Apr 04, 2025 By Mark Redfern

Welcome to the 10th Songs of the Week of 2025. This week’s list covers the last two weeks, as I was out of town last Friday. This week Andy Von Pip, Caleb Campbell, Matt the Raven, Scotty Dransfield, and Stephen Humphries helped me decide what should make the list. We considered over 50 songs and narrowed it down to a Top 16, since it covers two weeks. More

Apr 02, 2025 By Mark Redfern

Car Seat Headrest are releasing a new album/rock opera, The Scholars, on May 2 via Matador. Now they have shared its second single, the eight-minute “CCF (I’m Gonna Stay With You).” More

Mar 07, 2025 By Mark Redfern

Welcome to the seventh Songs of the Week of 2025. This week Andy Von Pip, Caleb Campbell, Matt the Raven, Scotty Dransfield, and Stephen Humphries helped me decide what should make the list. We considered over 30 songs and narrowed it down to a Top 11. More

Mar 04, 2025 By Mark Redfern

Car Seat Headrest have announced a new album/rock opera, The Scholars, and shared its first single, the 11-minute multi-part track “Gethsemane,” via a short film. They have also announced some new tour dates. More

Dec 06, 2024 By Mark Redfern

Salt Lake City, Utah-based festival Kilby Block Party have announced their 2025 lineup and it’s packed with Under the Radar favorites. New Order, Beach House, Weezer, and Justice are the headliners. More

Oct 12, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Death Cab for Cutie’s Transatlanticism and The Postal Service’s Give Up have both turned 20 this year and as both bands are fronted by Ben Gibbard they have been on a joint tour where they perform both albums in their entirety. In honor of all this, Car Seat Headrest (aka Will Toledo and band) have covered Transatlanticism track “We Looked Like Giants” and The Beths have covered Give Up song “Brand New Colony.” The covers form a double A-side single for Sub Pop. More

Oct 26, 2021 By Joey Arnone

Car Seat Headrest (aka Will Toledo and band) have announced a 2022 North American tour. The band has also announced the release of a limited edition tour-only CD entitled The MADLO EPs, which compiles two previous digital releases: MADLO: Influences, a set of four covers of songs which inspired the creation of their most recent album, Making a Door Less Open, and MADLO: Remixes, a set of five remixes of album tracks done by various producers. More

May 01, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Car Seat Headrest (aka Will Toledo and band) have released a new album, Making a Door Less Open, today via Matador. Now that the album’s out you can stream the whole thing here. More

Apr 24, 2020 By Christopher Roberts (with Lily Guthrie)

Welcome to the sixteenth Songs of the Week of 2020. It’s another week under quarantine, the same as the last week. More

Apr 23, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Car Seat Headrest (aka Will Toledo and band) are releasing a new album, Making a Door Less Open on May 1 via Matador. Now they have shared another song from it, the seven-and-a-half-minute “There Must Be More Than Blood.” They have also shared a video of Toledo (as his character Trait) performing the song acoustically. More

Apr 16, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Car Seat Headrest (aka Will Toledo and band) are releasing a new album, Making a Door Less Open, on May 1 via Matador. Now they have shared another song from it, “Hollywood,” via an animated video for the track. More

Mar 27, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Welcome to the twelfth Songs of the Week of 2020. It was another scary week out there, as America surpassed China and Italy to become the country with the most COVID-19 coronavirus cases in the world, with 101,242 known U.S. cases at the time of this writing and 1,588 American COVID-19 deaths. Meanwhile the world economy is in tatters and there’s no realistic end to the quarantine in sight, despite what President Trump says about everything opening back up again in time for Easter. More

Mar 23, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Car Seat Headrest (aka Will Toledo and band) are releasing a new album, Making a Door Less Open on May 1 via Matador. Now they have shared another song from it, “Martin,” via a lyric video for the track. More

Feb 28, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Welcome to the eighth Songs of the Week of 2020. It was busy week of new album announcements and surprise EPs. That led to another super-sized edition. More

Feb 26, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Car Seat Headrest (aka Will Toledo and band) have announced a new album, Making a Door Less Open, and shared its first single, “Cool Me Down.” The band have also announced some new tour dates. More

Jun 12, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Car Seat Headrest (aka Will Toledo and band) have announced a new live album, Commit Yourself Completely, and shared a live video for one of its tracks, “Fill in the Blank.” More

Feb 11, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Car Seat Headrest (aka Will Toledo and band) have announced some new tour dates for this summer. More

