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Shilpa Ray released a covers EP, touring (dates & stream)

by Andrew Sacher

photo by Ebru Yildiz
Shilpa Ray

Punk blues singer Shilpa Ray has been planning to release her new album Last Year’s Savage on Northern Spy this year, but ahead of that she recently dropped a 2-song covers EP on the label. It features a crunchy take on Lou Reed’s “Make Up” (from Transformer), and a somber modernized rendition of Mexican songwriter Maria Grever’s 1934 song “Cuando vuelva a tu lado” (popularized by Dinah Washington’s 1959 version as “What a Diff’rence a Day Makes” with English lyrics by Stanley Adams). Listen to both below.

Shilpa begins a tour this week that starts in her hometown of Brooklyn on Friday (2/27) at Union Pool with Johanna Samuels, Lips and Female. Tickets for that show are on sale now.

All dates are listed, with the EP stream, below…

Shilpa Ray — 2015 Tour Dates
2/27 Brooklyn, NY- Union Pool
3/1 Buffalo, NY- Nietzsche’s
3/2 Columbus, OH- Rumba Cafe
3/3 Detroit, MI- PJ’s LagerHouse
3/4 Chicago, IL- The Burlington
3/5 -3/8 Columbia, MO- True/False Festival
3/10 Louisville, KY- Zanzabar
3/12 Tuscaloosa, AL- Egan’s
3/13 New Orleans, LA- Circle Bar
3/15 Houston, TX- Walters
3/17-3/19 Austin, TX- SXSW
3/20 Hot Springs, AK – Valley of Vapors Festival
3/21 Athens, OH- TBD