Event

Shilpa Ray / The Spectres @ Howlers

Don't Let the Scene Go Down on Me! Collective presents...

Shilpa Ray
Nobody grows up wanting to be an artists artist. Appreciated by the sub sect of the sub sect is like being the beauty queen at the leper colony. Hell, anybody who claims they grew up wanting to even be an artist rather than an astronaut or a Cthulhu is probably lying or was a corny kid. Art is hard and degrading and generally bullshit. Your friends will find you irritating and your parents will certainly not throw you a parade. But if youre an artist youre an artist; the soul will fuck you every time, what can you do?

Shilpa Ray is, through no fault of her own, one of our unsung great artists. 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 middle fingers in the general direction of god. Its not a life a wise man would choose. Shilpa Ray kicks against the pricks but the pricks keep coming. But, again, what can you do?
http://shilparay.net/
https://shilparay.bandcamp.com/

with:

The Spectres
https://thespectres.bandcamp.com/

@ Howlers
4509 Liberty Ave.

8pm // $10 // 21+