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YETI #4
244 page book + 28 song CD
$12.95

IN THE BOOK:
--In-depth, archival interview from 1997 with sci-fi author OCTAVIA BUTLER, the MacArthur "genius" grant winner who died earlier this year.
--Brutally honest tour diary by WILL SHEFF of Okkervil River.
--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 (these things are amazing and the text and images rival Luc Sante's brilliant Evidence book).
--Dan Bejar of DESTROYER is interviewed by his eight-year-old mini-me.
--The legacy of streetcorner 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.
--Gorgeous full-page illos by the likes of JESSE LEDOUX, NICOLE GEORGES and GREGG EINHORN.

ON THE CD:
28 exclusive/unreleased tracks, including two solo Destroyer tracks from the old cassette-only release Ideas for Songs (orig. edition of 50!), the first collaboration between folk giant Michael Hurley and Tara Jane O'Neil, a different mix of Califone's cover of Psych TV's "The Orchids" (our favorite song about genital piercing), Somos Marquis Homos (the "rock lottery" supergroup featuring Spencer Moody & David Bazan), all the uber-rad "rock" people listed below (Okkervil River! Bright! The Blow!), and two old-school black gospel songs that will kick your ass. Plus there's an Eritrean folk song field-recorded by Mike Doughty that is lovely, and a rare 78 from the early '50s: an ode to country music pioneer Jimmie Rodgers by two unknown singers from Kenya.

Full CD track listing
1. KATHARINA TUNICATA, "Topiary"
2. RADIO FOUR (the original group), "How Much I Owe"
3. DESTROYER, "No One Needs to Know"
4. BOBBY BIRDMAN, "Victory at Sea" (E*Rock remix)
5. BRIGHT, "One, So Remain"
6. CALIFONE, "The Orchids (Krassner mix)"
7. ALELA DIANE, "My Brambles"
8. DOLPHIN BAND (FEVEN & SIRAK), "Welanureiney"
9. MICHAEL HURLEY with TARA JANE O'NEIL, "Music for El Dorado"
10. GHOSTING, "Azalea"
11. FAUNA POLLY, "Corvallis"
12. SOMOS MARQUIS HOMOS, "Down and Out in Madrid and Barcelona" (live)
13. GERHARD TREDE AND HIS ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENTS, "Motion Study #1"
14. ROB WALMART, "Tom's Lounge"
15. THE BLOW, "Get Around"
16. DESTROYER, "Forget America"
17. WE MARCH, "She Who Makes Dogs Shiver"
18. THE GOLDEN BEARS, "Our Progress"
19. WE/OR/ME, "Hummingbirds"
20. OKKERVIL RIVER, "Lines"
21. THE PLANTS, "Tumbleweed" (edit)
22. PAGE FRANCE, "I Thought the Sun Was Yellow"
23. FLY ASHTRAY, "Rapscallion"
24. SOULED AMERICAN, "Ringside Suite"
25. REVEREND E. W. CLAYBORN, "God's Riding through the Land"
26. VALET, "Blood Is Clean"
27. THEO ANGELL, "In About a Half an Hour"
28. UNKNOWN, "Chemirocha"

PS: Ten of the people on the CD (mostly the ones you never heard of) will perform at the HALLELUWAH Festival, Sept. 1 and 2, at Discjecta in Portland, OR, which is also the big release party for YETI 4. [link]