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...friends. The icing went on the cake when the 22-year-old London rapper/singer known as Ninja fortuitously responded to an ad. The band gelled immediately. The Go! Team’s success since then is a classic blog-buzz success story like that of Brooklyn’s Clap Your Hands Say Yeah or Montreal’s Arcade Fire. The influential online music site Pitchfork put The Go! Team’s album in its Top 10 Albums of 2004 list. The buzz about The Go! Team spread so fast at this spring’s South...
...close of the night, the Harvard Kuumba singers’ wrap-up of the program, with powerful renditions of “Hold On” and “Power of Love,” inspired the entire theatre to clap along with their soulful, moving beats...
Animal Collective brings “Feels” full circle with “Turn Into Something,” a hook-laden pop melody that could have ended the Collective’s Brooklyn brethren Clap Your Hands Say Yeah’s album if they too had gotten lost in the woods. With this appropriately titled ending, you’re forced to wonder, just what is Animal Collective becoming...
...with the pierced and enjoy some of the best acts on the small-club circuit. The club books a fairly eclectic array of bands, but its rep lets it be choosy in who it books. Last month, for instance, they hosted a sold-out show of current indie darlings Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!. Still, be prepared to sit out a little turbulence. One night last year, a friend and I arrived while some maniac opening band was onstage. Their sound was the aural equivalent of a bad Pollock painting: barely controlled arrhythmic screeching that would have made Ornette Coleman...
...Golden Age” and “Lonesome Tears” put a damper on the general party vibe. But in each of those cases, he would do something odd and new—like singing a new melody line or having his band do a hoedown clap-stomp behind him—to remind us that this was still a process of experimentation and entertainment...