Joseph Stephens

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 Principals Season 2 - Composer 2017: Shut Eye Season 2 - Composer 2016: Vice Principals Season 1 - Composer 2014: Rat Pack Rat - Composer 2013: Eastbound & Down Season 4 - Composer 2012: See Girl Run - Composer 2012: Eastbound & Down Season 3 - Composer 2011: The Catechism Cataclysm - Composer 2010: Eastbound & Down Season 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"