Shilpa Ray‘s voice is the MGM lion with the world’s biggest thorn in its paw. She calls her new group “Shilpa Ray and Her Happy Hookers” (Ray’s the only woman); if there’s anything positive about the ...

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The streetwise, hard-boiled vibe of New York bard Lou Reed lives on in the wonderfully bracing new album from maverick singer-songwriter Shilpa Ray. Putting aside her trademark harmonium (an organ ...

Singer-songwriter Shilpa Ray drops evocative new single “Heteronormative Horseshit Blues.” As with this spring’s “Manic Pixie Dream Cunt” Shilpa teamed with fellow New Yorker, renowned filmmaker Amos ...

“I wrote this song as an anthem to myself,” says Shilpa Ray of her killer new single, which is her first new song in three years. “It’s my ‘Eye of the Tiger,’ much like ‘Rebel Girl’ by Bikini Kill or ...

Shilpa Ray makes music like a dog biting an electric fence. Her latest album, Teenage and Torture, recorded at the appropriately named Seizure’s Palace in Gowanus, features her backing band, the Happy ...

Right before beginning his song “Sweet Embrace” at Cafe Nine on Wednesday night, Hnry Flwr explained that the song was about “embracing our mistakes, because we live in chaos.” The area had been ...

When Shilpa Ray and her new label, Northern Spy, came up with a mock newspaper titled Savage Times as a promotion for her new record, Last Year’s Savage, they created a realistic-looking webzine and ...

NORMAN — It’s the rare musician who can accurately predict the future in song. Brooklyn-based vocalist Shilpa Ray has done just that. In 2012, she made a music video with filmmaker Maria Gigante based ...

The Indian-American front woman for blues-rockers Shilpa Ray and Her Happy Hookers grew up in suburban New Jersey feeling like a freak. “My dad once said he felt sorry for me because when I go back to ...

‘South By Southwest is the ultimate middle-finger to the recession!” I’m paraphrasing Shilpa Ray, who gabbed this bit of wisdom between songs during the first of her eponymous four-piece band’s sets ...