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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Detroit post punk band Protomartyr will return to Australia in June 2026 for their first shows in eight years with performances in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Hobart.

Protomartyr are heavy, man. Not in the sense of being derived from lightning Slayer shredding or doomsday Sabbath churn — though with their scaling guitar leads, pounding martial drums, and ...

Protomartyr’s new Consolation E.P. is out tomorrow (6/15) on Domino and to whet your appetite they’ve shared the record’s closing track, “You Win Again,” which features Kelley Deal of The Breeders.

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 ...