He’s also a very straight shooter, he’ll tell you exactly what he thinks about something and he’s not going to blow smoke up your ass. It’s been an interesting experience, I’ve actually enjoyed this line up in particular because in the totem pole of alternative cultures the goth kids are on the bottom. Together with American Songwriter, we had the pleasure of interviewing Shilpa Ray over Zoom video! of an iPad. “Lou Reed must make himself laugh. I’m interested to hear what you have to say because I can’t put my finger on it just yet. I change up lineups a lot. The individual songs are good but fitted together in sequence, they are a masterpiece. , that record took a pain staking long time to do. Watch Bigg Boss 11 winner Shilpa Shinde interview post win: When asked if she took up Bigg Boss to change her image, the actor said, “Of course it was a major reason for me taking up the show. And I read the through the interview where he gave your CD to Lou Reed and Bob Dylan as well. In 1970 everyone was on this country music kick, as opposed to psychedelia, which had happened a few years before. Growing up in New Jersey, Ray’s conservative parents prohibited pop music in the house and encouraged their daughter to study Indian classical music and the harmonium. It’s way easier to figure out what arrangements are working and what isn’t working when you record first and then play live later. I have a musical version of that. Shilpa Ray. I saw you did a call out for your last video. Which is a tall order for a project boasting instruments like saxophone, harmonium and some old-school synths. Sometimes I do feel that certain things need to get cleared up. Nick Cave's Grinderman contributed Honey Bee for HBO show True Detective in the end of the episode "Who Goes There". The only difference is the amount of money being put into it.” When asked about her favorite self-penned lyric she quotes one of her new songs: “With my tail between my bleeding ass, I’m off to the gates of heaven.” The lyric, she explains, is a reaction to visiting Nepal and witnessing the corruption of organized religion,”what Jews and Christians are always talking about here.”If Ray met a middle-schooler with an upbringing similar to her own today, she’d tell them to listen to Love’s Forever Changes (1967) and Velvet Underground’s later album Loaded (1970). I want to be immortalized in a Shilpa Ray video. My parents put me in classical Indian music so I played the harmonium and piano. Meet Shilpa Ray For anybody out there who has not already heard Shilpa Ray, they are a scream in your face rock and rolling explosion of good-time energy. 48:23 Hot Steam (2017) Thelma & The Sleaze. They are a pillar of the Brooklyn music scene, and we are happy to have had the chance to feature them in today’s interview. “I knew I was going to write this record. She has mastered the rough edges of her voice. Thousands of articles, interviews and reviews from the world's best music writers and critics, from the late 1950s to the present day. Shilpa Ray’s newest EP, Nihilism, is out on Northern Spy Records. RAY: A work in progress. [laughs] When I was writing Last Year’s Savage, that record took a pain staking long time to do. Shilpa notes, “I wrote this song as an anthem to myself. He came into the shop with his two little boys, and I thought I was going to just die. We spoke with Shilpa about the track, working with film director Amos Poe … When you’ve released one of the best records of 2017, but you still have to work as a door girl for a club in New York to make ends meet, a … Copyright © 2021 Interview Magazine. Tune into WMSE as DJ Rich Mars talks with New Jersey x New York musician, Shilpa Ray, in advance of her show at Company Brewing on Thursday, May 24th with Milwaukee’s Red Stuff and Amanda Huff. Shilpa Ray has carved out a place for herself in the music scene of NYC, with critical platitudes falling like a ticker tape parade around her releases, yet struggling to find a wider audience. You need to sit down and really think about how you’re arranging music.” And I was like, “No, it’s rock-‘n’-roll. I imagine it matters when Ray is unable to pay her rent. *laughs* I grew up in Jersey, so coming up to the city I met a lot of other brown goth kids and we found each other eventually. All of a sudden I have all this freedom. His crazy characters, Lonesome Cowboy Bill—who is that?” says Ray over coffee in New York. I’ve always been that person that can’t quite conform to anything but it’s not intentional at all, you know what I mean? 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 Poe to make a video for the track. All of that stuff was going on with Todd Akin and the Republican Party, we weren’t sure. They’re always so much fun. The last election I was talking to my mother about what was going on a lot—I think that if people see my mother on the page, a woman who had an arranged marriage when she was young, isn’t a careerist, was a stay at home mom for a large part of her life—she is still very much a feminist. RAY: That’s a good question. We’d chat on the phone like, “How do I do this? Also, preview of Sacred Sound Club 004. RAY: Yeah, it’s me and a bunch of my friends. What has your experience been like as a south Asian woman in the music industry? I wanted a different sound. TWEET. I was going through a time period where all my bandmates were a lot younger than me. The positive part of it was I could do whatever I want. Ethical Adult Cinema: An Interview with Trailblazing Porn Director Erika Lust by Amarantha da Cruz Dec 22, 2020 | Highlights Erlend Hjelvik (YELL-vik) is a metal composer, lyricist, and vocalist from Vikedal, Norway. 