{"id":60754,"date":"2026-03-24T15:17:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T15:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/downtown-boys-return-with-first-album-in-nine-years\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T15:17:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T15:17:39","slug":"downtown-boys-return-with-first-album-in-nine-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/downtown-boys-return-with-first-album-in-nine-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Downtown Boys Return With First Album in Nine Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/32890-downtown-boys\/\">Downtown Boys<\/a> are back. The raucous punk-rockers will release <em>Public Luxury<\/em>, the follow-up to 2017\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/downtown-boys-cost-of-living\/\"><em>Cost of Living<\/em><\/a>, on June 26, via <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.subpop.com\/\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.subpop.com\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.subpop.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sub Pop<\/a>. The single \u201cNo Me Jodas\u201d (translation: \u201cDon\u2019t Fuck With Me\u201d) comes with a head-spinning live video\u2014watch it below\u2014directed by John McKay and starring the <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DVZErx6CTPM\/\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DVZErx6CTPM\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DVZErx6CTPM\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mariachi Internacional Tapatio de Alvaro Paulino<\/a>. The band has unveiled a handful of short-notice live dates, also below, ahead of a bigger tour soon to be announced.<\/p>\n<p>Downtown Boys singer Victoria Marie says the video \u201cis inspired by the aesthetic of \u2018chicha\u2019\u2014a music culture out of Peru that is also about economics, work, partying, life, desire, and nightlife. The ethic, as put by one Chicha musician, Chacal\u00f3n, is two words: chamba and vacil\u00f3n (hard work and partying).\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Public Luxury<\/em> is co-produced by the band\u2019s own Joey La Neve DeFrancesco and recording engineer Seth Manchester.<\/p>\n<figure data-testid=\"IframeEmbed\" class=\"IframeEmbedWrapper-sc-fixZhC fJBrNq iframe-embed\"\/>\n<p><em>Public Luxury<\/em>:<br \/>01 No Me Jodas<br \/>02 The City Begins<br \/>03 Sirena<br \/>04 Yellow Sun<br \/>05 Viva la Rosa<br \/>06 Enemy Without<br \/>07 You\u2019re a Ghost<br \/>08 Albuterol<br \/>09 Mi Concha<br \/>10 Public Works<br \/>11 Public Luxury<\/p>\n<p>Downtown Boys:<br \/>03-26 Providence, RI &#8211; AS220 *<br \/>03-27 Boston, MA &#8211; Deep Cuts ^<br \/>03-28 Portland, ME &#8211; Space 538 #<\/p>\n<p>* with Black Eyes<br \/>^ with Whyte Lipstick<br \/># with Red Eft, Bait Bag<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/downtown-boys-return-with-first-album-in-nine-years\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Downtown Boys are back. The raucous punk-rockers will release Public Luxury, the follow-up to 2017\u2019s Cost of Living, on June 26, via Sub Pop&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60755,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-60754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latin","tag-pop","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}