{"id":52356,"date":"2016-11-07T13:14:58","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T19:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/?p=52356"},"modified":"2016-11-07T13:14:58","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T19:14:58","slug":"teens-of-style-car-seat-headrest-brings-back-that-high-school-feeling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2016\/11\/07\/teens-of-style-car-seat-headrest-brings-back-that-high-school-feeling\/","title":{"rendered":"Teens of Style: Car Seat Headrest brings back that high school feeling"},"content":{"rendered":"

Will Toledo, the driving force of indie-punk band Car Seat Headrest released eight albums and three EPs before breaking out with 2016\u2019s Teens of Denial<\/em> on Matador Records. On this album, Car Seat Headrest hit the femoral artery of powerful indie rock and punk, which ascended them to the heights of the year\u2019s best albums.<\/p>\n

Their ascension to rock star status was fully apparent when the band took the stage of the Bottleneck on November 3rd. The crowd was ready to head bang, and from the first song played, that\u2019s exactly what they did. As Toledo strummed through the opening riff of \u201cFill in the Blank,\u201d the band kicked into gear and charged through the song with intensity.<\/p>\n

Toledo, who is tall and slender doesn\u2019t come off as much of a rock star, but as the best rock stars usually do, as soon as he played his guitar, the image was the last thing concerned. The rawness of his voice, the crystal clearness of his lyrics, and the fervor with which he plays guitar scream lowkey indie rocker who maybe spent too much time on the computer. But it\u2019s on the computer where Toledo got his start in 2010, uploading music to indie\/ DIY platform Bandcamp.<\/p>\n

Any songs off of\u00a0Teens\u00a0<\/em>was a surefire hit. \u201cUnforgiving Girl\u201d was a massive party starter that got feet moving early in the set. From there, Car Seat charged through \u201cDestroyed By Hippie Powers\u201d and a dark and brooding cover of David Bowie\u2019s massively dark and brooding title track to his final album, \u201cBlackstar.\u201d Although a cover is rarely as potent and powerful as the original song, Car Seat’s cover definitely does the late, great Starman justice.<\/p>\n

The culmination of the evening was hearing, possibly one of the top five tracks this year, \u201cDrunk Drivers\/ Killer Whales.\u201d The song starts out with gentle lyricism before picking up the pace, and barreling into a powerful, hands-in-the-air, crowd-chanting chorus. If you ask me, Car Seat could have showed up, played this song, and left, and I would have loved every second of it. Seriously, this song is SO good. Please, give it a listen if you haven\u2019t. It will change things for you, or at least worm it\u2019s way into your top 50 tracks of 2016.<\/p>\n

Finally, the band closed out the set and tore the roof down with \u201cConnect the Dots\u201d culminating in a nice little moshpit. It was especially awesome to see so many high school kids, no doubt in the midst of their awkward emo phase, just like me, dancing and jumping along to music like this.<\/p>\n

With the current path to success they\u2019re on, I\u2019m eagerly awaiting news of a new Car Seat Headrest album. All the pieces are there, the fanbase is\u00a0building by the hour, and the music is undeniably great. A fantastic live show is just the cherry on top.<\/p>\n

Photo Credit: Doug Bybee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Will Toledo, the driving force of indie-punk band Car Seat Headrest released eight albums and three EPs before breaking out with 2016\u2019s Teens of Denial on Matador Records. On this album, Car Seat Headrest hit the femoral artery of powerful indie rock and punk, which ascended them to the heights of the year\u2019s best albums. Their ascension to rock star status was fully apparent when the band took the stage of the Bottleneck on November 3rd. The crowd was ready […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":921,"featured_media":52383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3268],"tags":[3960,6180,6181,6183,839,6182],"class_list":["post-52356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","category-music-articles","tag-car-seat-headrest","tag-naked-giants","tag-teens","tag-teens-of-denial","tag-the-bottleneck","tag-unforgiving-girl","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Car-Seat-HeadRest06.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/921"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}