Shayfer James

Bugs

Solitary Confinement - Everybody's worried about Owen

Live recording of unreleased song at Rockwood Music Hall 4.29.14

For Wolves (Rockwood Music Hall 4.29.14)

DEMOS is an exclusive10 track LP of unreleased songs including demos from our debut album 'Punch' plus never-before-heard B-sides.

Available to download on Bandcamp only: autoheart.bandcamp.com/album/demos

All tracks written and produced by Autoheart. 
Artwork by Young & Sick youngandsick.com/. 

A Little Longer

When I was a kid, this is the song my father sang to be rather regularly.  Eventually I would sing it quietly to him on his deathbed.  So.  In celebration of his Birthday (6/9) I threw this together.  Enjoy.  Here is a link to the orignal:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj4nJ1YEAp4

The Gambler  - Shayfer James - Kenny Rogers Cover

Original music by World on its Own
Andrew Arnold- lyrics
Jim Behrens- vocals, guitars, bass, all the other stuff
copyright 2025 Arnold/Behrens
mixed by Chris Kritikos @ SouthWing Audio in Spring, TX

Boston Rocks is a tongue in cheek look at the Boston music scene in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s through the eyes of Andrew and I while we were part of a band called Cool Blue Sky. I had moved to Boston in 1980 with a band called The Memos, and at that time the scene was on fire. Filled with diverse and eclectic groups of all kinds and what seemed like an unending supply of clubs in the city and nearby suburbs that catered to bands playing original music. It was heaven and everything we dreamed moving to the big city would be. By the end of the 80’s, many of the clubs had gone under and those that still existed operated under the “Pay to Play” policy where basically a band is given tickets to sell and if you don’t sell them and bring the money to the show, you don’t play. By this time it seemed as though many of the bands had come to be similar in sound and appearance from our estimation. Maybe it was the early beginning of grunge or something, but it also seemed that the hey-day of bands being signed to major labels and having success had also run its course with a few exceptions. This is our point of view at the time and just a little fun, we loved and still do love the city of Boston as it afforded us to do what we love for many years. It was and still is a vibrant city with an active music scene.

Boston Rocks

From the new EP "Haunted Things" 
Purchase:

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Devil Throw Roses

Bayonnettes

Shayfer James - Weight of The World

From the album "Counterfeit Arcade" (2011)

For The Departed

'Raven' - to be released March 1st 2017

Domini Forster leads you by the hand through the dusk-lit corridors of her intricate song-stories, each scene as intimate and lovelorn as tea-stained lace. There, hovering deftly in the breathless spaces between light and dark, is Raven: the remarkably assured debut album from one of Melbourne’s brightest new voices in modern folk.

Dawning

lights go down - I DONT KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME

Live at Bowery Ballroom Nov 7 2017

AJJ - Survival Song (Live at Bowery Ballroom Nov 7 2017)

Just Five More Minutes

Not Santa Monica

I See Blue

Nights Like These

Allies Or Enemies (Live) - The Crane Wives

Shayfer James has built a creative world entirely his own—where poetic lyricism collides with cinematic arrangements, where darkness waltzes with whimsy, where rebellion and vulnerability share the same breath. His work explores the dual forces of isolation and belonging, of longing and defiance, all delivered with theatrical flair and unmistakable swagger that both welcomes and unsettles.

Bayonnettes

Shayfer James

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