Why do Oklahoma's premier noise-rockers have to play mini-golf outside? It's all part of making the leap from local upstart to underground sensation. The guys in Chat Pile are grumpy. They don't want ...

This May, Chat Pile have a run of tour dates across the southern U.S. lined up with Portrayal of Guilt and Nightosphere in support. There are only a few dates, but they’re all likely to be memorable.

It’s time to stuff yourself with candy corn and existential dread once again, so Chat Pile’s here kick off this October with a new video for the song “The Mask.” The track is from the band’s latest ...

Chat Pile has released a Sub Pop single, and in doing so they decided to cover a classic Sub Pop song, Nirvana‘s Bleach closer “Sifting.” It’s a song that fits very well with Chat Pile’s own material, ...

On the surface, and let’s be honest, underneath the surface too, Chat Pile and Hayden Pedigo make unlikely collaborators. The intersection of DIY noise rock and instrumental guitar soli (as John Fahey ...

Chat Pile are on tour now in support of their excellent sophomore album Cool World, and they landed at NYC’s Le Poisson Rouge on Saturday night (11/16) for a sold-out show with their Flenser ...

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Like the towering mounds of toxic waste from which it gets its namesake, the music of Oklahoma City noise rock quartet Chat Pile is a suffocating, grotesque embodiment of the existential anguish that ...

One of them is a sludge-metal band, and the other is a fingerstyle guitarist. Anyone could tell you they sound nothing alike. But Chat Pile, the former, and Hayden Pedigo, the latter, have made a ...

Besides being the name of a largely forgotten (and panned) 90s film, Cool World makes for an apt title of Chat Pile’s sophomore full-length record. In the context of a Chat Pile record, the words are ...