Car Seat Headrest has announced The Scholars, a bold new rock opera that isn’t just a new chapter for the premiere standard bearers of young internet rockers but also a spiritual rebirth, and the band’s first studio album in five years. The album is due out May 3rd via Matador.
Check out ‘Gethsemane,’ an 11-minute, multi-part epic (directed by Andrew Wonder) that conveys the spiritual journey and yearning at the heart of the new album, HERE.
Set at the fictional college campus Parnassus University, the songs on The Scholars are populated with students and staff whose travails illuminate a loose narrative of life, death, and rebirth. Here’s what the band has to say about the character piece that accompanies ‘Gethsemane’:
“Rosa studies at the medical school of Parnassus University. After an experience bringing a medically deceased patient back to life, she begins to regain powers suppressed since childhood, of healing others by absorbing their pain. Each night, instead of dreams, she encounters the raw pain and stories of the souls she touches throughout the day. Reality blurs, and she finds herself taken deep into secret facilities buried beneath the medical school, where ancient beings that covertly reign over the college bring forth their dark plans.”
Car Seat Headrest have announced a run of 2025 US headline shows, a full list can be found below. Artist presale begins Wednesday, March 5 at 10am local time, with public on-sale beginning Friday, March 7 at 10am local time. Sign-up for presale access HERE. Tickets can be purchased HERE
TOUR DATES
May 16 – Salt Lake City, UT – Kilby Block Party
June 7 – New York, NY – Governors Ball
June 28 – Washington, DC – The Anthem
July 12 – Denver, CO – Mission Ballroom
July 26 – Chicago, IL – Salt Shed (Fairgrounds)
August 8 – Los Angeles, CA – The Greek
September 12 – Philadelphia, PA – Highmark Skyline at the Mann Center
September 27 – Boston, MA – MGM Music Hall
November 1 – Oakland, CA – The Fox
