Quick Facts
Biography
Joseph Stephens is an American multi-instrumentalist, film score composer, and songwriter.He composed music for the television show The Righteous Gemstones, the film Observe and Report, directed by Jody Hill as well as the HBO series Eastbound & Down, produced by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay’s Gary Sanchez Productions.
Stephens is also a founding member of the band Pyramid, which provided the score for Hill’s feature film debut, The Foot Fist Way.Pyramid also co-composed Shotgun Stories, from director Jeff Nichols, and composed additional music for Craig Zobel’s Great World of Sound.Additionally, Stephens contributed original Pyramid songs to two David Gordon Green films; the Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Prize-winning All the Real Girls and the critically acclaimed Undertow.
Stephens is also a member of the band City Wolf, which covered the classic Pixies’ song “Where Is My Mind?” for Observe and Report.
Selected filmography
- 2020: Never Have I Ever - Season 1 - Composer
- 2020: Upload - Season 1 - Composer
- 2020: Don't Tell a Soul - Composer
- 2019: The Righteous Gemstones Season 1 - Composer
- 2019: The Last O.G. Season 2 - Composer
- 2019: Under the Eiffel Tower - Composer
- 2018: The Take Off - Composer
- 2018: The Last O.G. Season 1 - Composer
- 2018: The Legacy of a Whitetail Deer Hunter - Composer
- 2018: Arizona - Composer
- 2017: Flower - Composer
- 2017: Vice PrincipalsSeason 2 - Composer
- 2017: Shut EyeSeason 2 - Composer
- 2016: Vice Principals Season 1 - Composer
- 2014: Rat Pack Rat - Composer
- 2013: Eastbound & DownSeason 4 - Composer
- 2012: See Girl Run - Composer
- 2012: Eastbound & DownSeason 3 - Composer
- 2011: The Catechism Cataclysm - Composer
- 2010: Eastbound & DownSeason 2 - Composer
- 2009: Observe and Report - Composer
- 2009: Eastbound & Down - Composer
- 2007: Great World of Sound - Additional music by Pyramid
- 2006: The Foot Fist Way - Music by Pyramid
- 2004: Undertow - Contributed song "Monster In The Canyon"
- 2003: All the Real Girls - Contributed songs "Streets Were Raining" and "Body On Fire"