CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY HUH?

Via PDXNQD via Cingular wireless via untold cellular networks across the contiguous 48, I understand that this image is of unsigned rock band du jour Clap Your Hands Say Yeah performing at the Gorge Amphitheater:


Apparently Welcome to Blog tried to send me a short video clip of same, but the magical wireless elves failed us on that score.

Great band, if you can find them. I'll give you a start: Here's "The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth" — which I believe I can safely post without fear of raising the RIAA's ire, as CYHSY remains inexplicably still unsigned in these United States. Maybe they're just waiting for Pitchfork to start a record label.

Update — Hmmm... I have cause to believe something may be wrong with this post (and I don't mean copyright) but I don't have enough information just yet. At this point, you may actually be saying "Huh?"

Another update — Okay, apparently I was mistaken about the source of that original photo. It was in fact Brandon, aka Welcome to Blog, and apparently this was a photo of Portland indie heroes The Decemberists (another fine outfit, and more readily available at your local franchise dealer). Indeed, the one above is pretty clearly the main stage, but Brandon tells me CYHSY

played a smaller stage called the Wookie Staged that was about the size of the back of a truck and was made entirely out of wood. The stage featured in the image on your blog is the larger, main stage that overlooks the Gorge. Notice the risers and the blurry landscape in the background. Hope this clears up any confusion.

It'll have to do. And now, at long last, a genuinely "huh"-inducing photo of CYHSY playing the Wookie stage, blown up to the same "huh"-inspiring size:

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posted by WWB at 7:49 PM |