Some bands chase chaos. Joudy just lives in it — and somehow keeps turning it into anthems.

The Brooklyn-via-Venezuela trio is back today with “Three Dollar Bill,” the latest cut from their upcoming album Permanent Maintenance, out July 24 via Trash Casual. If you’ve been following Joudy’s recent run, you already know they’ve been carving a path further into darker, more volatile territory with every release. “Three Dollar Bill” doesn’t just continue that trajectory — it floors the accelerator.

Built on distorted drop-tuned guitars, a heavy-handed bassline, drums that hit like a slammed door, and frontman Diego Ramirez’s clean-but-raspy delivery, the new single is a blistering cycle of contradictions. It’s chant-ready alt-rock that swings between abrasion and melody without ever picking a side — which, frankly, is the whole point.

“‘3 Dollar Bill’ is an explosive, chant-ready anthem that balances abrasion with melody while digging into the uneasy cycle of wanting what will ultimately undo you,” the band shared. “‘We are in perfect danger’ and ‘you could never leave, I would never stay’ lock into a spiraling exchange that feels both confrontational and resigned, capturing the push-pull of connection at its most volatile and inevitable phase.”

The track arrives with an official video directed by Santiago Franco and shot live at Medusa Bar in Brooklyn. Equal parts public access TV, late-night hallucination, and dive bar singalong, the visual leans into a surreal karaoke-comedy fever dream — lyrics on screen, viewer pulled in as accidental backup vocalist. Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Joudy+Three+Dollar+Bill

Permanent Maintenance, named after a mechanic shop the band passed in their travels, threads machine-made textures throughout a deeply personal record. Ramirez has said this is the first album where he stopped operating in pure survival mode long enough to actually process what he was carrying. Mirrored against a political climate that profits off our collective burnout, the record turns intimate stories into something that resonates across an entire society.

Joudy — rounded out by Hulrich Navas on drums and Carlos Rey on bass — originally formed in San Cristobal, Venezuela in the mid-2010s before fleeing the country’s political unrest, eventually rebuilding in New York City. The irony of landing in the same city as Nicolás Maduro during UN week is not lost on them. Where earlier records like Obertura and Destroy All Monsters reached for grand, wide-angle expositions, Permanent Maintenance zooms in tight: to love, to lose, to come apart in real time.

Following SXSW and a Florida run earlier this year, Joudy will celebrate the album with a hometown release show at TV Eye on July 22 before heading out on a headline East Coast tour.

UPCOMING TOUR DATES
July 22 — Brooklyn, NY — TV Eye (album release w/ Dead Tooth, Desert Sharks, Drager)
July 24 — Pawtucket, RI — News Cafe (w/ Ghosts in the Snow, People Eating Plastic)
July 25 — Medford, MA — Deep Cuts (w/ Baabes, Capo Regime, Parachute Club)
July 26 — New Haven, CT — Cafe Nine (w/ Qweek Kong, Death Valley Sun Troopers, Egg)
July 30 — Asbury Park, NJ — Bond St Basement (w/ Sunshine Spazz, 37 Houses, Child Eater)
July 31 — Washington, DC — Simple Underground (w/ Knave, Toro)
August 1 — Philadelphia, PA — Nikki Lopez (w/ The Stone Eye, Rope Trick, Hot Manana)

Pre-save Permanent Maintenance, catch them live, and let “Three Dollar Bill” rattle around your skull until July 24.