WIRE, THE #325 March 2011 magazine 9.98
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Another month, another issue of The Wire, at least that's something good about the passage of time.
This issue, Detroit techno DJ Theo Parrish on the cover. Also, an interview with composer David Beford, a report on a bunch of interesting sounding bands from Cambridge, UK we've never heard of, the scene in Burkina Faso, an epiphany about Fugazi's Red Medicine, a session of the Invisible Jukebox with French composer Michel Chion, tales from an academic black metal symposium, and more, including all the many many reviews that we expect in each issue of The Wire.

WIRE, THE #326 April 2011 magazine 9.98
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Type artist Richard Skelton on the cover. Also on the cover (attached to it with gummy stuff) is another installment of The Wire's "Wire Tapper" sampler series, a cd with 20 tracks by lots of weird electronic and/or noisy folks. Inside this issue, you'll find Funkystepz, Peter Evans, Olivia Block, Charlie Nothing, Jenny Hval, and a piece on the legendary Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music center, among other things, including all the usual reviews.

WIRE, THE #327 May 2011 magazine 9.98
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Once again, our monthly must-read is here.
Particularily interesting this issue, the cover story by Simon Reynolds on the husband and wife team who run the LA label Not Not Fun, responsible for a lot of cool releases from the likes of Sun Araw, Umberto, High Wolf, Pocahaunted, Robedoor, Magic Lantern, Ducktails, LA Vampires, etc.
Also: David Toop delves into "mellow soul", Mute founder Daniel Miller is tested by the Invisible Jukebox, there's a Sao Paulo scene report, "anarchic hiphop" is examined, and plenty more, including the usual slew of reviews, including the new Ulver.

WIRE, THE #328 June 2011 magazine 9.98
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Artsy mathrockers Battles are hanging around colorfully on the cover, cool pic! Inside, they talk about their new album Gloss Drop, which features guest vocals from both Eye Yamantaka and Gary Numan! Also in this issue of this monthly must-read for musical obsessives like us, there's interesting essays from Chris Cutler (against filesharing) and Simon Reynolds (about the current trend of "retromania"), an "Invisible Jukebox" session with Demdike Stare, a feature on sea shanties, and a scene report from Hong Kong, amongst other interestin' stuff... Plus the usual news, reviews, etc.

WIRE, THE #329 July 2011 magazine 9.98
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Cover story: the legendary singer-songwriter Roy Harper. Hat's off! Also this ish, there's John Maus, People Like Us, John Wall, Nils Okland, and more, including a piece about the music of outsider artist Adolph Wolfi (the release of which we're very much looking forward too, soon, on Sub Rosa). Plus all the other usual Wire goodness; reviews, news, etc.

WIRE, THE #330 August 2011 magazine + cd 9.98
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If you read our list, you should probably also read The Wire. Just sayin'. And a lot of you do.
The latest issue of this music magazine outta the UK features the mysterious Zomby on the cover. Also inside: Forest Swords, BBC Radiophonic Workshop founder Daphne Oram, Tiawanese pipa virtuoso Luo Chao Yun, Kemialliset's Jan Anderzen, a Primer on Jim O'Rourke (that could have taken up the whole issue!), and an interesting essay by Bob Ostertag on why he now gives away his music for free online and what he's learned from that. Plus more, including all the other usual good stuff you expect in The Wire, reviews, charts, etc., AND a free cover-mounted cd sampler, Wire Tapper 26.

WIRE, THE #331 September 2011 magazine 9.98
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Another issue of one of any weird music fan's must-reads... this time, Italian freeks My Cat Is An Alien get the cover spot. Also this ish: Prurient, Andy Stott, Jana Winderen, an "Invisible Jukebox" session with John Carpenter collaborator, soundtrack composer Alan Howarth, and more, including an article on Fela Kuti's London years, and an interesting piece by Not Not Fun's Amanda Brown about how filesharing etc. is destroying the DIY underground. Plus the usual reviews and news and suchlike.

WIRE, THE #332 October 2011 magazine 9.98
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Vinyl abusing composer/conceptualist Christian Marclay is on the cover, talking with David Toop inside this issue of The Wire. Also: Bill Orcutt, Scanner, Chris & Cosey (doin' the "invisible jukebox") and plenty more - including Sun Araw's Cameron Stallones recounting adventures in Jamaica recording with The Congos! Also, there's a Primer on "Militant Tuning" featuring the likes of La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Harry Partch, Tony Conrad, and more... Plus The Wire's usual batch of reviews, news, etc.

WIRE, THE #333 November 2011 magazine + cd 9.98
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Another great issue of this indispensable & adventurous music magazine. On the cover, DJ/ Rupture. Also, everyone from our pal Drew Daniel of Matmos (on "queer sound") to Christoph Heemann to David Lynch to Gang Gang Dance, and more. Including David Toop talking about the SMiLE sessions. And, there's a free cd sampler bagged with this ish, The Wire Tapper 27, featuring "20 new, rare or unreleased tracks from Blank Disco, Palmer Eldritch, Praed, Gary Smith/Silvia Kastel/Ninni Morgia, Soema Montenegro, Artifact Shore, The Drift, Dimitris Bakas, Dalglish, Konntinent, Toddlers, Ekoplekz, Artifact Shore, La La Vasquez, Phog Masheeen, ROBERTS, Action Beat, The Astroboy, Ektoise, Mathon and ton." Definitely some new stuff to check out there.

