Clap Your Hands Say Yeah end a ten-year Dallas absence with Burned in tow

The band's last Dallas show was at Club DaDa in April 2017; next April they play AM/FM, a few months after their first album in more than six years.

April 20, 2017, Club DaDa: that is the last time Clap Your Hands Say Yeah played Dallas. Almost exactly ten years later, the band is coming back with something it hasn't had in a long time — a new album to play.

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah plays AM/FM in Dallas on Friday, April 9, 2027. The show starts at 7 p.m., and tickets are $69 through See Tickets. The date was announced October 21, the same day the album news broke.

That album is *Burned*. Stereogum reported on October 21 that the band will release it in early 2027, its first full-length in more than six years, and shared the song "Fever of the Mind" with the announcement. Spin puts the release date at January 29, 2027, calls it the band's seventh studio album, and says it is coming out on the band's own CYHSY label through Secretly Distribution. By the time the band reaches Dallas, *Burned* will have been out for a little over two months.

There is a live-show logic to this record, too. Spin reports that frontman Alec Ounsworth wrote the new material with the stage in mind, coming off a 2025 run celebrating the 20th anniversary of the band's self-titled debut. That anniversary tour went as far as Australia, where the band played the debut in full. Writing a new album after a year of playing your oldest songs every night is a particular kind of reset, and Ounsworth seems to have come out of it thinking about rooms and crowds.

Ten years between Dallas shows, and this time they come with new songs built for a room.

The 2027 touring starts overseas. Spin says the international run opens in Istanbul in February, and a Berlin listing has the band at Gretchen on February 13. The American dates follow in spring: a Portland listing puts them at Mississippi Studios on April 16, and Salt Lake City's Urban Lounge has them on April 20. Dallas, on April 9, falls a week ahead of Portland, which places it early in the US stretch.

The move from Club DaDa to AM/FM is worth noting. The 2017 show was a club night in Deep Ellum's long-running rock room; AM/FM holds about 1,000, a bigger stage for a band that has spent the last couple of years reminding people how much its first record meant to them. Whether the crowd shows up for the new songs or the old ones, it's likely to be a lot of both.

What to expect: songs from *Burned* given their first real road test in Texas, set against the material from that self-titled debut that still anchors the band's reputation. If the 2025 anniversary run was a look back, this is the tour where the band asks the people who came for that to stick around for what's next.

For Dallas fans who missed them a decade ago, or who caught them at DaDa and have been waiting since, the math is simple: a Friday in April, one room, one night. Give *Burned* a few spins when it lands in January and you'll be ready.

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