Yesterday, NPR's All Things Considered broadcast a story about Philadelphia's Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, focusing on the role that blogs and online music sites played in creating a buzz about the band.
It's worth a listen. When I heard it yesterday, I wondered about the fact that NPR did not credit a single Philadelphia site with helping to build the band's momentum. Today, Ben Garvey piped in with a link to his own February, 2005 post about the band. Does anyone have similar links that predate those in NPR's story?
plenty
via PF serach
actually, none of the
actually, none of the articles in that search predate the ones in the NPR article. . . at least as far as I can see.
read it wrong
my bad, i thought you asked for posts that predated the npr story and not the posts listed within the story.
Well...
Stereogum is where I first heard of the band. They posted an MP3 of Upon this Tidal Wave of Young Blood on February 14th, 2005.
(Here's where the link should be, but it seems to be down)
http://www.stereogum.com/archives/001241.html
My post on 2/15/05 wasn't necessarily a recap of the stereogum post, because I added some other stuff about Alec's demo (which is good by the way).
To be fair, if you're doing an article on what started the buzz it probably was the Dan Bern posts, gothamist shows, and obviously the Pitchfork reviews. If anything, I think they should have given more credit to the stereogum posts where they linked to CYHSY among a dozen other bands and the comments were highly favorable toward this song, "Tidal Wave."
The 12 people who read my site didn't exactly put the band on the map. hah.