Steven and Ian open this week with a conversation about financial woes at the LP subscription service Vinyl Me Please, and what this says about the “Big Vinyl” industry. They also talk about Steven’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Credit: Carlos Cruz* If you’re thinking about diving into The Scholars, the new album from Car Seat Headrest, don’t mess around.

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It’s been at least a decade since Car Seat Headrest achieved a critical breakthrough, yet they’ve hardly shed their reputation as a college band. Look at it one way, and The Scholars is yet another ...

Will Toledo has never been at a loss for words. As a band that regularly flirts with the seven-minute mark — and often pushes past ten — Car Seat Headrest (and their frontman) can hardly be described ...

Even though most of the big summer records are holding out for June and July releases, there’s still plenty of great new music in May. Car Seat Headrest has an ambitious new rock opera, Ben Kweller is ...

Car Seat Headrest are releasing a new album/rock opera, The Scholars, this Friday via Matador. Now they have shared its third single, “The Catastrophe (Good Luck With That Man).” Listen below. A press ...

If you’re thinking about diving into The Scholars, the new album from Car Seat Headrest, don’t mess around. Go past the three-minute songs, and the four-minute one and the eight-minute one, and the 10 ...

It’s not clear how this would play out on stage – and to that extent, it may not strciktly speaking be an operatic work – but “The Scholars” consists of a parade of characters – Beolco, Devereaux, ...

With so much good music being released all the time, it can be hard to determine what to listen to first. Every week, Pitchfork offers a run-down of significant new releases available on streaming ...