May 30, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Detroit-formed post-punkers Protomartyr are releasing a new album, Formal Growth in the Desert, this Friday via Domino. Now they have shared its third single, “Polacrilex Kid,” as well as a live performance video for the song. They have also announced a telethon to stream this Thursday, The Marty Singer Telethon. More

Apr 28, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Welcome to the fifteenth Songs of the Week of 2023. There were a few notable album announcements this week that provided some fodder for this list, but there was also an album out today that we love and pulled two songs from. More

Apr 26, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Detroit-formed post-punkers Protomartyr are releasing a new album, Formal Growth in the Desert, on June 2 via Domino. Now they have shared its second single, “Elimination Dances,” via a music video. More

Mar 07, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Detroit-formed post-punkers Protomartyr have announced a new album, Formal Growth in the Desert, and shared its first single, “Make Way,” via a music video. They have also announced some tour dates. More

Apr 15, 2022 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)

Welcome to the fifteenth Songs of the Week of 2022. This week our new favorite band, Wet Leg, hit #1 on the British album charts with their debut album. It was a solid week for new tracks, but none that screamed #1 Song of the Week, so this week’s order should be considered less strict than some weeks. More

Apr 13, 2022 By Mark Redfern

British post-rock band TRAAMS have announced a new album, personal best, and shared a new song from it, “The Light at Night,” which features Joe Casey of Protomartyr and was shared via a video directed by Lee Kiernan of IDLES and Charlotte Gosch. More

Jul 23, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Detroit-formed post-punkers Protomartyr released a new album, Ultimate Success Today, last Friday via Domino. Now they have shared a video for the album’s “June 21.” Ashley Armitage directed the video, which features an old woman reflecting on her youth and the memories of her house. More

Jul 17, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Detroit-formed post-punkers Protomartyr have released a new album, Ultimate Success Today, today via Domino. Now that the album’s out you can stream the whole thing here. Also, today we posted our review of the album. More

May 29, 2020 By Christopher Roberts (with Lily Guthrie, Samantha Small, and Julian Roberts-Grmela)

Welcome to the 21st Songs of the Week of 2020. It’s another week under quarantine, the same as the last week. In terms of this week’s new songs, the pickings were somewhat slim, perhaps partly because Monday was Memorial Day, meaning less new tracks of note were shared these week. But we’ve still come up with some that we liked (albeit, only a Top 9, instead of our usual Top 10). More

May 28, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Detroit-formed post-punkers Protomartyr are releasing a new album, Ultimate Success Today, on July 17 via Domino. More

Apr 28, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Detroit-formed post-punkers Protomartyr were releasing a new album, Ultimate Success Today, on May 29 via Domino, but now they have pushed its release back due to COVID-19 and have also cancelled all their upcoming tour dates. They have also shared another new song from the album, “Worm in Heaven,” via a video for the track. More

Mar 13, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Welcome to the tenth Songs of the Week of 2020. It’s been a scary week thanks to the COVID-19 coronavirus, which meant the postponement of Coachella, Record Story Day, various movie releases, sporting events, and more, as well as school closings and a stock market crash. More

Mar 11, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Detroit-formed post-punkers Protomartyr have announced a new album, Ultimate Success Today, and shared its first single, “Processed By the Boys,” via a video for the new song. The band have also announced some new tour dates. More

Mar 05, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Detroit-formed post punkers Protomartyr have announced a deluxe reissue of their long out of print 2012 debut album, No Passion All Technique, and shared a video for the album’s “Jumbo.” More

Jun 14, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Detroit-formed post punkers Protomartyr released a new album, Relatives in Descent, last September via Domino and are releasing a new EP, Consolation E.P., tomorrow via Domino. Previously they shared one of its songs, “Wheel of Fortune,” which features Kelley Deal of The Breeders and R. Ring (and was one of our Songs of the Week). More

