Initially, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah’s self-titled debut album was meant to be a four-track EP. But after acquiring extra studio time, Philadelphia-based singer-songwriter Alex Ounsworth, drummer Sean ...

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 ...

When Clap Your Hands Say Yeah released its self-titled debut record in 2005, it became one of the first albums to break big because of the Internet. The band recorded and released it on its own, ...

Its been nearly 10 years since Clap Your Hands Say Yeah lit the budding “blogosphere” on fire with their self-titled debut, becoming an overnight lightning rod for the current state of how music is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah follow up their 2011 album Hysterical and 2013 EP Little Moments with self-released new LP Only Run, out June 3. The first single "Coming Down", above, features a familiar ...

Weird things happen when a small band reaches critical mass, as Clap Your Hands Say Yeah must be aware of by now. In less time than it takes to pronounce their name, the indie success story of 2005 ...