Jared Swilley is the bassist and vocalist for the alternative garage band The Black Lips. He has contributed to bands such as The Renegades, The Spooks, The Gaye Blades, and The Almighty Defenders which featured the Black Lips along with musicians and close friends King Khan and Mark Sultan

Mark Sultan

Mark Sultan is a Canadian musician and entrepreneur from Montreal, Quebec. He was a member of a number of Canadian garage bands including the Spaceshits, Les Sexareenos, and Mind Controls...

. Swilley played bass at the 2010 Sled Island Festival for The Ding-Dongs, a Norton Records

Norton Records

For the Canadian independent record label of the same name, see Matt Minglewood.Norton Records, a New York City based independent record label founded by musicians Miriam Linna and Billy Miller, maintains a focus on primitive, retro rock'n'roll, rockabilly, garage punk, garage rock, lounge music...

 supergroup featuring Sultan and Bloodshot Bill. He has also played with The Black Lips for rapper and current Wu-Tang Clan

Wu-Tang Clan

The Wu-Tang Clan is a hip-hop group from Staten Island that consists of RZA, GZA, Method Man, Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, Inspectah Deck, U-God, Masta Killa, and the late Ol' Dirty Bastard. They are frequently joined by fellow childhood friend Cappadonna, a quasi member of the group...

 member GZA

GZA

Gary Grice , better known by his stage names GZA and The Genius, is an American hip hop artist and founding member of the seminal hip hop group the Wu-Tang Clan. He has also appeared on his fellow clan members' solo projects and has maintained a successful solo career...

 for a number of concerts in 2009 at SXSW music festival in Austin, Texas.

He is the son of mega-church pastor Jim Swilley (b. 1958?), who came out as gay in 2010.