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Claire L. Evans

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Claire L. Evans
Evans in 2019
Evans in 2019
Background information
OriginPortland, Oregon, United States
GenresIndie rock, electropop, dance-pop
Years active2008–present
LabelsDFA, States Rights, Marriage
Websiteclairelevans.com

Claire L. Evans is an American singer, writer and artist based in Los Angeles, California. She is the lead singer of the pop duo YACHT.[1]

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.[2] She also appeared as a guest on YACHT's third album I Believe in You. 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.[1] NPR music journalist Bob Boilen has referred to her as "one of the most striking performers I've seen in a rock band".[3]

In addition, Evans is a journalist and author of Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet.[4] With a popular science and culture blog titled Universe, hosted by National Geographic's Scienceblogs network,[5] her essay for Universe "Moon Art: Fallen Astronaut" was anthologized in The Best Science Writing Online 2012.[6] 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.[7] She is the former Futures Editor of Motherboard, Vice's technology and science website.

She is a member of the feminist collective Deep Lab.[8] She is the creator of the App 5 Every Day.[9]

Works

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  • Broad Band, Penguin Random House, 2018. ISBN 9780735211759 [9][10][11]
  • Terraform: Watch/Worlds/Burn, MCD x FSG Originals, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2022. ISBN 9780374602666 [12][13]

References

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  1. ^ a b Spiridakis, Elizabeth (15 October 2009). "The Insider - Yacht's Claire Evans". tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. Retrieved 27 June 2016.
  2. ^ "Sent from Space: YACHT's Claire Evans". Mother Jones. Retrieved 2013-12-19.
  3. ^ Boilen, Bob (2011-06-22). "YACHT: Tiny Desk Concert". NPR. Retrieved 2013-12-19.
  4. ^ Addie Wagenknecht. (March 5, 2018). "How Claire Evans Is Writing Women Back Into The Internet". Forbes. Retrieved July 18, 2018.
  5. ^ "Universe - Always Expanding". Scienceblogs.com. 2013-02-15. Retrieved 2013-12-19.
  6. ^ Evans, Claire L. (2012-09-20). "The Best Science Writing Online 2012 – Universe". Scienceblogs.com. Retrieved 2013-12-19.
  7. ^ Robertson, Adi (2013-08-08). "Omni, reboot: an iconic sci-fi magazine goes back to the future". The Verge. Retrieved 2013-12-19.
  8. ^ Wendy Syfret (20 July 2015). "exploring feminist hacktivism with deep lab". i-d.vice.com. i-d Vice. Archived from the original on 26 July 2017. Retrieved 27 June 2016.
  9. ^ a b French, Agatha (23 March 2018). "Claire L. Evans created an app, leads the band Yacht and now has written a book about female tech pioneers". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  10. ^ "Science's Invisible Women". The New York Times. 2018-03-19. Retrieved 2020-04-04.
  11. ^ Evans, Claire L.; Cart, Lee E. "BROAD BAND". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 2020-04-04.
  12. ^ Merchant, Brian; Evans, Claire (2022). Terraform. New York: MCD x FSG Originals, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York. ISBN 9780374602666.
  13. ^ Clark, M.L. (16 January 2023). "Terraform: Watch/Worlds/Burn, edited by Brian Merchant and Claire L. Evans". Strange Horizons. Retrieved 22 September 2023.
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