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Formal Growth in the Desert Due Out June 2 via Domino
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
Plus Tim Burgess, Faye Webster, TRAAMS, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks
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
personal best Due Out July 22 via FatCat
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
Ultimate Success Today Out Now via Domino
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
Ultimate Success Today Out Now via Domino
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
Plus Club Intl, Skullcrusher, Art Feynman, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks
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
Ultimate Success Today Due Out July 17 via Domino
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
Ultimate Success Today Due Out July 17 via Domino; All Tour Dates Cancelled
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
Plus Thao & The Get Down Stay Down, Vundabar, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks
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
Ultimate Success Today Due Out May 29 via Domino
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
No Passion All Technique Due Out May 3 via Domino
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
Consolation E.P. Due Out Tomorrow via Domino
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
Plus Tracyanne & Danny, Mass Gothic, Future Islands, Dirty Projectors, and a Wrap-up of the Week's Other Notable New Tracks
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
Consolation E.P. Due Out June 15 via Domino
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
Janet Jackson, The xx, Car Seat Headrest, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Lucy Dacus, Mount Kimbie, Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks, The Breeders, U.S. Girls, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, and Others Set for 15th Anniversary
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
Issue 62 Also Includes Interviews with Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile, The Horrors, Wolf Alice, Jessie Ware, King Krule, and Much 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
Relatives in Descent Due Out Friday via Domino
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
Plus A. Savage, Tricky, Zola Jesus, and a Wrap-up of the Week's Other Notable New Tracks
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
Relatives in Descent Due Out September 29 via Domino
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
"Our First 100 Days" Will Include a New Song Every Day for the First 100 Days of Donald Trump's Presidency
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
"Our First 100 Days" Will Include a New Song Every Day for the First 100 Days of Donald Trump's Presidency
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
The Agent Intellect Out Now via Hardly Art
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
Last Weekend in Chicago, Illinois
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
Interviews
Mar 02, 2021
By Kyle Mullin
Be it the hell’s gate clang of their post-punk musicianship, or frontman Joe Casey’s apocalyptic PSA speak-singing, the sound of Detroit’s Protomartyr has always been nothing short of singular. More
Truth is Hiding in the Wire
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
Reviews
Jun 19, 2018
By Michael James Hall
On Consolation E.P. Detroit scum-rockers Protomartyr collaborate for the second time with R. Ring members Kelley Deal (also of The Breeders) and Mike Montgomery to create a four-song Black-Lodge-dream of personal and political apocalypse.
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