Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
In the middle of 2005, the Brooklyn/Philadelphia-based Clap Your Hands Say Yeah were being touted as the hottest unsigned band in the U.S. Their self-titled debut was self-produced, self-released, self-promoted, and self-distributed, with a great deal of help from the grassroots indie blog machine. There was so much online interest in the band that NPR even did a feature on the emerging phenomena of Internet band buzz (using CYHSY as the prime example).
Alec Ounsworth, Lee Sargent, Robbie Guertin, Tyler Sargent, and Sean Greenhalgh coalesced into a group...[more]
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9.0 on Pitchfork! Clap Your Hands Say Yeah has stockpiled a mass of oft-trampled influences, including what amounts to a 12-course meal of in-vogue '80s acts. What's interesting is the manner in which the players assemble this source material. The Cure and The Smiths, for instance, are probed for neither nostalgic angst nor fashion cues. The Reagan-era creepiness that often surfaces when contemporary acts dabble in such sounds in curtailed by Clap Your Hands' apparent affinity for the Clean and other indie [ read more ]
CD $13.99
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You've undoubtedly heard of these guys by now. They're all over the Net, and if you don't have a computer, someone who does told you about them. Their story is as much a testament to the power of the grassroots-indie-blog machine as it is a sign of crumbling major-label authority. Self-released, self-promoted, and self-distributed (right down to licking the stamps), Clap Your Hands Say Yeah's self-titled debut is well on its way to selling a respectable 40,000 copies as this review goes to press -- and t [ read more ]
CD $43.68
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This is a navy blue, size XL Clap Your Hands Say Yeah zip-front hoodie with a front and back clouds design.
X-Large Shirt $42.99
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This is a navy blue, size medium Clap Your Hands Say Yeah zip-front hoodie with a front and back clouds design.
Medium Shirt $42.99
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This is a black canvas Clap Your Hands Say Yeah tote bag, with a cloud design printed in white ink. Clouds sometimes get a bad rap (meteorologists, I'm looking in your direction), but we love them here at Insound. And you get twenty-three clouds for the price of one tote! And a bonus on the back. Because you can never have too many clouds. Or too many totes, to hold your too many records.
Tote Bag $17.99
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This is a gold, size XL short sleeve Clap Your Hands Say Yeah t-shirt with magenta screen ink.
X-Large Shirt $19.99
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This is a gold, size large short sleeve Clap Your Hands Say Yeah t-shirt with magenta screen ink.
Large Shirt $19.99
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This is a gold, size medium short sleeve Clap Your Hands Say Yeah t-shirt with magenta screen ink.
Medium Shirt $19.99
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This is a gold, size small short sleeve Clap Your Hands Say Yeah t-shirt with magenta screen ink.
Small Shirt $19.99
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This is a 12" x 18" Clap your Hands Say Yeah show poster for a March 23, 2006 show with The Brunettes. Full color offset print on 80lb matte paper. Designed by: Remi Arora.
POSTER $15.99
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This is a 17" x 24" 3-color silkscreened Clap Your Hands Say Yeah poster for the October 6, 2006 show with Architecture in Helsinki and Takka Takka at The Gothic Theatre. Hand-signed and designed by Todd Slater.
Poster $25.99
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