Djo
Appearing in: chicago, boston, miami
Joe Keery — performing as Djo — launched the project quietly in 2019 with the album Twenty Twenty, a psychedelic synth-pop record that attracted modest attention before the more prominent recognition that came with DECIDE in 2022. That record's lead single "End of Beginning" became a slow-burn viral phenomenon in 2023 and 2024, eventually reaching the top ten in the United Kingdom and exposing Djo's music to audiences far larger than most actor-side-projects ever find. The song's melancholy, wistful synth-pop earned comparisons to David Bowie's Berlin-era work and to the broader psychedelic pop tradition that Keery had clearly absorbed deeply.
What makes Djo interesting beyond the novelty of its origin story is that the music holds up under the scrutiny that celebrity provenance inevitably invites. Keery writes, produces, and arranges his own records, and the results are not polished-to-blandness pop but genuinely idiosyncratic synth-pop that sounds like it emerged from a specific and personal artistic vision rather than a calculated career move. Touring alongside Tame Impala in 2026 places Djo in exactly the right context: an audience of psychedelic pop enthusiasts who will engage with these songs as music rather than as celebrity merchandise.