The influential frontman for The Cars has passed away at age 75.
Today’s song, featured on The Midday Show with Cheryl Waters, is "Your Car" by Red Ribbon, from the 2018 album Dark Party on Union Zero.
For their third album for Matador Records, Car Seat Headrest revise their 2011 opus. In doing so, they transform what was already an ambitious, weighty album into an emotionally exhausting masterpiece.
Today's Song of the Day, as chosen by Cheryl Waters, host of The Midday Show on KEXP, is “Cars In Space” by Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, a 2020 single on Sub Pop.
Will Toledo, of Seattle-based Car Seat Headrest, talks to DJ Cheryl Waters about The Scholars.
Beach House shares a Sonic Boom-directed video for "Drunk In L.A." and a Sonic Boom-remixed single of "Black Car," both from this year's 7
Following a fantastic set at the Capitol Hill Block Party, Car Seat Headrest (aka Will Toldeo) has announced a full-on North American tour in support of his latest, Teens of Denial. He swings back home with a Saturday, November 26th show at the Neptune Theatre. Toldeo also shares a Live EP he rec…
Car Seat Headrest came dressed for success to their first KEXP in-studio session. Adorned in suits and ties, the young Seattle band got down to business with a fantastic five-song set of lo-fi epic indie rock. Despite his relatively young age, frontman and songwriter Will Toledo (reportedly just 22…
Here we are at the end of KEXP's New Home Grand Opening: one long day, well over 7,000 guests, countless bottles of KEXP Transistor IPA, and 7 acts later, it's time for our closer. KEXP's Gathering Space has been filled to capacity since the day began, but this time the cool night air battles the e…
New music from Moby, Car Seat Headrest covers Frank Ocean, a new Merge signee and more.
Featuring Car Seat Headrest, Kyle Craft, Thao, Polyrhythmics, and more.
Car Seat Headrest, lead by Seattle's own Will Toledo, have shared the opening track from their upcoming album and Matador debut, Teens of Denial (out May 20). "Fill In The Blank" is a fuzzy piece of indie rock that has me very excited for the rest of the album. Check it out. [SPIN]
They didn't perform this one during their blistering closing set at KEXP's New Home Grand Opening this past Saturday, but Car Seat Headrest took to Tumblr to share a cover of Radiohead's "Pyramid Song." Frontman/founder Will Toledo calls his take of the Amnesiac track, a "sloppy flamenco with miss…
Martin Douglas' local music-inspired short fiction series returns with flying cars and smoldering debris.
Today, Bandcamp is donating all of its proceeds from music sales to the Transgender Law Center and Car Seat Headrest is one of the artists using that as an opportunity to share new music via the platform. Check out the track "War Is Coming (If You Want It) [March Mix]" which will receive an officia…
This John Richards-hosted episode of Music that Matters is NOT sponsored by any car manufacturers but it is full of puns and great new tracks from Broken Social Scene, Wavves, and Coco Hames. 1. Do Make Say Think - Bound and Boundless2. Sorority Noise - No Halo3. The Megaphonic Thrift - Interloper…
Anticipation for physical copies of the new album by Car Seat Headrest will have to last a bit longer. The CDs and LPs of Teens Of Denial, originally due in stores on May 20, were recalled due to a misunderstanding, of sorts. The track "Just What I Needed / Not Just What I Needed", containing parts…
Not many bands can successfully transition from performing a heartfelt lament into a vicious murder ballad, much less on a sunny April morning, but that's exactly what Dublin's Little Green Cars did this past April. Since the last time they played KEXP, the quintet has not only grown by leaps and b…
The new song was initially inspired by the Cars' track "Drive" and comes about after years of tinkering