May 04, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Last week’s Songs of the Week encompassed two week’s worth of songs. This week we’re back to normal. This week’s list features lots of Songs of the Week alumni, with three of the top four being former #1s. More

May 03, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Detroit-formed post punkers Protomartyr released a new album, Relatives in Descent, last September via Domino. Now they have announced a new EP, Consolation E.P., and shared a Yoonha Park-directed video for a new song, “Wheel of Fortune,” which features Kelley Deal of The Breeders and R. Ring (as does one other song on the release). More

Mar 30, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

FYF Fest has announced its 2018 lineup. The event is due to take place July 21 and 22 at Los Angeles’ Exposition Park. The headliners are Florence and the Machine and Janet Jackson. More

Oct 20, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of our Fall 2017 Issue, which is out now digitally via Under the Radar’s app and the magazine app Readly. The print version has shipped out to subscribers and stores and will be on all newsstands soon (as well as available soon digitally via the magazine app Zinio). The issue features Julien Baker on the cover. More

Sep 26, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Detroit-formed post punkers Protomartyr are releasing a new album, Relatives in Descent, this Friday (September 29) via Domino. Previously they shared a video for its first single (also its opening track), “A Private Understanding,” and the audio for “My Children.” Now they have shared another song from the album, “Don’t Go to Anacita,” via a black & white visual of the album being played in a CD jukebox. More

Aug 15, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Detroit-formed post punkers Protomartyr are releasing a new album, Relatives in Descent, on September 29 via Domino. Previously they shared a video for its first single (also its opening track), “A Private Understanding.” More

Jul 14, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

The first four singles from Arcade Fire‘s forthcoming new album, Everything Now, seem to have gotten a mixed response from fans, but we make no apologies for naming the album’s excellent and catchy first single, title track “Everything Now,” our #1 Song of the Week back on June 2. More

Jul 10, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Detroit-formed post punkers Protomartyr have announced a new album, Relatives in Descent, and have shared a video for its first single (also its opening track), “A Private Understanding.” Relatives in Descent is the band’s fourth album and is due out September 29 via Domino, their first for the label (their last two albums, 2014’s Under the Color of Official Right and 2015’s The Agent Intellect, were released by Hardly Art). More

Apr 26, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

“Our First 100 Days” is an anti-President Donald Trump project. The good folks behind the “30 Days, 30 Songs” anti-Trump campaign during the election have teamed up with Secretly Group for “Our First 100 Days.” More

Apr 04, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

“Our First 100 Days” is an anti-President Donald Trump project. The good folks behind the “30 Days, 30 Songs” anti-Trump campaign during the election have teamed up with Secretly Group for “Our First 100 Days.” More

Feb 17, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Detroit-formed post punkers Protomartyr released their acclaimed third album, The Agent Intellect, last year via Hardly Art. Now the band have shared a video for “Dope Cloud.” More

Jul 22, 2015 By Laura Studarus

Last weekend, Chicago hosted the annual Pitchfork Festival. Check out Annie Lesser’s shots from day two, featuring Jimmy Whispers, Protomartyr, Bully, Future Brown, Mr. Twin Sister, Ariel Pink, Shamir, ASAP Ferg, The New Pornographers, Future Islands, and Sleater-Kinney. More

Nov 21, 2017 By Ed McMenamin

He wasn’t exactly depressed before he formed Protomartyr, frontman Joe Casey says, but he didn’t have a lot to look forward to, either. Eight years later, he’s 40, and his band is ready to release its fourth LP, Relatives in Descent, its first on Domino. More

Sep 27, 2017 By Ed McMenamin

Protomartyr frontman Joe Casey does have a sense of humor, even if on record it may not be “haha” funny. As he speak-sings on his band’s new LP, Relatives in Descent, he wishes there was a better ending to the joke: the poisoned rivers and “vile trumpets” of incongruous noise, evaporating notions of truth, toxic masculinity in police uniforms. More