Editor’s Note: In May 2013, Boston underwent a music revolution. Award-winning digital arts magazine Vanyaland and game-changing major-league music festival Boston Calling launched within 10 short days of each other, completely altering and elevating the landscape where music and culture intersect in a city that had previously gone relatively stale. In the near-decade since, the two entities have been a defining feature of our city, both for its residents and how it’s perceived everywhere else. In Spring 2022, Vanyaland and Boston Calling team up to showcase the homegrown bands and artists that help shape the most Boston lineup of Boston Calling ever. Boston Calling’s ’22 headliners — Metallica, Nine Inch Nails, The Strokes — and its solid undercard are well-known and established; but over the next few weeks, keep it locked as Vanyaland profiles the homegrown talent that decorates the lineup like never before. Nine years later, Vanyaland and Boston Calling continue to showcase Boston in new ways, and we have the sounds to prove it.
Djo
Performing Sunday, May 29
Artist bio:
Joseph David Keery (born April 24, 1992) is an American actor and musician. He is best known for playing Steve Harrington in the American science-fiction horror streaming television series Stranger Things. Keery starred in the comedy films Spree (2020) and Free Guy (2021). He is also a contributing musician for the American psychedelic rock band Post Animal and solo project Djo.
Keery was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, to parents David and Nina Keery, an architect and Professor of English, respectively. He is the second of five children and grew up with sisters Caroline, Lizzy, Kate, and Emma. Keery was raised in Newburyport and attended River Valley Charter School, a local Montessori elementary and middle school, and Newburyport High School. When he was young, he participated in Theater in the Open, a performing arts camp at Maudslay State Park, but ultimately began acting in high school, initially performing there at his older sister’s insistence. Keery went on to study at The Theatre School at DePaul University and graduated in 2014 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting.
Aside from acting, Keery is also a musician. He is one of the guitarists for Chicago-based garage and psych-rock band Post Animal. Their debut full-length album was released in October 2015. The band’s second album, When I Think Of You In A Castle, was released in April 2018 and saw Keery contributing his guitar playing as well as vocals. As of 2019, Keery is no longer a touring member of the band. On July 19, 2019, Keery self-released the single “Roddy” as a solo artist under the moniker Djo. Keery released a second single on August 9, 2019, titled “Chateau (Feel Alright)” under the same moniker. On September 13, 2019, Keery released his debut album as Djo, Twenty Twenty. On September 9, 2020, he released a new single, “Keep Your Head Up”, which he promoted with a conversation with The Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne on Talkhouse’s Instagram, as well as a Reddit AMA on the /r/Indieheads subreddit. In his early twenties, Keery released music under the name Cool Cool Cool. — Wikipedia
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