Watch Downtown Boys’ Anti-ICE Animated Official Video “You’re a Ghost” in Sub Pop Records News

New 2026 US Shows Include Support Dates With Gang of Four In June, And Headlining Dates For July

Downtown Boys are sharing “You’re a Ghost,” an anthemic, industrial dance-punk track, which is out today on all digital streaming services. It is accompanied by a powerful animated official video directed by Lebanese artist Khalil (@palpable.image).

Band members Victoria Marie and Joey La Neve DeFrancesco say of the visual: “‘You’re a Ghost’ took shape in the context of the previous and current administrations’ violent suppression of pro-Palestine and anti-ICE protestors, and ICE’s recent, depraved escalations within the always-horrific U.S. deportation regime. In such a time, as a bare minimum, we must continue to demand freedom of migration, movement, and everything for everyone. They can’t distract us with clouds of hate. Our bodies and our history are not a game; this is a power structure. ICE out.”

The “You’re a Ghost” visual is the latest offering from Public Luxury, their new album out worldwide on Friday, June 26th, 2026.

Photo Credit: Naomi Yang

Downtown Boys are also sharing new 2026 live dates supporting Gang of Four in June, and headlining shows for July. The tour begins Tuesday, June 23rd in Hamden, CT at Space Ballroom and runs through Thursday, July 23rd in Brooklyn, NY at Baby’s All Right. Additional shows will be announced soon.

Tue. Jun. 23 - Hamden, CT - Space Ballroom*
Wed. Jun. 24 - Holyoke, MA - Holyoke Media^
Thu. Jun. 25 - Woodstock, NY - Bearsville Theater*
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 #
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 %

* with Gang of Four
# with Pop Music Fever Dream
^ with Perennial
% with Ratas en Zelo

Public Luxury will be available on CD/LP/Digital from Sub Pop. LP preorders from megamart.subpop.com in North America, Mega Mart Europe in the UK and EU, and your local record store will receive the limited Loser edition on ocean blue (North America) and pearl arctic (UK/EU) vinyl (while supplies last).

Downtown Boys have pushed relentlessly forward as an artistic and political project since their founding. Singer Victoria Marie and guitarist/singer Joey La Neve DeFrancesco first met at union meetings while working together at a hotel in Providence, RI, writing many of the band’s early songs about labor organizing and exploitative workplaces. The quintet is completed by Joe DeGeorge (sax/synth), Mary Jane Regalado (bass), and Joey Doubek (drums). Over years of touring and three acclaimed albums, including Full Communism in 2015 and Cost of Living, their Sub Pop debut in 2017, Downtown Boys have continued to grow as artists, musicians, and organizers.

Now, the band has arrived with Public Luxury, an enthralling album that keeps politics front and center while summoning the band’s most urgent and powerful sound to date. The definition of Public Luxury falls very much in line with that of the title of the band’s second LP, Full Communism. Straight up, Public Luxury means, “everything for everyone.” It’s the stubborn insistence that a better world is possible, while fully recognizing the horrors we witness daily, and the individual and collective responsibility to resist the nihilism and hopelessness we can all feel.

Public Luxury was co-produced by DeFrancesco with recording engineer and longtime Downtown Boys supporter Seth Manchester (Lambrini Girls, Lightning Bolt, Model/Actriz) at the Pawtucket, RI studio and arts space Machines With Magnets. The album was mastered by Heba Kadry.

Read more about Public Luxury here.