Claire L. Evans
Evans is an American singer, writer and artist based in Los Angeles, California. She is the lead singer of the pop duo YACHT. Evans joined YACHT in 2008 after sharing a "mystical experience" with collaborator Jona Bechtolt and has recorded four albums, namely See Mystery Lights, Shangri-La, I Thought the Future Would Be Cooler, and Chain Tripping with Bechtolt. She also appeared as a guest on YACHT's third album I Believe in You.
Claire L. Evans
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- Name
- Claire L.
- Born
- 1984
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- essayist · composer · singer · reporter
- Fields
- indie rock · electronic
- Languages
- English
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Evans is an American singer, writer and artist based in Los Angeles, California. She is the lead singer of the pop duo YACHT. Evans joined YACHT in 2008 after sharing a "mystical experience" with collaborator Jona Bechtolt and has recorded four albums, namely See Mystery Lights, Shangri-La, I Thought the Future Would Be Cooler, and Chain Tripping with Bechtolt. She also appeared as a guest on YACHT's third album I Believe in You.
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Your Magic Is Real. Known for her androgynous onstage persona as a performer, she has been called a "neo-Annie Lennox" by The New York Times. NPR music journalist Bob Boilen has referred to her as "one of the most striking performers I've seen in a rock band". In addition, Evans is a journalist and author of Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet. She also writes for Vice, The Guardian, Wired and Aeon. In August 2013, she became the editor-in-chief of OMNI Reboot, a new online version of the science magazine OMNI. She is the former Futures Editor of Motherboard, Vices technology and science website. She profiled former hacker Susan Headley in The Verge in 2022; as of 2024, a film based on the profile was in development. Evans is a member of the feminist collective Deep Lab. She is the creator of the app 5 Every Day. She is also the writer for her first game, Blippo+, released in 2025.
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• Name — Claire L. Evans • Origin — Portland, Oregon, United States • Genre — Indie rock, electropop, dance-pop • Years Active — 2008–present • Label — DFA, States Rights, Marriage • Website — https: clairelevans.com/
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• High Frontiers, Publication Studio, 2013. • Broad Band, Penguin Random House, 2018. • Terraform: Watch/Worlds/Burn, MCD x FSG Originals, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2022.
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- 1.Spiridakis, Elizabeth. The Insider - Yacht's Claire Evans. tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. 15 October 2009.
- 2.Mother Jones. Sent from Space: YACHT's Claire Evans.
- 3.Boilen, Bob. YACHT: Tiny Desk Concert. NPR. 2011-06-22.
- 4.Addie Wagenknecht. How Claire Evans Is Writing Women Back Into The Internet. Forbes. March 5, 2018.
- 5.Scienceblogs.com. Universe - Always Expanding. 2013-02-15.
- 6.Evans, Claire L. The Best Science Writing Online 2012 – Universe. Scienceblogs.com. 2012-09-20.
- 7.Robertson, Adi. Omni, reboot: an iconic sci-fi magazine goes back to the future. The Verge. 2013-08-08.
- 8.Chiotakis, Steve. Phone 'phreakers' in 1980s LA: Digging up the forgotten era. KCRW. 2022-02-17.
- 9.Phillips, Michael. Chicagoan of the Year in Film: Screenwriter and director Minhal Baig has been finding new stories to tell. Chicago Tribune. 2023-12-20.
- 10.Kit, Borys. Lindsey Anderson Beer and Her Lab Brew Banner Re-Up at Paramount (Exclusive). The Hollywood Reporter. 2024-04-22.
- 11.i-d Vice. exploring feminist hacktivism with deep lab. i-d.vice.com. 20 July 2015.
- 12.French, Agatha. Claire L. Evans created an app, leads the band Yacht and now has written a book about female tech pioneers. Los Angeles Times. 23 March 2018.
- 13.Ange, Maddie. We Talked to YACHT To Try and Understand 'Blippo+'. This Week in Videogames. 26 September 2025.
- 14.High Frontiers. Publication Studio.
- 15.Science's Invisible Women. The New York Times. 2018-03-19.
- 16.Evans, Claire L. BROAD BAND. Kirkus Reviews.
- 17.Merchant, Brian. Terraform. MCD x FSG Originals, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York. 2022. 9780374602666.
- 18.Clark, M.L. Terraform: Watch/Worlds/Burn, edited by Brian Merchant and Claire L. Evans. Strange Horizons. 16 January 2023.
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