Slipped Discs 2007

By PopMatters Staff

PopMatters' annual tradition of offering up its Slipped Discs picks continues with the biggest installment to date. These are the albums our writers just loved, but missed our enormous top 60 albums list late last year. [23 January 2008]

The Future of Music Coalition D.C. Policy Day 2009

By Mehan Jayasuriya

Music and tech industry insiders -- including Clap Your Hands Say Yeah frontman Alec Ounsworth, Bomb Squad founder Hank Shocklee, and legendary manager Peter Jenner -- gather in Washington D.C. to discuss the future of music creation, marketing, and commerce. [19 March 2009]

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

By Wilson McBee

It’s become a well-known fact that at a Clap Your Hands Say Yeah show, the energy of the audience had better be in inverse proportion to that of the band, or else people will be falling asleep. [7 November 2008]

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah: Some Loud Thunder

By Nick Pearson

Brooklyn’s Clap Your Hands Say Yeah return with a sophomore that is little better than more of the same, only darker. [16 April 2007]

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

By Stephen Stirling

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah likely has a very bright career ahead of them, but they're only just getting started. [2 August 2005]

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah resists labeling - and big label interest [1 February 2007]

A scrappy band from Brooklyn releases a scrawl of a CD and distributes it entirely on their own. An Internet buzz spreads word of the disk, and over the course of a year, it goes on to sell a miraculous 100,000 copies.