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Transmissions :: Joe Casey of Protomartyr (2026)
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Social media is a strange thing. Not long ago, Transmissions host Jason P. Woodbury was retweeted by famed MTV News legend Kurt Loder. Loder was sharing a repost of a viral video featuring Detroit band Protomartyr, performing their song “Jumbo’s” at a BBQ in 2011. In the video, frontman Joe Casey smokes a cigarette and sips whiskey, alternating between deadpan ambivalence and dark menace as he prowls the stage and the band churns behind him. Loder noted, "Apparently [rock & roll] actually will never die…" This week on Transmissions, w're speaking with return guest Joe Casey of Protomartyr, a band that, perhaps all on their lonesome, is indeed keeping something like rock & roll…