Jim Shepard

The story

Shepard's piercing, feedback-intensive guitar and corrosive lyrical outlook, first documented on the barely released 1977 LP Slit and Pre-Slit. A series of releases followed -- 1980's The Live EP and 1981's Smudge 7" among them -- all barely heard or acknowledged outside of the Ohio underground community. Though recorded a good five or six years earlier, the live Under the Blood Red Lava Lamp cassette went unreleased until 1986, followed a year later

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Stories

Beyond the records: books, other lives and interviews.

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Records

Records from MusicBrainz. Sleeves from the Cover Art Archive.

Bands and projects

• V-3
• SnoOks
• Vertical Slit
• Ego Summit
• Phantom Limb
• Lacquer
• Skullbank
• James M. Shepard & Friends
• Creature

The bands Jim Shepard played in, each with its own records. From MusicBrainz and Discogs.

Also plays on

Records by other artists with Jim Shepard in the credits, from the song and record credits of MusicBrainz and Discogs. Their own bands are above.

Playlists with Jim Shepard in them: Sonic Architects selections and Pause & Record tapes from linr listeners, Deezer’s editors and curators, radio shows on Mixcloud and ListenBrainz playlists. Every tile opens on linr first, with the original one link away.

If you like Jim Shepard

• Nudge Squidfish2 sources agree
• Kitchen's Floor2 sources agree
• Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartmentsvia V-3
• Circus Devilsvia V-3
• The Renderersvia V-3
• Psycho and the Birdsvia V-3
• Airport 5via V-3
• Circle Pitvia V-3
• The Griftersvia V-3
• The Takeoversvia V-3
• Death of Samanthavia V-3
• Robert Pollard With Doug Gillardvia V-3

Where the listeners of ListenBrainz, Last.fm and Deezer agree, with the circle of Jim Shepard’s own bands. A source that names other people with the same name is left out.