Shilpa Ray and Her Happy Hookers to release new album

Shilpa Ray And Her Happy Hookers release DEBUT album! A Fish Hook An Open Eye(Kepler Records, Sept. 22, 2009)

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"This tenuous command of a raucous sound makes for a volatile breed of rock and roll."
-The New Yorker

"Half the fun in seeing this volatile NYC jazz-folk-blues-punk outfit lies in watching the unfamiliar react the first time lead singer Shilpa Ray opens her mouth. Typical reaction: shock and awe. " - The Village Voice

Sometimes you see an artist that just hits you smack dab in the middle of your heart.

Shilpa Ray and Her Happy Hookers are an incredible blend of grinding blues, sleazy jazz, and disturbing rock tied together with pop and punk sensibilities; the result sounding something like a vulgar Ella Fitzgerald, channeling Nick Cave and PJ Harvey crooning in front of a wall of distortion and thunderous, pounding rhythms. The band reads like a who's who of recent NYC rock luminaries including members of Creaky Boards, Soft Black, Kapow!, and cult rock producers The Negatones. Their live shows are already a notorious commodity which regularly feature audiences that scream as loud as the band does through their instruments and voices.

Their debut album, A Fish Hook An Open Eye captures the band's raw and unique sound in 8 solid tracks, demonstrating depth, ability, and emotional scope, eclipsing anything from Shilpa's already lauded past. But Shilpa is not looking back: A Fish Hook An Open Eye will be released this spring and then Shilpa and her band will viciously tour throughout 2009, including opening for Boss Hogg on September 9th at the new Knitting Factory Brooklyn.