Another month, another issue of this new music must-read for those who want to be in the know. Cover placement goes to Laurel Halo. Inside, also: David Dunn, Sam Shalabi, Archie Shepp, Jar Moff, Magik Markers, and plenty more, including the usual tons o' reviews. Plus, another free cd sampler stuck to the cover. ----* ----* In Stock, Not Yet Reviewed : ----* If you want to order one of these, just search for the item, then click on the buy button and it will be added to your cart! ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE & SPACE PARANOID "Black Magic Satori" (Safety Meeting) lp 16.98 ALTO! "s/t" (Raheem) lp 14.98 ARTEMIEV, EDUARD "Solaris" (Superior Viaduct) lp 23.00 BEGGARS "s/t" (Lotus House) 2cd 13.98 BEST COAST "Fade Away" (Jewel City) cd/lp 7.98/13.98 BIKOFF, DON "Celestial Explosion" (Tompkins Square) lp 17.98 BIRDS YOU ONCE KNEW / A SUDDEN RIPENING "split" (Turmeric Magnitudes) cassette 4.98 BIRTH CONTROL "Hoodoo Man" (Repertoire) cd 14.98 BIZARRE UPROAR "Rape Africa" (Freak Animal / Filth & Violence) cd 12.98 BLANK FIGHT, THE "House Band Feud" (Silver Sprocket Bicycle Club) lp 11.98 BLANK TAPES, THE "Vacation" (Antenna Farm) cd/lp 11.98/14.98 BOOJI "Reserved" (Modern Sky) cd 12.98 BOTTOMLESS PIT "Shade Perennial" (Comedy Minus One) lp 15.98 BRAIN FROM PLANET AROUS, THE / TEENAGE MONSTER (WALTER GREENE) "OST" (Monstrous Movie Music) cd 27.00 BRAN (...) POS "Den Of Ordure And Iridescence" (Resipiscent) lp 15.98 BRODERICK, PETER "Float 2013" (Erased Tapes) cd 16.98 BUCKNER, RICHARD "Surrounded" (Merge) cd 14.98 BUDD, HAROLD "Perhaps" (Root Strata) cd 16.98 BURNING STARR (JACK STARR'S) "No Turning Back!" (Skol) cd 15.98 BURNING TREE "Lammergyer" (Utech) lp 19.98 BUTTHOLE SURFERS "Hairway To Steven" (Latino Bugger Veil) lp 15.98 BUTTHOLE SURFERS "Locust Abortion Technician" (Latino Bugger Veil) lp 15.98 BUTTHOLE SURFERS "Psychic... Powerless... Another Man's Sac" (Latino Bugger Veil) lp 15.98 BUTTHOLE SURFERS "Rembrandt Pussyhorse" (Latino Bugger Veil) lp 15.98 CALLAHAN, BILL "Dream River" (Drag City) cd/lp 14.98/17.98 CARCASS "Surgical Steel" (Nuclear Blast) cd 16.98 CHAO, MANU "Clandestino" 2lp+cd 29.00 CHROME HOOF "Chrome Black Gold" (Cuneiform) cd 16.98 CHUI WAN "White Night" (Maybe Mars) cd 12.98 COLLEGE "Secret Diary" (Invada) lp 35.00 COSMIC PSYCHOS "Down On The Farm" (Aarght / Goner) lp 14.98 COSMIC PSYCHOS "Go The Hack" (Aarght / Goner) lp 15.98 DAMNATIONS HAMMER "Disciples Of The Hex" (I Hate Records) cd 16.98 DANTESCO "We Don't Fear Your God" (Inframundo) cd 13.98 DIESEL DUDES "Born Brute" (Goth Horse) cassette 5.98 DIREEN, BILL & THE HAT "The Flavour Of The Meat" (Grapefruit) lp 23.00 DODOS "Carrier" (Polyvinyl) lp 16.98 DONATO, DOZZY "Plays Bee Mask" (Spectrum Spools) cd/2lp 16.98/30.00 DOT WIGGIN BAND "Ready! Get! Go!" (Alternative Tentacles) lp 14.98 DULLAAR, FRANK "Trans Harmonic Dream" (Sanity Muffin) cassette 5.98 DYNE, THE "Swim. Fly Roots" (Genjing) 7" 9.98 ENDING PEOPLE "Fill Your Lungs" (Cash Cow Production) lp 14.98 ERICKSON, ROKY "Don't Slander Me" (Light In The Attic) cd/2lp 16.98/28.00 ERICKSON, ROKY "Gremlins Have Pictures" (Light In The Attic) cd/lp + 7" 16.98/26.00 EXTINCTION DE LOS INSECTOS "Untitled" (Lupus / Chingaste La Confianza) lp 