Last week, the UK's Larmer Tree Gardens hosted a hilariously deep bill for the End Of The Road Festival, a lineup that featured Joanna Newsom, Kurt Vile, Tinawiren, Lykke Li, Best Coast, the Walkmen…   Read Story »

This past weekend Larmer Tree Gardens, near Salisbury, Wiltshire, hosted the fifth annual End Of The Road Festival. This year's lineup continued the festival's peripheral deviation from its folk,…   Read Story »

Natalie Johns of Dig For Fire TV shot a bunch of Phosphorescent shows, practices, and etc., and edited them together for Here's To Taking It Easy's rambunctious feel-good first single "It's Hard To…   Read Story »

“It’s Hard To Be Humble (When You’re From Alabama)," the first single from Here's To Taking It Easy, rolled forward on good vibes and a good horn line. You could draw a line from that song's…   Read Story »

Matthew Houck spent the three years since the quiet triumph of his Pride LP processing others' works and often distributing the results -- see his cover of Malvina Reynolds' "Little Boxes," his takes…   Read Story »

Matthew Houck, aka Phosphorescent, loves doing covers. In fact, you could argue the guy's addicted to them. Our last few posts on MH have dealt with his takes on Nick Cave's "Right Now I'm…   Read Story »

Matthew Houck, aka Phosphorescent, is not afraid to tackle someone else's song. We've seen him do a version of Nick Cave's "Right Now I'm A-Roaming" as well as offering a take on Weeds' "Little…   Read Story »

We enjoyed it mightily when Matthew Houck, aka Phosphorescent, added his "Little Boxes" to the Weeds canon. He also does something worth the while with Nick Cave's "Right Now I'm A-Roaming." Houck's…   Read Story »

Been a good six months or so, but we're still loving Phosphorescent's last one. Matthew's at his best when he's doing "Wolves," and he's at his best when he's solo. Sitting in the back seat of a…   Read Story »

You probably remember when we lost our shit over Phosphorescent's major breakthrough Pride last year. We were a little disappointed to find the album's first clip -- Matthew stumbling around a…   Read Story »