YETI refits: now an 8" by 8" bound book, with a 7"!! not a CD a 7"... details below, but this will blow the roof off:

ON THE HARD-VINYL 7" EP, Four archival, never before heard songs: MISSISSIPPI FRED McDOWELL (two amazing 1959 Lomax recordings). THE TIKI MEN's stellar take on Duane Eddy's "First Love, First Tears," recorded around 1994. Plus a new cover by Portland's own dreampop slayer GROUPER of Dead Moon's "Demona," recorded just the other week!

INSIDE THE 8" BY 8" BOOK: Lovely cover image of a big red giant walking over a little town on fire, by Portland's favorite illustrator CARSON ELLIS. A portfolio of rare and never-before-seen photographs from the ALAN LOMAX ARCHIVES ca. his fabled 1959 'Southern Journey.' Translator and poet Margarita Shalina delivers a personal, well-researched look at NEW YORK'S 1980s HARDCORE punk scene (she was there, man). Beyond-rare artifacts from gentle genius Kim Spurlock's deep trove of NEAL CASSADY ephemera. Musician/ music historian NED SUBLETTE's chat with esteemed music critic/ editor Daphne Carr is a roller-coaster ride into the eye of the post-Katrina diaspora, touching on many musical histories with concise and not wanky politico-historical context. JAMAICAN GOSPEL 7" label scans, which is a lot more interesting than it sounds.

Eye-bleedingly awesome drawings by Tim Miller, James Trotter and Jana Cleveland. Very killer photographs by Nina Dudoladova of LONG-ABANDONED FORTS in Kalingarad, Russia which were once part of the German empire's effort to secure the border. A monumental, enthused and super-lengthy look at the work of Sacramento, CA's forgotten '90s surf band THE TIKI MEN by Aaron Gilbreath. Interviews with translator and author SUSAN BERNOFSKY (best-known for her lucid and playful work with Robert Walser's writing) and LARS FINBERG of Seattle's Intelligence and A-Frames. THE BREAKFAST SHIFT, which will become one of your favorite short stories that you didn't have to read for school, by Mimi Lipson. Plus as if all that weren't enough, there's a very image-heavy interview by Chris Kirkley (Sahel Sounds + 'Saharan Cell Phones') with contemporary African sign-painter THIAM BELLOU.

PS: There will also be a sweet, 100 minute, free digital download available for everyone who purchases the issue, with music from Nathan Salsburg, Shana Cleveland, Neal Cassady backed by members of the Grateful Dead, Religious Knives, Ora Cogan, a new side project by Bobb Bruno from Best Coast, Derek Monypeny, some Jamaican gospel, Sir Richard Bishop, outtakes from YETI editor Mike McGonigal's 'Last Time Singing' gospel compilation + way more.

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