Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Live Photos from Webster Hall, NYC 12-7-11

Confessions of a heretic…I went to last week’s Clap Your Hands Say Yeah show to see WATERS as I really had no idea what CYHSY sounded like. I watched the energy of the sold-out crowd explode when the band took the stage but, for whatever reason, the band’s music just wasn’t my cup of tea.







I was trying to get a feel for the band’s music during the first few songs and, for whatever reason, i couldn't shake the jam band comparisons. CYHSY are certainly talented musicians but I have an innate bias against anything that even remotely resembles a jam/Further Fest band.





CYHSY released their third disc. Hysterical. in September and just finished up a series of US and Canadian tour dates. The band is off the road now but are heading to Japan followed by Europe in January.

For anyone who missed the band this time out, they have posted live performances of songs from Hysterical to their website (link below).

Ketamine and Ecstasy from CYHSY on Vimeo.

Links:
Clap Your Hand Say Yeah

Radical Dads: Photos & Review from Webster Hall, NYC 12-7-11 / Upcoming Shows on 12-15 & 16

DOWNLOAD: Radical Dads - "Skateboard Bulldog"
"This song was inspired by a real canine I met at a skate park in Astoria, Queens. He tried to steal my board, then got distracted by someone else's board, then jumped back on his own and innocently cruised the concrete as if he hadn't just tried to kill the sesh. A quick Internet search will show that many types of animals are capable of riding skateboards, but only the bulldog can be bred to shred." -- Guitarist Chris Diken

Brooklyn's Radical Dads opened the sold-out Clap Your Hand Say Yeah show last week at Webster Hall. I'm not that familiar with the band's music but will make a point of hunting down the band's debut disc Mega Rama. The band also has a new 7", "Skateboard Bulldog", posted above. The band's music has a 90's post-punk sound that sounds like some of the bands that came out of the post-harDCore DC scene in the 90's (Velocity Girl and Tsunami are the first two bands that come to mind).









Radical Dads are playing Whatever Blog's holiday party on Dec. 15th @ Cake Shop along with Hilly Eye (ex-Titus Andronicus), EULA, and Libel. Cover is $8 and Radical Dads go on at 11PM. The next night, Radical Dads are playing Brooklyn Night Bazaar (149 Kent Avenue) along with Fucked Up, DOM, Big Troubles and Caged Animals. Tickets are $10 and doors are at 5PM.

Links:
Radical Dads

HTR (Holy Trinity River) Play Castle in Hell on Friday, Feb. 20th

DOWNLOAD: HTR (Holy Trinity River) - The Shaker (MP3)

Dallas-to-Brooklyn transplants HTR are playing a show tomorrow night at Castle in Hell. The Jersey Beat describes HTR's music as "Bluesy, heartfelt, stripped down, no frills, rock...[with] each song sung from the heart, with a southern feel."

This is an all-ages show and there is FREE BEER (for those 21+) from 8PM-10PM. I got a bit of a chuckle in that Castle in Hell's MySpace Profile says "no one under 21 will be served alcohol. The shows are all ages, but the drinking is not." You can just see some 16 year-olds showing up looking for their "free beer".

On the bill with HTR are Radical Dads (which includes Robbie from CYHSY), Cinemasophia and Miracles.

Links:
HTR's MySpace Profile