WIRE, THE #334 December 2011 magazine 9.98
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On the cover of this issue of this adventurous music lovers must read mag, krautrock guitar/electronics explorer Manuel Gottsching (of Ashra), with the story of his classic album E2-E4.
Inside, also: A primer on Turkish psych! aQ fave Grouper! Techno mavens Sandwell District! Composer Roger Reynols! Jukin' duo Spinn & Rashad doing, naturally the "Invisible Jukebox"! And plenty, plenty more. Including all the vast plethora of reviews as usual.

WIRE, THE #335 January 2012 magazine 9.98
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The issue of The Wire that everybody's waiting for: their annual Rewind issue. A look back at 2011 from this leading magazine of "Adventures In Sound And Music". The top 50 Records Of The Year as picked by the editiors (#1: James Ferraro's Far Side Virtual). Sure to cause consternation. Not for the Ferraro pick (although maybe that too), but for the fact that Lou Reed/Metallica wound up in the top ten. WTF??
There's various musicians reflections on the year that was, essays by David Keenan, Mark Fisher, and Philip Clark pertaining to some of the trends we saw, etc.
Besides the 2011 Rewind, this issue also has the usual Wire features: reviews, news, articles, interviews: this time 'round with Kouhei Matsunaga, Gonjasufi, ex-Skaters dudes Spencer Clark/James Ferraro, and more!

WIRE, THE #336 February 2012 magazine 9.98
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Pictured on the cover of this month's Wire, as if rising out of the Bay, is hip hop eccentric Lil B, aka the Based God! Also this ish: This Heat's Charles Hayward (taking the Invisible Jukebox test), Ital, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Indian wedding brass bands, and much much more, including the usual massive chunk o' reviews.

WIRE, THE #337 March 2012 magazine 9.98
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Slo-mo dronelords Earth are on the cover of this month's Wire, discussing among other things their newfound fascination with mystic Britfolk... also this ish, Julia Holter, zoviet*france, The Ex in Ethiopia, a primer on King Tubby, and plenty more including an "Invisible Jukebox" session with the Ghost Box label guys. Plus the usual plethora of reviews, news, etc.

WIRE, THE #338 April 2012 magazine + cd 9.98
Sun Araw (aka Cameron Stallones) is this month's cover star, discussing his recent experience collaborating with The Congos, among other things. And also inside this issue of this most indispensable new music magazine, you'll find features on composer Conlon Nancarrow (he of player piano fame), saxophonist Charles Gayle, droning trumpeter Nate Wooley, and more. Remix master Tom Moulton does the Invisible Jukebox. And Simon Reynolds contributes an essay entitled "We Are All David Toop Now". Hmm. Plus all the usual worldwide news, tons of reviews, and a free cover mounted cd sampler, The Wire Tapper 28.

WIRE, THE #339 May 2012 magazine 9.98
On the cover this month, looking stern and elegant: electronic eclectic Atom (tm). Also inside, you'll find interviews with/articles about Laurel Halo, Mary Halvorson, Scott Walker, Eddie Prevost's London improv workshop, and more, including a South Korean scene report (which includes aQ pals, post Pyha punkers Bamseom Pirates!) and best of all, a Primer on Sound Poetry! Plus all the usual columns, news, reviews, charts, etc. We like Gesellschaft Zur Emazipation Des Samples' chart of '15 Records To Play In Public Places', a playlist consisting of all "records or musicians involved in copyright disputes".

WIRE, THE #340 June 2012 magazine 9.98
Longtime lo-fi troubadour R. Stevie Moore is on the cover, maybe just 'cause the photo the had of him - all white beard/hair and glasses (with flipped up clip-on shades) - is so good! Also in this issue of this monthly must-read: Annea Lockwood, Bass Clef, Traxman, Nik Colk Void, Mira Calix, Jan Jelinek (doing the Invisible Jukebox), and more, including a "Global Ear" scene feature on Kingston, Jamaica. And reviews, reviews, reviews...