19.98 FALCON (EX-CIRCLE) "Beer & Ribs b/w Sunset Street" (Full Contact) 7" 8.98 FRESH & ONLYS, THE "Soothsayer" (Mexican Summer) lp 16.98 GANGLOFF, MIKE "Poplar Hollow" (Blackest Rainbow) lp 26.00 GAR "s/t" (Maybe Mars / Tenzenmen) cd 12.98 GAR "The City Of Burning Identities" (Maybe Mars) cd 12.98 GEARS "Jaguar Intentions" (Sanity Muffin) cassette 5.98 GELDINGS "Leopard's Milk" (Sanity Muffin) cassette 5.98 GOBLIN "The Awakening" (Cherry Red) 6cd box 68.00 GORGUTS "Colored Sands" (Season Of Mist) cd 14.98 GRAILS "Black Tar Prophecies Vol 4, 5, & 6" (Temporary Residence) 2lp 31.00 GREENSPON, KEVIN / FORMER SELVES "Betrayed By The Angels / Apropos Of Golden Dreams" (Bridgetown) lp 11.98 HEAVENLY BEAT "Prominence" (Captured Tracks) lp 21.00 HEDERSLEBEN "1: Upgoer" (Unternarz) cd/lp 9.98/19.98 HEDGEHOG "Blue Day Dreaming" (Modern Sky) cd 12.98 HEDGEHOG "Honeyed And Killed" (Modern Sky) cd 12.98 HEDGEHOG "Noise Hit World" (Modern Sky) cd 12.98 ITO, AKIRA "Japanesque" (Bamboo) cd/lp 17.98/24.00 J. TEAL BAND "Cooks" (Vintage / Rockadrome) cd 13.98 JASMINE REEF "Wet" (self-released) magazine 9.98 JULIE RUIN, THE "Run Fast" (Dischord) cd 13.98 JULIUS SMACK "Feels So Right" (self-released) cd ep 6.98 K11 "Another Temple To The Great Beast 666" (Utech) cd 14.98 L/A/Z/Y "Obsession" (Moniker) lp 15.98 LANEGAN, MARK "Imitations" (Vagrant / Flooded Soil Recordings) cd 16.98 LAST DAYS OF HUMANITY "The Sound Of Rancid Juices Sloshing Around Your Coffin" (Fat Ass) lp 16.98 LAVA OX SEA "Next Episode Lord Smart vs Dr.Jin" (Modern Sky) cd 12.98 LORD NASTY "Phuck Em And Forget Em" (self-released) cd-r 11.98 LOW WORMWOOD "Lanzhou Lanzhou" (Maybe Mars) cd 12.98 MAZZY STAR "Seasons Of Your Day" (Rhymes Of An Hour / Fontana) cd/lp 15.98/30.00 MCDOWELL, MISSISSIPPI FRED "I Do Not Play Rock 'N' Roll" (4 Men With Beards) lp 16.98 MELCHIOR, DAN "K-85" (Homeless) lp 14.98 MILES, WYMOND "Passion Plays b/w Batwing" (Sacred Bones) 7" 5.98 MINOT "An Era Of Institutional Failure" (self-released) cd-r 11.98 MOIRA SCAR "Scarred For Life" (Resipiscent) lp 15.98 MOORE, ANGELO "Sacrifice" (self-released) cd 8.98 MUNDO ANIMAL / DARK SPRING / BLACK THREAD "split" (Turmeric Magnitudes) cassette 4.98 NATURAL SNOW BUILDINGS "Daughter Of Darkness" (Ba Da Bing!) 6cd 34.00 NEW VADERS "Dynamic Traxx Vol. I" (Limb Soup) cassette 5.98 NIGHT TERRORS, THE "Back To Zero" (Homeless) 2lp 27.00 NO AGE "An Object" (Sub Pop) cd/lp 13.98/15.98 NO NECK BLUES BAND "Gitanjali" (Ri Be Xibalba) 10" 19.98 NOACK, EDDIE "Psycho b/w Dolores" (Bear Family) 7" 14.98 NOSTALGIST "Monochromantic" (Nostalgium Directive) 7" 8.98 NOTHING "The Grey Subaudible" (Nostalgium Directive) cassette 8.98 ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER "R Plus Seven" (Warp) 2lp 30.00 ORCUTT, BILL "A History Of Every One" (Editions Mego) cd 16.98 OSCAR YOUNG BAND, THE "Damp Circuits" (Sham Palace) 7" 9.98 OURSELF BESIDE ME "s/t" (Maybe Mars) 12.98 P.K.14 "White Paper" (Modern Sky) cd 12.98 P.K.14 "Whoever, Whoever & Whoever" (Modern Sky) cd 12.98 P.K.14, THE "City Weather Sailing" (Maybe Mars / Tenzenmen) cd 12.98 PURLING HISS "Paisley Montage" (Richie) lp 14.98 PUTNAM, CURLEY "World Of Country Music / Lonesome Country" (The Omni Recording Corporation) cd 