How quickly they grow up. One day a band is the toast of the internet, the next they're reeling from the backlash – and before you know it, they're denying reports of a break-up.
Brooklyn's Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – one of the first bands to surf waves of blog hysteria – are now washed up from waves of blog speculation after a report that the yelpers will take "a (possibly permanent?) 'break'".
The band are set to play the Brooklyn Academy of Music on 13 February, "but it seems likely the show will be the last chance to see them for a very long time, if not ever," Brooklyn Vegan reported.
Though the band's manager has rejected the rumours, he did so without, er, saying they weren't true. "[The internet is] probably reading a bit too much into things," Nick Stern told NME. So it's "probably" a "bit too much" to say that the band are now Clap Your Hands Say No Thanks. But they're certainly Clap Your Hands Say I'm Busy At The Moment. "It's true that Clap Your Hands Say Yeah have decided not to go back into the studio at this time while the guys work on other projects," Stern said.
These projects include children, multidisciplinary art, and a Guns N' Roses tribute band, apparently. While frontman Alec Ounsworth is reportedly a new father, and Robbie Guertin and Tyler Sargent contribute to the Uninhabitable Mansions collective, drummer Sean Greenhalgh passes the time as "Axl Rose" in GN'R tribute band Mr Brownstone. All of which sounds like a lot more fun than getting sneered at by bloggers waiting for Animal Collective B-sides.
