The Joy Formidable consists of only three musicians, but the trio from north Wales made a formidable noise Friday during their late-afternoon set at the Voodoo Music + Arts Experience. Featuring ...

Matthew Thomas, Rhydian Dafydd and Ritzy Bryan of the Joy Formidable have been on tour for the better part of 2013. July 10th brought them to Brooklyn, New York to play a special secret show at the ...

It's late August and Joy Formidable singer-songwriter-guitarist Rhiannon "Ritzy" Bryan is at a Los Angeles storage unit digging through the band's equipment. Bryan and her band mates — bassist Rhydian ...

Logistical accidents are the best kind, as The Joy Formidable singer and guitarist Ritzy Bryan can attest. While touring in 2011 behind their raucous, critically acclaimed debut, The Big Roar, the U.K ...

Anyone who saw the Joy Formidable's blistering set at Billboard's South by Southwest showcase in late March knows that this Welsh trio doesn't do anything small. By Jem Aswad Anyone who saw the Joy ...

In a few months, the U.S. men’s soccer team will face off against Wales in the FIFA World Cup, the biggest sporting event in the world. It’ll be the first time the American athletes have played in the ...

Sometimes in music there’s “hype” that is purely that: manufactured excitement and buzz for the sake of selling more albums and concert tickets. Then there’s the rare totally justified hype based ...

The Joy Formidable are getting into the act on Record Store Day (April 20th) with a treat for both their fans and Bruce Springsteen admirers. Their new vinyl release, “A Minute’s Silence,” will ...

The latest installment in the nascent Red Bull Sound Select Series probably could have happened at a venue three times the size of 3 Kings. And The Joy Formidable kicked up a glorious racket that was ...

Celebrated Welsh, alt-rock band The Joy Formidable are excited to announce U.S. fall tour dates in support of their latest release, Into The Blue. The tour kicks off on September 3 in Austin, TX at ...

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“What doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger,” Nietzsche once sagely observed. And from her remote hideout in the Utah desert, reclusive Welsh alt-rocker Ritzy Bryan can totally relate. Isolated as she ...