17.98 RAJATTTAJAT "Awopbopaloopop Alopbam Raja" (Ektro) cd 14.98 RE-TROS "Cut Off!" (Modern Sky) cd 12.98 REBUILDING THE RIGHTS OF STATUES "Watch Out! Climate Has Changed, Fat Mum Rises..." (Modern Sky) cd 12.98 RED FANG "Whales And Leeches" (Relapse) cd/lp /19.98 RENDERIZORS "Vivid Cloud / Lucky Din" (Grapefruit) lp 23.00 RENE HELL "Vanilla Call Option" (Pan) lp 28.00 REYKJAVICTIM "Xiao Di Fang" (Metal Postcard) cd 14.98 ROLLIN HUNT "The Phoney" (Moniker) lp 16.98 SAI, YOSHIKO "Mikko" (Bamboo) cd 17.98 SALEM'S LAW "Tale Of Goblins' Breed" (Skol) cd 15.98 SATAN PANONSKI "Hard Blood Shock" (S-s) lp 15.98 SCREAMING SAVIOR "Infinity" (Metal Hell) cd 14.98 SKORNIK, GUY "Pour Pauwels" (Lion) cd 14.98 SLASHER FILM FESTIVAL STRATEGY, THE "An Introduction To Mayhem" (Children Of The Night) 7" 5.50 SOULEYMAN, OMAR "Wenu Wenu" (Ribbon Music) cd 14.98 SPACE "Magic Fly" (Repertoire) cd 13.98 STARSKATE "Goodnight Nobody" (Goth Horse) lp 11.98 STEEL POLE BATH TUB "Tulip" (Boner) cassette 8.98 STOLTZ, KELLY "Double Exposure" (Third Man) lp 21.00 STRANGER, THE (LEYLAND KIRBY) "Watching Dead Empires in Decay" (Modern Love) cd 19.98 STREETS KILL STRANGE ANIMALS "Plan B: Back To The Analog Time" (Modern Sky) cd 12.98 SURPLUS 1980 "Arterial Ends Here" (Delphine Knormal Musik) 10" + cd 10.98 SWEATSHIRT, EARL "Doris" (Columbia) cd 14.98 T2 "1971-72" (Acme) cd 14.98 TAIST OF IRON "Resurrection" (Skol) 2cd 16.98 TEETH OF THE SEA "Master" (Rocket) cd/lp 19.98/27.00 THE NON TRAVELLIN' BAND "Never Prayed Once" (Moon Glyph) cassette 4.98 TINKER, BENJAMIN ETHAN "Transcriptions Of Tributaries" (Khalija) cassette 6.98 TRAVELERS "Travelers" (Maybe Mars) cd 12.98 V/A "Air Texture Volume 3" (Air Texture) 2cd 21.00 V/A "Bridge Into The New Age" (Ace) cd 15.98 V/A "Copendium: A Sonic Companion To Julian Cope's Expedition Into The Rock 'N' Roll Underwerld" 3cd 52.00 V/A "Dead Good: Eternal Classics From The Grim Reaper's Jukebox" cd 10.98 V/A "Hassaniya Music From The Western Sahara And Mauritania" (Sublime Frequencies) lp 25.00 V/A "Mutazione: Italian Electronic & New Wave Underground 1980-1988" (Strut) 2cd 16.98 V/A "Paink: French Punk Anthems 1977-1982" (Born Bad Records) lp 21.00 V/A "The Best Of Halloween: 50 Halloween Favorites" (One Day) 2cd 9.98 V/A "The Get Down Boogie Sound" (Ace) cd 15.98 VATICAN SHADOW "Remember Your Black Day" (Hospital) cd/lp 16.98/ VELA EYES "The Pleasure Sunrise" (self-released) 10" 9.98 WHITE FENCE "Live In San Francisco" (Castle Face) cd/lp 13.98/14.98 WILDHONEY "Like Me" (Nostalgium Directive) 7" 5.50 WINO & CONNY OCHS "Heavy Kingdom" (Exile On Mainstream) cd 16.98 WONG, DUSTIN "Mediation Of Ecstatic Energy" (Thrill Jockey) lp + 7" 22.00 XIAO HE "Silly's Ballad" (Modern Sky) Artbook / MP3 player 75.00 XIAO HE "The Bird..." (Modern Sky) cd 12.98 XIAO HE "The Performance of Identity" (Maybe Mars) 2cd 14.98 YOUNGS, RICHARD "Calmont Breakdown" (Fourth Dimension) cd 17.98 YUCK "Glow & Behold" (Fat Possum) lp 14.98 ZAG MEN, THE "Crime Spree" (Vetoxa) lp 19.98
The new issue of this essential UK new music magazine features Demdike Stare on the cover (what? we don't wanna know what they look like! how can we call 'em "mysterious" any more??). Still, of course a very interesting feature.
