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 ...

If Protomartyr’s 2020 album Ultimate Success Today was a meditation on our broken world, its newest release, Formal Growth in the Desert, is an exploration of healing (frontman Joe Casey’s mother died ...

We’ve been asking artists what’s been keeping them busy during COVID-19 lockdown, and this time we’ve got Joe Casey, whose band Protomartyr just released their excellent fifth album, ‘Ultimate Success ...

Protomartyr, the great white (and one half Lebanese) hope that everyone knows is from Detroit, standing on stage at Santos Party House during the College Music Journal festival, looking suitably ...

Protomartyr‘s new album Formal Growth in the Desert is out this Friday, and just ahead of that they’ve shared one last preview. “Polacrilex Kid” gets its name from the compound in nicotine gum which ...

Midway through Protomartyr’s new album Relatives in Descent, a song opens with a guitar figure that rings like the alarm bells at a railroad crossing. The drums roll in, then the bass. “The sound,” ...

Protomartyr have shared their cover of Preoccupation’s “Forbidden,” off a forthcoming seven-inch split Telemetry at Howe Bridge, out Nov. 16 on Domino Records. The seven-inch will feature each band ...

"Take it from somebody who knows." The opening words to Protomartyr's new single, "Blues Festival," are sung by frontman Joe Casey, but they could easily refer to the song's star guest vocalist, ...

It’s summer 2019 and Protomartyr’s lead singer, Joe Casey, is up late, watching TV—again. The hot Michigan air makes it hard for him to sleep, but, at this point in his life—as he barrels toward his ...

“So it’s time to say goodbye,” Protomartyr frontman Joe Casey sings mournfully on ‘Worm In Heaven’, the band’s funeral march of a closing song from their new album ‘Ultimate Success Today’. “I was ...

From time to time, the eardrums of certain Detroit residents, and people in nearby Windsor, Ontario, are assaulted by a curious phenomenon: the low-frequency thrum of an inexplicable noise called the ...