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		Bowerbirds Hymns For A Dark Horse reissue (Dead Oceans) CD - $14 LP - $14   Only once every ten years or so does one hear a new band this good, this bursting with ideas, this audibly in love with music. This band is the complete package. Ears tend to perk up when a record review sings praises like these, especially when the praises come from the Mountain Goats' John Darnielle, as they did recently on his Last Plane to Jakarta website hailing the BOWERBIRDS' debut album, Hymns for a Dark Horse. The album was originally released in July of 2007 on Burly Time, and is now issued in an expanded form featuring two bonus tracks.   Earlimart Hymn and Her (Shout Factory) CD - $14   After going through personnel changes, Earlimart was pared down to co-leaders Aaron Espinoza and Ariana Murray. Locking themselves in the studio to write and record an album in just four weeks, they emerged with a record whose urgency and immediacy reflects their powerful live shows.   Fleet Foxes Self Titled (Sub Pop) CD - $14 LP - $16   One of the “buzziest” bands out there, Seattle's Fleet Foxes make beautifully baroque pop that has the kids going crazy. They’re influences range from folk, pop and choral to gospel and Japan. For fans of My Morning Jacket and The Band.   Joan As Police Woman To Survive (Cheap Lullaby) CD - $13   Songwriter, singer and multi-instrumentalist Joan Wasser (ex-Antony And The Johnsons) delivers an album of unashamedly heartfelt songs. Special guests include Rufus Wainwright and David Sylvian.   Kinch Advances ((local)) CD - $5   With the release of Advances, Kinch have shown that they are ready to become the next must hear band out of Phoenix. Despite Advances only being their debut record, there is a sophistication and maturity many acts never reach, much less begin with. Their pop sensibilities have been drawing comparisons to Coldplay and The Strokes, but they are much closer to rock bands like The Hold Steady, Koufax, or Gang Of Four...   Notwist Devil, You + Me (Domino) CD - $14   The Notwist make music that's at once impossibly personal and hugely inviting. This release is their most important and moving to date, in the band's nearly 20 year career. Markus Acher's singular voice surrounds you with all the comfort of familiarity, the euphoria of re-acquaintance. It takes a while before the words and the scale of the musical language sink in.   Sigur Ros Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust (XL) CD - $12   Inspired by the unfettered feeling of the acoustic performances filmed during Heima, Sigur Rós adopted a looser approach in creating their fifth album -- which is consequently fresher and more human than anything they've previously released. This is their first album recorded outside of Iceland, working with Flood (U2, Depeche Mode, PJ Harvey) and the first featuring English lyrics. CD now, vinyl TBA.   Smith, Patti/Kevin Shields Coral Sea (Pask) 2CD - $18   Legendary artist PATTI SMITH and MY BLOODY VALENTINE's KEVIN SHIELDS release a double- disc set of their live performance of The Coral Sea. The Coral Sea is Smith's posthumous homage to her friend and photographer ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE and the title to her 1997 book. Kevin Shields accompanies her on guitars and effects and creates a haunting backdrop to the spoken prose. The recordings were made June 22, 2005 and September 12, 2006 respectively at sold out performances at the QEH in London. The set runs almost two- hours with a different stylistic approach to each performance. The UK's Guardian upon reviewing the 2005 performance gave it 5 stars and called it "magical."   Tilly and the Wall 0 (Team Love) CD - $14   Already known for their off-the-wall combination of singsong boy/girl vocals, acoustic guitars, keyboard accents and a rhythm keeping tap dancer (instead of a drummer), O pushes the envelope with more exotic instruments, voices and bodily percussion. The band invited everyone in their community to contribute to the cover art for this record, and every month it will have limited edition runs of handmade prints by different artists; or you could even create your own. CD now, vinyl soon.   Watson Twins Fire Songs (Vanguard) CD - $15   You probably know them from their work with Jenny Lewis. Identical Kentucky-born twins Chandra and Leigh Watson can't be easily put in a musical pigeonhole, but they'll cop to folk, gospel, blues and country as early influences. The album was produced by Russell Pollard and J. Soda (members from various incarnations of Sebadoh, Earlimart, Everest, and Folk Implosion). Also includes an outstanding version of the Cure's "Just Like Heaven".   Wolf Parade At Mount Zoomer (Sub Pop) CD - $14 LP - $14   Their second album for Sub Pop might just be this generation's "Marquee Moon" or an indie rock "Chinese Democracy" released thirty years early. Better though, to think of it as the sound of a band edging forward into a wispy darkness, one hand reaching out, the other firmly clutching the past.   Enter your email address to join our weekly mailing list & receive updates on new releases and special products!
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