Also: new age zitherer Laraaji, having a bit of a renaissance of late. House/industrial artists Heatsick + Helm. GNAW. R Millis. A Savage Pencil tribute to the late Lou Reed. A Moscow scene report. Dot Wiggins of the Shaggs. Robert Beatty of Hair Police. Lots and lots of reviews. A cool picture of Attila Csihar of Mayhem. And, more! ----* ----* In Stock, Not Yet Reviewed : ----* If you want to order one of these, just search for the item, then click on the buy button and it will be added to your cart! A FIELD IN ENGLAND "OST" (Rook Films) cassette 10.98 ABDUL-RAUF, LEILA "Cold And Cloud" (Saadi Saati / Pesanta Urfolk) lp 19.98 ABYSSION "Satanic Taste Of Neurotic Virtuosi" (Sylvan Screams Analog) cassette 5.00 AQUA NEBULA OSCILLATOR "Spiritus Mundi" (Tee Pee) cd 14.98 ARTEMIEV, EDUARD "Solaris (Music From The Motion Picture)" (Mirumir) lp 36.00 ARTEMIEV, EDUARD "Stalker / Mirror" (Mirumir) lp 36.00 BLIZARO "Strange Doorways" (I, Voidhanger) 2cd 16.98 BOARDS OF CANADA "In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country" (Warp) 12" 17.98 BOARDS OF CANADA "Trans Canda Highway" (Warp) 12" 17.98 BOARDS OF CANADA "Twoism" (Warp) lp 17.98 BRAIN FROM PLANET AROUS, THE / TEENAGE MONSTER (WALTER GREENE) "OST" (Monstrous Movie Music) cd 27.00 BRAN (...) POS "Den Of Ordure And Iridescence" (Resipiscent) lp 15.98 CAR-SICK CARS "Rock 'n' Roll Hero / Mexico 7"" (Maybe Mars) 7" 9.98 CORYELL, LARRY "Barefoot Boy" (BGP) cd 11.98 COUM TRANSMISSIONS "Home Aged & The 18 Month Hope" (Dais) lp 22.00 CULTS "Static" (Columbia) lp 22.00 CYBOTRON "Sunday Night At The Total Theater" (Dual Planet) cd 16.98 DAMNATIONS HAMMER "Disciples Of The Hex" (I Hate Records) cd 16.98 DANTESCO "We Don't Fear Your God" (Inframundo) cd 13.98 DAY OF THE DEAD (JOHN HARRISON) "OST" (La-La Land) 2cd 28.00 DECEMBERISTS "Castaways & Cutouts" (Jealous Butcher / Hush) lp 17.98 DEMENT, IRIS "Infamous Angel" (Plain) lp 16.98 DODOS "Carrier" (Polyvinyl) lp 16.98 DOT WIGGIN BAND "Ready! Get! Go!" (Alternative Tentacles) lp 14.98 ENTRANCE BAND, THE "Face The Sun" (Beyond) lp 19.98 EXTINCTION DE LOS INSECTOS "Untitled" (Lupus / Chingaste La Confianza) lp 19.98 FLAMIN' GROOVIES "Shake Some Action" (4 Men With Beards) lp 16.98 FUZZ "s/t" (Easy Rider) cassette 12.98 GHOST BC "If You Have Ghost" (Republic / Rise Above) cd ep 8.98 GIBSON, ERNEST "Island Records" (Skrot Up) lp 14.98 GOODBYE & AMEN (GUIDO & MAURIZIO DE ANGELIS) "OST" (Intermezzo Media) cd 29.00 GORGUTS "Colored Sands" (Season Of Mist) cd 14.98 GROUP RHODA "12th House" (Not Not Fun) cd/lp 13.98/14.98 GUEULE OUVERTE "s/t" (Stochastic) lp 9.98 GUSTAFSSON, MATS & DIDI KERN "Eissalon (Live)" (Rock Is Hell) lp 17.98 HAVOK "Unnatural Selection" (Shadow Kingdom) cd 14.98 HEADBOGGLE & VIBRATING GARBAGE "s/t" (Beer On The Rug) cassette 8.98 HEAVENLY BEAT "Prominence" (Captured Tracks) cd/lp /21.00 HEDERSLEBEN "1: Upgoer" (Unternarz) cd/lp 9.98/19.98 HEDGEHOG "Blue Day Dreaming" (Modern Sky) cd 12.98 HEDGEHOG "Honeyed And Killed" (Modern Sky) cd 12.98 HEDGEHOG "Noise Hit World" (Modern Sky) cd 12.98 HIDDEN MASTERS "Of This & Other Worlds" (Rise Above / Metal Blade) cd/lp 14.98/32.00 HUSERE GRAV "You Are Transparent" (Crucial Blast) cd+zine+button 9.99 HWYL NOFIO "Dark" (Hwyl Nofio) cd INHALT "Occupations" (Dark Entries) 12" 11.98 ISHIBASHI, EIKO "Imitation Of Life" (Drag City) lp 17.98 J. TEAL BAND "Cooks" (Vintage / Rockadrome) cd 13.98 JACUZZI BOYS "s/t" (Hardly Art) cd/lp 12.98/13.98 KRAYL "Froide Et Sombre" (Sylvan Screams Analog) cassette 5.00 KRONOS QUARTET "Aheym" (Anti) lp 26.00 LARAAJI "Celestial Music: 