Joe Keithley

About

The artist

Joe Keithley is a punk singer, songwriter, guitarist, label operator, and community advocate based in Burnaby, British Columbia. Also known as Joey Shithead, he founded and continues to lead D.O.A., the Vancouver-area group whose early recordings helped define Canadian hardcore punk. The City of Burnaby's current biography identifies him as an award-winning musician, D.O.A.'s founding member and leader, and an inductee into the BC Entertainment Hall of Fame. MusicBrainz independently links the exact Joe Keithley Spotify identity to D.O.A. without collapsing the solo artist into the band profile. Keithley's exact solo Spotify identity contains five primary album and single containers from January 1999 through March 2023. The catalog comprises three albums and two singles. Beat Trash begins the current provider history, followed by Joe Shithead Keithley and His Band of Rebels in 2007. The 2020 benefit single We're All in This Together pairs Keithley with Burnaby Mayor Mike Hurley and directs proceeds to the Greater Vancouver Food Bank. Fentanyl Blues and the twelve-track Stand followed in March 2023. Sudden Death Records released all five current containers. Stand, the latest album, presents a more acoustic setting while retaining Keithley's direct writing about political, social, and community concerns. The current professional record remains active. Sudden Death Records continues to document Keithley's solo catalog and announced British Columbia solo shows for June 2026. The label also remains the home of current D.O.A. releases and reissues. Keithley's solo work therefore sits beside, rather than replaces, his ongoing work with D.O.A. His public music record is inseparable from organized community action. The City of Burnaby documents more than 300 benefit and rally performances for causes including women's rights, environmental action, labour rights, peace, and opposition to racism. Keithley also initiated Harmony for All, a city program that lends instruments, provides no-cost music outreach, and funds lesson scholarships for Burnaby residents facing financial barriers. The City reports that the program had reached more than 5,000 residents by 2025 and received the BC Recreation and Parks Association Program Excellence Award that year. Keithley was inducted into the BC Entertainment Hall of Fame in 2016, where the official profile documents more than 3,000 concerts on five continents and identifies him as a leading Canadian punk musician and activist. Current Canadian location is confirmed through active public office rather than a private residence record. The City of Burnaby identifies him as born and raised in Burnaby and currently serving on council, with current committee and regional appointments. Apple Music separately identifies Burnaby as his origin. No private address is retained. No current artist-published route dedicated to professional music inquiries was confirmed, so the profile does not republish civic contact details or infer a booking email. The profile uses provider-attributed live Spotify media with a monogram fallback.