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Joey La Neve DeFrancesco

@joeyquits.bsky.social

Joey La Neve DeFrancesco. Music with Downtown Boys + La Neve. Founder and organizer with UMAW joeldefrancesco@gmail.com

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Joey La Neve DeFrancesco@joeyquits.bsky.social · last mo.

New UMAW campaign launching today to eliminate worst practices at music venues everywhere. Read more and sign on your venue at weareumaw.org/raise-the-bar

Raise The Bar — United Musicians and Allied Workers

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UMAW@umaw.bsky.social · last mo.

Today UMAW officially launches our Raise the Bar campaign, our effort to establish baseline standards for artist treatment. We call on all venues to commit to these four standards: 1. No Merch Cuts 2. No Pay to Play 3. No Door Polling 4. Contract Transparency

LOUD WOMEN@loudwomen.org · 2mo ago

Album of the month: Downtown Boys expand the meaning of punk on ‘Public Luxury’ Nine years after Cost of Living, Downtown Boys return with the most expansive and daring album of their career. Public Luxury is not just the comeback of a punk band; it confirms that Downtown Boys still use punk as a…

Album of the month: Downtown Boys expand the meaning of punk on ‘Public Luxury’

Nine years after Cost of Living, Downtown Boys return with the most expansive and daring album of their career. Public Luxury is not just the comeback of a punk band; it confirms that Downtown Boys still use punk as a foundation, but never as a limit. "No Me Jodas" opens the album by making clear where it is heading. Blending sax-punk, festive percussion and an imagination rooted in chamba y vacilón, the song captures several of Public Luxury's central themes at once: political anger, family grief and celebration in the midst of disaster. "The City Begins" leans towards a more classic Downtown Boys anthem, but from a different angle: a nervous twang forms its base, the guitar takes centre stage, and the chorus opens with a high-energy charge, insisting that the city begins precisely where it seemed to end. "Sirena", inspired by "Gema" by Los Dandys, one of Victoria Marie's grandmother's favourite songs, opens another path within the album: less confrontational and closer to an invocation than a rallying cry. With echoes of Mexican bolero filtered through the band's own sound, the track acts less as a conventional posthumous tribute than as a bridge between generations.

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Eric R. Danton@erdanton.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Downtown Boys kicked off their tour with lacerating intensity last night in Holyoke, and the set included a bunch of songs from new LP Public Luxury. It was a ferocious, high-energy show, augmented by an opening set by the always combustible Perennial. Fun!

THE LINE of BEST FIT@thelineofbestfit.com · 3mo ago

Providence political punks Downtown Boys have shared “Sirena”, the third single from their forthcoming album Public Luxury, alongside a video by Sudanese visual artist Sarah Elawad.

Downtown Boys share new single "Sirena" ahead of Public Luxury album due end of June

Providence political punks Downtown Boys have shared “Sirena”, the third single from their forthcoming album Public Luxury, alongside a video by Sudanese visual artist Sarah Elawad.

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Joey La Neve DeFrancesco@joeyquits.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Portland, ME just became the first city in the country to kick out Live Nation. In an enormous win for artist organizing, the Portland City Council just passed an ordinance banning Live Nation from building a venue in the city.

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Joey La Neve DeFrancesco@joeyquits.bsky.social · 4mo ago

In 2023, the WGA and SAG-AFTRA went on strike and won major protections from AI in their contracts. The current trajectory of corporate AI domination and exploitation in music is in no way inevitable.

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Pop Crave@popcrave.com · 4mo ago

Diplo on using AI in the creative arts: “if you are a creative you need to adapt or just like give up and become an uber driver until everyone has a waymo. I know it’s not cool or classy to speak like this but i’m not gonna candy coat the future - it is what it is . sorry for bad new’s my purist.”