May 10, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Car Seat Headrest (aka Will Toledo and band) released a new album of sorts, Twin Fantasy, back in February via Matador. It’s a re-imagined version of an album also titled Twin Fantasy that Toledo self-released to Bandcamp in 2011. Last night the band stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to perform a spirited take on the album’s “Bodys.” More

Apr 24, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Car Seat Headrest (aka Will Toledo and band) released a new album of sorts, Twin Fantasy, back in February via Matador. It’s a re-imagined version of an album also titled Twin Fantasy that Toledo self-released to Bandcamp in 2011. More

Apr 10, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

If you support Under the Radar‘s Patreon page at the minimum contribution of at least $1.00 a month you get access to our Patreon-only feed featuring exclusive content only available to Patreon supporters and you will also help keep one of the last print music magazines strong and vital. More

Mar 30, 2018 By Stephen Mayne

This week we talk the anti-gun violence movement which seems to be picking up steam, plus scandals, redistricting, Julian Assange, racism, Wes Anderson, and CHVRCHES. More

Mar 30, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

FYF Fest has announced its 2018 lineup. The event is due to take place July 21 and 22 at Los Angeles’ Exposition Park. The headliners are Florence and the Machine and Janet Jackson. More

Feb 21, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Current indie rocker Car Seat Headrest (aka Will Toledo and band) and 1990s rock band Smash Mouth have covered each other. Over a year ago a Twitter user named alligator grappler suggested that the two cover each other and surprisingly both artists positively responded. More

Feb 15, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Current indie rocker Car Seat Headrest (aka Will Toledo and band) and 1990s rock band Smash Mouth have covered each other. Over a year ago a Twitter user named alligator grappler suggested that the two cover each other and surprisingly both artists positively responded. More

Feb 06, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Car Seat Headrest (aka Will Toledo and band) are releasing a new album of sorts, Twin Fantasy, on February 16 via Matador. It’s a re-imagined version of an album also titled Twin Fantasy that Toledo self-released to Bandcamp in 2011. More

Jan 23, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Car Seat Headrest (aka Will Toledo and band) are releasing a new album of sorts, Twin Fantasy, on February 16 via Matador. It’s a re-imagined version of an album also titled Twin Fantasy that Toledo self-released to Bandcamp in 2011. More

Jan 09, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Car Seat Headrest (aka Will Toledo and band) has announced a new album, Twin Fantasy, and shared a video for “Nervous Young Inhumans.” Diehard Car Seat Headrest fans will point out that Toledo already self-released an album titled Twin Fantasy to Bandcamp in 2011. This is a re-imagined version of that album. More

Dec 13, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Car Seat Headrest (aka Will Toledo and band) have shared a 13-minute new song, “Beach Life-In-Death.” Although it’s actually an updated version of a song of the same name from his 2011 Bandcamp album Twin Fantasy. More

Aug 18, 2017 By Stephen Mayne

With the President outdoing himself in a bid to appear like a terrible human being, there’s only really one thing to talk about this week. Still, read on and you might find a few positive developments outside his Charlottesville debacle. More

Aug 14, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Car Seat Headrest (aka Will Toledo and band) recently shared a new track, “War Is Coming (If You Want It) [March Mix],” via Bandcamp, with all proceeds going to the Transgender Law Center. At the time it was pointed out that a different, official version of the song would be released at some point and here it is. More

Aug 04, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Car Seat Headrest (aka Will Toledo and band) has shared a new track, “War Is Coming (If You Want It) [March Mix].” It’s available on Bandcamp, with all proceeds going to the Transgender Law Center. More

May 17, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Middle Kids are a promising new Australian band who are signed to Domino and released their self-titled debut EP via the label back in February. Now the Sydney band have covered Car Seat Headrest’s “Fill in the Blank” (from Teens of Denial) for a SiriusXMU radio session. More

May 04, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Austin City Limits have announced the lineup of their 2017 festival to go down in the Texas capitol this October. The event is headlined by Gorillaz, The xx, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Killers, Martin Garrix, and Chance the Rapper. More

Apr 19, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Car Seat Headrest (aka Will Toledo and band), released their new album, Teens of Denial, last year via Matador. Last night, in between performing at Coachella’s two weekends, Car Seat Headrest stopped by Conan to perform “Unforgiving Girl (She’s Not An).” More

Jan 11, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Bonnaroo have announced their 2017 lineup. The festival goes down in Manchester, Tennessee from June 8-11 and this year, their 16th year, the lineup includes U2 performing The Joshua Tree (which was announced on Monday), More

