Right before I Believe In You came out last year, I got an email from Jonathan Galkin of DFA Records asking me if I wanted to go on tour with LCD Soundsystem. The tour started two days from that phone call, because the schedu...

read more... ]]> Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:04:51 -0400 http://virb.com/yacht/blog/865994 Pretty good doormat in Oslo. Photo by Claire.

We have disgraced our country, we have spat in the face of our still-prized independence and fled our homeland right when it had needed us most. No, we did not celebrate, we did not fire off the decorative explosives we love ...

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Still bloggin' after all these years. Let's start here:

We were in Europe in the spring and then back in Portland for the very beginning of the summer for a string of shows for kids in scho...

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We have 5 days off in France starting today, so I promise we'll let you in on all things YACHT that have happened over the past month or so very soon. I think about you every day de...

read more... ]]> Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:36:29 -0400 http://virb.com/yacht/blog/754833 Giant Steve Schroeder at the Dissonanze Festival in Rome via Lukey Dargon's Flickr.

and here it is in Helsinki, Finland:

From now on On Tour Forever will be written as "O.T.F." in the titles of these posts, OK? Also, I'm going to be a better and more consistent blog...

read more... ]]> Mon, 19 May 2008 05:06:26 -0400 http://virb.com/yacht/blog/668419

DISCLAIMER: I think I'm the only person that posts incomplete blog entries, then goes back later on and finishes them. This is weird, I'm sorry! I'm also putting together a video. I am, however, making a 90 second video every single day on ...

read more... ]]> Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:12:00 -0400 http://virb.com/yacht/blog/569362

It's been months. Since we last spoke, Claire and I drove down the west coast of the United States and made our first stop in Los Angeles about 16 hours after leaving Portland (e...

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I download music. I download a lot of music. I don't purchase music often, so I completely and totally understand when kids come up to me at shows and look me straight in the eye and tell me they're not going to buy my record tonight because they've alr...

read more... ]]> Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:49:00 -0500 http://virb.com/yacht/blog/420452 Photo: After the party in London. Taken by Ben Roberts.

It's all over, clap, clap, clap-clap-clap!

Sort of. Two concerts in the near-future you should know about:

Friday, November 30th, 2007- Portland, OR @ Backspace (115 NW 5th Street)
8pm, All-Ages, FREE! (with The T...

read more... ]]> Mon, 26 Nov 2007 19:14:00 -0500 http://virb.com/yacht/blog/382637

Goodbye my oldest friend. I love and miss you. Whiskers on Flickr. Check out her profile on Catster (I forgot I made this).

Please join me in a minute of silence:

Whiskers Bec...

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