54:05 Interview Thelma & The Sleaze. IN THIS EPISODE. It came on at a very difficult time because I’d just fired the last band I was working with because they weren’t listening to me at all about how I wanted to make the sounds. [laughs]. Although Shilpa Ray dropped “and Her Happy Hookers” from the bill, the Brooklyn-based rock musician and many of her same bandmates have returned with Last Year’s Savage.On the album, which was released last week via Northern Spy Records, Ray maintains the deep, powerful voice and poetic lyrics … Or do you find it exhausting? The irony of that was lost on me. Where does the name Shilpa Ray come from? It came on at a very difficult time because I’d just fired the last band I was working with because they weren’t listening to me at all about how I wanted to make the sounds. Shilpa Ray is an introvert expressing her inner weirdo through her theatrical performance. I get totally sick of it, I get sick of hearing myself, I get sick of sounds. I’ve always been this way, my dad’s a really political guy, so is my mom actually. Having made her bones with the gothic Sturm und Drang of Beat The Devil and moving forward to the blues erosion of … and The Happy Hookers, Shilpa Ray has been, armed only with an incomparable voice and harmonium haunted by the ghosts of dead lovers, perpetually crying in the wind, hoisting both … of an iPad. BROWN: Have you finished working on your next album then? Interview: Garrett Bradley on Exploring Human … No one telling me how to represent myself, or who I am, or what’s my positioning business-wise. Most articles about musician and singer Shilpa Ray beging with her introduction to rock music. I’m a night time person so a lot of it is me zoning out and peering into the dark. Hopefully there will be more of that for this upcoming record. In 1970 everyone was on this country music kick, as opposed to psychedelia, which had happened a few years before. A powerful vocalist and skilled lyricist, Ray’s last album with her band Her Happy Hookers, Teenage and Torture, is filled with belting anguish. SHARE. The only difference is the amount of money being put into it.” When asked about her favorite self-penned lyric she quotes one of her new songs: “With my tail between my bleeding ass, I’m off to the gates of heaven.” The lyric, she explains, is a reaction to visiting Nepal and witnessing the corruption of organized religion,”what Jews and Christians are always talking about here.”, (1967) and Velvet Underground’s later album, (1970). ABOVE: SHILPA RAY. Watch Bigg Boss 11 winner Shilpa Shinde interview post win: When asked if she took up Bigg Boss to change her image, the actor said, “Of course it was a major reason for me taking up the show. I have a fire escape outside my window. She says she finds music inspiration from sitting on her fire escape to stare into the void. If you wanted to start your New Year off with music, Ridgewood’s own Footlight has you covered! Even if [New Yorkers] are Republicans, the Republicans here make a little more sense to me—when they talk about money, the way the budget is supposed to work. I need deadlines, I need people breathing down my neck to make me finish things. I remember there was all this feedback that was saying “you should go solo,” I do that occasionally but I don’t have the discipline at all. I love it, I love that it’s happening but there’s a lot being said at the same time. Shilpa Ray has been a fiery voice in the New York punk scene since before the Bush years, at a time when, in her own words, “feminism wasn’t as cool or marketable as it is now.” ... efficiently punctuated paragraphs she sent back to me for this interview. The mid-1900’s swing vibe returns again on “Rockaway Blues”, another favorite of ours – as well as one of the album’s singles, “Shilpa Ray’s Got A Heart Full of Dirt”, a downer song lifted by jazzy vocals from Shilpa who really gets into the singing and lets out a fun and revitalizing “Woo!” near the end the song. They all abandoned ship, I was left to my own devices which was both a positive and negative experience. All Rights Reserved. ABOVE: SHILPA RAY. Ethical Adult Cinema: An Interview with Trailblazing Porn Director Erika Lust by Amarantha da Cruz . EMMA BROWN: I love your video for “Nocturnal Emissions.” I’ve sent it to all of my friends. It’s pretty crazy and I’m so grateful for that. December 20, 2009 at 7:30 PM Public. RAY: I went on a long tour around spring, summer 2011, after Teenage and Torture came out—the album I did with the Happy Hookers. is filled with belting anguish. In Brooklyn Vegan: It was approximately a year ago that Shilpa Ray left her band Beat The Devil to focus on her own project with her own band that she calls Shipa Ray and The Happy Hookers. The South Asian-American, 17 year strong New Yorker, is on the brink of releasing her second full length album since her 2015 release, Last Year’s Savage. She is a self-proclaimed goth kid and an unintentional rebel. There is a lot of poverty and loss of industry, I don’t want to get into the politics but I definitely don’t enjoy them being painted as these people that are backwards. The negative part of it was I was working as a sales girl and at a bar at the time. “Add Value Add Time” is an incredibly easy-going … It’s a good story: Ray is a rock autodidact. It’s like when you’re playing sports or dancing, you have to stretch and you have a routine before going in. But we live in a world where the idea of a band ‘selling out’ has no meaning anymore. It isn’t often that I feel the thrill of anticipation of my teenage years when a … When I shot Shilpa and her band I was thrown into a gang of friends in bolo ties and eccentric hats making middle school sex jokes. Her dark humor is seen in songs like “Sanitary iPad” a cynical song commenting on capitalism from the P.O.V. She’s not afraid to be polemic or political. We just became friends very instantly. I wanted to make a record that had those…[laughs] then again it’s me so… I’ll try to make a doo-wop song but it’ll just sound weird. Door Girl is out on September 22nd. She’s a documentary film fan and sandwich … Shilpa shares, “Straight culture is … I didn’t like being judged that way. 40:14 Interview Shilpa Ray. Event Date: Sunday, December 17, 2017 - 2:00pm. 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