Chat Pile and Hayden Pedigo – “Radioactive Dreams” [Video]

Rust Never Sleeps: Chat Pile & Hayden Pedigo Go Nuclear

Chat Pile teaming up with Hayden Pedigo might sound like oil and water, but In the Earth Again proves otherwise—it’s gasoline and a match. Out October 31 via Computer Students with support from The Flenser, the record takes Pedigo’s wide-open plains fingerpicking and fuses it with Chat Pile’s scorched-earth heaviness. The result? A haunting, strangely beautiful soundtrack to the backroads apocalypse.

First taste comes with “Radioactive Dreams,” a track that captures both the eerie calm and teeth-gritting dread of a world left to rot. Chat Pile lean into murkier moods and tape-loop experiments, while Pedigo warps his usually pastoral guitar tone into something sharp and unsettling. It’s not one band backing the other—it’s both of them dissolving into a shared fever dream.

At just over half an hour, In the Earth Again runs like a cracked road map through decay, grief, and catharsis—jumping from dusty calm to jagged eruptions. The cover by Malcolm Byers fits perfectly, and the label’s rolling out some wild formats: black, silver, gold, oxblood vinyl in aluminum sleeves, CDs, cassettes—the whole works.

“Radioactive Dreams” is streaming now. The collaborative LP is out 10/31 from Computer Students with support from The Flenser [pre-order].

Chat Pile Tour Dates (with Fleshwater)

Oct 09 – San Francisco, CA — The Fillmore
Oct 10 – Los Angeles, CA — The Fonda Theatre (Sold Out)
Oct 11 – Los Angeles, CA — The Fonda Theatre
Oct 13 – Mesa, AZ — Nile Theater
Oct 16 – Oklahoma City, OK — Tower Theatre
Oct 17 – Austin, TX — Emo’s
Oct 18 – Dallas, TX — The Echo Lounge & Music Hall
Oct 19 – Houston, TX — White Oak Music Hall – Downstairs
Oct 21 – Tampa, FL — The Orpheum
Oct 22 – Orlando, FL — The Beacham
Oct 24 – Charlottesville, VA — The Jefferson Theater
Oct 25 – Baltimore, MD — Baltimore Soundstage
Oct 26 – Washington, D.C — 9:30 Club
Oct 28 – Brooklyn, NY — Brooklyn Steel
Oct 29 – Philadelphia, PA — Theatre of Living Arts
Oct 31 – Boston, MA — Paradise Rock Club (Sold Out)
Nov 01 – Boston, MA — Paradise Rock Club

Hayden Pedigo 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