Steve Shelley

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Shelley (left) in Stockholm 2005
Shelley (left) in Stockholm 2005

Steven Jay Shelley (b. 23 June 1963, Midland, Michigan) is a drummer.

He played in several mid-Michigan bands, and was among the original lineup of the seminal punk band the Crucifucks. Since 1985, he has performed with the experimental rock band Sonic Youth, when he replaced Bob Bert.

After leaving the Crucifucks, he moved to Manhattan, subletting the apartment of Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon while the band was in Europe. When the band returned, they hired him as its drummer without an audition. [1]

In 1995 he founded the independent record label Smells Like Records, based in Hoboken, New Jersey. Along with friend and Two Dollar Guitar musician Tim Foljahn, he helped advance Cat Power's musical career, serving as drummer on her first three albums.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Azerrad, Michael. (2001) Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes From the American Indie Underground 1981-1991. Little, Brown. ISBN 0-316-78753-1.


Sonic Youth
Kim Gordon | Thurston Moore | Lee Ranaldo | Steve Shelley
Jim Sclavunos | Richard Edson | Bob Bert | Jim O'Rourke | Coco Hayley Gordon Moore
Discography
Albums Sonic Youth | Confusion Is Sex| Sonic Death | Bad Moon Rising | EVOL | Sister | The Whitey Album | Daydream Nation | Goo | Dirty | Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star | Screaming Fields of Sonic Love | Washing Machine | Made in USA | A Thousand Leaves | NYC Ghosts & Flowers | Murray Street | Sonic Nurse | Rather Ripped | The Destroyed Room: B-sides and Rarities
Extended plays Kill Yr Idols | TV Shit | Silver Session for Jason Knuth | In the Fishtank
SYR series SYR1: Anagrama | SYR2: Slaapkamers Met Slagroom | SYR3: Invito Al Ĉielo | SYR4: Goodbye 20th Century | SYR5 | SYR6: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui
Singles Death Valley '69 | Flower/Halloween | Flower/Satan Is Boring | Starpower | Into the Groove(y) | Teen Age Riot | Kool Thing | Disappearer | Dirty Boots | 100% | Youth Against Fascism | Sugar Kane | Drunken Butterfly | Bull in the Heather | Superstar | The Diamond Sea | Little Trouble Girl | Sunday
Video releases 1991: The Year Punk Broke | Screaming Fields of Sonic Love | Corporate Ghost: The Videos: 1990-2002
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NAME Shelley, Steve
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Shelley, Steven Jay
SHORT DESCRIPTION Alternative rock drummer
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Midland, Michigan
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH
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