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Joseph David Keery, also known professionally as Djo, is an American actor, singer, and musician. He first gained international recognition for playing Steve Harrington in the science fiction series Stranger Things (2016–2025), and has since starred in the comedy horror film Spree (2020), the comedy film Free Guy (2021), and in the fifth season of the crime comedy-drama series Fargo (2023–2024). As a musician, Keery was a founding member of the psychedelic rock band Post Animal. He left the band in 2018 due to acting commitments. In 2019, he released his debut solo album, Twenty Twenty (2019), as Djo. His second album, Decide (2022), spawned the sleeper hit and his first Billboard Hot 100 entry, "End of Beginning", after it became viral on TikTok in 2024. Djo's third album, The Crux, was released in 2025. He rejoined Post Animal that same year and headlined the Back on You World Tour as Djo with Post Animal as openers. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joe Keery, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Eternal Flame is a gripping four-part dramatic limited series that chronicles the meteoric rise and devastating collapse of the iconic 1980s band The Bangles. Framed through the shifting, often contradictory memories of its members, the series uncovers the raw reality behind the glossy MTV image. The story begins in the gritty 1981 Los Angeles "Paisley Underground" scene, where the Peterson sisters, Susanna Hoffs, and Annette Zilinskas forge a fierce, democratic pact to build a leaderless rock-and-roll democracy. Rebranded as The Bangles and joined by seasoned bassist Michael Steele, they conquer the underground club circuit with their raw garage-rock sound.However, when global pop deity Prince gifts them "Manic Monday" and major label executives at Columbia Records realize the camera's intense fixation on Susanna, the band’s egalitarian dream is pushed to the brink. Swept up in the corporate machinery of the late-'80s music industry, the women find their gritty artistic identity actively commodified, polished, and packaged into slick pop perfection. As massive commercial hits like "Walk Like an Egyptian" and "Eternal Flame" rocket them to global arena stardom, heavy-handed management and toxic media narratives aggressively isolate Susanna, branding the group as a singer and her backup band.Stretched to the absolute breaking point by relentless touring, exhaustion, and unaddressed creative friction, the band's internal sisterhood cracks. The tension culminates in a chaotic, legendary 1989 blowout concert on a literal slab of unfinished concrete at the Houston Beltway 8 freeway opening, where the group dramatically implodes. Rich in period detail, complex relationships, and authentic musicality, Eternal Flame strips away cheap '80s nostalgia to deliver a fierce, empathetic, and honest examination of systemic industry sexism, the high price of mega-stardom, and the tragic cost of creative compromise.
