Dallas singer/songwriter Ronnie Fauss took the long way around the barn when it came to developing his career as a musician—he was already a father with an established job in the Dallas business ...

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 Muchacho is a graceful thing — a strikingly personal and naked sixth album from Matthew Houck, which, as he recently explained to SPIN, was influenced by ’70s Brian Eno and a general ...

When SPIN visited Phosphorescent’s Matthew Houck in his Brooklyn studio last month, the Alabama-bred alt-country experimentalist explained of his new album that, “Several of these songs, I think, had ...

Early this year, on a chilly grey SoCal day, I put on Phosphorescent’s album “Muchacho” and heard a song so good that I can instantly return to that exact day in my mind. I love a song so powerful ...

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, ...

In a few months, Phosphorescent, the project run by the Brooklyn-based Alabama-transplant songwriter Matthew Houck, will follow up 2010's Here's To Taking It Easy with a new album called Muchacho.

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, ...

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 ...

"Song For Zula" feels like some sort of arrival for Matthew Houck, bka Phosphorescent. Eschewing the country elements of his previous records, Houck instead shifts toward a slower piece with a soft ...