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		Arcade Fire Suburbs (Merge) CD - $14 LP - $27   The Suburbs follows up Neon Bible from 2007 and the album that started it all back in those halcyon days of '04, Funeral. Expect this to be near the top of everyone's year end lists, and now that so-called "indie" bands are selling "tons" of records, it should make a sizeable dent in the mainstream as well. Written, arranged, performed and produced by the Arcade Fire and co-produced by Markus Dravs, The Suburbs was recorded around Montreal and New York over the past two years. LP comes in a gatefold sleeve; comes with a digital download coupon.   Best Coast Crazy For You (Mexican Summer) CD - $13 LP - $17   Beach blanket lo-fi pop from Bethany Cosentino, (ex-Pocahaunted.) Inspired by Bethany’s longing for Los Angeles while spending her days in NY attending Eugene Lang College, Best Coast sprung forth during her first days back in California. She says we can expect “songs about summer and the sun and the ocean and being a lazy creep,” with “drums, beach boys bass lines, and other amazing things” added by her friend Bobb Bruno.   Blitzen Trapper Destroyer Of The Void (Sub Pop) CD - $14 LP - 2LP - $20   Over the course of their four full-length albums to date, including their revelatory 2008 Sub Pop release Furr, Portland, OR's Blitzen Trapper have gained a growing international audience. Destroyer of the Void takes Blitzen Trapper further than ever before, building on the band's seamless marriage of the familiar and the fantastic.   Crystal Castles Self-Titled (Universal Motown) CD - $11   "Having one self-titled record is de rigeur these days and probably always has been. Having two, well, that's less conventional for obvious reasons relating to clarity [Also makes it doubly hard to steal tracks off the internet. - Ed.]. Toronto glitch-core purveyors Crystal Castles have adopted that tactic, and have decided to go with Crystal Castles again for their forthcoming second LP. It . . . was written in various places around the world including a church in Iceland, a cabin in Ontario and a garage somewhere in Detroit. It was also produced by Ethan Kath of the duo." - Luke Slater / Drowned in Sound   Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse Dark Night Of The Soul (Capitol) CD - $16 LP - $20   Dark Night of the Soul is an album by audio auteur Danger Mouse and the already much-missed Sparklehorse. The record sees the pair joined by the following remarkable roll call of guests: The Flaming Lips, Gruff Rhys (Super Furry Animals), Jason Lytle (Grandaddy), Julian Casablancas (The Strokes), Black Francis (The Pixies), Iggy Pop, David Lynch, James Mercer (The Shins/Broken Bells), Nina Persson (The Cardigans), Suzanne Vega and Vic Chesnutt! Rumors of this mysterious collaborative project began to circulate in early 2009 sparking widespread anticipation and excitement - now finally released (for sale) to the masses. While this beautiful, haunting record being made widely available is undoubtedly a cause for celebration, the news is shadowed by sadness following the recent passing of Mark Linkous, who released and performed under the Sparklehorse pseudonym. Dark Night of the Soul will now stand as a de facto tribute to this well loved, stunningly talented yet often-overlooked artist. In addition to featuring on two songs, celebrated film director David Lynch has created a series of original photographs for Dark Night of the Soul adding a spectacular visual dimension incorporated in to the artwork for this already unparalleled project.   Guggenheim Grotto Universe Is Laughing (United For Opportunity) CD - $11   A record largely written and recorded in hotels and living rooms while crossing this wide country on tour, The Universe Is Laughing is an ode to lovers and madmen as much as a shout out to carnival hucksters and easy mystics. It celebrates the joy of falling in love and then forgetting what all the fuss was about. It preaches sticking to your guns, fighting the good fight and standing with your hands hung loosely by your side. It’s about marching, chopping wood, highways, girls wearing pretty dresses, sinking churches, ghost towns, chasing answers, getting drunk, rabbits and weasels, tiny white lies, the sun, the moon and the whole damn universe. It’s about dancing in the grey.   Innocence Mission My Room In The Trees (Badman) CD - $14   With lyrics that often evoke feelings of solitude and images of the natural world, My Room In The Trees sonically progresses along the path begun with 2003's Birds Of My Neighborhood. Spacious and warmly grounded with baritone and nylon string guitars and upright bass, and lit from above by electric guitar and piano.   M.I.A. Maya (XL) CD - $10 DeluxeCD - $19 LP - $19   'Brooklyn-based British Sri Lankan has always been mercurial, volatile, elusive. As much smash-and-grab as cut-and-paste. But unlike the nomadic cultural-attaché persona she adopted for Kala - after visa issues disrupted plans to record in the U.S. - M.I.A. plants her feet firmly with this self-titled album, which she created primarily in America while tending to a newborn son. This album is way heavier, darker and mashed up than previous efforts. We totally dig. Deluxe CD version has 6 'bonus' tracks, plus awesome lenticular packaging.   Miniature Tigers Fortress (Modern Art) CD - $13   Fortress finds Miniature Tigers, for the first time, functioning as a cohesive unit. Tell It To The Volcano was primarily an effort of the confessional indie pop tunes lead Tiger Charles Brand wrote in his bedroom. Now, however, the band is filled with members that compliment every aspect of Brand’s songwriting, with Rick Schaier, Alex Gerber, and Algernon Quashie giving every track a more outgoing personality and a stronger backbone than Brand could probably have provided himself.   National High Violet (4AD) CD - $14 LP - $20   A nervy, melodic, explosive, and beautiful new album, High Violet is wide-ranging in its moods, by turns intimate and rough, expansive and spare, full of stark angles and atmosphere.   Nowhere Man And A Whiskey Girl Children Of Fortune ((independent)) CD - $13   Arizona's nomadic duo, Nowhere Man and a Whiskey Girl return with Children of Fortune, their third successful attempt at parking their dusty van in your mind. Stretching a new canvas of layered strings and synths over the delicate sounds of their past, the lyrics splash down like dirt-filled raindrops on a Bisbee porch.   Wolf Parade Expo 86 (Sub Pop) CD - $13 LP - $20   "Hype certainly didn't sink Wolf Parade's debut, Apologies to the Queen Mary, and after 2008's At Mount Zoomer, as well as countless prominent side projects from Wolf Parade members (including the Handsome Furs and Sunset Rubdown), the Montreal band has proven to be more than a simple Isaac Brock find. Expo 86 is named after the world's fair in Vancouver, and the album was mostly recorded live in studio, and while it will maintain the band's self-described 'maximalist' sound, Dan Boeckner told Pitchfork the album will have more upbeat songs than Wolf Parade's earlier releases." - Ethan Stanislawski / Prefixmag.com   Enter your email address to join our weekly mailing list & receive updates on new releases and special products!
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