pieces of Gov't Issued ID Required)
Doors 7:30pm / Show 8:30pm
General Admission
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 on Matador Records. Today, the band shares “Can’t Cool Me Down,” a staple of their live sets over the past year, from the forthcoming album, and its accompanying video—watch/listen here.
Created over the course of four years, Making a Door Less Open is the result of a fruitful “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.” To realize this, the band recorded the album twice: once live with guitars, drums and bass, and once in a MIDI environment using purely synthesized sounds. During the mixing process, the two approaches were gradually combined using elements of each, with additional overdubs.
In this way, 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.
Read a statement from Toledo, as Trait, here.
Car Seat Headrest will embark on a North American tour this summer, including three nights at New York’s Brooklyn Steel and stops in Los Angeles, Chicago, Toronto, Vancouver and Washington, D.C. Please see full routing below and visit carseatheadrest.com for more information.
Comprised of Will Toledo, Andrew Katz (drums), Ethan Ives (guitar) and Seth Dalby (bass), Car Seat Headrest has either released 11 or three albums to date, depending on the way you look at it. A prolific songwriter, Toledo took his moniker from making early recordings in the private environment of his family’s car, releasing a dozen self-recorded and produced albums on Bandcamp and building a tight-knit following. Toledo has since gone from an empty five-seater to selling out tours and filling festival main stages. 2015’s Teens of Style was a collection of songs from his early years. The band’s proper Matador debut, Teens of Denial, followed in 2016 and catapulted them to overnight commercial success and widespread critical acclaim, as well as highlighting Toledo as a prodigious lyricist. 2018’s Twin Fantasy, an epic re-imagination of an album originally released in 2011, demonstrated newfound scale, depth and ambition.