#YEAR END LISTS! 2014 was a stellar year for music. We hope you agree. Have a gander at our favorites from last year!
Owner of Stinkweeds Records and Executive Director of Local First Arizona
- Pains of Being Pure at Heart - 'Days of Abandon' (Yebo Music)
- Lonesome Shack - 'More Primitive' (Alive Records)
- Gardens and Villa - 'Dunes' (Secretly Canadian)
- Real Estate - 'Atlas' (Domino)
- Elbow - 'Take Off and Landing of Everything' (Concord)
Stinkweeds staff member, with an intense critical ear and a love of cats. Dario is an accomplished stringed multi-insturmentalist.
- Parquet Courts - 'Sunbathing Animal' (What's Your Rupture)
- Hamilton Leithauser - 'Black Hours' (EMI)
- Last Ex - 'Self-Titled' (Constellation)
- Timber Timbre - 'Hot Dreams' (Arts & Crafts)
- Quilt - 'Held In Splendor' (Mexican Summer)
- Anna Calvi - 'Strange Weather' (Domino)
- Ty Segall - 'Manipulator' (Drag City)
- Piers Faccini & Vincent Segal - 'Songs of Time Lost' (Six Degrees)
- Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - 'Euclid' (Western Vinyl)
- Steve Gunn - 'Way Out Weather' (Paradise of Bachelors)
- Wye Oak - 'Shriek' (Merge)
- Sam Amidon - 'Lily-O' (Nonesuch)
- Frazey Ford - 'Indian Ocean' (Nettwerk)
- Courtney Barnett - 'Sea of Split Peas' (Mom & Pop)
Stinkweeds store manager and bass player in the local hootenany indie sensation "Pick and Holler". Lindsay is the person that takes care of the details and makes it all happen.
- Anna Calvi - 'Strange Weather' (Domino)
- Lee Fields - 'Emma Jean' (Truth & Soul)
- Luluc - 'Passerby' (Sub Pop)
- Goat - 'Commune' (Sub Pop)
- Together Pangea - 'Badillac' (Harvest)
- Lonesome Shack - 'More Primitive' (Alive)
- Timber Timbre - 'Hot Dreams' (Arts & Crafts)
- Courtney Barnett - 'Double Ep: A Sea of Split Peas' (Mom & Pop)
- Water Liars - 'Self-Titled' (Fat Possum)
- Leonard Cohen - 'Popular Problems' (Sony)
- Doug Paisley - 'Strong Feelings' (No Quarter)
- Tinariwen - 'Emmaar' (Anti)
- Temples - 'Sun Structures' (Fat Possum)
- Steve Gunn - 'Way Out Weather' (Paradise of Bachelors"
- Lucinda Williams - 'Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone' (Highway 20)
long-time Regular with a capital R. Special-orderer extraordinaire, leader of the band Larkspurs
- Giardini Di Miro - 'Rapsodia Satanica' [Santeria]
- John Zorn - 'Transmigration Of The Magus' [Tzadik]
- Marc Ribot - 'Live At The Village Vanguard (w/ Henry Grimes, Chad Taylor)' [Pi Recordings]
- Mica Levi - 'Under The Skin' [Milan]
- Earth - 'Primitive And Deadly' [Southern Lord]
longtime regular, reviewer, radiophoenix personality, Silverplatter.info volunteer extraordinaire and great guy!
- Elbow - 'The Takeoff and Landing of Everything' / 'World Cafe Live EP' (Concord in the US, * Fiction in the UK)
- Cheatahs - 'Cheatahs' (Wichita Recordings)
- We Were Promised Jetpacks - 'E Rey: Live in Philadelphia' (Fat Cat)
- Twilight Sad - 'Nobody Wants to be Here and Nobody Wants to Leave' (Fat Cat)
- Father Figures - 'Steps and Processes / U.F.O. EP' (AZPX)
Silverplatter.info and Stinkweeds volunteer extraordinaire, instore videograhper, man behind our youtube channels. Goes to more shows and has met more famous people than anyone you know.
- St Vincent - 'Self-Titled' (Republic)
- Alvvays - 'Self-Titled' (Polyvinyl)
- Got a Girl - 'I Love You but I must drive off this cliff now' (Bulk)
- Jenny Lewis - 'Voyager' (Warner Bros)
- Damon Albarn - 'Everyday Robots' (Warner Bros)
- La Roux - 'Trouble in Paradise' (Interscope)
- Ryan Adams - 'Self-Titled' (Blue Note)
- Dum Dum Girls - 'Too True' (Sub Pop)
- Sia - '1,000 Forms of Fear' (RCA)
- Gruff Rhys - 'American Interior' (Turnstile)
- Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack (Hollywood)
- Honorable mentions:
- Metronomy - 'Love Letters' (Elektra)
- The Horrors - 'Luminous' (XL)
- Yelle - 'Completement Fou' (Kemosabe)
- Chromeo - 'White Women' (Atlantic)
- Casket Girls - 'True Love Kills the Fairy Tale' (Graveface)
- Temples - 'Sun Structures' (Heavenly)
- Duck Sauce - 'Quack' (Fool's Gold)
- First Aid Kit - 'Stay Gold' (Columbia)
- Lykke Li - 'I Never Learn' (Atlantic)
- Teen - 'The Way and Color' (Carpark)
- Sondre Lerche - 'Please' (Mona)
- The Ghost of the Sabertooth Tiger - 'Midnight Sun' (Chimera)
- Pains of Being Pure at Heart - 'Days of Abandon' (Yebo)
- Fear of Men - 'Loom' (Kanine)
- Oasis - 'Definitely Maybe/(What's the Story) Morning Glory?' (Big Brother)
Always there in a pinch, longtime customer with great taste and consistently awesome in every way!
