Red Bull Music Academy has put together a fantastic mini-documentary about iconic New York indie label DFA. Running about twelve minutes long and narrated by Marc Maron, the pieces features music and appearances from James Murphy, LCD Soundsystem, The Rapture, [...]
We went back to Terminal 5 last night for our second last night of CMJ in New York to catch Portland art-poppers YACHT opening for Australian electro-duo The Presets. We’ve seen YACHT quite a few times, including a most amazing [...]
October 20, 2012
CMJ, Live Music, Music
YACHT are constantly exciting us with interesting projects and new music and we’re loving this slightly unexpected cover of Velvet Underground’s “I’ll Be Your Mirror” with Nico, which is basic, but modern in it’s depiction of the songs mood. [...]
Team YACHT are back with a cover of one of their longtime favourite artists Brigitte Fontaine’s 1969 track “Le Goudron” to kick start their upcoming European and US tour. [...]
YACHT’s latest video for “Shangri-La” was shot entirely in L.A. with a crew of YACHT fans dressed entirely in white, often in the shape of a triangle. [...]
Gaining steam off their very latest album release Shangri-La, YACHT visited NPR’s offices to be featured on the Tiny Desk Concert series. [...]
We’re loving looping YACHT’s latest album Shangri-La and they’ve just released this dual video for “Utopia” and “Dystopia (The Earth is on Fire)” weighing in at just over seven minutes long. [...]
We’ve been talking about YACHT‘s new album Shangri-La for months and until now all we’ve had to go on is the first single “Dystopia (The Earth Is on Fire)” in addition to a couple of awesome live performances by the band [...]
Portland’s YACHT put on one of the best sets at Coachella this year by far. After seeing them some two years ago in Toronto at Wrongbar we were excited to check out their new tracks live including the heavy hitting [...]
April 21, 2011
Live Music, Music
We’ve been waiting for this day since team YACHT‘s release See Mystery Lights dazzled our electro-loving minds back in 2009 and now we’re circling June 21st on our calendars for their latest release Shangri-La dropping via DFA Records. [...]
After we heard Portland’s YACHT would be back in Toronto again after their epic show at Wrongbar last year around this time, we jumped thinking they’d have some new tunes following 2009′s See Mystery Lights and here it is. [...]
So we kinda hit the snooze button on this edition of Vice’s League of Two documentary series that covered Portland’s electro-pop group YACHT a few weeks back, but we thought we’d share it with you anyway because it’s pretty neat. [...]
This year we had the pleasure of seeing some of our most favourite albums performed live across Canada and the US at some of our favourite venues. There’s nothing quite as hard hitting as great performance and from Toronto to [...]
January 1, 2011
Live Music, Music
YACHT is incredible! A couple of weeks ago Sidewalk Hustle had the opportunity to see the genre-bending band from Portland and boy was it ever a show! Front-man Jona Bechtolt has a charisma and audience captivating presence that demands your [...]
via Pitchfork Electronic pop group YACHT are set to begin their domination of North America, as they start to tour their 2009 album, and Sidewalk Hustle’s number two album of 2009, See Mystery Lights in the coming months. For their [...]