Djo Begins Again With ‘Basic’ Single, New Album, Tour

Actor/musician Joe Keery, who enjoyed a massive viral last year with his project Djo‘s two-year-old song “End of Beginning,” returns today (Jan. 24) with the new single “Basic Being Basic” and details of an album and world tour. All this activity comes ahead of season five of the Keery-starring Netflix series Stranger Things, which will premiere at some point this year.

The tongue-in-cheek, synth-y”Basic Being Basic” heralds the third full-length under the Djo moniker, The Crux, which is due April 4 via AWAL. Keery wrote the material on his own or in tandem with Adam Thein and recorded it at New York’s Electric Lady Studios. Musically, it’s said to move away from its prior synth-forward sound to one spotlighting “lush guitars and instrumentation reminiscent of late 60’s and 70’s pop.”

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Djo will support The Crux with a spring and summer world tour, beginning on release date in Portland, Or., and also including appearances at the Coachella festival in mid-April and in Europe for headlining club shows throughout June. Post Animal, the Chicago-based rock band of which Keery was once a member, will serve as the opening act. Tickets go on sale Jan. 31.

Beforehand, Djo will play six shows in February in Australia and New Zealand as part of the Laneway festival, plus a Feb. 12 headline gig in Sydney. See the full tour dates below.

“End of Beginning” was belatedly discovered in 2024 by the TikTok algorithm, propelling it to the top five on the charts in multiple countries and No. 11 on the Billboard Hot 100. To date, it has racked up more than 1.3 billon streams on Spotify.

Here is the track list for The Crux:

Lonesome Is a State of Mind
Basic Being Basic 
Link 
Potion
Delete Ya
Egg
Fly 
Charlie’s Garden
Gap Tooth Smile
Golden Line
Back On You
Crux

Here are Djo’s tour dates:

February 06 – Auckland, New Zealand – Laneway Festival
February 08 – Brisbane, Australia – Laneway Festival
February 09 – Sydney, Australia – Laneway Festival
February 12 – Sydney, Australia – Enmore Theatre
February 14 – Melbourne, Australia – Laneway Festival
February 15 – Adelaide, Australia – Laneway Festival
February 16 – Perth, Australia – Laneway Festival
April 04 – Portland, OR – Revolution Hall
April 05 – Portland, OR – Revolution Hall
April 07 – Vancouver, BC – Commodore Ballroom
April 08 – Seattle, WA – Paramount Theatre
April 10 – Oakland, CA – Fox Theater
April 11 – Indio, CA – Coachella
April 18 – Indio, CA – Coachella
April 19 – Phoenix, AZ – The Van Buren
April 21 – Salt Lake City, UT – Rockwell at the Complex
April 23 – Denver, CO – The Mission Ballroom
April 25 – Madison, WI – The Sylvee
April 26 – Saint Paul, MN – Palace Theatre
April 28 – Detroit, MI – Royal Oak Music Theatre
April 29 – Toronto, ON – History
May 01 – Washington, DC – The Anthem
May 02 – Boston, MA – Roadrunner
May 03 – Philadelphia, PA – Franklin Music Hall
May 05 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Steel
May 06 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Steel
June 01 – Dublin, Ireland – 3Olympia
June 02 – Glasgow, UK – O2 Academy
June 03 – Manchester, UK – Academy
June 06 – London, UK – O2 Forum Kentish Town
June 10 – Copenhagen, Denmark – Poolen
June 11 – Oslo, Norway – Sentrum Scene
June 13 – Stockholm, Sweden – Annexet
June 15 – Hilvarenbeek, Netherlands – Best Kept Secret Festival
June 16 – Cologne, Germany – E-Werk
June 17 – Berlin, Germany – Huxleys
June 18 – Warsaw, Poland – Progresja
June 20 – Scheebel, Germany – Hurricane Festival
June 21 – Tuttlingen, Germany – Southside Festival
June 23 – Paris, France – ELYSEE MONTMARTRE
June 24 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – Paradiso

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