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Chat Pile and Hayden Pedigo by Bayley Hanes
Chat Pile are still riding high off of releasing one of last year’s best albums with Cool World, and now they’ve announced a collaborative album with Texas fingerstyle guitarist Hayden Pedigo, who released his acclaimed new album I’ll Be Waving As You Drive Away earlier this year. It’s called In The Earth Again and it arrives on Halloween via Computer Students (pre-order). Per the announcement:
In The Earth Again sees both Chat Pile and Hayden Pedigo explore latent yet previously untapped aspects of their sounds. For Chat Pile, this meant an opportunity to explore moodier arrangements, indulge in sample and tape manipulation, and pen among the most sincere and personal lyrics in their entire discography. In Hayden’s case, this collaboration enabled the visionary guitarist to translate the masterful craft of his typically tranquil, deep country soundscapes into something more sinister, tinged with a visceral, metallic grit that is no less evocative on a sensory level than their solo material. “We all wanted to avoid the downfall you see in a lot of collab records,” explains Hayden. “We didn’t want this record to either end up primarily sounding like one of us more than the other.” Stin from Chat Pile adds, “For the album, every decision made was in support of each other’s ideas and making sure that everything we did was in service of a greater vision.”
The first single is “Radioactive Dreams,” and I would say it fits that goal of not wanting the music to sound more like one of the artists than the other. It sounds like the middle ground between Chat Pile’s sludgy noise rock and Hayden’s Americana guitar soundscapes, and it works really well. Listen and watch the Riley Stearns–directed video below.
Both Chat Pile and Hayden have separate tours coming up as well. Chat Pile are gearing up to open the second leg of Fleshwater‘s tour, which now also includes rising metalcore/deathcore band Balmora on all the dates that Chat Pile are on. (The first leg is with Angel Du$t and Ingrown.) The leg with Chat Pile includes a show at NYC’s Brooklyn Steel on October 28.
Hayden has a headlining tour coming up that hits NYC on November 29 at St. John’s Lutheran Church with support from Jens Kuross.
All dates for both artists are listed below.
Fleshwater — 2025 Tour Dates
09/17 Toronto, ON @ The Opera House *
09/18 Millvale, PA @ Mr. Smalls Theater *
09/20 Louisville, KY @ Louder Than Life ^
09/21 Atlanta, GA @ Shaky Knees Fest ^
09/23 Indianapolis, IN @ Hi-Fi Annex *
09/24 Detroit, MI @ St. Andrew’s Hall *
09/26 St. Louis, MO @ Red Flag *
09/26 Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall ^
09/28 Madison, WI @ Majestic Theatre *
09/29 Minneapolis, MN @ Fine Line *
10/02 Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theater *
10/04 Salt Lake City, UT @ Soundwell *
10/06 Seattle, WA @ Neumos *
10/07 Portland, OR @ Aladdin Theater *
10/09 San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore $
10/10 Los Angeles, CA @ The Fonda Theatre $
10/13 Mesa, AZ @ Nile Theater $
10/16 Oklahoma City, OK @ Lower Theater $
10/17 Austin, TX @ Emo’s $
10/18 Dallas, TX @ The Echo Lounge & Music Hall $
10/19 Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall – Downstairs $
10/21 Tampa, FL @ The Orpheum $
10/22 Orlando, FL @ The Beacham $
10/24 Charlottesville, VA @ The Jefferson Theater $
10/25 Baltimore, MD @ Baltimore Soundstage $
10/26 Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club $
10/28 Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel $
10/29 Philadelphia, PA @ Theatre Of Living Arts $
10/31 Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club $
* = with Angel Du$t and Ingrown
^ = no Angel Du$t
$ = with Chat Pile and Balmora
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Hayden Pedigo — 2025 Tour Dates
Aug 27 London — Stranger Than Paradise
Aug 28 Manchester — St. Michael’s
Aug 29 Larmer Tree Gardens — End of the Road Festival
Aug 30 Cardiff — Clwb ifor Bach
Sep 01 Dublin — The Grand Social
Sep 02 Belfast — The Deer’s Head
Sep 04 Glasgow — Mono
Sep 05 Edinburgh — St. Vincent’s Chapel
Sep 06 Newcastle — The Lubber Fiend
Sep 07 Leeds — The Attic
Sep 10 Aarhus — Alter Festival
Sep 12 Berlin — Gretchen
Sep 13 Bochum — Die Trompete
Sep 14 Leffinge — Leffingeleuren Festival
Sep 17 Lyon — Le Sonic
Sep 18 Milano — ARCI Bellezza
Sep 19 Reggio Emilia — Hotel Posta
Sep 21 Marseille — Le Molotov
Sep 22 Barcelona — Sala Upload
Sep 24 Lisboa — ZDB
Sep 25 Vigo — Radar Estudios
Sep 26 San Sebastian — Lugaritz K.E.
Sep 27 Bordeaux — Base Sous-Marine de Bordeaux
Sep 28 Paris — La Boule Noire
Oct 22 Albuquerque, NM — The Cell at Fusion
Oct 23 Colorado Springs, CO — Lulu’s Downtown
Oct 24 Denver, CO — Swallow Hill
Oct 26 Salt Lake City, UT — Parker Theatre
Oct 27 Boise, ID — Shrine Social Club
Oct 29 Portland, OR — Mississippi Studios
Oct 31 Seattle, WA — Ballard Homestead
Nov 01 Vancouver, BC — Wise Hall
Nov 04 Santa Cruz, CA — The Crepe Place
Nov 05 San Francisco, CA — The Chapel
Nov 06 Pioneertown, CA — Pappy and Harriets
Nov 07 Los Angeles, CA — Barndall Gallery Theater
Nov 08 Ojai, CA — Ojai Valley Women’s Club
Nov 10 San Diego, CA — Casbah
Nov 11 Tucson, AZ — Pidgin Palace Arts
Nov 13 El Paso, TX — Lowbrow Palace
Nov 14 Marfa, TX — Ballroom Marfa
Nov 15 Austin, TX — Central Presbyterian Church
Nov 16 Houston, TX — White Oak Music Hall
Nov 17 Dallas, TX — Sons of Hermann Hall
Nov 19 Kansas City, MO — The Ship
Nov 20 Omaha, NE — The Reverb Lounge
Nov 21 Minneapolis, MN — Icehouse
Nov 24 Indianapolis, IN — Turntable
Nov 26 Toronto, ON — Great Hall
Nov 27 Montreal, QC — L’Esco
Nov 29 Brooklyn, NY — St. John’s Lutheran Church
Nov 30 Philadelphia, PA — Black Squirrel Club
Dec 01 Washington, DC — Union Stage
Dec 03 Atlanta, GA — Masquerade
Dec 04 Nashville, TN — The Blue Room at TMR
Dec 05 Memphis, TN — 1884 Lounge
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