Chain & the Gang @ Secret Project Robot in Feb ( more by Harriet Roberts ) Like many other venues have been doing, Brooklyn's Music Hall of Williamsburg is hosting a Jonathan Toubin benefit which is taking place on January 12 . The benefit's got a stacked bill including Chain and the Gang (whose frontman Ian Svenonius DJ'd a JT benefit at Zebulon on Christmas Eve ), Eleanor Friedberger [...]
This week's S-25 is dedicated to a random pick of 2011 songs that we really enjoy - some are well-known, or new material from established indie and alternative rock bands - like The Strokes, Beirut, Peter Bjorn and John, and Bon Iver - but many others are songs that we refer to as 'rarely heard,' [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
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Frank Yang So yes, I am currently abroad - huzzah - but this little dispatch isn't meant to rub it in to those who are still back in Toronto (or wherever you might be that is not Barcelona). Instead, it's to gently remind you that there's still plenty of stuff of the live music variety to see right there in Hogtown this week; more than is typical, I'd go so far as to say. So here's a quick run-down of stuff that, were I not elsewhere, I'd either be at or consider being at, starting [...]
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What is going on this week in the Big D? Monday, May 2, 2011: - The Moody Blues at Verizon Theater in Grand Prairie, $39.50-$69.50 - ( Tickets ) Tuesday, May 3, 2011: - The Submarines, Pepper Rabbit at The Loft, $10a / $12d - ( Tickets )* Wednesday, May 4, 2011: - Phosphorescent, Family Band at The Loft, $10a / $12d - ( Tickets )* - Royal Bangs at Club Dada, $10 - ( Tickets )* [...]
Toronto - Shilpa Ray And Her Happy Hookers is admittedly a great band name. It's a name I had seen around for a bit, especially in Austin during SXSW, where Ray and her bandmates were playing several showcases, as is the standard there. Having missed them in Austin, I was curious to see what they were all about and seeing as how they were opening for noise/psychedelia masters Acid Mothers Temple , I figured this was my chance. There were a few things that were notable about Shilpa Ray and her Happy Hookers. Firstly, Ray plays the [...]
Toronto - This post is one day late, so let's get right to it. Plenty of good choices this week for you to further impair your hearing ability. Cut Copy / Holy Ghost Sound Academy, April 7th Australia's Cut Copy has been making the rounds in North America lately touring their latest album Zonoscope . The album has already produced one stunning single - Take Me Over and new single Need You Now will further cement this synthpop band as one of the best electro dance bands out there. [...]
Friday was the last night of the Headless Horseman residency at Pianos. The show was called "BrownOut" and was sponsored by MTV Desi. The lineup was Sunny Ali & The Kid, Android Lust, PoPo and Shilpa Ray. I've been waiting to seen HH for awhile and PoPo I've seen many times and they never disappoint. Oddly enough, I've never seen Shilpa Ray despite her playing shows all over Brooklyn for a couple
Plenty of good shows tonight! I will be at Brown Out at Piano's which features Shilpa Ray, Headless Horseman and Popo. I've been trying to catch Headless Horseman for quite a while and Popo is rad. Somehow this is my first time seeing Shilpa Ray, which seems impossible. If I wasn't at Piano's I'd be catching one of the other shows here. I'm really bummed I can't make it to the Wild Yaks show.
The first great record of 2011.
The one thing that New Yorker Shilpa Ray is not lacking in is attitude and that's before you get to her backing band Her Happy Hookers. Yep, she steaming and she's got the voice to air those grievances. God help the man (Nick Cave set a proposition that she join him on tour recently) that gets in her way but in some respects the poor unfortunate could get to witness first hand what a talent the flame throwing lady truly is. Ray started out with Beat The Devil who we featured here a couple of years back so [...]
It took just twenty minutes after work for me to go from an accidental baby shower to an unexpected death. It is amazing how closely related these two major events always seem to be for me. I guess life is like a department store, where there is an entrance there's bound to be an exit close by. In Mexico, a dish that may accompany gatherings of the birth and death kind is a stew called menudo . Traditionally the stew is made with beef stomach (tripe) but I have a habit of trying to take the grossest meat meals [...]
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Filed under: Free MP3 Download of the Day Artist: Shilpa Ray and Her Happy Hookers Hail From: Brooklyn, N.Y. Song: 'Venus Shaver' Album: 'Teenage and Torture' Sounds Like : PJ Harvey , Stevie Nicks In Their Words: "This song is inspired by my shaver. I wanted it to sound like pain in slow motion as well as something you could sing along [...]
Shilpa Ray and Her Happy Hookers offer their fantastc new single "Venus Shaver" for free download.
There's a lot of really great things about this show, but the bottom line is that you'll get to see Patti Smith perform in a fairly intimate venue for $20. That is some serious bang for your buck, especially if you've never seen Patti Smith before (I mean, look at that picture, the woman is 100% all-out amazing). But there's some even better details. First of all, the show is a benefit for a publication called Fortnight Journal. I'd never heard of it, but I looked it up , and here's the mission statement: FORTNIGHT IS AN ONLINE MULTIMEDIA JOURNAL THAT PAIRS [...]
Shilpa Ray And Her Happy Hookers . One. Of. My. Favorite. NYC Acts. (redundant punctuation became redundant, so I broke the pattern there. Sorry.) The band just announced their Spring 2011 tour dates with renowned Japanese psychedelic group Acid Mothers Temple in support of their upcoming full-length album Teenage and Torture , out January 18th 2011 on Knitting Factory Records. Looking for a preview? Check out two new tracks from Teenage and Torture "after the jump" [...]
Photography by ME ! Wow! What a fun week we've been having, eh??? Well... now it's my turn! I've been a busy mammer-jammer getting my mixtape together for our Cranes Day 2 1/2 going on down in the society , as well as keeping you inundated with all kinds of mixtape fun here, but considering I'm the one who beckoned for Mixtapes Week, I knew I had to put another one together for the occasion - an occasion that seemed to catch the attention of the local [...]
Shilpa Ray and Her Happy Hookers are a band I've been meaning to check out for a while but just never got around to it until now. Shilpa Ray's strong, raw, richly-textured voice definitely sets her apart from the throng. Her music reminds me of some of the classic early female rockers, but with a hint of blues and an edge that not many current female artists can boast. Shilpa Ray and Her Happy
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