Welcome! Stinkweeds is an independently owned and operated store and website based in Phoenix, AZ. We guarantee personalized service from people who love music. We've been here since 1987, primarily focusing on imports and independent labels. If we don't have something in stock, we will not charge your card, but instead will write and let you know the status of your order. If you don't see something you're looking for, please request it in the comments box on your order...if it's still in print, we can get it for you. There are currently over 19,000 items on the site, many of them hard to find! Thanks for choosing an independent business!! artist title label		Black Angels Directions To See A Ghost (Light In The Attic) CD - $12   Austin's darkest droners THE BLACK ANGELS are back with their second full-length release. With tidal rhythms and rasping epics, Directions To See A Ghost is a driving, psychedelic masterpiece that churns through the album's 72 minutes and eleven tracks.   Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago (Jagjaguwar) CD - $13 LP - $13   This is BON IVER'S debut full-length For Emma, Forever Ago. Bon Iver (pronounced: bohn eevair; French for "good winter" and spelled wrong on purpose) is a greeting, a celebration and a sentiment. It is a new statement of an artist moving on and establishing the groundwork for a lasting career. As a whole, the record is entirely cohesive throughout and remains centered around a particular aesthetic, prompted by the time and place for which it was recorded. JUSTIN VERNON, the primary force behind Bon Iver, seems to have tested his boundaries to the maximum, and in doing so has managed to break free from any pre-cursing or finished forms. Recommended!   Clinic Do It (Domino) CD - $14   Their fifth studio album is a warped Technicolor celebration of cut-up pop music going from melody to acid psychosis to placid acoustic moments, usually in the same song.   Coil Ape Of Naples (Important) 4LP - $95   This ultra-deluxe box set includes 2 albums by legends Coil. The first is the complete Ape Of Naples and the second is The New Backwards, which is currently only available in this box set. The New Backwards appropriately is part of the Ape of Naples set. The material is additional completed versions of songs that were left unfinished, whose early raw loops and demonstrational incarnations might sound familiar to some but have never officially surfaced. This 4LP set is pressed on 180 gram vinyl. Each record is packaged in its own LP jacket and housed in a deluxe tip-on style box. Includes a 4-panel poster. This box is limited to 1,500. Due to the weight of this box, mailorder customers please inquire about shipping.   Constantines Kensington Heights (Arts and Crafts) CD - $15   The Constantines return with a new label and the same vibrant spirit. Kensington Heights is twelve tracks of gritty, sweaty low-down rock 'n roll just like you'd expect from the veteran band. An instant classic from start to finish, this slides in with ease right alongside any other release in their canon.   Devotchka A Mad And Faithful Telling (Anti) CD - $15   This four piece multi-instrumental outfit fuses Gypsy, Greek, Slavic, and Mariachi influences with American punk and folk roots. In 2006, they scored "Little Miss Sunshine", garnering four Academy Award nominations, and earned a Grammy nod for Best Soundtrack. Their stage set up is fortified by sousaphone, accordion, piano, violin, bouzouki, upright bass, percussion, trumpet, drums and Theremin. Their most fully realized effort to date. Highly Recommended!   Elbow Seldom Seen Kid (Geffen) CD - $10   Elbow returns with another intelligent, progressive pop record. Fluxuating between delicate paino and full on guitar washes, this easily holds up to their previous outing. Nice price too! Recommended.   Fleet Foxes Sun Giant EP (Sub Pop) CDEP - $6   Seattle's Fleet Foxes make such complex, harmonic, '70s-inspired folk-rock -- it's hard to believe that the band's principle songwriter is only 21-years-old. Giant Sun is a precursor to the band's debut, Ragged Wood, out in June. The new My Morning Jacket.   M83 Saturdays=Youth (Mute) CD - $15   For M83's chief stargazer Anthony Gonzalez, his youth is something he looks back upon with affection, something that has become the defining theme of his enchanting new album. Recorded with producer/engineer Ken Thomas (Psychic TV, Sigur Ros, The Sugarcubes, Suede, Clinic, etc.) and Ewan Pearson (Tracey Thorn, The Rapture, Ladytron), Saturdays=Youth delivers the rich sonic textures for which M83 is well known -- this time with a more focused approach to song structure, form and production -- sounding like a lost electro-pop classic from 1983.   Meloy, Colin Colin Meloy Sings Live (Kill Rock Stars) CD - $14   A fourteen-song set documenting THE DECEMBERIST's lead singer/songwriter's 2006 solo tour. This live solo album presents him in a stripped-down, acoustic setting leading his audience on a spellbinding walk through his oeuvre thus far and providing a glimpse of some new material.   Portishead Third (Mercury) CD - $14 LP - $16   Their first studio album in ten years leaves the trip-hop world behind, embarking on a voyage to a brave new musical universe of their own, with the haunting vocals of Beth Gibbons the only constant. Highly recommended. Initial copies of either format come with a bonus picture sleeve 7" of the lead single "Machine Gun" on white vinyl with an etched B-side, while supplies last. The limited vinyl edition with USB drive (which will be here next week) includes an MP3 download.)   Russian Circles Station (Suicide Squeeze) CD - $14   Metal trimmings, minimal jazz primers, and cryptic riffs that hit out of nowhere with the pummeling impact of a comet. Their music weaves up an intense and cinematic albeit soothing clobbering that cannot be pigeonholed. Their lumbering layers of chiseled post rock and feathery psychedelic infusions have both revved and enticed listeners into mental orgasms the world over.   Spoon Don't You Evah (Merge) CDEP - $7   The latest single from Spoon’s masterpiece Ga Ga Ga…. Features the video for the song as well as remixes by Diplo, Matthew Dear, and Ted Leo. This song was actually penned by old Spoon touring mates The Natural History, whose original version appears here as track #5. They actually toured together in 2002, so presumably this single has been a long time in the making. A perfect gift for the Spoon completist.   Tapes 'n Tapes Walk It Off (XL) CD - $14   The Minneapolis-based band's first record since 2006's widely lauded The Loon which established them as ones to watch. Tapes 'N Tapes' signature sound is distinctly their own concoction: shaky vocals, bursts of lo-fi guitars, and haunting keyboard refrains. Jittery rock that's found the sweet spot where experimental song structure meets melodic accessibility.   Thee Silver Mt Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra la la 13 Blues For Thirteen Moons (Constellation) CD - $15 LP - $22   The music of the full band (two guitars, two violins, cello, contrebasse and drums) has grown louder, looser, full of spittle and tears. On 13 Blues For Thirteen Moons, riffs are the backbone more than ever. Anchored by new drummer ERIC CRAVEN (ex-HANGEDUP), the band works its slow build and burn with newfound patience, sinuousness and ferocity. Whether methodically framing walls of sound over the four-on-the-floor punk dirge of "1,000,000 Died To Make This Sound" or exploding in sheets of free noise and melody on "Black Waters Blowed," the band has never rocked harder and has never sounded more determined, desperate and driven.   Tokyo Police Club Elephant Shell (Saddle Creek) CD - $14 LP - $15   Following one of the most well received 16 minutes of music in recent history (2006's A Lesson In Crime EP), Newmarket, Ontario's TOKYO POLICE CLUB delivers its debut album Elephant Shell. Elephant Shell lands roughly a year and half after A Lesson In Crime.   Enter your email address to join our weekly mailing list & receive updates on new releases and special products!
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