Clap Your Hands Say Yeah blew a lot of minds when they released a fully independent self-titled first album in 2005. They had no record label, no manager, no nothing, and at a time when even “indie” ...

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah will follow their 20th anniversary full-band world tour with a stripped-down North American headline run in 2026. “Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Piano & Voice” gets underway ...

The DIY success of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah in 2005 instilled garage bands and dudes with nasally voices with a newfound faith in the can-do spirit. Clap’s latest effort finds the band remaining label ...

There are few finer things than a memory rediscovered, especially when dealing with great music. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah had faded from my mind — their 2005 self-titled debut album shook my wee ...

Given that they’re a band known for burbling danceability and have exuberant album titles—Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (2005), Some Loud Thunder (2007), Hysterical (2011)—Clap Your Hands Say Yeah have a ...

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 ...

It hardly seems possible that a decade has gone by since the original formation of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, although given the band’s current status, there’s an argument to be made that the quintet ...

(BHM) Alec Ounsworth and his band Clap Your Hands Say Yeah are celebrating their 20th anniversary with today's announcement of limited deluxe vinyl reissues of the ...

The album as a self-contained unit of artistic expression holds a fascinating place in the musical landscape. For some, the rise in streaming culture has reduced its significance, with listeners able ...

It hardly seems possible that a decade has gone by since the original formation of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, although given the band’s current status, there’s an argument to be made that the quintet ...

While your iTunes playlist is doubtless clogged with songs by bands well-suited to their noms de plume, Philly/NYC quartet Clap Your Hands Say Yeah is that rare act whose name describes the desired ...

Still, this is a Clap Your Hands Say Yeah song called "CYHSY, 2005," so forgive us for seeking some deeper commentary on the group's fate as hype-cycle sacrificial lambs. According to Ounsworth, the ...