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From being one of Fallon's first music guests to telling us that rumors of their demise have been greatly exaggerated, the Class of '05 music industry case study that is Clap Your Hands Say Yeah have been somewhat on the scene this year. Still, less than expected: It was fair to think The Great Buck Howard -- the Tom Hanks/John Malkovich movie in which CYHSY were performing/starring as themselves -- would be the next watershed moment for them. except that apparently that movie was so terrible we barely knew it was released and its already on On Demand where I've been told I should not watch it, because it should not be watched ever. Anyway Clap wrote some new songs for the film, one of which they performed over the closing credits. It's a mid-tempo strummer that's somehow registers both as promisingly melodic and fairly lifeless, or maybe that's just the camera editing and vibe carrying over from the movie's doomed shoot. Anyway, Tom Hanks's son makes a cameo. Continue reading New Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - "Telling The Truth And Going Away"...
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Blog-rock survivors Clap Your Hands Say Yeah are still kicking. The most recent CYHSY album, The Tourist, was released in 2017, and today Alec Ounsworth has announced a new full-length called New Fragility, which will be out at the beginning of next year. The title comes from a David Foster Wallace quote and points toward…
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah have revealed their special plans to celebrate the 10th anniversary of their sophomore album
Last year we heard Andrew Bird’s cover of the New Pornographers’ “The Fake Headlines,” part of the Yellow Bird Project‘s Good People Rock covers comp. Back then we noted that Elvis Perkins and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah’s Alec Ounsworth covered each other’s songs for the album, ...
Back in 2005, Brooklyn synth-rock band Clap Your Hands Say Yeah was riding high behind major online buzz for their self-released debut LP, an album that all but defined the term “blog rock.” The hype was so intense that fans were filling venues to capacity to see CYHSY as an opening act, then clearing out [...]
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