YACHT, a reference to an alternative school in Portland (Young Americans Challenging High Technology), was formed by Jona Bechtolt as a solo project in 2002. Nearly a decade later, YACHT has snowballed to fame, adding Claire Evans and a full band for live performances. I got the pleasure of seeing them live as SnowGlobe 2011 and [...]

Audio Post of the Day! from Illyana Boc  The Blow   |  Parentheses This song is a fun little number for a nice jam in your car or walk around the block.  Jona Bechtolt  used to be a member of this band from 2004 to 2007 but since then has joined/created buzz band  Yacht  (Y△CHT).

YACHT (Young Americans Challenging High Technology) has a new video out today for their song "I Walked Alone" off their release earlier this year, Shangri-La. The video, directed by Youtube sensation Mitchell Davis, features Jona Bechtolt and partner in crime Claire Evans running around in circles in the desert. They finally end up in all white room, ripping guitar solos and arranging real people like they were mannequins. The duo are boisterously energetic, to say the least, but their manic nature perfectly suits the quirky, off beat tone of the tune. The clip is cut up to match the repeating ...

YACHT (Young Americans Challenging High Technology) has a new video out today for their song "I Walked Alone" off their release earlier this year, Shangri-La. The video, directed by Youtube sensation Mitchell Davis, features Jona Bechtolt and partner in crime Claire Evans running around in circles in the desert. They finally end up in all white room, ripping guitar solos and arranging real people like they were mannequins. The duo are boisterously energetic, to say the least, but their manic

Jona Bechtolt y Claire L. Evans mejor conocidos como YACHT están de estreno, ahora nos presentan el video para la [...]

Das US-amerikanische Elektro-Chaos-Duo YACHT veröffentlicht mit "I Walked Alone" ein neues Musikvideo. Der Song stammt aus ihrem im Sommer bei DFA Records veröffentlichten fünften Langspieler " Shangri-La ". Im Video sieht man Jona Bechtolt und Claire L. Evans im Wechselspiel mit einer sich ständig in Rotation befindenden Kamera. Wahlweise in der Wüste oder in klinisch weißer Umgebung. Wer den Musikern bei ihrem Alleingang zusehen möchte, der kann sich das von Regisseur Mitchell Davis inszenierte Video hier anschauen: YACHT - "I Walked Alone" YACHT war seit der Jahrtausendwende das Solo-Projekt des aus Portland stammenden Jona Bechtolt. Erst in Vorbereitung des 2009er Albums "See Mystery ...

(DFA/Inertia) America’s foremost laptop-pop duo consolidates their strengths Here’s the secret about YACHT: they make profoundly facile music, but their irrepressible enthusiasm for it means you can’t help but forgive them. There’s a cultivated naïveté about YACHT mainstay Jona Bechtolt, who was once so daft as to admit to pirating music software in an interview and then personally wade into a heated online debate about the ethics of his actions. Co-vocalist and general foil Claire L. Evans, o ...

By Jennifer Murtha ( FromThePhotoPit.com ) Taking the stage by storm YACHT was the first band we caught at Fun Fun Fun Fest and man did they set the bar high. Starting off as a solo project for Jona Bechtolt, YACHT now also includes Claire L. Evans and a few touring musicians. Evans took the stage in an all-white ensemble bringing a surge of energy that could be felt immediately. The rest of her bandmates followed and we were all in…

Named for a song by Austin punk pioneers the Big Boys, Fun Fun Fun Fest made a big move from cozy Waterloo Park to roomy (and, thanks to an historic drought in Texas, dusty) Auditorium Shores for its sixth edition. That meant bigger name headliners like Passion Pit, Spoon and Slayer, but the same devotion to an indie-friendly mix of rock, punk, metal, hip-hop, and comedy. Here’s 12 Fun, Funner, and Funnest moments from the weekend. See more photos of the fun here, from Slayer to Spank Rock! BEST BREAKOUT SET: Girls Playing perhaps their biggest show ever in ...

Words by James Canham and Tim Boddy Photos by Nick Miners and Tim Boddy With a fairly relaxed Wednesday out of the way, we decided to take a quick stroll (almost) up to the peak of Mount Esja in the day before coming back down again and enjoying a few beers and trying a few Icelandic delicacies (Puffin and Whale are both amazing). After a bit of complaining about how much we ached, we set off to the beautiful church Frikirkjan to see Hauschka. JC: Hauschka Fatcat offshoot 130701’s wunderkind Hauschka started proceedings on the Thursday with a mesmerising ...

Celebrating its fifth anniversary this year, Treasure Island Music Festival once again stole the hearts of many with its boisterous carnival themes, quirky booths, genre-appropriate weekend scheduling, and supremely thought-out set rosters. With each set staggered between the two extremely close stages, it was almost impossible to miss a show, allowing the festival goers to pick and choose which shows to attend or skip and quickly run to the nearest wine/beer booth. Day one focused on hip hop, electronica, and dance-pop genres; a day considered to most as the “wilder” day with chaotic crowds and costume-clad attendees. BEST “GOT ...

Our writers are picking their favourite albums. Here, Andy Capper gets spellbound by a song that breaks his heart If the last album I paid tribute to in the Guardian was the sound of my life running away from a small North West town, then this is the soundtrack to me arriving in London; crashing and banging into as many self-created emotional traumas as I could manage. I'd play this album at home in the wee small hours, coming down off drugs, telling whoever I'd managed to convince to come back to my flat that it was the ...

It’s a little shocking that Earmilk has not featured anything on YACHT before but as a redemption, we have an exclusive interview with this handsome duo Jona Bechtolt and Claire L. Evans.  On a beautiful Sunday evening at the DeKalb Market, YACHT spoke with Earmilk about Portland, triangles, Nirvana, medication and everything else you can [...]

By Ace Ubas YACHT is not merely a band. Rather, the duo of Jona Bechtolt and Claire Evans call YACHT a multimedia project – a project that delves equally into music, video, and performance art. Their concerts can be described using a wide range of adjectives. But one thing it’s not is predictable. With various video projections and different methods of crowd interaction such as question and answer segments, you never know what’s going to happen at their show.…

In carefully coordinated outfits and touting an eternally cool demeanor, YACHT put on the most animated set I’ve seen yet at the Fountain Lawn Stage at Bumbershoot 2011. Keyboardist/vocalsit Jona Bechtolt and the Straight Gaze (YACHT’s backing band) took a good minute to rev up the crowd. With flair, clad in an oddly flattering, bloomers-inspired [...]