Echoing Slate's out-of-date Portland exposé from this past fall, MTV's followed the momentum of their Brooklyn 2008 piece with a feature on PDX. What we learn: There are a lot of bands who live there, it's still relatively cheap, it... CONTINUE READING MTV LETS US KNOW PORTLAND HAS BANDS, BASEMENTS, RAIN, TREES»
Posted on July 16, 2008 in (44 comments)
Tags: Colin Meloy | Eat Skull | M. Ward | Menomena | The Decemberists | The Gossip | The Thermals | Valet | White Rainbow | YACHT
In addition to shooting a ton of performances in Austin last week, we subjected many of our favorite acts to Texas music trivia. You saw part one. In this follow-up, we test the smarts of Islands, My Brightest Diamond, Peter... CONTINUE READING STEREOGUM'S TEXAS MUSIC TRIVIA - ROUND 2»
Posted on March 19, 2008 in (1 comments)
Tags: Born Ruffians | Colour Revolt | Islands | My Brightest Diamond | Pattern Is Movement | Peter Morén | Rogue Wave | SXSW | The Big Sleep | The Cribs | The Ringers | YACHT
The people of Austin are nice enough to welcome thousands (and thousands) of vagabond music fans into their city for a few days each year, so we decided to pay their stomping ground homage with a friendly game of Texas... CONTINUE READING SXSW: STEREOGUM'S TEXAS MUSIC TRIVIA - ROUND 1»
Posted on March 16, 2008 in (6 comments)
Tags: Colour Revolt | My Brightest Diamond | Simian Mobile Disco | SXSW | The Ringers | Wye Oak | YACHT
At the Macworld keynote, Steve Jobs pulled Air out of a manila envelope, and now the folks at Engadget are giving props to the "quick-thinking duo" Jona Bechtolt and Claire L. Evans, who designed AirMail, a replica case made of "durable upholstery-grade vinyl and lined with fuzzy, soft fleece." Handmade, apparently. "Oh, if only we were this clever," say the Engadgeteers. But no mention that when he's not busy becoming a tech-blog darling, Bechtolt's busy being a music-blog darling as YACHT. No surprise the laptop-beat pop man's got a crush on computers, but now we finally realize why Bechtolt left the Blow; dude had to focus on his career capitalizing on Apple fever. Only $29.95! See a penny, pick it up.
Posted on January 17, 2008 (3 comments)
Giving us something better than a penny to pick up, the always kind Portland beat-tweaker Jona Bechtolt's posted a bunch of free YACHT and Blow instrumentals over at his site with the following note:I just made instrumentals of YACHT and... CONTINUE READING FREE YACHT & BLOW INSTRUMENTALS»
Posted on December 21, 2007 in , (1 comments)
Tags: The Blow | YACHT
AiH and YACHT are known to dip into each other's troughs: they're tourmates; YACHT was one of the many (many, many) tapped to rework Architecture's killer "Heart It Races"; and we're pretty sure they both like rainbows and stars (just... CONTINUE READING NEW YACHT - "SEE A PENNY (ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI REMIX)"»
Posted on June 21, 2007 in (5 comments)
Tags: Architecture In Helsinki | YACHT
With no consensus pick emerging from our call for your top summer jamz, YACHT steps up to the plate with an unsubtly-titled track aiming for your poolside playlists. Says Jona:I heard someone saying that there wasn't a definitive summer banger... CONTINUE READING MORE SONGS FOR THE SUMMER FROM YACHT, IMMACULATE MACHINE»
Posted on June 6, 2007 in (6 comments)
Tags: Immaculate Machine | YACHT
Stereogum Puppet Show DJ Jona Bechtolt (a.k.a. YACHT, one-half of the Blow) entrusted the directorial direction of his first clip from I Believe In You. Your Magic Is Real. to Matt McCormick, he of the Shins' balloon-liberating "Australia" vid. In... CONTINUE READING NEW YACHT VIDEO - "SEE A PENNY (PICK IT UP)"»
Posted on May 7, 2007 in (9 comments)
Tags: YACHT
A couple of our favorite artists are rolling out high-concept vids for their blog-sweeping tracks and were good enough to pass along some still shots from the "sets," as it were. Doubt you'll argue that Jona in a penny suit... CONTINUE READING ON LOCATION WITH YACHT, ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI»
Posted on April 12, 2007 (2 comments)
Tags: Architecture In Helsinki | YACHT
The Blow beatsmith and Live 'Gum alum YACHT (a/k/a Jona Bechtolt) has made the first single available from his forthcoming, third solo effort, enchantingly titled I Believe In You. Your Magic Is Real. Things will be different for YACHT this... CONTINUE READING NEW YACHT - "SEE A PENNY (PICK IT UP)"»
Posted on March 26, 2007 in , (5 comments)
Tags: YACHT
Here's a clip from a cool project from The Blow beatsmith and Stereogum Puppet Show DJ, YACHT. This track comprises samples Nirvana and ONLY Nirvana, right down to the fractured shards of drum. The track comes from a split 12"... CONTINUE READING NEW YACHT VIDEO - "HEALTHY STUDENT"»
Posted on March 13, 2007 in (6 comments)
Tags: New Violators | YACHT
Those of you making your way down to SXSW this year probably already have fairly full day and night dance cards, but consider this your formal invite to join us as we welcome back the Meat Puppets! This year... CONTINUE READING THE STEREOGUM PUPPET SHOW - AUSTIN, TX 3/14/07»
Posted on March 6, 2007 in (10 comments)
Tags: Lo-Fi-Fnk | Meat Puppets | New Violators | SXSW | YACHT
