Over the past two decades, Alec Ounsworth has continued to steadily release new music under the Clap Your Hands Say Yeah name, most recently 2021’s New Fragility. But Ounsworth also realizes that most ...

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 ...

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah play at the Blind Pig last Friday night. (FOREST CASEY/Daily) Friday night at the Blind Pig, the bullet-sweating crowd was practically creaming its too-tight Levi’s over Clap ...

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 ...

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Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Alec Ounsworth and his band Clap Your Hands Say Yeah are celebrating their 20th ...

For Alec Ounsworth, front man and principal songwriter for the indie rock band, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, the past four years have been beset by turmoil. Some of the reasons for the recent struggles ...

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah will perform at Republic New Orleans on April 24th, 2007. Elvis Perkins in Dearland will support. Suddenly emerging in 2005, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah has become a giant among ...

Welcome to Band Jury, a SPIN series in which artists defend black sheep albums they feel deserve another listen. These are projects that, for whatever reason (middling sales, negative reviews, a ...

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, the group led by singer-songwriter Alec Ounsworth, will release new album, New Fragility, on February 12 via CYHSY/Secretly Distribution. Today, another heartfelt single, ...

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah are celebrating the 20th anniversary of their self-titled debut album with a huge tour and a vinyl reissue. The dates kick off in spring 2025 with a North American run that ...