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10 Anthems For Our Generation

Like every generation before us, we have our anthems. If the ’50s were hopeful and the ’60s were angry and the ’70s were dirty and the ’80s were flaky, there’s something for us too.  read more

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah: Reappearing Act

It’s been a strenuous four years for the acclaimed indie rockers as they battled back from an indefinite hiatus and near self-destruction—but today, frontman/songwriter Alec Ounsworth couldn’t be more enthralled with his band’s newfound focus.  read more

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah: Hysterical

It is nearly impossible to think, talk and especially write about Clap Your Hands Yeah without referencing the band’s fantastic, albeit drastically overhyped, 2005 debut. Both the music itself and the record label-less, internet-driven buzz have become something of indie rock folklore....  read more

Alec Ounsworth and the Delicate Art of Misanthropy

The ’60s aesthetic is dead. The punk aesthetic is dead. Any cry of angst, any yearning for change, is undercut by a culture that’s become too complacent for revolution.  read more

Outside Lands Interviews and Portraits

Check out Josh Darr's series of artists interviews and portraits taken at Outside Lands Music Festival.  read more

Langerado Canceled Once Again

Langerado, South Florida's premier music festival of the 2000s, appears not to have eluded its recent curse: On Saturday, Boros Entertainment announced the cancellation of the 2011 festival, which was supposed to be held Oct. 8-9 at Markham Park in Sunrise, Fla.  read more

Outside Lands 2011 Day One Photos

See Josh Darr's photos from day one at Outside Lands in San Francisco, Calif.--which featured The Shins, Erykah Badu, Phish, Best Coast, MGMT, Foster The People and more.  read more

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Announces New Album

Indie rockers Clap Your Hands Say Yeah have announced a new album, Hysterical, which will debut Sept. 20 in the U.S. and Sept. 12 in the U.K., Europe and Japan....  read more

A Playlist for Alaska's 98th Birthday

All right, so maybe 98 years ago today Alaska merely became a U.S. territory. (It wasn’t until almost 50 years later that President Eisenhower actually declared AK the 49th state.) But why not go ahead and celebrate the inclusion of this frosty state beneath the stars and stripes?...  read more

Alec Ounsworth: Mo Beauty

A hauntingly gorgeous contradiction in terms On his first solo effort, the Clap Your Hands Say Yeah frontman continues his enthusiastic experiments with strange sound combinations. He’s pensive these days—mellow and introverted—and his self-questioning lyrics are matched with a fittingly eerie sound. The album is well conceived with articulate themes running throughout, as when Ounsworth laments the fall of New Orleans in “Holy, Holy, Holy Moses” and then later channels the city’s brass-laden funeral marches into the dirt-smudged “Idiots in the Rain.” Ounsworth’s resounding use of strings, horns, piano and percussion appears and disappears at unexpected moments with beautifully unsettling...  read more