Don't let their stoic demeanor and sunglasses fool you: Matthew Houck and his band know how to wring every ounce of emotion out of their music.... As worked into the opening line of the brilliant ...

It takes a special artist to thrive in the independent music scene for as long as Matthew Houck has been holding it down. He took the performing name of Phosphorescent in 2001, and since then he has ...

If you look at music on paper, it’s a lot like mathematics. In the same way that biology can never really explain what a heartbeat means, written music misses the point. There is absolutely nothing ...

After doing a cover song series and releasing a BBC Sessions EP, Phosphorescent has now announced his first new album since 2018’s C’est La Vie. The new LP is called Revelator and it comes out April 5 ...

Home can feel mundane at times. It's where you get up and get ready for work, where you do chores, and where you work on your taxes. But home is also likely where you feel safest and at your most ...

Revelator is out April 5. Houck recorded the new album at his Nashville studio with collaborators including the Raconteurs’ Jack Lawrence, the Dirty Three’s Jim White, and the singer-songwriter and ...

I think it might be the best song I’ve ever written” Houck produced the album and recorded it in his Nashville studio. Collaborators on the album include Jack Lawrence of The Raconteurs and Jim White ...

Phosphorescent, the stage name for Matthew Houck, has announced a new album titled Revelator, set to release on April 5. The artist’s ninth album–his first on Verve Records–will feature nine songs of ...

For Matthew Houck, the singer-songwriter behind Phosphorescent, writing the title-track for his eighth studio album fittingly turned out to be a revelation. “I think it might be the best song I’ve ...