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Plus: Drive-By Truckers, David Crosby, Graham Nash, Squarepusher, Ben Watt, Red Death/Enforced, and more.

Listen to new songs by Bat For Lashes, My Morning Jacket, Icona Pop, Pabllo Vittar/Charli XCX, Jidenna, Big Sean, Clairo, The Highwomen, Let’s Eat Grandma, YACHT, and more.

For YACHT’s new album, they’re experimenting with open-source Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning tools as part of the songwriting process, drawing on YACHT’s 82-song back catalog as source material for the programs.

YACHT are also working on a new album and accompanying documentary, and singer Claire Evans has a new ”feminist history of the internet” book coming out in March.

YACHT have also been busy with the restoration of The Triforium, the largest musical instrument in the world.

For most of the 2000s, Portland/San Francisco-based musician Katy Davidson led the lo-fi project Dear Nora. She revived the moniker this year to reissue Mountain Rock on Owen Ashworth’s Orindal Records and tour the West Coast. Now she’s finally coming East…

The 2016 edition of Moogfest went down in Durham, NC, last weekend, right before what would have been Bob Moog’s 82nd birthday.

“There’s no justifying it. We clearly didn’t get it then. We get it now.”

YACHT‘s supposed sex tape leak, and subsequent selling of the tape themselves, was in fact (in our own words), a “high-concept promo hoax”

UPDATE: Not surprisingly, the sex tape is in fact now a confirmed hoax. YACHT‘s Jona Bechtolt and Claire Evans are claiming a sex tape they made has leaked. Jona posted on YACHT’s Facebook earlier today: Claire and I — who have been romantic and artistic partners since 2006 — made a “sex tape.” It was […]