WOLFLI, ADOLF The Heavenly Ladder: Analysis of The Musical Cryptograms (as intepreted by Baudouin de Jaer) (Sub Rosa) book + cd 32.00
Adolf Wolfli (1864-1930) has long been one of our favorite artists. An incredible touchstone of what has been called Art Brut or more commonly Outsider Art, Wolfli created an epic body of work while suffering from psychosis (and resulting hallucinations) and confined in isolation at the Waldau Clinic in Bern, Switzerland for the latter half of his life. Working with loaned pencils and newsprint and other materials that he would have to scrounge from his surroundings, Wolfli developed an amazing kaleidoscopic cosmology of vast complexity featuring colorful angelic orders, dynamic structural compositions and weaving motifs of idiosyncratic musical passages. Some of these exist as free drawings, but most (1600 of them!) were illustrations for a semi-autobiographical epic that eventually expanded into 45 volumes of over 25,000 pages. The musical notes, starting out as decorative motifs at first begin to take on more significance as he developed his epic book, especially in the last two volumes where he outlines his musical theories, favoring marches, waltzes and mazurkas for their rhythmic quality, as a means (to put it very simply) of some form of spiritual self-transformation. It has remained unclear if Wolfli had musical training or if he transcribed the scores from found sources, but he often would write out the scores and play them on a paper trumpet he made.
Which brings us to the purpose of this book and cd. There already exists a history of analyses of Wolfli's musical scores to see if they actually can be performed. Recordings have been made including one by Graeme Revell with the help of Nurse With Wound in the late Eighties, but many of these were largely interpretive and subjective, adding ambient impressions largely based on the visual aspects of the artworks as well.
For this particular analysis, Belgian composer and violinist, Baudouin de Jaer, who didn't have previous exposure to Wolfli's work, sticks to a more empirical approach to the scores. Limiting himself to solo violin with mute, de Jaer attempts to decipher what he sees as cryptograms (Wolfli made the scores with six lines staves instead of the traditional 5 lines and didn't connect the notes horizontally, suggesting alternate meanings), and forms his own detailed hypotheses in the book about how Wolfli put the musical forms together (mostly believed to be copied from a book of marches for 4 handed piano). Musically, the 32 pieces are very short and spare (about a minute or less with the longest clocking in at about 3 minutes). But de Jaer does a lot with little, often using the side of the violin for percussive rumbles or rubbing the strings for bird-like chirps, the music has an off-kilter fanfare feel to it that follows logically from Wolfli's divine cosmological visions. The book is about 25 pages with full color illustrations and text in French and English and with the cd, offers a fresh new insight into this complex artist's work that will be of interest to old and new fans alike!
MPEG Stream: "The Swan/ Pandulen=Wasser=Faii"
MPEG Stream: "Island Neveranger"
MPEG Stream: "March"
MPEG Stream: "Le Cours D'eau"
MPEG Stream: "Juno, die Gottin der Neger"

WOOFAH #1 magazine 9.98
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WOOFAH #4 magazine 9.98
Issue 4 of this upstart mag, covering all things grime and dubstep and reggae. Definitely a godsend, considering how underrepresented grime and dubstep remains in the US. The biggest issue yet, this one features dubstepper Untold on the cover. Inside: Hessle Audio, Sci-Fi and Reggae, Newham Generals, Michael Smith: Dub Poet, UK Dubplate Houses, Tony Thorpe and loads more. As well as tons of reviews. Most of the stuff in each issue is new to us, but usually has us tracking music down by a handful of the artists featured. The only bummer is that lots of the stuff here, especially the records that get reviewed, seem nearly impossible to get here in the States, but it's still a great read, and even though these guys seem to be way ahead of the game, a lot of the stuff covered is starting to make its way over here. This way you'll be ready!

WOOFAH Issue #3 magazine 10.98

WYATT, OLIVIA Staring Into The Sun (Sublime Frequencies) cd + dvd + book 30.00
The latest from Sublime Frequencies is a massive cd/dvd/book set, compiled by photographer/filmmaker Olivia Wyatt on a recent trip to Ethiopia, planned to coincide with a music festival - which the government abruptly cancelled for fear of the musicians being exploited. So instead, Wyatt travelled into the bush, to compile this sonic/visual travelogue of the music and musicians, the people and places of the various tribes of Ethiopia, and it's of course breathtaking. The music, heady and hypnotic, joyous and emotional, the sounds varying dramatically from tribe to tribe, but music being ubiquitous, weddings, ceremonies, rituals, drawing water from the well, on television, in living rooms, very rhythmic, mostly vocal drive, but with lots of hand clapping, wildly bowed stringed instruments, vocals chanted, shouted, call and response, super mesmerizing, many of the tribes utilize whistles and panpipes, and the music they make is incredible, otherworldly and impossibly lush, sounding like some modern 20th century classical composition in many cases, while actual bands to rock out, and get surprisingly soulful and funky. A compilation like this must have been so impossible to compile, how on earth to whittle down what must have ben days of recordings to just an hour, but the tracks chosen are amazing, and make us want to hear so much more.
Both the cd and the dvd (more on the dvd in a second) are housed in a cd sized hard cover book, which includes extensive liner notes on Wyatt's trip to Ethiopia, but also 117 Polaroid photos Wyatt took on her trip, of people, places, musicians, villages, an incredible visual feast for the eyes. And then there's the dvd, which features a 60 minute film, which in its won way is structured like the video version of Wyatt's Polaroids, with many still shots, video portraits, as well as some incredible footage, some highlights include so many different lots of singing and dancing, sometimes in traditional tribal dress, often in western t-shirts and shorts, one of the most amazing sequences if of men and women working drawing water from a well, passing buckets from person to person, their worksongs so hypnotic and beautiful, then there's a super wild psychedelic guitar freakout with one woman doing some of the craziest, most ecstatic hair swirling / headbanging we've ever seen, there's footage of men feeding wild hyenas in the middle of the night, often right out of their own mouths, snippets from Ethiopian television with wild MTV style videos, fantastic tribal folks songs with synchronized dances and lots of whistles, dancing girls making music with just the clank and jangle of her jewelry, in fact lots of dances that involve the jangle of jewelry, men smoking in dark rooms watching television, intimate performances in living rooms and so much more.
So incredible, sonically, visually, culturally, easily one of our favorite Sublime Frequencies releases for sure.
LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES . The dvd is all region NTSC.
MPEG Stream: KONSO TRIBE "Konso Lyre Song"
MPEG Stream: HABESHA 2000 BAND "Habesha Traditional Song"
MPEG Stream: AZMARI (MASINKO PLAYER) "Masinko Song"
MPEG Stream: DIRASHE TRIBE "Dirashe Syncopated Panpipes"
MPEG Stream: GEDEO TRIBE "Gedeo Vocals"

