Today, California rock collective Howlin Rain, led by the inimitable Ethan Miller, celebrates 20 years of freewheeling, vintage rock ‘n’ roll in 2026 with the deep-cut covers collection, Watermelon, which is due out on November 13 through Silver Current Records. For the album’s third and final single leading up to its release, Miller enlisted garage rock savant and longtime Howlin Rain fan Ty Segall on vocals and guitar for a rendition of the Scott Walker chestnut “30 Century Man.”

Segall’s dead of night delivery is the perfect foil for Walker’s velvet croon on what begins as a plaintive acoustic number before taking a left turn into exploding, fuzzed-out solos and glorious, psych-rock bombast.  “Scott Walker is a creative deity to all of us down here miring around in the swamp. We should all care so very much about the pursuit of art and give so little a fuck about how everyone else thinks it should be done. He reminded us that musical identity is a mystifying thing that you forever bend and experiment with,“ says Miller.

The artist added: “So when we recorded this arrangement and turned the acid rock elements up to eleven, I thought there was one perfect person out there to front this version, and that person is Ty Segall, an artist who’s equally committed to risk and reinvention, cutting his own path radically off the interstate.”

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