Mere months after the demise of her former project, the critically
acclaimed Beat The Devil, Shilpa Ray is already stirring a raucous
with her new band. Shilpa Ray and Her Happy Hookers hits the ground
running, taking Shilpa's voice and songs to new heights: grinding
blues, sleazy jazz, and disturbing rock tied together with pop and
punk sensibilities; the result sounding something like a vulgar Ella
Fitzgerald crooning in front of a wall of distortion and thunderous,
pounding rhythms.
The band reads like a who's who of recent NYC rock...
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