XLR8R #124 January / February 2009 magazine 4.99
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We've been stocking this popular magazine regularly for a little while now and thought we ought to put it on our website so mailorderers looking for more readin' material could get in on the XLR8R action. Focusing primarily on electronica type stuff, XLR8R also dabbles with the rock... This issue features Mr. Oizo on the cover, plus Zomby, the Vivian Girls, Telepathe, Senor Coconut... and much more, including ex-AQ'er Antaeus' band Lazer Sword. It's pretty packed, with reviews, columns, all sorts of stuff. And if that wasn't enough, the plastic bag it's wrapped in also contains an even bigger, BONUS magazine, the very first issue of XLR8R's Vis-Ed publication, devoted to visual arts! Featuring hip artists Rinzen, Kustaa Saksi, Catalina Estrada, Brent Rollins, Brian Roettinger, Laurent Fetis, Seripop, JK5, Freegums, Superdeux...

XLR8R #127 June / July 2009 magazine 4.99
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Dancehall's Mavado on the cover. Inside, Girl Talk, Labtekwon, Meanderthals, Tanya Morgan, and producer Xrabit talking 'bout Paul's Boutique. Plus lots more, reviews, columns, stuff about music, tech, video games, places to buy stuff in various urban centers... also comes with a free download card for an mp3 mix by Drop The Lime.

XLR8R #128 August 2009 magazine 4.99
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Latest from this bad ass SF based electronic music magazine, on the cover, the Modular Recordings label from Australia, inside: grime lord Durrty Goods, dubstepper Untold, LA jazzhead Ras G, Toronto post punkers DD/MM/YYYY, a feature on labels XLR*R loves, including Werk Discs, Truckback, Modern Love, Type, Bersa Discos, Dirty, Mothership, Wireblock, True Panther Sounds, I Am Sound, In The Red, Discerror, DIYNamic and Interdependent Media. Also inside: Black Moth Super Rainbow, a weird fashion shoot with Belgian musicians and the usual ton of reviews.

XLR8R #130 Nov/Dec 2009 magazine 4.99
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On the cover, Bristol dubstepper Joker, one of XLR8R's 2009 faves, along with The Field, Martyn, Hudson Mohawke, and Holy Ghost! Inside, also: Nite Jewel, Fuck Buttons, DJ Koze, A Place To Bury Strangers, HEALTH, and more.

XLR8R #131 January / February 2010 magazine 4.99
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On the cover: Kompakt's Matias Aguayo. Inside: Klimek, Lindstrom & Christabelle, Beach House, Neon Indian, Glasser, and lots more. Interviews, reviews, news, all the usual stuff about hip electronic/indie musics.

XLR8R #132 Mar/Apr 2010 magazine 4.99
Electronica, techno, indie rock and more, as always in this magazine, this issue featuring rave shoegazers (?) Delorean on the cover, also Oneohtrix Point Never, Xiu Xiu, Daptone Records, Anthony "Shake" Shakir, Kyle Hall, Mosca, Natalie Storm, and much more.

XLR8R #134 July/Aug 2010 magazine 4.99
Minimalist techno maven Robert Hood on the cover. Also: Actress, Oval, Mount Kimbie, Diskjokke, De Tropix, and more. Including lots of ads for electronic music making gear and software (the full-page one for Roland's AX-Synth being our fave).

XLR8R #135 Sept/Oct 2010 magazine 4.99
We couldn't have been more excited to see Salem on the cover of this new issue of the always great XlR8R. Can't wait for their full length to come out! Also interviews and features on El Guincho, Matthew Dear, Arp, Karizma, Lazer Sword (featuring former AQ'er Antaeus!), Tristan Perich and his amazing 1-Bit Symphony which we made record of the week not too long ago. As well as record reviews, gear tips & reviews and tons more. For sure one of the best music mags around!

XLR8R #138 March/April 2011 magazine 6.99
Electronic/indie music magazine XLR8R is on our reading list this month for sure, with Kode 9 + The Space Ape on the cover, also pieces on Tim Hecker, Hype Williams, Carl Craig, Rainbow Arabia, Seefeel, Mogwai and plenty more!

YAMANTAKA, EYE Artist Music Journal, Edition 12 (Soundscreen Design) book 13.98
Wow. We're so stoked on this, a gorgeous book of artwork from Boredoms bandleader Eye Yamantaka, whose eyepoppingly colorful collages and multimedia art, as represented on most Boredoms and related releases, we have always loved.
So this is total eyecandy for us Eye fans, a 24 page, 8" x 8" softcover, saddle stitched book featuring not covers for records Eye has released (which is what we thought it was going to be), but actually all artwork for dozens of insane IMAGINARY bands (and formats!) he made up just for this project! We love it.
Each page features 2 or 3 different "releases", with both sleeve art and the disc itself pictured. So for instance there's Sunarchy's "Volume" 12" picture disc, Satori Disco's "Groovy1" 10" water blue disc, and Crackederic's "Yellp", which claims to be a 22 inch "Balloon disc". Yeah, that's right, some of them get really unlikely or impossible. How about Armed LyF's "Junk", a 12" rasta color no centerhole disc? Or VhV's "Steamed Bun" release, a 4" bun on 12" black disc? Or Age "2", supposedly a 1 inch black disc? And then there's Googloom's "Gog In" googles shape disc (what looks like two 7"s melted together side by side) and Googloom's "Gog Out", a 2" broken disc! Those aren't even the craziest ones.
In addition to enjoying the visuals, this of course puts our imaginations into overdrive wishing we could HEAR these bands too, wondering what they sound like. Some of them provide clues, we know that Donoid's 12" contains a Wang Chung cover ("Everybody Dub Tonight"), while D.A.M.'s "Don't Ask Me" 7" is apparently "South Fla. Hardcore", hence the mohawked skater depicted on the sleeve.
This is Number 12 in a series of music-related art and design "journals", so we might have to get some of the earlier entries in as well, in fact there's a Daniel Higgs one that's pretty cool (of course) and we do have a couple of those in stock. All the journals in the series are packaged in 10" record sleeves, as well. Super cool.

