Perfume Genius’ third album Too Bright was one of 2014’s most esteemed albums, and now that it has turned a decade old, Perfume Genius has reissued the project. A vinyl reissue was released on ...

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Perfume Genius also announced a spring tour, which begins in Healdsburg, CA on May 12 and runs through June 27 in Portland, including an NYC show at Brooklyn Paramount on June 10. Tickets to all dates ...

Perfume Genius has released a new song, titled ‘Natural High’. It forms part of the US artist’s score for a new dance work by choreographer Kate Wallich, called The Lesson, which was commissioned by ...

Crack Magazine has been posting quarantine-era conversations between artists on their Instagram — previously we saw Phoebe Bridgers and Hayley Williams chat — and now they’ve shared a talk between ...

As Perfume Genius, musician Mike Hadreas makes quiet songs for private moments. Real spiritual, intimate stuff, meant just to be heard by a small handful of people. But you’d never know that if you ...

Perfume Genius and the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble have shared a cover of Richard Youngs’ “A Fullness of Light in Your Soul,” from the ensemble’s forthcoming album This Is a Mindfulness Drill. The LP—due ...

Perfume Genius has some of the most striking album covers in recent memory. Take the defiant pose Mike Hadreas, donned in a metal vest, assumes on 2014’s Too Bright. There’s also the way his shirtless ...

For Perfume Genius, the line between agony and ecstasy often seems so thin as to be invisible. Again and again Tuesday night, the singer-songwriter Mike Hadreas, who performs as Perfume Genius, deftly ...

In his lyrics, Mike Hadreas, the thirty-five-year-old musician who records as Perfume Genius, expresses a relationship to the body that is at once violent and tender. He glorifies abjection, and ...

No one can articulate the ephemeral light of loving, breathing, losing and dreaming quite as completely as Mike Hadreas, who has made music under the name Perfume Genius for 12 years, building out one ...