Video: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Telling the Truth and Going Away

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah performing "Telling the Truth and Going Away" during the end credits of the Great Buck Howard

If for nothing else than the opportunity to listen to John Malkovich speak for 90 minutes, I enjoyed The Great Buck Howard. But it's too bad the coming-of-age/prestidigitation flick (sounds like a winner, right?) didn't gain a wider audience, because...

If the Colin Hanks-vehicle The Great Buck Howard wasn't such a bomb, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah could have had a breakout moment. See, the band, who play themselves in the film, played some songs during the film and pop up with a new track ("Telling the Truth and Going Away") during the end credits. Normally, you have to pay to have that kind of exposure, but here they are, in a film no one cares about. Tough break. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah are reportedly working on [...]

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 [...]