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Prefix CD review: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
[S/T] by Aaron
Richter
Prefix show review: The National, Clap Your
Hands Say Yeah
March 08, 2006
September 28, 2005
Anyone notice...
Anyone notice how much Rolling Stone creamed its collective pair of Lee jeans over Clap Your Hands Say Yeah in this Hot Issue. And I'm not just talking about "Hot Indie," even though their press photo in the tall grass is totally rad.
But The Hot List well starts with An Open Letter to Baby Federline and despite getting the baby's name wrong in the letter (oopies!) the darn thing is hilarious and mentions everyone's favorite band to hate/love not once but twice.
1) "Meet Monaco's Princess Charlotte, underground comedy duo Flight of the Conchords and indie-rock upstarts Clap Your Hands Say Yeah."
2) (at the end) "But for now: Clap you hands. Say yeah."
Rolling Stone Hot List: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Also on the Rolling Stone Hot List...
Clap - based in Brooklyn and Philadelphia - have already sold nearly 17,000 copies of their self-released debut, all thanks to word-of-mouth. And while major-label artists make only about a buck a record, the Clap guys are making a whopping eight dollars per disc - putting their take so far at more than $130,000. Not too shabby for an album recorded for less than ten grand and distributed by the band itself via countless trips to the post office.
That is amazing. 17,000 units without a label. I imagine that they're raking in even more $$$ from touring. Headlining Irving Plaza on New Year's Eve? Damn. Not bad at all.
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Prefix review of the self-titled Clap Your Hands Say Yeah album
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