YACHT is kind of a band, but it's mostly a genre-and-media-spanning life project founded and led by Jona Bechtolt of the Northwest of America's very own Portland, Oregon. Bechtolt (and new member Claire L. Evans) make anthemic OCD power
jams, soak them in holy water and rewrite them into new mantras. In 2007 alone, YACHT played more than 200 shows in 17 countries around the world, chasing album releases in North America, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and China, and touring with such luminaries as LCD Soundsystem, Architecture in Helsinki, and High Places. From lunchtime shows in middle schools, to stuffy rock clubs, to festivals around the world, to New York City's The Kitchen, to the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, to a commissioned large-scale performance at Paris' Centre Georges Pompidou, YACHT will play anywhere to unforgiving assholes and evangelical followers alike.