Best of 2021 (Vince's List)

Goodbye 2021! Looking forward to greener pastures in 2022.

There were a lot of great records this year. King Woman’s Celestial Blues was outstanding. Definitely my favorite & most listened to record of the year……it’s a career defining album for Kris Esfandiari & crew. If you haven’t checked out Scowl or Midwife yet….please do, you won’t be disappointed. Cheers to Turnstile for showing the biggest growth in 2021. Glow On is an amazing album and bodes well for the future of hardcore. Gatecreeper was one of the few shows we saw in 2021 & I’m glad we’ve had An Unexpected Reality around for the past 12 months.

1. King Woman - Celestial Blues

2. Scowl - How Flowers Grow

3. Turnstile - Glow On

4. Midwife - Luminol

5. Gatecreeper - An Unexpected Reality

6. Ekulu - Unscrew My Head

7. Militarie Gun - All Roads Lead to the Gun I & II

8. World Peace - Come and See

9. Succumb - XXI

10. Pom Pom Squad - Death of a Cheerleader

11. Fiddlehead - Between the Richness

12. Regional Justice Center - Crime and Punishment

13. Converge & Chelsea Wolfe - Bloodmoon: I

14. Thirdface - Do It With a Smile

15. Slant - 1st LP

16. Final Gasp - Haunting Whisper

17. Jeff Rosenstock - Ska Dream

18. Sincere Engineer - Bless My Psyche

19. Portrayal of Guilt - We Are Always Alone

20. Big Brave - Vital

Zine - vol. 1

Creativity over consumption?

This summer we had the bright idea of creating a simple zine. Mostly just our own thoughts and ramblings. Here is the e-version. Buy a record and we will send a paper copy. Enjoy.

-a

New Arrivals - 6/12/2021

Happy Record Store Day!!! If you can do so safely…visit a physical record store today. They’re amazing places and the entryway into this world for so many of us. Stille wouldn’t exist without the inspiration of so many stores we’ve visited over the years.

But we know it’s a total bummer when your local shop doesn’t have that new hardcore or grindcore LP you’re looking for. We’ve got you covered with a lot of stuff you won’t find in your typical store… Check out the list of some new arrivals below. Find all this & more over in the shop.

New Arrivals - 6/12/2021

New Stuff & Restocks (lots on color vinyl….check out the shop to see what colors we have in stock)

Amenra - Mass VI - LP

Better Than a Thousand - Just One LP

Better Than a Thousand - Value Driven LP

Better Than a Thousand - We Must Believe - Discography 2xLP

Boysetsfire - After the Eulogy LP

Breakdown - The ‘87 Demo LP

Buggin - Brainfreeze Flexi 7”

Colonial Wound - Degradation 12”

Converge - You Fail Me Redux LP

End of a Year - Self Titled 7”

End of a Year - You Are Beneath Me LP

Fiddlehead - Springtime and Blind LP

Frail Hands - parted/departed/apart LP

Gatecreeper - Self-Titled 12”

Gaza - No Absolutes in Human Suffering LP

Ghost Spirit / Frail Hands - Split LP

Head Wound City - Self-Titled 12”

Incendiary - Cost of Living LP

Incendiary - Thousand Mile Stare LP

Jarhead Fertilizer - Product of My Environment LP

Loma Prieta - Life/Less LP

Loma Prieta - Self Portrait LP

Modern Life is War - Fever Hunting LP

Modern Life is War - Tribulation Worksongs Vol 1 7”

Neurosis - Pain of Mind LP

Origami Angel - Somewhere City LP

Sabertooth Zombie - Midnight Venom LP

Self Defense Family - Wounded Masculinity LP

Single Mothers - Self Titled 7”

Swing Kids - Anthology LP

There Were Wires - Somnambulists LP

Trapped Under Ice - Secrets of the World LP

Trapped Under Ice - Stay Cold 7”

Udusic - Self-Titled 7”

Udusic - Ugly 7”

World Peace - Come and See LP (last copies….out of print with no plans for a repress)

-V

Best of 2020 (Vince's List)

It’s almost over. Yes, 2020 can fuck off….you’re heard it a million times already.

This year has been defined by loss. Millions have lost love ones. Many more have lost their livelihoods, their passions, or at best…their sense of normalcy. We have lost our safety nets, old coping mechanisms, the closeness of family, friends, neighbors, and co-workers. The things that we haven’t lost have changed. Even music has changed. The loss of live music has rippled throughout our world affecting the artists we love and the sense of community they sustain for all of us.

My favorite albums embody the shared sense of loss, anger & sadness that we all experienced this year. It was especially hard to keep it to only 25 this year, but here they are. Each one of these albums helped soften the blow of 2020. Try out something you haven’t heard of….they’re all incredible.

-VH

1. Soft Kill - Dead Kids R.I.P. City

2. Jeff Rosenstock - No Dream

3. MSW - Obliviosus

4. Korine - The Night We Raise

5. Georgia Maq - Pleaser

6. Infant Island - Beneath

7. Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou - May Our Chambers Be Full

8. Gilt - Ignore What’s Missing

9. Scalp - Domestic Extremity

10. Retirement Party - Runaway Dog

11. Lawrence Arms - Skeleton Coast

12. Soft Kill - Premium Drifter

13. Initiate - Lavender

14. Dikembe - Mush

15. Power Alone - Rather Be Alone

16. Soon - What the Fuck Did We Do to the Earth

17. Narrow Head - 12th House Rock

18. Vanguard - Rage of Deliverance

19. Diet Cig - Do You Wonder About Me

20. Changeling - III

21. Lucky Malice - Magnetic

22. Nø Man - Erase

23. Lié - You Want It Real

24. Vile Creature - Glory Glory! Apathy Took Helm!

25. Crowning - Survival/Sickness