The Protomen play Local 506 Monday, July 25, at 9 p.m. Tickets are $8, and The Wiley Fosters open. Like a phantasmagorical video game character, nostalgia can take the strangest shapes: Monday night ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you're not familiar with The Protomen but clicked on this story anyway, then you're in for a treat. The band, formed as part of ...

Trying to explain The Protomen to the uninitiated has always been part of the experience. The Nashville-based band doesn’t just release albums, they build worlds, complete with characters, costumes, ...

The Protomen are among Middle Tennessee’s longest-running musical acts, performing for nearly two decades with a rotating cast of costumed characters and doing things their own way. From Day One, the ...

When it comes to heavy metal, one of the most common components of our favorite artists, songs, and albums is the desire to stand up against tyranny. How many metal bands talk about standing up and ...

As the day gave way to a night the gauzy purple-green of a fading bruise, a crowd gathered. A weather-beaten vagabond, skin bleached orange by the unforgiving sun, croaked portents of doom as the ...

“Orlando is an awesome, nerdy town,” says Commander B. Hawkins, keyboardist for The Protomen. “We do great down there because people care.” One of those caring people is John Sebastian La Valle. Going ...

Presumably you have things to do, so I’m going to get you up to speed on The Protomen in a hurry, so you can make it to happy hour at Applebee’s. Allow me to make a bulleted list: The Protomen have ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Trying to explain The Protomen to the uninitiated has always been part of the experience. The Nashville-based band doesn’t just ...