YETI SIX out now!

On the CD: Rare & unreleased tracks from: the Clean/the Great Unwashed (plus covers of Clean/ G.U. songs by Times New Viking & Crystal Stilts) * Megapuss (debut of Devendra Banhart's new band) * Sun City Girls * Frankie Rose's awesome noisy demo of the Vivian Girls' "Where Do You Run To") * Mingering Mike * Cause Co-Motion! * Eat Skull * Brothers Unconnected (Richard + Alan Bishop) * Collections of Colonies of Bees * Blank Dogs * Sad Horse * Dixon Brothers * Ilyas Ahmed * E*Rock & Mat Brinkman * Grass Widow * Way of the Ancients (Thom Bullock from Rub 'n' Tug doing a lengthy tribute to "Set Your Controls for the Heart of the Sun"!) & a few more.  

Inside the book: * SIC ALPS + EAT SKULL interview each other * THE CLEAN: career-spanning interview with legendary NZ pop band * VIVIAN GIRLS interviewed by Rob Simonsen * MUGSHOTS FROM 1920s AUSTRALIA: selected and introduced by archivist/author Peter Doyle * SUN CITY GIRLS: Lengthy, archival oral history (one of the very few times that the late, great Charles Gocher ever talked to a reporter) * TIM LAWRENCE on the neglected role of disco in NYC's '70s Downtown scene. * THOM BULLOCK: Andy Beta's hilarious & enthused interview with the roots-disco DJ, formerly of ARE Weapons and a dozen other groups * MINGERING MIKE: Eric Isaacson pays tribute to the self-taught visual artist about his newly unearthed a capella recordings * LUC SANTE: Folk Photography (incredible portfolio of hand-made postcards from the 1920s) * DAVID FAIR's paper-cut artwork * More!

YETI FIVE

featuring musical contributions from and/or interviews with: Jeff Mangum (who not only contributes visual art but also supplies us with 4 of his favorite, never anthologized sides from old 78s for the CD), Iron & Wine, Akron/Family, Will Oldham, Dean and Britta (covering Galaxie 500 on the CD), Deerhoof, D+, Mt. Eerie, Anglin Brothers, A Hawk and a Hacksaw, the Spiritualaires, Cooper Moore, and more. Also: Awesome travel journals from the Western Sahara by Sublime Frequencies co-founder Hisham Mayet; Erik Davis on P.G. Six; Mike McGonigal going off about Blind Willie Johnson's "Dark Was the Night, Cold was the Ground"; Scott Seward on "the marriage made in hell between folk music, dead cultures, myth & highly technical modern extreme metal"; drawings by German Surrealist Unica Zürn; an excerpt from Meredith Brosnan's new novel; an interview with Nicola Bowery about iconoclastic '80s fashion icon Leigh Bowery; fiction by Kevin Sampsell; dirty AIM conversations courtesy of BloodNinja; visual art from the likes of Saul Chernick, Kevin Arrow and Kyle Field (from Little Wings) -- we're psyched about this one!

YETI FOUR

On the CD: rare and unreleased tracks from DESTROYER, OKKERVIL RIVER, THE BLOW, CALIFONE, MICHAEL HURLEY with TARA JANE O'NEIL, KATHARINA TUNICATA, RADIO FOUR, BOBBY BIRDMAN, BRIGHT, ALELA DIANE, DOLPHIN BAND, GHOSTING, FAUNA POLLY, SOMOS MARQUIS HOMOS, GERHARD TREDE AND HIS ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENTS, ROB WALMART, WE MARCH, THE GOLDEN BEARS, WE/OR/ME, THE PLANTS, PAGE FRANCE, FLY ASHTRAY, SOULED AMERICAN, REVEREND E. W. CLAYBORN, VALET, THEO ANGELL.

Inside the book: Indepth, archival interview fscifi author OCTAVIA BUTLER, brutally honest tour diary by Will Sheff, the OKKERVIL RIVER guy, DREW DANIEL of Matmos tell us "How To Sing Along to 'Sweet Home Alabama', Crime writer/historian PETER DOYLE unearths archival crime-scene photos from Australia, Dan Bejar of DESTROYER is interviewed by his eight-year-old mini-me, the legacy of street-corner gospel-blues great REV. LOUIS OVERSTREET, Psychedelic painter FRED TOMASELLI talks in-depth about his art and his punk/ fanzine beginnings, MEREDITH BROSNAN goes off about the ABC NO RIO open-mic scene in NYC in the mid'80s. Interviews with SAM LIPSYTE, TODD BARRY, SOULED AMERICAN, PETER LAMBORN WILSON, and THE BLOW. Fiction by STACEY LEVINE, VANESSA VESELKA, and JANA MARTIN.

