The Stinkweeds Blog has kept a pretty strong streak of “Five Favorites” over the past few years, consistently throwing together the best five albums to come out every month. With the exception of April (Record Store MONTH), we haven’t missed a single month in years. But, as I’m sure many of you can relate, I’ve […]

We miss seeing your faces in our shop! We miss the conversations and the back and forth! We thought for some of you, this might be a perfect way to get that personal Stinkweeds experience, while you’re doing your part by staying home. We are offering up a Stinkweeds Custom-Curated Vinyl Subscription service. You prepay […]

Hello Friends, First, we want to wish everyone the best of luck as we work our way around this confusing time. We consider you part of the Stinkweeds family and we feel a great loss not being able to chat music with you every day. But, we’re going to do all we can to keep […]

To all of our most appreciated customers, We would like to wish everyone health, safety and good fortune while we try to navigate the uncertainty of the moment . We consider ourselves your good neighbors and as such, we will do what we can to help our community. We are open for business, and we’re committed […]

  Wilsen – Ruiner [Secret City] It’s too early to tell, but I feel like this is one of those albums that sort of flies under a lot of radars, but will get more than enough play in the shop, creating a small pocket of fandom in Phoenix and other areas where other record store […]

If you think of the bands who have pushed the popular genres into new directions, you can often trace a line back to some unconventional, lesser known artists. Woody Guthrie once wrote a fan letter to experimental music pioneer John Cage. One of David Bowie’s favorite albums was Steve Reich’s minimalist masterpiece, Music for 18 […]

Live at Stinkweeds Records The Exbats (Bisbee, Az / Burger Records) & The Sturdy Ladies Bisbee Rockers, The Exbats have a new album (Hits, Kicks, & Fits) coming out on Burger Records! Join us at Stinkweeds for a live in-store performance and Vinyl Release Party, with the Exbats and Phoenix band, Sturdy Ladies. Saturday, February […]

Musically, we’re off to a great start, 2020! We hope this carries over into every aspect of your lives this year. We hope it’s full of diversity, excitement, thoughtful sadness, happiness and everything else these albums have to offer.   Jeff Parker & the New Breed – Suite For Max Brown [Nonesuch/International Anthem] An element […]

We’ve decided to do things a little differently this year. Instead of each of us writing our 5 Favorites, we had a discussion about what the best “Shop Favorites” are. You could break these up into three different categories: Most, are the albums that got a lot of play in the shop. We like to […]

This list is for all of our customers made by some of our most frequent and long time customers. You are the heartbeat of this shop. We’re coming up on 33 years in business and we’ve done it without compromising that simple mission statement to create a space for people hungry for something new and […]