Dec 01, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Car Seat Headrest (aka Will Toledo and band), released their new album, Teens of Denial, back in May on Matador. More

Nov 14, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Legendary singer/songwriter/poet Leonard Cohen‘s death was announced on Thursday even though he actually died last Monday. More

Sep 06, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Car Seat Headrest (aka Will Toledo and band), released their new album, Teens of Denial, back in May on Matador. No stranger to covering other artist’s songs live, Toledo covered Frank Ocean‘s “Ivy” last night at St. Louis’ Ready Room. More

Aug 26, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Car Seat Headrest (aka Will Toledo and band), released their new album, Teens of Denial, back in May on Matador. Last night they finally made their network television debut by performing “Fill in the Blank” on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. More

Aug 19, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Car Seat Headrest (aka Will Toledo and band), released their new album, Teens of Denial, back in May on Matador. Now the band has shared a new song entitled “Does It Feel Good (to Say Goodbye?).” It’s taken from the soundtrack to a new short film, Loudini, that’s been produced by Ray-Ban Films and features a cameo from Toledo as a busker. More

Jul 19, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Car Seat Headrest (aka Will Toledo and band), released their new album, Teens of Denial, back in May on Matador. The band performed a session for the Minnesota public radio station The Current, during which they performed a cover of David Bowie‘s “Blackstar,” the title track to the late icon’s final album, released this past January. More

May 23, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Car Seat Headrest (aka Will Toledo and band), just released their new album, Teens of Denial, on Matador. At last night’s show in Philadelphia the band covered two songs, Radiohead classic “Paranoid Android” (from 1997’s OK Computer) and Sufjan Stevens’ “Impossible Soul” (from 2010’s The Age of Adz). More

Apr 18, 2016 By Joshua M. Miller

Car Seat Headrest‘s Will Toledo has shared his cover of Radiohead‘s song “Pyramid Song.” More

Apr 11, 2016 By Joshua M. Miller

Car Seat Headrest has shared a Mad Lib-like lyric video for their latest single,“Fill In The Blank.” More

Mar 15, 2016 By Mark Redfern

A song is a chance overlapping of countless variables in an artist’s life. Anatomy of a Song is a place where those variables can be dissected and examined. In this edition, Car Seat Headrest frontman/main creative force Will Toledo writes about “The Ending of Dramamine.” More

Mar 04, 2016 By Mark Redfern

Under the Radar magazine is excited to reveal the full lineups, poster, and set times for its three SXSW 2016 events: two day parties on Wednesday, March 16 and Thursday, March 17 and one official nighttime showcase on Wednesday, March 16. The lineups include Car Seat Headrest, Julien Baker, Hinds, Eleanor Friedberger, Everything Everything, Caveman, Still Corners, Yuck, Sunflower Bean, Petite Noir, Girls Names, Gwenno, MONEY, Cullen Omori, TEEN, Mass Gothic, Younghusband, and more. More

Feb 23, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Car Seat Headrest (aka Will Toledo and band), released their proper debut full-length, Teens of Style, last year on Matador and he has a new one, Teens of Denial, due out soon. Now he’s shared a video for “Vincent.” It’s a four-minute radio edit of a near eight-minute long song. Quinn George directed the clip, which features a guy getting extremely drunk intercut with footage of Toledo performing the song. More

Feb 08, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Car Seat Headrest (aka Will Toledo and band), released their proper debut full-length, Teens of Style, last year on Matador. Now the band has stopped by NPR’s offices to perform a Tiny Desk Concert. More

Nov 13, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of the November/December 2015 issue, which is available digitally now (via the magazine apps Zinio and Readly), has shipped out to subscribers and stores and will be on all newsstands soon. It will also soon be available digitally via Under the Radar‘s app, as well as Readbug and Kindle. The issue features EL VY (Matt Berninger of The National and Brent Knopf of Menomena and Ramona Falls) on the cover. More

May 06, 2016 By Charles Steinberg

Will Toledo, the young creator of Car Seat Headrest, used to prefer anonymity, releasing 11 self-recorded albums on Bandcamp without pretense or assignation of image. His identification with slacker youth trying to find something meaningful to grab onto has gradually made him one of their emissaries. More

Nov 05, 2015 By Scott Dransfield

Car Seat Headrest is the moniker of Will Toledo, a young Virginia musician who has been self-releasing albums on his Bandcamp page for years. He makes lo-fi, fuzzy pop-rock, with an emphasis on “lo.” His first release for a label, Teens of Style, is a collection of reworked songs from his musical past, and he has an album of new material set to be released next year. More