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My Bloody Valentine
My Bloody Valentine
Irish alternative rock band
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Bilinda Butcher
Bilinda Butcher
English rock musician
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Colm Ó Cíosóig
Colm Ó Cíosóig
Irish musician
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Rollerskate Skinny
Rollerskate Skinny
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Liam Ó Maonlaí
Liam Ó Maonlaí
Irish singer
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Hope Sandoval
Hope Sandoval
American singer
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Debbie Googe
Debbie Googe
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Mogwai
Mogwai
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Mazzy Star
Mazzy Star
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Tame Impala
Tame Impala
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Bullet For My Valentine
Bullet For My Valentine
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Geordie Walker
Geordie Walker
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Primal Scream
Primal Scream
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Curve
Curve
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Kevin Parker
Kevin Parker
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Slowdive
Slowdive
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Warpaint
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Siouxsie and the Banshees
Siouxsie and the Banshees
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The Brian Jonestown Massacre
The Brian Jonestown Massacre
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Peter Kember
Peter Kember
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The Strokes
The Strokes
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Blondie
Blondie
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Hard-Fi
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Inhaler
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Alan Moulder
Alan Moulder
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Grizzly Bear
Grizzly Bear
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Escape the Fate
Escape the Fate
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Tearjerker
Tearjerker
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God
God
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The Cribs
The Cribs
English indie rock band
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Thurston Moore
Thurston Moore
American guitarist
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Silversun Pickups
Silversun Pickups
American rock band
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Ulrich Schnauss
Ulrich Schnauss
German musician
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Lockett James Pundt IV
Lockett James Pundt IV
American musician
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Wire
Wire
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Front Line Assembly
Front Line Assembly
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Metronomy
Metronomy
British electronic music group
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Dexys Midnight Runners
Dexys Midnight Runners
band
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Kevin Ayers
Kevin Ayers
English singer-songwriter, record producer
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The Divine Comedy
The Divine Comedy
band from Northern Ireland
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Irish musician
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Member of, past and present

Kevin Patrick Shields (born 21 May 1963) is an American-born Irish musician, singer-songwriter, composer, and producer, best known as the vocalist and guitarist of the band My Bloody Valentine. My Bloody Valentine became extremely influential on the evolution of alternative rock with their two studio albums Isn't Anything (1988) and Loveless (1991), pioneering a subgenre known as shoegaze. Shields's texturised guitar sound and his experimentation with his guitars' tremolo systems resulted in the creation of the "glide guitar" technique, which became a recognisable aspect of My Bloody Valentine's sound, along with his meticulous production techniques.

Following My Bloody Valentine's dissolution in the late 1990s, Shields became a frequent guest musician, producer, engineer, and remixer with various bands and artists, including Experimental Audio Research, Yo La Tengo, Dinosaur Jr, and Mogwai. In 1998 he became a touring member of Primal Scream. Shields contributed several original compositions to the soundtrack of Sofia Coppola's 2003 film Lost in Translation, which earned him nominations for British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) and Irish Film and Television Academy (IFTA) awards. In 2008, Shields released a collaborative live album together with Patti Smith entitled The Coral Sea.

My Bloody Valentine reunited in 2007, and released their third studio album m b v in February 2013. The album was composed entirely by Shields and had been in production since the late 1990s, when Shields was rumoured to have been suffering from writer's block and mental illness. Shields has since been featured in several publications' best-of-lists, including Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Guitarists and Spin's 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. Multiple musicians have also cited him as an influence, including Billy Corgan and J Mascis.