YACHT—Young Americans Challenging High Technology—is a post-pop trio based in Los Angeles. They are neither young nor all American. 

YACHT are new wave radio rejects; perpetual outsiders; canny observers; dreamer-prophets who average seven years ahead of their time. Founded in 2002 in the Pacific Northwest DIY scene, they’ve since released seven full-length albums and dozens of singles and EPs, always supplementing their releases with multimedia projects and high-concept experiments. 

An unplayable compact disc, a philosophical handbook, an eyewear collection, a fragrance, an app, a 62-foot video installation: their ambition to make exceptional things is voracious, playful, and limitless. For YACHT, music is a world and everyone is invited. 

YACHT’s seventh album, Chain Tripping, which was composed in collaboration with Artificial Intelligence, was nominated for a GRAMMY Award for Best Immersive Audio Album in 2020. A feature documentary about YACHT’s work with AI, The Computer Accent, was released in 2024. New Release is the first studio album from YACHT in five years. Recorded at their home in Los Angeles, the album is a slice of sly post-pop, playfully occupying a parallel timeline somewhere between 1983 and infinity.

Squawkin' Good Tunes is a new music blog run by McSquawk, host of the Squawkin' Good Radio show on 90.1 WRUV FM Burlington (formerly known as Flight of the Squawkatiel). Through this site, I share my favorite new musical discoveries with you as well as some of my favorite underrated older artists.

You can listen to Squawkin' Good Radio on WRUV from 8-10 pm on Wednesdays. You can listen live at http://wruv.org/wruv128.m3u or stream the most recent show at http://wruv.org/schedule/wednesday

If you are an artist and you would like your music featured on my blog or on my radio show, just follow this Soundcloud profile and if I like your music, I may play it on my show and/or post it in on my site! I mostly play indie/alternative rock/pop and a little bit of electronic music but am open to anything that sounds good.

Also: I'm always looking for new artists or channels to follow on Soundcloud, but if you blow up my stream with obnoxious trap songs or any other type of super bro-y EDM, you will get unfollowed just like that, FYI.

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