YESYESYES Issue #1 magazine 4.50
Super cool new magazine from right here in San Francisco covering all sorts of rad music, art, writing and filled with really top notch photography. This is no sloppy hand xeroxed zine, this is a really nice looking and printed magazine that feels really genuine and earnest in its mission to expose and bring light to lots of the interesting sights and sounds coming out of the Bay Area underground. The debut issue features interviews with Sic Alps, Bridez, a photo spread from Hamburger Eyes, the trippy watercolors of Augustus Thompson and lots more. A really good way for folks from far away to get a nice snapshot of what's going on here in San Francisco, and also a nice reminder for all of us who live here to appreciate all the awesome stuff that is being created here in the Bay Area.

YESYESYES Issue #2 magazine 9.98
Issue #2 of this awesome local magazine, filled with essays, interviews, artwork, short stories, etc. This time out there's interviews with Grass Widow, Goner Records, White Fence, artwork by Joe Roberts, Mattia Lullini, Marc Warren, and tons more. This will keep your eyes and mind beyond entertained, or at least entertained.

YETI #1 magazine+cd 12.98
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We got a small handful of these direct from Mr. Yeti himself. 6 or 7 copies. It's been out of print and unavailable for at least 3 or 4 years, so the first few folks to order will get 'em.
Here's our description from when we first reviewed it way back in 2001:
All hail the return of Mike McGonigal, who used to publish the cherished Chemical Imbalance zine and now offers "Yeti: Enthused Art, Music, Writing and Other Stuff". As with most zines, he (and Yeti's other contributors) cover material that they just plain like... and McGonigal's got great taste so we're the better for it. Super eclectic, Yeti features everything from a primer on lo-fi metal (written by talented AQ-pal Ian Christe), an interview with Swedish hippie progsters Trad Gras Och Stenar, the experimental electronic label Mego, and a bio of artist-filmmaker-musicologist Harry Smith, to AQ-fave Brad Johnson's collected comics for his band Virginia Dare, photos by Kicking Giant's Tae Won Yu, Tomata du Plenty of the seminal punk outfit The Screamers, James Brown's Funky Divas, a long interview with the folks from Destroy All Monsters, and so much more! This will keep you busy for weeks. The enclosed cd features rare and unreleased stuff from Stereolab, Elliot Smith, Mice Parade, Harry Smith, Nobukazu Takemura, Califone, Trad Gras Och Stenar and several others. Well worthy.

YETI #10 magazine + cd 11.95
Latest issue of the mighty Yeti, a collection of the coolest, weirdest, most fascinating music, art, culture, comics, fiction and photography. A fantastically varied barrage of words, sights, sounds, all lovingly curated, and presented in magazine form. This time around, heavy focus on art and photos and comics. Inside number 10 you'll find fiction by Stacey Levine, Miami's Jacuzzi Boys, photographs by Gracie Remington, an interview with NZ indie rock legend Robin Scott (of the Clean and the Bats among others), drawings by Saul Chernick, photographs of Memphis (and lots of Elvis's) by Ted Barron, an interview with write Amelia Gray, drawings by Cassie Ramone, collages by aQ fave Ilyas Ahmed, Disco Inferno (the band), Russian Artist Pavel Tchelitchew, and tons more, lots more pix and drawings and other fantastic weirdness.
As always the ads are in their own section near the back, to peruse at your leisure, and of course, Yeti also includes a cd, chock full of rare and exclusive tracks from tons of bands we love, or should love, or could love, and apparently this will be the last Yeti cd comp, as the mag will be switching formats, to a different zine size, with an accompanying 7" single, like the pre-Yeti mag Chemical Imbalance. So dig this one while you can, featuring jams from Noveller, The Gories, Starving Weirdos, The Clean, The Bats, Robert Scott, Jacuzzi Boys, The Weeds, Electric Blood, O Paon, Alkiobor Gignor, Jousting Vandals, Joan + Anthony, Heavenly Dreamers, Abba Ag Gargando, The Golden Hours, The Babies, Cheikh Ag Mohammed, Daniel Kroha, Derek Monypeny, Orca Team, V>L>A>D>R>M aka Viva L'American Death Ray Music and more...