1978-2011" (All Saints) 2cd 17.98 LARAAJI "Essence/Universe" (All Saints) cd 15.98 LAST DAYS OF HUMANITY "The Sound Of Rancid Juices Sloshing Around Your Coffin" (Fat Ass) lp 16.98 LAUREL HALO "Chance Of Rain" (Hyperdub) cd 15.98 LIMINANAS, THE "Costa Blanca" (Trouble In Mind) lp 16.98 LORD NASTY "Phuck Em And Forget Em" (self-released) cd-r 11.98 LORELLE MEETS THE OBSOLETE "Live In Mexico City" (Captcha) lp 17.98 LYSET "Vi Som Hater Guden Deres" (Sylvan Screams Analog) cassette 5.00 M.I.A. "Matangi" (Interscope) cd 13.98 MAGIK MARKERS "Surrender To The Fantasy" (Drag City) lp 19.98 MAJEURE "Romance Language" (Temporary Residence Ltd.) 12" 19.98 MASTER MUSICIANS OF BUKAKKE "Far West" (Important Records) lp 17.98 MAZZY STAR "Seasons Of Your Day" (Rhymes Of An Hour / Fontana) cd/lp 15.98/29.00 MCCOMBS, CASS "Big Wheel And Others" (Domino) 2lp 26.00 MCDOWELL, FRED & ANNIE MAE "My Home Is In The Delta" (Sutro Park) lp 14.98 MELNYK, LUBOMYR "Three Solo Pieces" (Unseen Worlds) cd/lp 16.98/23.00 MINOT "An Era Of Institutional Failure" (self-released) cd-r 11.98 MOD TALES "#1" (self-released) zine 4.98 MOIRA SCAR "Scarred For Life" (Resipiscent) lp 15.98 MONOTON "Monotonproduct 07" (Desire) 2lp 30.00 MOOMAW "Don't You Just Love" (Gazebo Music) lp 9.98 MOORE, ANGELO "Sacrifice" (self-released) cd 8.98 MR. WILCOX "s/t" (Self Released) cd 7.98 NEW PANTS "Boxset 1998-2011" (Maybe Mars) 7cd box 90.00 NIBLOCK, PHILL "Nothin To Look At Just A Record" (Superior Viaduct) lp 17.98 NO AGE "An Object" (Sub Pop) cd/lp 13.98/15.98 NOCTOOA "Adaptation" (Owl & Troll) cd 11.98 NOSTALGIST "Monochromantic" (Nostalgium Directive) 7" 8.98 NOTHING "The Grey Subaudible" (Nostalgium Directive) cassette 8.98 NOVELLER "No Dreams" (Important) cd 14.98 O RANG "Herd Of Ins" (Sleuth) lp 24.00 ONYEABOR, WILLIAM "World Psychedelic Classics 5: Who Is William Onyeabor?" (Luaka Bop) cd 15.98 OOZING WOUND "Retrash" (Thrill Jockey) lp 19.98 PENNY PENNY "Shaka Bundu" (Awesome Tapes From Africa) cd/2lp 15.98/29.00 PETER BESTE "Houston Rap" (Sinecure) book + 7" 42.00 PUTNAM, CURLEY "World Of Country Music / Lonesome Country" (The Omni Recording Corporation) cd 17.98 QUELLA VILLA ACCANTO AL CIMINTERO aka HOUSE BY THE CEMETARY (WALTER RIZZATI) "OST" (Beat Records) cd 29.00 QUTTINIRPAAQ "Let's Hang Out" (Rural Solation Project) lp 13.98 RAJATTTAJAT "Awopbopaloopop Alopbam Raja" (Ektro) cd 14.98 RANALDO, LEE AND THE DUST "Last Night On Earth" (Matador) 2lp 19.98 RENE HELL "Vanilla Call Option" (Pan) lp 28.00 RFCL "Joyful Noise Vol 2: Nomina Nuda Tenemus" (Black Note) cd-r 9.98 ROBOT BY THE RIVER "Birdsong Sayonara" (self-released) cd ep 5.98 ROLLIN HUNT "The Phoney" (Moniker) lp 16.98 SALOMAN, GABRIEL "Soldier's Requiem" (Miasma) lp 19.98 SATAN PANONSKI "Hard Blood Shock" (S-S) lp 15.98 SCHICKERT, GUNTER "Kinder In Der Wildnis" (Bureau B) lp 23.00 SKELETONWITCH "Serpents Unleashed" (Prosthetic Records) cd/lp 27.00/27.00 SKORNIK, GUY "Pour Pauwels" (Lion) cd 14.98 SPEEDY ORTIZ "Major Arcana" (Carpark) cd 14.98 SSLEEPERHOLD "Ruleth" (Holodeck) lp 17.98 STARSKATE "Goodnight Nobody" (Goth Horse) lp 11.98 STEEL POLE BATH TUB "Tulip" (Boner) cassette 8.98 STERLING SISTERS, THE "Hale" (Pesanta Urfolk) lp 17.98 STOLTZ, KELLY "Double Exposure" (Third Man) lp 21.00 STRAY "Time Machine: Anthology 1970-1977" (Castle) 2cd 17.98 T2 "1971-72" (Acme) cd 14.98 TAIST OF IRON "Resurrection" (Skol) 2cd 16.98 TURNER, MICK "Don't Tell The Driver" (Drag City) lp 22.00 TWILIGHT FAUNA "The Grotesque Travesty Of Creation" (Sylvan Screams Analog) cassette 5.00 TWILIGHT FAUNA "The Silence Of