Joseph King is the songwriter and frontman for the Brooklyn-based band Deadbeat Darling. The band plays a unique style of surf and dub influenced rock, and is signed to UK indie label Spearhavoc Records. Deadbeat Darling is currently one of NYC's best drawing indie bands, and has sold out venues such as the Bowery Ballroom and Mercury Lounge numerous times since 2008. Joseph and the band recently finished recording their debut release for Spearhavoc in Wales with Grammy-award winning producer Ken Nelson (Coldplay, Gomez). The album was mixed by another Grammy award winner, Adrian Bushby (Muse, Foo Fighters), and is due out in March 2012.

A native of San Antonio, TX, Joseph's career began in the late 1990's in the San Francisco Bay Area where, while chasing Beatnik ghosts down the streets of the Haight and North Beach, he formed his first band, Canvas. After 2 years touring the soft underbelly of the West Coast and Southwest, Joseph relocated the band to Austin, TX in 1999. Canvas re-formed with Austin musicians, and went on to become one of the most prolific and popular bands in Texas over the next 5 years, putting out 3 full length albums, 2 EPs, and incessantly toured throughout the South and Midwest. Joseph also developed his solo career there as a performer and songwriter; he wrote songs with the likes of Johnny Goudie, Justin Furstenfeld of Blue October, and Mark Younger-Smith formerly of Billy Idol, and shared the stage with David Garza, Bob Schneider and many more.

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