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 ...

This week’s guest on The FADER Interview podcast is Protomartyr’s frontman and lyricist, Joe Casey. In advance of the notoriously cynical Detroit post-punk group’s sixth studio LP, Formal Growth in ...

Ever inventive Detroit band Protomartyr have hit a new creative high with their sixth album Formal Growth in the Desert. Joe Casey tells Ross Horton why some things had to change. First things first, ...

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 ...

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 from Detroit's Protomartyr tells us the state of his head ahead of the band's appearance at this year's End of the Road Festival. What's your present state of mind and being? Scattered.