May 15, 2009

Audio: YACHT, “Waste of Time” (Fabulous Stains cover)

We are kind of, how you say, obsessed with the movie Ladies and Gentlemen the Fabulous Stains, which chronicled an all-girl teen punk band trying to do something authentic and worthwhile. We saw it on late night TV when we were wee and it stuck with us as we drowned ourselves in Bikini Kill 7″s and proto-blog fanzines. When it got reissued on DVD last year we wrote about it in our magazine, we have posters of the star, a Nina Hagen’d-out Diane Lane, hanging all over our office. We also love YACHT, the mystical Cascadian duo whose new record comes out this July on DFA, and we extra extra love them for covering this Fabulous Stains track so apathetically and therefore perfectly. It’s from their “Don’t Put Out” 7″, which is a reference to the film’s most memorable line, a diatribe Lane delivers from the stage: “I’m perfect, but nobody in this shithole gets me cause I don’t put out!”

Audio: YACHT, “Waste of Time”

Apr 20, 2009

Exclusive Freeload: Glasser, “Learn” (YACHT Remix) + More Glasser

Glasser is a young Californian who has been able to record via Garage Band for a year before now releasing her first 12-inch of bluesy dream pop on True Panther. “Apply” is a gritty number peppered with taught-skinned hand drums overlaid with her mystic coo. “Glad” is more sultry, woozy strings and stuttered maraca. And “Learn,” remixed by YACHT (and here exclusively) lifts Glasser’s lithe voice and sets it simple over a shoulder-shaking bass line. She’s a shapeshifter and a thoroughbred.



Download: Glasser, “Learn” (YACHT Remix)



Download: “Glasser, “Apply”



Download: Glasser, “Glad”

Aug 19, 2008

Flame War: Dan Really Likes Tapeheads

An intensely informative response from reader Dan to our posting of the new YACHT video:

Are you fucking kidding me? A Gus Van Sant-like shot for shot remake of the scene from Tapeheads where eager-to-please Jon Cusack and Tim Robbins shoot a video “on spec” for Don Cornelius of Soul Train (as music mogul Mo Fuzz)? The song in the original was a ridiculous piece of new wave by Devo called “Baby Doll,” performed by Duran Duranish band called “Cube Squared.”

Amazing tribute to an overlooked film that included cameos by Doug E. Fresh, Jello Biafra, Weird Al, Sam Moore (of Sam & Dave), Junior Walker and Fishbone. Also, I think it was produced by Mike Nesmith of the Monkees. Go 80’s!

Dan

Thanks Dan!

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Aug 19, 2008

Video: YACHT, “Summer Song”

It’s officially official: FADER faves YACHT, aka the electro twerky dude and dudette most likely to jump on your couch during a live performance, have teamed up with DFA for this interminable new disco single featuring cowbell, handclaps, and a fairly bananas electronic drum fill that lasts about thirty-two and a half seconds. Furthermore, the video includes wily dancing, paint and a special surprise ending. It is also a subtle topography of YACHT’s hometown of Portland, OR. Shot, we believe, in the infamous Oak Street Warehouse, where Jona Bechtolt once lived, it features Marriage Records’ president Curtis Knapp (as the teary eyed executive) and K. Mikey Merrill (as the moustachio’d pitcher), a Portland business luminary who created the community Urban Honking and um, hosts a certain FADER executive editor’s personal blog. No, Claire YACHT did not borrow our jumpsuit for costuming, but if we ever see her in the street we are going to ask her if we can borrow-slash-have it. Additionally, Jona looks remarkably like “Naive Melody”-era David Byrne. This video encompasses everything we love about YACHT’s music: endless energy, unremitting rhythms, subtle quirky humor, unintelligible lyrics (jk!), shouting and, of course, antics.

