The post Protomartyr Unveil New Album Formal Growth in the Desert: Stream appeared first on Consequence. Protomartyr are back with a new album called Formal Growth in the Desert. Stream it via Apple ...

Is there any guitar band quite as raw as Protomartyr? Closer to Swans or Glenn Branca than their peers, Protomartyr stack simple sounds into a churning, impenetrable wave of kinetic energy. 2014’s ...

Protomartyr have announced a short North American tour that hits East Coast and Midwest dates in June, including Montreal, Boston, Philly, Brooklyn, Baltimore, Chicago and more. All dates are listed ...

Long story: On tour – late at night in some German hotel room, I watch part of Taylor Hackford’s awfully bad 2016 movie “The Comedian” starring Robert DeNiro. The next morning I hazily recall the plot ...

Joe Casey has entered a new stage of life. After a decade as the self-consciously “miserable” frontman and lyricist of the Detroit post-punk institution Protomartyr, culminating in 2020’s Ultimate ...

The Michigan post-punk band Protomartyr played a gig in Las Vegas on Election Night in 2016. Like many Americans, the guys in the band woke up the next morning depressed and hungry. Before hitting the ...

Protomartyr vocalist Joe Casey often conveyed the impression of a harmless drunken crank bellied up to a dive bar Thursday at a packed Lincoln Hall. Dressed in a sports coat, his slicked-back hair ...

There's nothing wrong with music that doubles as an outpouring of joy: sing-along choruses, ecstatic vocals, outsize emotion — a positive outlook on life, generally speaking. If that's your thing, ...