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Clap Your Hands Say Yeah celebrate 20 years of debut with world tour and reissue
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah are set to celebrate 20 years of its self-titled debut album with a world tour and a reissue campaign.In 2025, the band – now the solo project of Alec Ounsworth – commemorates the release of ‘Clap Your Hands Say Yeah’, which launched the band into indie rock stardom in 2005 with singles ‘Is This Love?’ and ‘In This Home On Ice’. The album was released a year later in the UK via Wichita Recordings.Since then, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah have amassed a cult following through the 2010s and beyond, with their last album being 2021’s ‘New Fragility’.In a press release, it’s revealed that the band’s world tour will begin at the end of March in Washington, DC, followed by multiple dates that include a homecoming set in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.A post shared by Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (@clapyourhandssayyeah)The tour will also include dates in Europe – notably, a two-night engagement at EartH (Evolutionary Arts Hackney) in London – along with Australia and New Zealand.
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Edward’s house from ‘Twilight’ is getting a LEGO set
Twilight is getting its own LEGO set.The hugely popular movie franchise, based on the novel series by Stephanie Meyer, features Robert Pattinson as Edward Cullen, a mysterious and intense vampire.When protagonist Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) goes to visit Edward’s family home, he finds that they live in a modern house hidden in the forests of Pacific Northwest town, Forks.The house, iconic for its sleek glass windows, modern architectural design and picturesque location, is actually located in Portland, Oregon. It was designed by Jeff Kovel and was first sold to Nike director, John Hoke, for $2.5million.Just in time for Christmas! The results of the First 2023 Review are here! New LEGO Ideas sets have been approved for production! ❤ Check them out on the LEGO Ideas blog ➡ https://t.co/0kF3B0kVZi pic.twitter.com/uIRWJTxWl5— LEGO® IDEAS (@LEGOIdeas) December 19, 2023Now, fans of the franchise can build and show off their own miniature version of the 4,896 square feet house, as LEGO are set to release their own Cullen house kit.This comes as part of a project run by the LEGO Review Board, where fans are able to submit their own ideas for an official review by the LEGO team if they reach 10,000 supporters.LEGO Ideas Community Activation Manager, Hasan Jensen, and LEGO Ideas Marketing Manager Michelle Ta confirmed that the Cullen house is one of two brand new ideas now “in development”.Jensen shared: “[This set] will bring back lots of amazingly fond memories for all of you.
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Sleater-Kinney announce new album ‘Little Rope’ and share first single ‘Hell’
Sleater-Kinney have shared details of their new album ‘Little Rope’ and a tour in support of it alongside the release of lead single ‘Hell’.The Washington, US-formed indie rockers release their 11th album on January 19 via Loma Vista Recordings (pre-order here).Today (October 3) the duo comprising Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein have also shared the accompanying music video for ‘Hell’ directed by Ashley Connor (The Miseducation Of Cameron Post), which stars actress and Kajillionaire filmmaker Miranda July.‘Hell’, which was recorded at Flora Recording and Playback in Portland, Oregon with Grammy-winning producer John Congleton, is being released against the backdrop of a family tragedy.In autumn 2022, Brownstein received a call from Tucker, who herself had just received a call from the American embassy in Italy. Years earlier, Brownstein has listed Tucker as her emergency contact on a passport form, and while she had since changed her phone number, Tucker hadn’t.The embassy staff were desperately trying to reach Brownstein to inform her that her mother and stepfather had been killed in a car crash while holidaying in Italy.Press material notes that although some of the album had already been written, aspects of each song (e.g. a guitar solo, the singing style, sonic approaches) were approached with grief hanging heavy.See the tracklist and artwork for ‘Little Rope’, as well as all of Sleater-Kinney’s upcoming live shows below.‘Little Rope’ tracklist:01. ‘Hell’02. ‘Needlessly Wild’03. ‘Say It Like You Mean It’04. ‘Hunt You Down’05. ‘Small Finds’06. ‘Don’t Feel Right’07. ‘Six Mistakes’08. ‘Crusader’09. ‘Dress Yourself’10. ‘Untidy Creature’Tickets for the 2024 North American tour shows go on sale this Friday (October 6)
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