Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

Playing smartly crafted indie-pop that is instantly accessible yet defies easy categorization, Brooklyn, NY's Clap Your Hands Say Yeah took the music world by storm in 2005 on the strength of a single self-released album. Seemingly overnight, the band became talk-of -the-town fodder (David Bowie acknowledged himself as a fan) and started playing to sold-out crowds. A major-label bidding war followed, the offers from which the band famously turned down.