A Blackening Abyss" (Sylvan Screams Analog) cassette 5.00 V/A "Bridge Into The New Age" (Ace) cd 15.98 V/A "Classic Blues Artwork From The 1920's 2013 Calendar" (Blues Images) calendar+cd 19.98 V/A "Copendium: A Sonic Companion To Julian Cope's Expedition Into The Rock 'N' Roll Underwerld" 3cd 52.00 V/A "Dead Good: Eternal Classics From The Grim Reaper's Jukebox" cd 10.98 V/A "Hassaniya Music From The Western Sahara And Mauritania" (Sublime Frequencies) lp 25.00 V/A "Mobilisation Generale: Protest And Spirit Jazz From France 1970-1976" (Born Bad / Digger's Digest) cd/cd 16.98/29.00 V/A "Rebita 74" (Analog Africa) lp 28.00 V/A "SMM:Opiate" (Ghostly International) cd/lp 15.98/19.98 V/A "The Devil Is Busy In Knoxville" (Mississippi) lp 14.98 V/A "The Orchestra Of Futurist Noise Intoners" (Sub Rosa) 2lp 26.00 VASTUM "Patricidal Lust" (20 Buck Spin) lp 17.98 VENOM P. STINGER "1986-1991" (Drag City) 2cd 16.98 VESTER, HEIKE / OCEAN SOUNDS "Marine Mammals And Fish Of Lofoten And Vesteralen" (Gruenrekorder) cd 17.98 VILE, KURT "It's A Big World Out There (And I'm Scared)" (Matador) 12" 11.98 VOIDS "Burial In The Sky" (Popnihil Recordings) cassette 8.98 WAKE, THE "A Light Far Out" (Factory Benelux) lp 41.00 WALLS "Urals" (Ecstatic) 12" 14.98 WHEN PROPHECY FAILS "Baffling Configurations" (self-released) cassette 4.98 WIKKID "The Intro (1 Man Black Metal Band Bay Area California)" (self-released) cd ep 4.98 WILDHONEY "Like Me" (Nostalgium Directive) 7" 5.50 YO LA TENGO "Fade (Deluxe Edition)" (Matador) 2cd 16.98 YOUNGS, RICHARD "Calmont Breakdown" (Fourth Dimension) cd 17.98 ZAG MEN, THE "Crime Spree" (Vetoxa) lp 19.98
Woot! It's the big year-end wrap-up issue of this essential new music magazine from the UK. Featuring their Top 50 of 2013, another Top 50 of archival releases that came out this past year too, lots of personal views on the year's ups and downs from Wire's stable of writers and contributing musicians, plus a plethora of in-depth essays on what went down in 2013 in underground music as the Wire sees it, including Simon Reynols on "monumentalist reissues" and Clive Bell on "the rebirth of the new age", and much more.
HOLY CRAP! The cover star of this issue of monthly music magazine The Wire is none other than Sterling Smith, aka Jandek himself!!! Sure he's been playing out live in recent years after decades of being about as reclusive and mysterious as JD Salinger, but the mystique remains, and this is the first ever interview we've ever read with the representative from Corwood Industries! If you don't know what we're talking about, well, it's a kind of a big deal, read this and find out why we care.
If the Jandek exclusive wasn't enough, this ish also features '90s noisnik Stefan Jaworzyn (he's back), Russell Haswell (taking the Invisible Jukebox test), Roly Porter (writing about what the Metalheadz logo means to him), Japanese guitarist Katsuyoshi Kou, and more, including tons and tons of reviews.
But really, with ten pages of Jandek revelations, the rest is gravy. Not that he gives it all away in the interview, in fact, he remains quite odd and obfuscatory, which in a way is a relief.
Like Terrorizer, we've been reading The Wire every month for years, too. Here's the latest. On the cover, Actress! Inside, even more about Jandek (following last month's cover story exclusive interview, yes there's more to say about the mystery man). Also, long string composer Ellen Fullman takes the Invisible Jukebox test, a Primer on jazzer Steve Lacy, Gnod, Wm. Basinski, Carla Bozulich (writing about Billie Holiday), and more.
