Phosphorescent‘s Matthew Houck has announced a new live EP, The BBC Sessions, due June 11 via Dead Oceans (pre-order). It features stripped-down performances recorded for BBC Radio in 2011 and 2013, ...

The new video for Phosphorescent's "Song For Zula" wraps metaphorical chains around a story of heartbreak. The brand new video for Phosphorescent's "Song For Zula," from the band's sixth album, ...

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 ...

Phosphorescent’s new video for “Song for Zula” debuted today on NPR Music. Phosphorescent, aka Matthew Houck, co-directed the video with Djuna Wahlrab. The video consists of a single slow-motion shot ...

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 ...

Nashville-based Matthew Houck is the luminous gent who performs as Phosphorescent. His eighth album, Revelator, was released on April 5 on Verve Records, his first album in six years. Houck, who ...

Phosphorescent, the solo project of Matthew Houck, seemed to have established a comfortable grounding in the country tinged alt- rock genre, receiving critical acclaim with releases such as 2009's ...