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  Clap Your Hands Say Yeah's Ounsworth on Splintered Band's Future

  July 17, 2012 – It’s been almost a decade since endearingly yelpy indie outfit Clap Your Hands Say Yeah won the hearts of the blogosphere without the help of any record label. And while last year’s shiny, upbeat Hysterical broke a four-year band-silence, all was not well in CYHSY-land. Days before a scheduled appearance at July's CBGB Festival in New York City, two members of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah posted resignation letters on the group’s website. …
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  Duff McKagan Jams With a Sex Pistol, Clap Your Hands Dudes Say Farewell at CBGB Fest

  July 9, 2012 – "So this is Times Square?" quipped Alec Ounsworth, frontman for indie rockers Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, playing a daytime Saturday set in the middle of the Big Apple's tourist mecca. He was surprised to be playing a stage beneath the blinding lights of Broadway and one of the most expensive Olive Gardens in the world — and the tourist gawkers stopping to snap pics were surprised to see them there too. …
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  Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, 'Hysterical' (Self-Released)

  September 20, 2011 – Say what you will about Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, but their much-hyped 2005 debut and surprisingly buoyant (and largely derided) '07 follow-up couldn't be accused of lacking nervous energy. Hysterical, by contrast, is anything but -- it's an overly gauzy, booming-echo epic that doesn't leave much trace after it's over. …
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  10 Must-Hear Artists at Outside Lands Fest

  August 10, 2011 –  …
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  Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Set for Album, Tour

  May 19, 2011 – Philly/Brooklyn quintet Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, who rode a wave of blog adoration into a rather amazing DIY success story with their self-titled 2005 debut album, will return this September with Hysterical, their first record in four years. …
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  Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Frontman Goes Solo

  July 15, 2009 – Clap Your Hands Say Yeah frontman Alec Ounsworth will release his first solo album, Mo Beauty, via Anti- on October 20. Recording in the Big Easy, Ounsworth tapped a team of blues and jazz vets from the city's vast musical coffers, including Meters bassist George Porter, Jr., Galactic drummer Stanton Moore, Greyboy Allstars keyboardist Robert Walter, and Al "Carnival Time" Johnson. "New Orleans informed the spirit of the record, as it …
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  Free Download: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Return!

  March 5, 2009 – Like a high school sweetheart, Brooklyn's Clap Your Hands Yeah are giving us mixed signals: Despite playing their "final" show last month, the Brooklyn band aren't saying goodbye just yet. …
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  Radiohead, Buzzcocks, My Morning Jacket Featured on 'Choke' Soundtrack

  August 14, 2008 – Contrary to internet murmurs earlier this week, Radiohead won't be providing the entire score to the movie adaptation of Choke, a novel by Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk. …
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