THIS IS CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT OR OTHERWISE UNAVAILABLE TO US AT THE MOMENT, SO PLEASE DO NOT ORDER IT. SORRY.
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On the cover of this issue: The Ex (the Dutch avant punks). Inside, also: recent aQ Record Of The Weeker Marissa Nadler listening to the Invisible Jukebo, Japanese saxophonist Akira Sakata, early '70s UK synth do-it-yourselfers, chamber composer Laurence Crane, Drew Daniel from Matmos talkin' about Slint, and plenty more... International scene reportage, the usual tons and tons of reviews, and even something about the Sleaford Mods. Plus, a "Wire Tapper" cd sampler is stuck to the cover!
Another issue of this indispensable new music magazine out of the UK. Cover story this time is all about especially significant compilations, anthologies, lists, catalogs, web archives, etc., a very interesting 22 page section indeed. Also: downtown NY '70s synthpunks Jack Ruby, cellist Ikkyung Lee doin' the Invisible Jukebox, the early years of Sun Ra saxophonist Marshall Allen, Hype Williams singer Inga Copeland out on her own, and lots more!
Ben Frost. Mike Heron doing the Invisible Jukebox. Haliu Merga. Grouper on The Dead C. Orphy Robinson. Victorian electronic music hall instruments! And more...
Yoshimi from the Boredoms is this issue's cover star, on occasion of her other band OOIOO having a great new album coming out soon (the gamelan-inflected Gamel, out on Thrill Jockey next month). Also in this issue: Alan Courtis of Reynols, the Stockholm electronic music studio EMS, Shanghai noise act Torturing Nurse, an Invisible Jukebox session with grime dudes Butterz, James Toth writes about Raffi (yes, Raffi in The Wire!!), there's also the usual ton of authoritative reviews and other essential information...
The lovely St. Vincent is this issue's cover star. Also, inside: producer Lee Gamble, electronic musician / vocal improviser Trevor Wishart, aQ fave krautrocker Gunter Schickert, and Moog master and field recording maven Bernie Krause takes the Invisible Jukebox test. Plus plenty more, including the usual slew of interesting reviews. Also, stuck to the cover this time 'round is another installment in The Wire's free "Wire Tapper" sampler cd series, with 20 tracks from all sorts of strange sound-makers, among 'em Alan Licht, German Army, and Kim Hiorthoy to name a few we actually recognize.
This latest issue of this indispensable 'new music' magazine from the UK has got Dean Blunt (aka Hype Williams) on the cover. Also brainwave composer David Rosenboom, Justin Broadrick of Godflesh/Jesu doing the Invisible Jukebox test, Drew Mulholland aka Mount Vernon Arts Lab, grime producer Slackk, Berlin-based composer Catherine Lamb, and more, including a Primer on the works of saxophonist Pharoah Sanders and all the usual reviews, news, etc.
We've been reading the Wire for a while, don't remember them putting King Crimson's Robert Fripp on the cover before, about time. Also this issue: the noisy Pharmakon, Grumbling Fur doing the Invisible Jukebox, improviser Jeremiah Cymerman, Tuareg singer/guitarist/actor Mdou Moctar, Gazelle Twin, Bruce Lacey, and more... Plus the usual very informative section of reviews, also news, charts, columns, etc.
Latest issue of this indispensable magazine of new music, from the UK. This issue's got Japanese singer Eiko Ishibashi, artist/activist Bob Cobbing, trombonist Peter Zummo doing the 'Invisible Jukebox', and plenty more, including a big 16 page cover-story section all about 'freedom in music and liberation in sound', covering everything from protest folk to trap rap, free improv to karaoke music! Plus all the usual news, reviews, etc.
It's the big, always popular year end issue of this key new music magazine! "Rewind 2014" covers the best of the year in underground music - 30 pages of charts, lists, essays, etc. Then, there's also the usual interviews, reviews, columns, etc., including bits on rapper Divine Styler and Japanese sound artist Rie Nakajima, an "Invisible Jukebox" session with folkie Alasdair Roberts, and more. If you were only to get one issue of The Wire every year (what's the matter with you?) then this would be the one.
Mica Levi on the cover; also, John Carpenter (cool! looking forward to his Lost Themes album on Sacred Bones, dropping next week!!), a piece on hiphop mixtapes, the Red Bull Music Academy, and more, including the usual vast section of reviews, etc.
Another issue of this indispensable guide to what's what in the world of interesting new music, with Carter Tutti on the cover (all about the album of re-recordings we're reviewing this week), plus also jazz bassist Cecil McBee, saxophonist Steve Coleman, a scene report on Mexico City, and plenty more, including the usual news and (tons of) reviews. And maybe best of all, an "Invisible Jukebox" blind-test session starring the Sleaford Mods!!
