Shilpa Ray To Release Album & Embark On Spring Tour + MP3

Shilpa Ray And Her Happy Hookers will be releasing their full-length album Teenage and Torture, January 18 via Knitting Factory Records. New Yorkers, you can head on over to Brooklyn Bowl on January 21 for the record release show before they take off for a Spring tour at the end of March with Acid Mothers Temple. Check out the upcoming dates below. To get you warmed up for the upcoming record, they are offering up a couple of songs from the record. Grab 'em while you can below in the MP3 Grab.

Shilpa Ray And Her Happy Hookers are especially eager to get on the road after the unfortunate cancellation of their fall tour dates with Cornershop. Their run with Acid Mothers Temple this coming spring kicks off on the west coast with a gig at Spaceland March 23rd, and takes them through Canada and the North East before heading back south for Austin Texas on April 22nd. By tours end they'll have played a staggering 28 shows in 31 days, including stretch of 17 straight nights in April.

Their forthcoming album Teenage and Torture, lives up to the praise Shilpa Ray And Her Happy Hookers have steadily amassed from corners stretching from The New Yorker to Nick Cave. The album both refines and expands upon the arresting qualities of their first release A Fish Hook An Open Eye. Teenage and Torture, was recorded with Black Dirt Studios' Jason Meagher at Seizure's Palace in Gowanus, Brooklyn, a studio that has also played host to Sonic Youth and Swans. The songs on the album are dark, sardonic looks inside Ray's own world and obsessions.

Tour Dates

* w/ Acid Mothers Temple

JANUARY

• 21 - Brooklyn, NY - Brooklyn Bowl (Record Release w/ Hooray For Earth, Soft Black)
• 22 - Buffalo, NY - Mohawk Place

MARCH

• 23 - Los Angeles, CA - Spaceland*
• 24 - San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill*
• 26 - Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge*
• 27 - Bellingham, WA - The Wild Buffalo*
• 28 - Seattle, WA - Chop Suey*
• 29 - Vancouver, BC - Biltmore Cabaret*
• 31 - Calgary, AB - Broken City*

APRIL

• 01 - Missoula, MT - The Badlander*
• 02 - Salt Lake City, UT - Urban Lounge*
• 03 - Denver, CO - Larimer Lounge*
• 04 - Lincoln, NE - Bourbon Theatre*
• 05 - Minneapolis, MN - 7th Street Entry*
• 06 - Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle*
• 07 - Kalamazoo, MI - The Strutt*
• 08 - Toronto, ON - El Mocambo*
• 09 - Montreal, QC - Il Motore*
• 10 - Allston, MA - Great Scott*
• 11 - Milford, CT - Daniel Street*
• 13 - Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brendas*
• 14 - Washington, DC - Red Palace*
• 15 - Baltimore, MD - Ottobar*
• 16 - Chapel Hill, NC - Local 506*
• 17 - Knoxville, TN - Pilot Light*
• 18 - Atlanta, GA - The Earl*
• 19 - New Orleans, LA - One Eyed Jacks*
• 20 - Houston, TX - Fitzgeralds*
• 21 - Dallas, TX - The Loft*
• 22 - Austin, TX - Red 7*

MP3 Grab: "Heaven In Stereo" & "Venus Shaver"