YETI #11 magazine 11.98
Latest issue of this long running magazine, and the last actually in this particular size/format. After this issue, Yeti will be trading in the current size and accompanying cd compilation, for a more squarish layout with future issues bundled with a 7" single. This time around, issue eleven, features some gloriously eye popping optical illusion cover art courtesy of Liz "Grouper" Harris. Inside, a chat with Brian Chippendale (Lightning Bolt, Black Pus, etc.), a comic by Victor Kerlow, fiction by Kimberly Parko, Liz Harris interviews guitarist Roy Montgomery, a collection of photos by Megan Holmes, a 1978 interview with write/artist Joe Brainard, drawings by Marcellus Hall (frontman for the legendary Railroad Jerk), a series of Polaroids by Olivia Wyatt, who curated the Staring Into The Sun cd/dvd/book released on Sublime Frequencies we reviewed elsewhere on this list, an interview with modern minimalist and aQ beloved dronelord Phill Niblock, fiction by R. Foggo, an interview with Spencer from The Skaters, and a collection of French protest posters from the Sixties!
As always, all of the advertisements are gathered up in the back, in their own section, and there is, at least for one last time, a cd compilation, this one with a numerical concept based on this being issue eleven, so each artist was commissioned to create a song the same length as their placement on the cd (which is of course 11 tracks long), the first track being 1 minute long, the second 2 minutes and so forth. Apparently there was some confusion on the part of Phill Niblock and Oneida, who both contribute ten minute tracks here, the rest of the comp filled out by Roy Montgomery, White rainbow, The Dirashi Tribe, Golden Retriever, Snake Hole, Sloppy Heads, Johnita And Joyce Collins, Atole, Gospel Creators and Happy New Year.
As always, a great read and TRES recommended!

YETI #4 magazine 12.95
Finally, one of our favorite magazines returns, and heck, we didn't have to wait a year between issues!! We think this is a sign of a steadier, more reliable Yeti! Which is definite a good thing, considering how totally badass both the mag and the accompanying cd are every single time. Within the 242 pages of Yeti number 4 you'll find a rare interview with Souled American, as well as a piece on Reverend Louis Overstreet, an interview with artist Fred Tomaselli, "How To Sing Along With 'Sweet Home Alabama'" by Matmos' Drew Daniel, harrowing and fascinating images from the Sydney Police archives, an eight year old interviews Dan Bejar from Destroyer, an interview with Sam Lipsyte from Powell's Bookstore, an interview with Peter Lamborn Wilson, an Okkervil River tour diary, an interview with Todd Barry, a reminiscence on ABC No Rio and the '80s New York open-mic scene, an interview with writer Octavia Butler as well as a bunch of fiction and tons of comics. As always, also included is a cd compilation, this time featuring, Radio 4, Destroyer, Bright, Califone, Michael Hurley with Tara Jane O'Neil, Ghosting, Page France, Okkervil River, Fly Ashtray, Valet, Theo Angell and a bunch more. Awesome!

YETI #5 magazine 11.95
We were under the impression that Yeti, absolutely one of our favorite magazines, focusing on all aspects of the art world (music, drawing, fiction, fashion, performance, etc. but with a definite focus on music) was meant to be quarterly, or three times a year, or at LEAST twice a year, but since we've only just gotten issue five, and it's been about 5 years since issue one, well, just keep telling yourself, some things are worth waiting for. Never more true than with Yeti, a definite labor of love, assembled and compiled by long time aQ pal Mike McGonigal, with the help of an incredible array of writers, artists and musicians. Every issue jam packed with some familiar faces, but usually more new discoveries. Which is precisely how a magazine should be.
So what's going on in this long awaited fifth installment? Well, we just got it in, so none of us have had time to dig in deep yet (most of us will probably do just that this weekend, it's the perfect thing to curl up in a big chair with, headphones on, rest of the world shut out), so we'll just have to give you a quick overview.
A brief exploration of the marriage made in Hell between folk music, dead cultures, myth and highly technical modern extreme metal, excerpts from the Pinakothek web log (that's blog to you), an interview with Will Oldham, drawings by Saul Chernick, Mike McGonigal examines Blind Willie Johnson's "Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground", fiction by Meredith Brosnan, German graphic artist Unica Zurn, NY rockers Akron/Family, an interview with Nicola Bowery (wife of late fashion / performance artist Leigh Bowery), drawings by Kyle Field of Little Wings, a chat with P.G. Six, fiction by Kevin Sampsell, a 1969 interview with Mississippi Fred McDowell, drawings by Kevin Arrow, an excerpt from some WEIRD online chatrooms, awesome travel diary from Sublime Frequencies' Hisham Mayet with lots of amazing photos, paintings by SF artist Michelle Blade, and Yeti does that cool thing, where all the advertisements are in the back in their own section.
PLUS, Yeti comes with a cd of rare and unreleased exclusive music from a very aQ array of artists: Atlas Sound, Akron/Family, Iron & Wine, Mt. Eerie, Deerhoof, Dean And Brita, Blind Willie Johnson, Spiritualaires, Phoaming Edison, excerpts from Radio Sumatra, A Hawk And A Hacksaw and a bunch more!