This latest issue of UK music magazine The Wire is full of good stuff - you've got Lightning Bolt being tested by the Invisible Jukebox, you've got a primer on Moondog, you've got sound artist Holly Herndon on the cover, you've also got Liturgy, John Wiese, and plenty more, including another installment in the Wire Tapper free cd sampler series stuck to the cover, yeah. ----* ----* Also Relatively New In Stock, But Not Yet Reviewed : ----* A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS "Transfixiation" (Dead Oceans) cd/lp 13.98/17.98
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BOOTLEGS "W.C. Monster" (Minotauro) cd 17.98
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BROWNOUT "Brownout Presents: Brown Sabbath" (Ubiquity) cd 15.98
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CARAGNANO, ANNA / DONATO DOZZY "Sintetizzatrice" (Spectrum Spools) lp 22.00
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CARTER, DEAN "Call Of The Wild" (Big Beat) lp 23.00
CHAIN, PAUL "Whited Sepulchres" (Minotauro) cd 17.98
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COSMIC DEALER "Crystallization" (Pseudonym) 2lp 38.00
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DAMON & NAOMI "Fortune" (20/20/20) lp 15.98
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DURTHANG "Passage Beyond The Cold Vales Of Desolation" (War Against Yourself) cd 14.98
EL HIJO DE LA AURORA "The Enigma Of Evil" (Minotauro) cd 17.98
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FATHER JOHN MISTY "I Love You, Honeybear" (Sub Pop) cd 14.98
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FUNEREAL PRESENCE "The Archer Takes Aim" (Ajna Offensive) cd 9.98
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GALA DROP "II" (Golf Channel) cd 16.98
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GRIM FUNERAL "Abdication Under Funeral Dirge" (Avantgarde Music) cd 14.98
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KING KHAN & BBQ SHOW, THE "Bad News Boys" (In The Red) lp 15.98
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UNCLE SAM "Heaven Or Hollywood" (Minotauro) cd 17.98
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WEED "Thousand Pound b/w Turret" (Lefse) 7" 8.98
WEEPING RAT "Tar" (Handmade Birds) cd 10.98
WINTERFRONT "Northwinds" (Werewolf Promotion / Lower Silesian Stronghold) cd 14.98
XYZ "s/t" (Radical Elite) lp 16.98
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ZERO DOWN "No Limit To Evil" (Minotauro) cd 12.98
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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!
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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!
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.
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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...
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.
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. ----* ----* Compilations : ----*
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.
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.
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. ----* ----* Compilations : ----*
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).
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!
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!
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. ----* ----* Selected New Arrivals : ----*
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. ----* ----* Compilations : ----*
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.
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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.
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...
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!
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!
The latest issue of this long running aQ fave finds Yeti magazine making yet another big change. Several issues back, the companion cd comp was ditched in favor of the much cooler vinyl 7" single, and around the same time, the magazine changed shape as well, presumably to fit better with the new 7", the measurements now a sweet seven by seven. But now, Yeti magazine has finally taken the big step of going full color, and wow does it suit them. Their usual collection of weird music, strange photos, outsider art and underground comics, now look even better, beginning with the stunning eye popping fold out full color gatefold cover, which leads directly into a killer collection of rock posters from New Zealand in the seventies! Then there's songstress/soundscaper/artist/cartoonist Genevieve Castree (aka Woelv), it's her artwork that adorns the cover, then an amazing oral history of Slowcore legends Codeine, a piece that was originally intended to be included with the recent Codeine When I See The Sun box, which includes contributions from Codeine members past and present, our very own Andee, Rebecca Gates from the Spinanes, David Grubbs from Bastro / Bitch Magnet, Mac from Superchunk, Alan Licht and Brendan O'Malley from Love Child, Mike Galinsky from Sleepyhead, Lois Maffeo, Ken from Homestead Records, Richard Baluyut from Versus, Dean Wareham from Galaxie 500, recording engineer Mike McMackin, writer Ned Raggett, Bret Lunsford from Beat Happening, Tim Foljahn from Two Dollar Guitar and Gerard Cosloy from Matador Records. Also includes lots of old photos and flyers.
There's some stunning recent works from artist David Moreno, a collection of found photographs from the collection of Mark Sullo, an interview with Fursaxa aka Tara Burke, conducted by Iltas Ahmed, whose collages illustrate the interview, some gorgeous photos by photographer Sarah Meadows, a cool comic by Josh Brayer, photos of a spontaneous Mike Kelley memorial, recreated anonymously recreated a block from the artist's home, there's also a bunch of fiction and non fiction writing, a novel excerpt and more. As always, the ads are all in their own section in the back, but now in color, that section is almost as cool as the rest of the mag.
And let's not forget the accompanying 7", which this time around features exclusive tracks from Moon Duo, Karen Dalton, The Great Unwashed, and Trypes, and there's an mp3 comp as well, you can link from the mag to the website for the 7" tracks and loads more. As always, essential reading!!!
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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!!
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!
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!
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!
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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...
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!!
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!
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.
