ATLANTA — If you heard a huge clap of thunder this morning in metro Atlanta, you’re not alone. Severe Weather Team 2 Meteorologist Brian Monahan said that thunder becomes especially loud during the ...

Instant hype often does more to hurt a band than to help. One of the unavoidable indie-rock successes of the last couple of years is the Brooklyn-via-Philadelphia quintet Clap Your Hands Say Yeah.

A.C. Newman and I are shooting the shit about Sophomore Slumps — or Difficult Second Albums, or whatever critic-jargon term you prefer for musical sequels that flatline following a beloved debut. With ...

There is something to be said for a band’s willingness to take huge leaps. However, with Clap Your Hands Say Yeah’s sophomore release, Some Loud Thunder, they appear to have skipped a few necessary ...

Any time you go to a ballpark, you truly have a chance of seeing something new. That's the beauty about baseball. And on Tuesday, we might have witnessed a first in a Triple-A game between the Norfolk ...

A song is a chance overlapping of countless variables in an artist’s life. Anatomy of a Song is a place where those variables can be dissected and examined. In this edition, Alec Ounsworth of Clap ...

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah were the bloggers’ darlings of 2005, winning converts with their danceable rhythms and charmingly lo-fi aesthetic. Simply put, their self-titled debut was fun. The only ...

Welcome to Band Jury, a SPIN series in which artists defend black sheep albums they feel deserve another listen. These are projects that, for whatever reason (middling sales, negative reviews, a ...