{"id":9770,"date":"2012-03-08T07:41:43","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T15:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=9770"},"modified":"2012-03-08T07:48:21","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T15:48:21","slug":"clap-your-hands-say-yeah-live-from-the-bowery-and-coming-to-santa-barbara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2012-03\/clap-your-hands-say-yeah-live-from-the-bowery-and-coming-to-santa-barbara\/","title":{"rendered":"Clap Your Hands Say Yeah&#8211;Live from the Bowery Ballroom and Coming to Santa Barbara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Clap Your Hands Say Yeah<\/strong> are headed to Santa Barbara (<strong>Soho on May 21st<\/strong>) courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/clubmercy.blogspot.com\/\"><strong>Club Mercy<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 Everyone loved their first album, but afterwards they&#8217;ve been met with some indifference as each new <strong>Flavor of the Week<\/strong> drew the attention of the bloggers.\u00a0 By now they&#8217;ve established their long-term credibility, and we look forward to seeing them.\u00a0 In the meantime check out this recent performance of <strong>Misspent Youth<\/strong> at NYC&#8217;s <strong>Bowery Ballroom<\/strong>.\u00a0 The song&#8217;s lyrics follow (with a line or three reminding of Jeff Buckley and his plight). <\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eWCRENgiQIQ&#038;list=PL6F52271786E57066&#038;index=7&#038;feature=plcp<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The glory of a misspent youth<br \/>\nChasing tire stains in muted thunder<br \/>\nTrading sex for drugs<br \/>\nAnd my Ophelia does not drown<br \/>\nShe just barely hangs on<\/p>\n<p>Now driving drunk in Daddy&#8217;s car<br \/>\nHoney, I won&#8217;t spoil the ending<br \/>\nBut see that bend up in the road<br \/>\nDidn&#8217;t it seem that the night was little too quiet?<\/p>\n<p>When it seems your subjects have all forgotten you<br \/>\nI need you to pretend that you are mine<br \/>\nAnd the water is just deep enough to take another chance<br \/>\nBut the river doesn&#8217;t want you tonight<\/p>\n<p>The engine was not built to last<br \/>\nAnd there&#8217;s a permanence to the memory of a bruise<br \/>\nAnd I still take it on the chin<br \/>\nFor you&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clap Your Hands Say Yeah are headed to Santa Barbara (Soho on May 21st) courtesy of Club Mercy.\u00a0 Everyone loved their first album, but afterwards they&#8217;ve been met with some indifference as each new Flavor of the Week drew the attention of the bloggers.\u00a0 By now they&#8217;ve established their long-term credibility, and we look forward [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}