YETI #6 magazine 11.95
THIS IS CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT OR OTHERWISE UNAVAILABLE TO US AT THE MOMENT, SO PLEASE DO NOT ORDER IT. SORRY.
Seems like only yesterday we got Yeti #5. Well, it was actually March of this year, but by Yeti standards that IS practically yesterday. So it seems that Yeti is finally on a more normal release schedules, which is good news for fans, like us, who hated the interminable wait between dispatches from Yeti HQ, each missive a gorgeous perfect bound mag packed chock full of art, and music, and interviews, and art, and photography, and always bundled with a kick ass cd, packed with tons of tracks from cool bands. This issue is no different.
Let's give a quick run down of what's in the magazine:
An interview with David Fair of Half Japanese about his cut out paper art, and several pages featuring various examples, an interview with New Zealand pop heroes The Clean, the art and music of Mingering Mike, an outsider artist who crafted his own record jackets, even going so far as to make fake price tags and label stickers, an interview with the Vivian Girls, an article on folk photography and old time post cards, Sic Alps and Eat Skull interviewed and then interviewing each other, a piece about music in NYC in the seventies and eighties, photos by Ted Barron, an archival interview with the Sun City Girls, an interview with novelist and photographer Peter Doyle, an interview with A.R.E. Weapons' Thom Bullock about DISCO and some of his various projects, as well as plenty of original fiction, art and even some poetry.
The cd this time around features tracks from The Great Unwashed, The Clean, Crystal Stilts, Ilyas Ahmed, Sun City Girls, Collections Of Colonies Of Bees, Times New Viking, Eat Skull, Devendra Banharts's Megapuss and more more more. All for a measly $12.00. Not bad. Not bad at all...

YETI #7 magazine + cd 11.95
Like an eclipse, or that comet that only passes by the Earth every eon or so, the long awaited arrival of the latest issue of the the kick ass music and arts magazine Yeti. Number seven for those keeping track. And as always, it's massive, packed with all sorts of good stuff, and it comes with a cd filled with rare and exclusive tracks from all sorts of bad ass bands.
In the magazine this time around there's new artwork from Mingering Mike (get his book, he designed his own record covers and sleeves for his imaginary bands, it's pretty fantastic), Grouper interviews Ilyas Ahmed, an interview with artist Jim Woodring, a rare manuscript from Abner Jay, an interview with author Lynne Tillman, noise poppers The Nodzzz, an interview with writer Rudy Wurlitzer, a selection of book covers from the '60s and '70s by Joe Brainard, a feature on artist/teacher/activist Nancy Dupree, awesme comics by developmentally disabled adults in the Full Life program in Portland Oregon, a feature on Jack Rose and The Black Twig Pickers, drawings by artist Bradley Earl (who also plays in Woods!), a conversation with Ripley from SF's own Wooden Shjips and loads of illustrations, photos, artwork, some fiction, and as always all the ads are crammed together in the back.
And as if that weren't twelve bucks worth already, there's that accompanying cd, with rare and exclusive tracks from Abner Jay, Dum Dum Girls, The Dutchess And The Duke, Eternal Tapestry, Crystal Stilts, Grouper, Woods, Fresh & Onlys, WOODEN SHJIPS and more!!

YETI #8 magazine 11.95
It always seems a new installment of this long running and beloved music and arts magazine / journal shows up right when we're working on the New Arrivals list, so as badly as we just want to curl up in a big warm chair and get lost in it, we're forced to finish the list before we can dive in, which is torture, cuz Yeti, every issue, is jam packed with fascinating articles, killer art, and super interesting interviews. And of course there's the accompanying soundtrack cd, always overflowing with amazing sounds.
Number eight offers up these delights: an interview with the legendary Jim Dickinson, an interview with Explode Into Colors, a cool collection of old time real photo postcards and an accompanying essay, an interview with Eliane Radigue, a piece on Bishop Perry Tillis, photographs of an abandoned amusement park in Japan, rediscovering the Johnny Mathis / Chic collaboration (!), a piece on Harry Partch, with lots of instrument photos, artwork by Nicole Eriko Amagai Smith, an article about sound makers Flower Electronics and King Capitol Punishment, artwork by Andrew Neyer, an interview with Zola Jesus, and plenty more.
As always the ads are all jammed into their own section in the back, so you can ignore them if you like, although there are plenty of exciting things to discover / buy. And then the cd, featuring mostly new and exclusive music from Ty Segall, Little Claw, Brown Recluse, Tyvek, Mantles, Bishop Perry Tillis, Inca Ore, Woven Bones, The Splinters, Jim Dickinson, Pete Swanson, The Moles, Vaselines and more more more. As always, RECOMMENDED!

YETI #9 magazine + cd 11.95
Just like clockwork, a killer new issue of long running magazine Yeti, shows up on the day of the list. So instead of giving a detailed rundown, of all the stuff in the new Yeti we've read about and the killer Yeti cd we listened to as we dug deep into Yeti number nine, we'll have to give you a thumbnail version, since it literally showed up about 10 minutes ago, although once the list is in fact done and sent, we will of course, be taking Yeti home and digging in for real.
So number nine is here, featuring visionary Australian singer/songwriter Pip Proud, two interviews with American musician/installation artist Maryanne Amacher, some rare writings from The Fugs' Tuli Kupferberg (R.I.P.), photos and observations on tour from Dean Wareham, comic artist James Turek, some fiction from Mimi Lipson, comic artist Lizz Hickey, Indian music scholar and crazy record collector VAK Ranga Rao, new artwork by Arrington De Dionyso, artist filmmaker Bruce Conner, musician Alasdair Roberts, new art by Alissa Wessler, writings by Joaquin V. Gonzalez, comics and illustrations by Beatriz Monteavaro, and then as always, a bunch of ads crammed into the back of the mag.
Also as always, included is a companion cd, this time featuring rare and exclusive recordings from Pip Proud, Teenage Panzerkorps, US Girls, Plankton Wat, Spencer Moody, The Art Museums, Human Eye, Fantastic Palace, Bobby Charles, KO + Friends, Rhythmical Wright Singers, Rev. Lonnie Farris, AIAS, Bishop R. McDaniel, Arrington De Dionyso's Malaikat Dan Singa, Geoff Soule, Reading Rainbow, X-Ray Eyeballs, Marisa Anderson, Modern Women, and a bunch of awesome Indian music from VAK Ranga Rao's 78 collection, selected by Rob Millis!
Needless to say, as always, totally recommended.

