Amoeba Music

We're having a special release day listening party for the new Car Seat Headrest album, The Scholars (Matador Records), on Friday, May 2nd at 5pm! Join us at Amoeba Hollywood to hear the album with fellow fans and have a chance to win some prizes!

At 5pm, we'll play the album in its entirety, pausing at 5:30pm to raffle off some prizes.

Attendees will have a chance to take home limited edition goodies including posters, postcards, pennants, Amoeba goodies and a couple postcards signed by CSH!

- 1 raffle ticket per person, given out starting at 5pm. Must be present to win.

- No RSVP needed.

- Event is free/all-ages.

-  Please note: band will NOT be in attendance.

The Scholars is the first studio album from Car Seat Headrest in five years. From Shakespeare to Mozart to classical opera, Car Seat Headrest’s Will Toledo pulled from the classics when devising the lyrics and story arc of The Scholars while the music draws, carefully, from classic rock story song cycles such as The Who’s Tommy and David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust.

“One thing that can be a struggle with rock operas is that the individual songs kind of get sacrificed for the flow of the plot,” Toledo notes. “I didn’t want to sacrifice that to make a very fluid narrative. And so this is sort of a middle ground where each song can be a character and it’s like each one is coming out on center stage and they have their song and dance.”

While Car Seat Headrest started as Toledo’s solo project, the four-piece is now fully a band. “What we’ve been doing more of in recent years is just taking the pulses of each other.” says Toledo. “It didn’t really feel to me like things got in sync in an inner feeling way until this record, with that internal communal energy. And it’s become that band feeling for me in a much more realized way. That’s been a big journey.” It is a journey that listeners will want to embark on again and again as they absorb and discover the rich depths and clanging resonances of , The Scholars.