Clap Your Hands Say Yeah with WATERS/ Mr. Smalls / 12.6.2011 / 7:00 PM / $17 Words by Jim It seems every indie music fan has that moment of clarity where it all makes sense. Where said listener goes from regurgitating classic rock or pop radio and dives into the unknown waters of underground music. Maybe it happened at an early age, maybe not until you hit college, maybe not until after. It's different for every indie music fan and is usually some sort of coming-of-age story. You [...]
Just six years ago, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah was the poster child for DIY indie rock bands (in other words, the band releases their album without the support of a major or independent label). The band's 2005 self-titled debut received so much hoopla and hoorah, but it didn't quite meet expectations. It's been a steady decline in critical and fan interest ever since. Two albums later, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah latest effort called Hysterical was released last month. I had no expectations for this album to be honest, but after [...]
This Saturday night's headliners at the WXPN XPoNential Music Festival are Clap Your Hands Say Yeah . The band is releasing a new album called Hysterical in September, and XPN's music fest is the first date of a tour that will bring them back to Philly on September 21st at Union Transfer . As a preview to this weekend's show, Clap Your Hands lead singer Alec Ounsworth was interviewed by the folks at Tri-State Indie . Talking about the recording process for the new album, Ounsworth had this to say: [...]
This new track from Wild Nothing is taken off of an upcoming EP of the same name, due out hopefully sometime this year on Captured Tracks , the dudes who released their stellar debut album "Gemini" earlier this year. Even though this track made the rounds about 6 weeks ago , "Golden Haze" wasn't available as a download back then, but now it is. According to Dodge over at My Old Kentucky Blog , the EP will be released on different formats (123, CD, digitally) and each one will have a different tracklisting, but [...]
Yeah yeah I'm late to the party, I get it OK? I'm regularly late to the party, I'm cool with that. But being late is better than never showing up at all and here I am, beer in hand and everyone else is passed the fuck out apart from one dude playing "Stan" by Eminem over and over again. So Gobble Gobble is a dude from Canada who goes by the name of Cecil Frena which is about as rockstar-name-ish as you can get. I'd heard of him a while back, and then again on a [...]
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The last time I featured Wild Nothing the world was a completely different place. A lot's changed in seven days . Actually things are pretty much the same, except for the fact that we've got a new song by Wild Nothing, this time the sound of it more than the Jack's voice reminds me of The Smiths, his voice sounding more like Alec Ounsworth from Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. The song is part of an EP called "Evertide" on new label Warmest Chord who instead of releasing music on 17 different formats [...]
Enjoy last week's fab take on 'When You've No Eyes' in the feature below. MP3: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - In This Home On Ice
Yusuf Azak You can catch Aberdeen-born artist Yusuf Azak supporting Merursault in a few weeks at thei album launch. If you fancy having a wee listen to what he sounds like then you might be pleased to learn that he has put his two self-released two EPs , "Gazelle" and "Light Procession", to download for free on his homepage . Kudos goes out to David Kowalskiy for this tip. Pink Pills You [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News Thursday night at Schubas in Chicago, a mustachioed, suit-wearing Alec Ounsworth -- of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah fame -- ended his first solo tour on an apparent high note. "This might be our best show of the tour," he said during one of the few times he addressed the crowd. "It's nice to be in Chicago," he continued. "It's like Philadelphia -- we're underdogs." After audience members objected to the Second City being labeled second tier, he explained, "No, it's [...]
Watch the brand new Tiny Desk session here. He recently performed on KEXP. Mo Beauty is out now. MP3: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - In This Home On Ice
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Clap Your Hands Say Yeah frontman Alec Ounsworth performs at Cafe Du Nord tomorrow night with two great local bands kicking off the evening. Ounsworth released two solo records last year, Anti- 's Mo Beauty and Skin and Bones (under the alter ego Flashy Python ). Alec Ounsworth - "That Is Not My Home (After Bruegel)" Grand Lake - "Louise" Opening the show are Grand Lake and [...]
[We wave deliriously to birthday gal Sheryl Crow as we dive into tonight's deep, deep list of show options:] No matter what you think of Editors' stylistic left turn — the U.K. quartet [pictured] set aside the rapturous post-punk dance music of its first two albums for gloomy synth-pop on its new record, "In This Light and On This Evening" — tonight's show at the Wiltern promises to be thrilling. NYC art-rockers the Antlers open, their album "Hospice" having gotten all kinds of critical love for [...]
Alec Ounsworth is on tour supporting his solo effort, "Mo Beauty". He played a couple of songs from the album acoustically, and you can watch the rest of the session here . I thought the song below was very appropriate in lieu of the upset by the Saints this past weekend, I thought it was VERY APPRORPRIATE! Don't forget, he'll be in town next week at the Larimer Lounge . Alec Ounsworth-Holy, Holy, Holy Moses [mp3] [...]
Watch his absolutely remarkable performance of 'Idiots In The Rain' below. MP3: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - In This Home On Ice
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Grand Lake at The Uptown in Oakland, from the HAD Archive . Photo by Rick Audet . Alec Ounsworth (of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah fame) is out on the road in support of his new solo record. As such, we couldn't have been more excited to discover that one of our favorite San Francisco bands, Grand Lake , was picked to support the man in this endeavor when he stops by the Bay. The musical gifts of both [...]
Date 2/5/10 Location Emos Doors 9pm Tickets $10 from Ticketweb Alec Ounsworth , former lead singer of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah , and his new band Flashy Python is coming to Emo's on Friday night. Ounsworth will be joined on the stage by our very own Michael Kingcaid [...]
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