YETI Issue #12 magazine + 7" 14.98
Latest issue of this long running aQ beloved music mag, and you'll definitely notice some differences this time around, the first thing obviously, is the format, the old more typically magazine sized format has now been transformed into a perfect 8" by 8" square sized mag, all the more perfect for change #2, replacing the cd compilation that accompanied past issues with a 7" vinyl single! The first Yeti single especially of note cuz it includes a brand new, exclusive Grouper track! And we now how Grouper fans are, so no need to read any further if you're just here for the single. But in addition to the Grouper track (a Dead Moon cover!!!), there's also unheard songs from Mississippi Fred McDowell (two unreleased 1959 Alan Lomax recordings as well as a track from the Tiki Men (a Duane Eddy cover!), and also included is a 100 minute free downloadable mix, more in line with the old Yeti comps, and loaded with cool stuff (including the tracks from the 7"). And heck we haven't even gotten to the magazine itself yet!
Inside you'll find the usual eclectic mix of music, art and photography, including photos from the Alan Lomax Archives from his 1959 'Southern Journey', memories of the eighties New York hardcore scene from poet Margarita Shalina, Jamaican gospel 7" labels, an essay on surf rockers the Tiki Men, African sign painter Thiam Bellou, an interview with author Susan Bernofsky, photos of abandoned forts in Russia by Nina Dudoladova, a collection of Neal Cassady ephemera (!), along with tons of other cool stuff including drawings, short stories, and the usual selection of ads all crammed together in the back, for other cool stuff you're probably also gonna want!

YETI issue #2 magazine + cd 9.95
THIS IS CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT OR OTHERWISE UNAVAILABLE TO US AT THE MOMENT, SO PLEASE DO NOT ORDER IT. SORRY.
This magazine (or what they like to call a book, 'cause it's square bound and BIG, 182 pages) is the second sighting so far of Mike McGonigal's Yeti. Yep, it's big and fulla art and writing well worth your time. Music and comix are two of Yeti's main interests, so there's an eclectic array of interviews with the likes of Laura Cantrell, Aceyalone, Richard Thompson, Ben Katchor and Steffen Basho-Junghans...plus a miscellany of features on everything from Alfred Jarry to early Blues (by Luc Sante) to, uh, unicorns!
Plus this comes with its own soundtrack, a 25 track cd compilation with Steffen Basho-Junghans (2 tracks), Iron & Wine (2 also, one being a Flaming Lips cover), Keith Fullerton Whitman, live Death Cab For Cutie (doing a Stone Roses song), Califone, live Shins, a Pell Mell outtake, Six Organs of Admittance, and loads more!!
MPEG Stream: IRON & WINE "Waiting For Superman"

YETI MAGAZINE Issue 3 magazine + cd 12.95
Wow. The retun of Yeti. This makes 3 issues in 4 or 5 years, pretty crazy. Supposedly Yeti will now be a thrice a year concern but we'll believe it when we see it. Either way, we're thrilled to have a new issue of Yeti in our grubby little paws, one of our favorite music magazines for sure. Strangely esoteric but also emminently readable. This time around there are comics, photo essays, fiction, pieces on West Coast art and spiritual collage, anonymous crime scene reporting in African American Los Angeles in the 1940's, writer Eileen Myles, musicians Henry Flynt, CC Hennix and the "Electric Harpsichord", psych folk outfit Timesbold, an animated history of spaz rockers the Apes, a conversation between William S. Burroughs and Alan Greenberg, aQ faves Goldcard interviewing the Blues Goblins and vice versa, Devendra Banhart as well as interviews with with Neko Case, Schneider TM, marine / con-artist Sebastian Matthew Branno and Naomi Yang of Damon And Naomi. Whew! As always, there is a companion cd full of rare and unreleased tracks from Iron And Wine, Jolie Holland, Devendra Banhart, Fruit Bats, Colin Meloy of the Decemberists, the Apes, Henry Flynt, Timesbold, Steffen Basho-Junghans, Postal Service, Blues Goblins, the Mad Scene, Ian Nagoski, Washington Phillips and a bunch more. Here's hoping we don't have to wait years and years for the next issue!

ZANES, WARREN 33 1/3 Series: Dusty In Memphis (Continuum) book 9.95
Finally got a new batch of these amazing books, tailor made for us music geeks. Super in depth examinations of some of our favorite records! The cool thing is that they're not just the same old rehashed stories about the bands or artists, and who they slept with and where they grew up (although we like those too!), instead they're about the creation of those specific albums. The writers go really deep into every facet of the creation. The writing is often quite dense and so informative. Like a Mojo article expanded a hundred fold! We wanted to give each one an in depth review, but they are all so good and they keep coming fast and furious so we figured we oughta just list em. Basically, if you love the record, you're definitely gonna want the book! Also got the Joe Pernice Meat Is Murder book back in stock as well as Andrew Hulktrans's book about Love's masterpiece Forever Changes. And if you're anything like the music geeks here, you're gonna want all of em! Future volumes include My Bloody Valentine's Loveless, Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures, Radiohead's OK Computer, Jethro Tull's Aqualung.