Djo

Joe Keery is not just the face of Steve Harrington in Stranger Things, but someone who carries the same creative weight in music. Under the alias Djo, he crafts songs that breathe psychedelia with touches of melodic pop, where synthesizers intertwine with guitars that sound like the late '70s but with a freshness that borders on the unexpected. His sound doesn’t stand still: layers of textures overlap like a sonic collage, and that ability to move between the ethereal and the earthly is what makes his tracks sound like something you already knew but had never heard this way.His leap into solo music came in 2019, but it wasn’t a sudden turn.

Before that, Keery had already been part of bands like Post Animal, where he played guitar and sang in a psychedelic rock group based in Chicago. The album When I Think Of You In A Castle (2018) made it clear his style didn’t fit the conventional, something that would later deepen in his project as Djo. The change wasn’t just in name: it was in focus. While acting kept him busy—from minor roles in series like Empire to the massive success of Stranger Things—music became his space to experiment without constraints.His debut with Twenty Twenty arrived in September 2019, accompanied by singles like Roddy and Chateau (Feel Alright).