The Flaming Lips (pictured) have announced spring and summer dates in support of double album Embryonic. The tour will feature special guests Stardeath And White Dwarfs and includes a performance of Dark Side Of The Moon at Bonnaroo. On April 17 (a.k.a. Record Store Day), their version of Dark Side Of The Moon (which features Stardeath [...]

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah frontman brings Mo Beauty to the road
This year at Hidden Track, we concocted a little experiment for our year-end Best Albums of 2009 list. Instead of picking the old fashioned way - subjectively - we opted for something a little different: a collaborative, collective list that incorporates the opinions of everybody here at HT. To begin, we devised an all-encompassing list of around 100 nominees and populated it in a Google spreadsheet - essentially anything that anybody who writes for Hidden Track liked at all, made the list. Then we invited our crew of writers to independently vote on the [...]
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah frontman Alec Ounsworth releases two albums in 2009, his solo debut 'Mo Beauty' and 'Skin and Bones' under the moniker Flashy Python.
I've heard of, but never heard Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. So I have no basis of comparison for founding member Alec Ounsworth's solo release Mo Beauty. And I have to say I won't be running to listen to Clap Your Hands Say Yeah's music if it's at all like this album. It's not a [...]

Alec Ounsworth takes Flashy Python on tour to support solo album and their debut.

<a href=" http://onethirtybpm.com/2009/1 1/03/alec-ounsworth%e2%80%a8-m o-beauty/" Alec Ounsworth Mo Beauty [ANTI-; 2009] Links: Alec Ounsworth | ANTI- | Purchase on Insound Posted by Ray Finlayson on 03 November 2009 II was dismayed: the news that the third Clap Your Hands Say Yeah album was not likely to be released anytime soon while [...]

(If you listen to this song, let me know in the comments if you like it or not.) Every once in a while, usually while I'm driving in traffic, an awful, violent thought flashes through my mind. Then, I think, "Wow, that was unacceptable"; I pop another Lexapro; and I move on with my day. I can imagine singer/songwriter Alec Ounsworth having a similar experience, but instead thinking, "What a great idea for a song." (Left, Singer/Songwriter Alec Ounsworth; Right, Friendly [...]
ALEC OUNSWORTH SOLO ALBUM, MO BEAUTY, OUT TODAY! OUNSWORTH TO DEBUT SONGS LIVE AT NEW YORK'S CMJ FESTIVAL THIS WEEK Alec Ounsworth, charismatic frontman for celebrated rockers Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, releases his much anticipated solo album, Mo Beauty, today on Anti-Records. Recorded deep in the heart of musical New Orleans with an ensemble of local heavyweights including George Porter Jr. of the Meters and drummer Stanton Moore of Galactic, and guided by veteran producer Steve Berlin (Los Lobos, Replacements), Mo Beauty is a stunning union of powerful rhythms and imaginative arrangements in the service of evocative [...]

Photography by Damjan Momirovski Oh man, don't you just love those surprise albums, where you have NO IDEA what to expect, none, push play and are suddenly treated to something so fresh and so clean clean? I do! Down in our little society, me homies were talking about how much they were digging Clap Your Hands Say Yeah's Alec Ounsworth's album Mo Beauty but I didn't read into "what" was good about it, just that they were liking all over it. So, finally remembering I [...]

Alec Ounsworth , el cantante de Clap Your Hands Say Yeah , reveló detalles de su disco solista , que se llamará Mo Beauty , y que será lanzado el 20 de octubre. La producción fue realizada en el estudio Piety St., que está ubicado en Los Angeles, junto al productor Steve Berlin quien ya ha trabajado con Los Lobos y The Replacements entre otros artistas. El artista le pidió ayuda a algunos amigos para que grabaran el disco junto a él: George Porter Jr. tocó el bajo, Stanton Moore la [...]

It's not clear what this move spells for his band Clap Your Hands Say Yeah , but Pitchfork announced today the release of fellow CHA Alum Alec Ounsworth's first solo record which comes out October 20th on Anti. We say congrats to another local Philly friend, a solid guy and a great songwriter. Details: With Clap Your Hands Say Yeah on a break, frontman Alec Ounsworth has set out on his own. On October 20, Anti- Records will release Ounsworth's solo debut, Mo Beauty . It was recorded in [...]