INTERVIEW: 02 Mar 2007
Difficult second album syndrome has no place in the Clap Your Hands Say Yeah vocabulary. Not that the blogger faves are exactly busting a gut to have a hit.
REVIEW: 09 Feb 2007
ven before they take the stage Cold War Kids and Elvis Perkins have insured the joint will hop and then some. Nothing, however, could adequately prepare one...
REVIEW: 05 Feb 2007
Some Loud Thunder covers an impressive stylistic breadth without ever losing the band’s identity.
REVIEW: 24 May 2006
You can tell it’s festival season when singles start appearing from bands whose albums had started to gather dust on the shelves. Unwieldy of title and...
REVIEW: 10 Feb 2006
Primed to attract and repel in equal measure, Alec Ounsworth’s disaffected drawl is pure vocal Bovril and, for many, the CYHSY maker/breaker. An acquired...
INTERVIEW: 01 Feb 2006
Thanks to internet fueled word-of-mouth, Brooklyn’s Clap Your Hands Say Yeah are indie-rock’s latest sensation. But they’d much rather you compared...
REVIEW: 25 Jan 2006
How long before someone bandies the phrase ‘doing an Arcade Fire’ in relation to this bunch? Give it five minutes. Granted that this has that same North...
REVIEW: 23 Jan 2006
How cool are Clap Your Hands Say Yeah? Well, cool enough to shift forty thousand units from cardboard boxes before anyone had heard of them. Ice cold enough...
NEWS: 21 Nov 2005
The much-touted Clap Your Hands Say Yeah are set to prove they're worthy of their hype when they come to Dublin's Crawdaddy.
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