YETI THREE

On the CD: rare and unreleased tracks from JOLIE HOLLAND, DEVENDRA BANHART (demo versions of "Oh Me Oh MY The Way The Day Goes By," "The Daughter Of A Man Was Mammalian And Oh So Well Brested," and "Todos Los Dolores LLa Se Van"), POSTAL SERVICE ("Recycled Air" live radio version), COLIN MELOY ("Everyday Is Like Sunday" live), MAD SCENE, THE LIGHTS, I, ROWBOAT (FRUIT BATS) , DAN MELCHIOR & THE BROKE REVUE, KRMTX, HENRY FLYNT, IRON AND WINE, TIMESBOLD, STEFFAN BASHO-JUNGHANS, HALEY BONAR, WORLD, DREAM LOVERS, DEAD SCIENCE, THE APES, BIRDBRAIN, BLUES GOBLINS, NOV. 16, IAN NAGOSKI, WASHINGTON PHILLIPS, TERRIFIED KID.

Inside the book: Unpublished William Burroughs interview, R.J. Smith on "The Unknown Writer of Central Avenue", photoletters by Michael Galinsky, Erik Davis on "The Alchemy of Trash", photographs by Charles Peterson, BloodNinja, Henry Flynt, “The Apes Guide to the Apes.” Interviews with Devendra Banhart, Neko Case, Naomi Yang, Eileen Myles. Art by Jason Miles, Carson Ellis, Gregg Einhorn. And more . . .

YETI TWO

On the CD: Steffen Basho-Junghans, the Shins, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Death Cab for Cutie, Califone, White Hassle, Pell Mell, Iron & Wine, Six Organs of Admittance, Takagi Masakatsu, Kill Me Tomorrow, Birdbrain, Carissa’s Wierd, The Scene Is Now, Black Lipstick, Ben Schot, and more. (this is a limited-edition reprint of the original edition)

In the book: Alfred Jarry, Laura Cantrell, Aceyalone, Luc Sante (“The Birth of the Blues”), Richard Thompson, Trinie Dalton, Steffen Basho-Junghans, Amy Gerstler (poems plus interview), Rachel Kushner, Brian Chippendale, Ben Katchor, Marcellus Hall.

(This is a photo reprint of the original edition, which had a red cover and is long gone.)

YETI ONE

On the CD: Iron & Wine (debut recording), Elliott Smith, Nobukazu Takemura, Harry Smith (debut release of his “field recordings”), Califone, Stereolab, L’Altra, Träd Gräs Och Stenar, Screamers, Turn On, Mice Parade, and more.

In the book: Harry Smith, Terry Riley, James Brown’s Original Funky Divas, Alan Greenberg, Califone, Destroy All Monsters, Träd Gräs Och Stenar, Brad Johnson, Pita, Fennesz & Bauer, Robert Walser, Tae Won Yu (photographs), Jana Martin, “A Lo-Fi Metal Primer,” Alphonse Allais, “Downtown 81,” James Kochalka.

(We're down to our last box of this one . . .)

HALLELUWAH LP

This compilation album was made for the "Halleluwah" arts fest held in Portland, OR on Labor Day, 2006, and includes unreleased music by Deerhoof, Michael Hurley, Tara Jane ONeil, Sir Richard Bishop, Alela Diane, Yacht, and others; all tracks are exclusive with the exception of a Vashti Bunyan song. See http://www.myspace.com/halleluwahfestival for full track listing and to hear some of the songs. The LP sounds awesome, has a stunning heavy plastic cover, and the pressing was limited to 600 copies. We have fewer than 50 copies left.

YETI 4 T-SHIRT

T-shirt featuring Julianne Bright's artwork for the cover of Yeti 4 in gold and white on a black shirt. Printed by Seattle's Clone Press on 100 % cotton shirts (Fruit of the Loom for men, Bella 6000 for the women).

Unfortunately, the only sizes we have left now are: M for men's style; S and M for women's style.
Please use the notes section in Paypal or e-mail us to tell us which you want.

BOOKS

TARA JANE O'NEIL - Wings. Strings. Meridians.

Six-inch square book of TJO's paintings and drawings, plus full-length CD of home recordings, live tracks from Istanbul, Paris, and Long Beach, and film scores. Sample visuals here. Sample tracks here.

LUC SANTE - Kill All Your Darlings

In his books and essays, Luc Sante has shown himself to be one of our pre-eminent stylists, as well as a critic of uncommon power. Kill All Your Darlings is the first collection of Sante’s articles—many of which first appeared in the New York Review of Books and the Village Voice—and offers ample justification for this high praise. Alongside meditations on cigarettes, factory work, and hipness, and his critical tour de force, “The Invention of the Blues,” Sante offers his unique take on icons from Rimbaud to Dylan, Magritte to the Mekons, Buddy Bolden to Walker Evans, Allen Ginsberg to Robert Mapplethorpe.

JANA MARTIN - Russian Lover & Other Stories

If you've read Jana Martin's contributions to past YETIs, you'll already know how great her stories are . . . An apprentice dominatrix suddenly loses her grip, a spurned wife tries to explain her husband’s flaws to his mother, a stripper turns the tables on jeering customers . . . Jana Martin’s smart, vulnerable heroines respond to life’s curveballs with guts and flair. In luminous prose she deftly plumbs the depths of their troubles—and shows the often startling ways they dig themselves out. Further information, reviews, and assorted entertainment on Jana's blog