Aug 8, 2008

Freeload: YACHT Remixes Stereolab And Ratatat

You know what sucks about blogs? They don’t let you post yourself to another place. Take Jona Bechtolt aka YACHT, for instance. He is probably the most visionary blogger we know (dude was jamming out Flickr videos before we’d discovered you could mute a YouTube player) and keeps us constantly updated on he and Claire’s whereabouts and shenanigans, but he has yet to figure out how to meet us for coffee every morning like we want him to. And we tried to upload ourselves to Oregon where Jona is putting on the Catch That Beat Micro-festival tomorrow but ended up just getting a firewire lodged uncomfortably somewhere that we don’t want to talk about. So what to do? Just Keep Livin’, we guess. And that livin’ will be much easier since Jona sent us these brand new remixes of the ‘Tat’s “Mirando” and Stereolab’s “Self-Portrait With ‘Electric Brain’”, two great songs that he has now made better. Also according to Jona, YACHT has “a special announcement and release coming in a little bit (08/18/08), and some UK club and festival dates we’re doing at the end of the month. England. More here.” So, whether in Oregon or England, enjoy your face time with YACHT. We will sit here and vlog our loneliness.



Download: Stereolab, “Self-Portrait With ‘Electric Mind’ (YACHT Remix)”



Download: Ratatat, “Mirando (YACHT Remix)”

Apr 17, 2008

Rooftops: YACHT Jammed One

Last night we hung on the Maritime Hotel roof and ate lamb right off the bone and shrimp right off the stick. We were the first people to try Bud Light Lime, and we totally tried it (responsibly) while we jammed it out with Holy Ghost!, Drop The Lime, and YACHT. Dudes, we were on a roof in New York in the spring eating food and drinking a new beer and hanging with some awesome music guys. How could we go wrong? YACHT went on to Studio B afterward but we did not. Feel free to tell us how it went because normally we would do something like that.

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Apr 16, 2008

NYC: Two Yachts, One Bud

TONIGHT! Portland party-poppers Yacht, who used to be one dude but binary-fissioned into one dude and one girl, is playing TONIGHT at Studio B with Parts + Labor. But earlier, we were talking to our Beer, and it told us the conjoined duo was actually playing a secret show RIGHT NOW on the west side, and that if you wanted to go see them (and DJs Holy Ghost and Drop the Lime), you could email contests@thefader.com ASAP, because it is happening RIGHT NOW, and Yacht don’t take no shorts.

Mar 13, 2008

Levi’s®/FADER Fort Video: YACHT

Recently overheard from the mouth of some dude wandering the labyrinthine halls of the Levi’s®/FADER Fort: “I tried to interview YACHT, but I hit a wall because I’ve been drinking Sparks!” True, both libations and Q&A opportunities are flowing here in Austin, but YACHT’s day-ending set reminded us what this shit is really about: WILD DANCE MOVES. Jona and Claire got loose onstage with some jazzercize contortions, some mic-twirling, some epileptic floor-humping, even a little voguing. “You can live any way you want!” they shouted into the Texas twilight - good advice for the rest of the week and the rest of our lives.

Feb 22, 2008

BREAKING! YACHT Done Moved Himself To Texas

Forget No Country and that movie about milkshakes, this is the real story of power, greed and dirt in the American Southwest. Also, Marfa has the best radio station, and if you’re driving I-10 from El Paso to San Antonio you can totally pick it up. Or you can just listen here and pretend you’re playing dress-up with Jona and Claire.

Jan 18, 2008

AirMail: Someone Other Than Jobs Is About To Cake Up

The FADER has long supported Portland wunderkinds Jona Bechtolt and Claire Evans whenever their muses strike, be it awesome music or killer writings, but their latest idea is probably going to make them rich and famous and therefore out of our league. After watching Steve Jobs’ keynote at MacWorld, in which he introduced the crazily slim MacBook Air, the duo created an upholstery-grade vinyl, fleece-lined carrying case for it that looks exactly like the manila folder from the Air’s commercial. So, after you nerds order your Air, go get your AirMail for another measly 30 bones.

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