- Courtney Barnett - 'Double Ep: A Sea of Split Peas' (Mom & Pop)
- The Old 97s - 'Most Messed Up' -(ATO Records)
- Cheap Girls - 'Famous Graves' - (Xtra Mile Recordings)
- Rubblebucket -'Survival Sounds' - (Communion Records)
- Lake Street Drive - 'Bad Self Portraits' - (Signature Sounds Recordings)
DJ, long-time regular, serious vinyl special-orderer
- Thom Yorke- 'tomorrows modern boxes' (self released) to be released in feb of 2015
- aphex twi* n- 'syro'- (warp)
- andy stott- 'faith in strangers' (modern love)
- dirty beaches- 'stateless' (zoo music)
- teebs- 'estara' (brainfeeder)
long-time regular, Silverplatter.info volunteer, serious concert-goer and organizer of phx indie meet-up group
- Fear Of Men - 'Loom' (Kanine Records)
- First Aid Kit - 'Stay Gold' (Jagadamba/Columbia Records)
- Caught A Ghost - 'Human Nature' (+1 Records)
- Alvvays - 'Self-Titled' (Polyvinyl)
- Saint Savoir - 'In The Seams' (Surface Area)
- Jenny Lewis - 'The Voyager' (SubPop)
- Luluc - 'Passerby' (SubPop)
- God Help The Girl Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Stuart Murdoch/Milan Entertainment)
long-time regular, ex-Stinkweeds, king of the monsters, luckyman, awesome man.
- BARREN HARVEST - 'Subtle Cruelties' (Handmade Birds)
- GODFLESH - 'A World Lit Only By Fire' (Avalanche)
- ANGEL OLSEN - 'Burn Your Fire For No Witness' (Jagjaguwar)
- TREPANERINGSRITUALEN - 'Perfection & Permanence' (Cold Spring)
- WHITE VOID - 'We're Falling' (Posh Isolation)
Hardcore regular, music enthusiast and serious goofball
- Prince - 'Art Official Age' (Warner Bros)
- Hunterchild - 'Hunterchild' (Temporary Residence)
- Afghan Whigs - 'Do To The Beast' (Sub Pop)
- Ava Luna - 'Electric Balloon' (Western Vinyl)
- Strand of Oaks - 'Heal' (Dead Oceans)
- James - 'La Petite Mort'
- Glass Animals - 'Zaba'
- De Lux - 'Voyage'
Phx ex-pat, ex-Stinkweeds, awesome dad and dude. Still asking when you're moving back.
- Psalm Zero - 'The Drain' (Profound Lore)
- D'Angelo - 'Black Messiah' (RCA)
- Pallbearer - 'Foundations of Burden' (Profound Lore) also the best show I saw this year
- Sturgill Simpson - 'Metamodern Sounds In Country Music' (High Top Mountain)
- First Aid Kit - 'Stay Gold' (Columbia Records)
- FKA Twigs - 'LP1' (Young Turks)
- Coffinworm - 'IV.I.VIII' (Profound Lore)
- Andy Stott - 'Faith In Strangers' (Modern Love)
- Lantlôs - 'Melting Sun' (Prophecy)
- Godflesh - 'A World Lit Only By Fire' (Avalanche)
Makin things happen at Modified Arts and all over Downtown Phoenix. Smart, funny, tasteful, and an overall awesome guy!
- PUP - 'Self-Titled' (SideOneDummy)
- Run the Jewels - 'Run the Jewels 2' (Fool's Gold)
- Restorations - 'LP3' (SideOneDummy)
- Hiss Tracts - 'Shortwave Nights' (Constellation)
- FIRE! Orchestra - Enter (Rune Grammofon)
- Chris Schlarb- 'Making the Saint' (Asthmatic Kitty)
- Serengeti - 'Kenny Dennis III' (Joyful Noise)
- wild Up - 'Feathers & Stone' (Populist)
- Joyce Manor - 'Never Hungover Again' (Epitaph)
- Hard Girls - 'A Thousand Surfaces' (Asian Man)
- Antarctigo Vespucci - 'Soulmate Stuff EP/I'm So Tethered EP' (Really/Quote Unquote/Asian Man)