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 have announced their fifth album, Ultimate Success Today, which will be out May 29 via Domino. Their first full-length since 2017’s Relatives in Descent (the Consolation EP came out in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Casey jokingly describes Protomartyr's Ultimate Success Today as “Pathetic maybe, but not prophetic.” So Billboard wanted to find out a little more about just what inspired… By Zach Kelly In the Old ...

The world is sick, and Protomartyrs Joe Casey knows it. It is not some pandemic or covert virus, it goes far deeper than that. Communicated via TV screens beaming their images into our homes and ...