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| Photo credit: Ebru Yildiz |
Downtown Boys have a new album, out now. It’s called Public Luxury. There’s a single you can hear as a taster, ‘Yellow Sun’.
Band member Joey La Neve DeFrancesco elaborates further on the song and visual: “‘Yellow Sun’ is a song for Lebanon, written as Israel’s ongoing invasion and occupation of the country began in 2024. The lyrics were inspired in part by the work of Lebanese poet and painter Etel Adnan, especially the poems “Beirut 1982” and “The Arab apocalypse,” which she wrote during Israel’s earlier occupation of Lebanon from 1982-2000. As with Ednan’s work, the song is meant to name the horrors (“phosphorous skies,” “every day an angel explodes”) while also insisting on the possibility of a new day: “The trees grow in every direction / I’m still heavy with love…
“The accompanying video by Lebanese animator Matar is a fable-like tribute to the decades of displacement and hostility faced by the indigenous shepherds and rural communities of Palestine and Lebanon since 1948. It also contains visual references to Adnan’s paintings.”
Downtown Boys – Yellow Sun (Official Music Video)
US, Summer 2026
Fri. Jun. 26 – Willimantic, CT – St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
Sat. Jun. 27 – Portland, ME – State Theater*
Sun. Jun. 28 – East Greenwich, RI – Odeum*
Wed. Jul. 15 – Columbus, OH – Spacebar #
Thu. Jul. 16 – Detroit, MI – Third Man Records #
Fri. Jul. 17 – Chicago, IL – West Fest Chicago
Sat. Jul. 18 – Cleveland, OH – Happy Dog #
Sun. Jul. 19 – Pittsburgh, PA – Bottlerocket Social Hall #
Tue. Jul. 21 – Philadelphia, PA – Johnny Brenda’s #
Wed. Jul. 22 – Washington, DC – DC9 Nightclub #
Thu. Jul. 23 – Brooklyn, NY – Baby’s All Right %
Fri. Jul. 24 – Somerville, MA – NICE, A Fest
Sat. Jul. 25 – Burlington, VT – Foam Brewers
Fri. Sep. 25 – Buffalo, NY – Rec Room
Sat. Sep. 26 – Mississauga, ON – Second Summer Festival
* with Gang of Four
# with Pop Music Fever Dream
^ with Perennial
% with Ratas en Zelo
UK/EU, Late Fall/Winter 2026
Fri. Dec. 04 – Amsterdam, NL – Paradiso
Sat. Dec. 05 – Nijmegen, NL – Zeitgeist Fest
Sun. Dec. 06 – Diksmuide, BE – 4AD
Mon. Dec. 07 – London, UK – Moth Club
Tue. Dec. 08 – Cambridge, UK – Portland Arms
Wed. Dec. 09 – Edinburgh, UK – The Mash House
Thu. Dec. 10 – Glasgow, UK – Stereo
Fri. Dec. 11 Nottingham, UK – The Old Bus Depot
Sat. Dec. 12 – Bristol, UK – Exchange Bristol
Mon. Dec. 14 – Paris, FR – Le Chinois
Tue. Dec. 15 – Brussels, BE – Botanique
Wed. Dec. 16 – Trier, DE – Mergener Hof
Thu. Dec. 17 – Düdingen, CH – Bad Bonn
Fri. Dec. 18 – Ravenna, IT – Bronson
Sat. Dec. 19 – Verona, IT – Kroen
Sun. Dec. 20 – Busto Arsizio, IT – Gagarin
Mon. Dec. 21 – Roma, IT – Monk
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