Yeti 4

by Mike McGonigal (Editor)

On the CD: rare/unreleased music from Destroyer, Okkervil River, the Blow, Califone, Michael Hurley with Tara Jane ONeil, 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, Rev. E. W. Clayborn, Valet, Theo Angell. Inside the book: Indepth, archival interview with scifi author Octavia Butler, brutally honest tour diary by Okkervil River's Will Sheff, 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 Vaselka, and Jana Martin.

Genres: Music

224 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2006

Reviews

[Lanny · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another great Yeti. I have traditionally bought Yeti
for the music and not the writing, but the writing is always interesting as well. In Yeti 4 though, I think the stand-out on the inside for me at this point was the photo-essay City of Shadows, Images from the Sydney Police Archives by Peter Doyle.
I am sort of a fan of Weegee and crime journalism in general, but really a beginner. This piece captured and presented images from the Sydney archive which were very poetic and as close to
'art' whatever that is as one might hope yet coming from within an anonymous hodge-podge institutional body. As usual w/ Yeti the Music is totally strange and unexpected in lost of ways. I have every issue of Yeti except the new one, which I will have soon! I hope this magazine keeps going for a long time.

[Mark · Rating 4 out of 5]

top tier issue of one of the best music publications around. it was interesting to come to this some 8 years later, to find much of the music they write about has come back from obscurity. partially by the efforts of the writers and editor here.

the octavia butler interview is excellent in particular.

[Kevin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Includes my interview with Sam Lipsyte. And a kick butt CD.

[Samantha · Rating 3 out of 5]

Highlight of the book? The interviewing of Dan Bejar of Destroyer by an 8 year old...hilarious.