Our Canadian printer showed up a few days *early* with the new YETI -- it's already in a few shops in Portland, I'll get copies to Seattle this weekend (500 alone to Sonic Boom, Everyday and Wall of Sound, yayyyy!), to distributors by next week, and in shops all over w/in like 12 days.

If you want to order direct from us, lemme know. New website designed by the crazily talented E*Rock will be up shortly.

Here's the "sell sheet" to ummm, try to sell it to you. Soooooooooooo glad this thing is finally out!

TITLE: YETI ..3

LIST PRICE: $12.95

COVER IMAGE: [link]

FORMAT: Book + CD: 244 page 6" by 9" matte gloss journal (gorgeous metallic cover), comes with a packed-as-possible CD of unreleased/ rare music fastened to inside back cover.

CD CONTENTS: Unreleased music by Devendra Banhart (3 songs!), the Postal Service, Iron & Wine, Henry Flynt, Jolie Holland, Colin Meloy from the Decemberists (a Morrissey cover), Steffen Basho-Junghans, the Mad Scene, the Lights, Dan Melchior, Ian Nagoski, World, Birdbrain, the Apes, Dead Science, the Robot Ate Me, the Blues Goblins, KRMTX, Haley Bonar, the Dream Lovers and Timesbold, plus rare tracks by Washington Phillips and the Fruit Bats (during their incarnation as I, Rowboat).

BOOK CONTENTS: Unpublished interview with William S. Burroughs conducted in 1997 by Alan "Love in Vain" Greenberg; R.J. Smith's discovery of a hard-boiled anonymous crime scene reporter from 1940s African-American Los Angeles; rad felt-tip drawings by Mark Dwinell from Bright; Erik Davis on “West Coast art and spiritual collage”; Naomi Yang on her design work; comics by Jeffrey Brown, Jason Miles, Souther Salazar and Carson Ellis; diaristic photo letters by Michael Galinsky; a selection of BloodNinja's finest AIM conversations; a ‘lost’ manifesto by Henry Flynt; many pages of photos of modern Vietnam by Charles Peterson; the editor’s interview with a discharged marine who may or may not be conning him; the 9-page "Apes Guide to Apes" (where the band the Apes tells in picture form what it is like to be the Apes); Nate Lippens on Eileen Myles; a parable by Steve Arntson; interviews with Neko Case, Schneider TM, Devendra Banhart and Timesbold; plus Goldcard in conversation with the Blues Goblins (Sam from Quasi). Full page illustrations by some of today’s most excellent graphic artists--Sammy Harkham, Carson Ellis, Jeffrey Brown, Jordan Crane, Eric Reynolds, Gregg Einhorn and E*Rock--accompany each article.

ABOUT: YETI has been praised by NY Times, the New Yorker, Pitchfork, Village VOICE, NY Post, Greil Marcus (in City Pages), Music for Robots, the Stranger, Seattle Weekly, and the email lists of Aquarius Records and Other Music. The book itself has featured writers such as Luc Sante and Ian Christe, while the CD saw the debut releases of Iron and Wine as well as Harry Smith’s musique concrete recordings. For what it’s worth, back issues of YETI go for ridiculous sums on eBay. The magazine is now being published quarterly, starting with this issue. Yeti Publications will soon publish full-length books by Luc Sante, Michael Macioce, Jana Martin, Erik Davis and others. OK, we’ll totally shut up now.