Once a week, Stack delivers a mix of the most interesting new music on the web, handpicked by the Hype Machine team. Here's a recent mix.
Archived Posts from Big American Night
The Caretaker - Mental Caverns Without Sunshine
Big American NightFollow “In 1928, the Central Indiana Hospital for the Insane changed its name to the Central State Hospital They say there…” on Mar 25th, 2013 →
Heroin And Your Veins - Full Moon And Dry Humour
Big American NightFollow “Welcome to Slab City About two miles southeast of the Salton Sea, make a right turn on Main Street and…” on Feb 22nd, 2013 →
Richard Swift - Would You?
Big American NightFollow “Somewhere in Oklahoma I stand in an Econolodge parking lot in the dead of night, bronzed by the glow of…” on Feb 15th, 2013 →
Dirty Beaches - Golden Desert Sun
Big American NightFollow “Somewhere along the border of Arizona and New Mexico. A jittery man with long blonde hair and an extra-large leather…” on Feb 9th, 2013 →
Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear The Reaper
Big American NightFollow “This is an excerpt from my upcoming novel, Tragic Americans on the Radio. Just hit 50,000 words. Should be finished…” on Nov 11th, 2012 →
Dean & Britta - Silver Factory Theme
Big American NightFollow “Keeping Score at the WanChai Police Station Hong Kong feels like the future, all that neon, glass, noise, and fast…” on Sep 25th, 2012 →
Funkadelic - Good Thoughts, Bad Thoughts
Big American NightFollow “Somewhere on the other side of the international date line. Strings of sodium lights burn in the rainy Tokyo night.…” on Sep 23rd, 2012 →
Motion Sickness Of Time Travel - Mental Projection
Big American NightFollow “Me at nine, astral projecting I was probably in second grade when I first became self-aware. No, it wasn’t painful,…” on Sep 16th, 2012 →
Roy Orbison - Only The Lonely (Know The Way I Feel)
Big American NightFollow “Rear Window, 1954 Miss Lonelyheart, you’re on my mind these days. Your emerald taffeta dress and red vintage hair, the…” on Sep 13th, 2012 →
Sugar Plant - Rainy Day
Big American NightFollow “Monday The meteorologists were flushed with excitement. They wanted the storm to hit and they wanted it to hit big.…” on Sep 3rd, 2012 →
Ducktails - Tropical Heat
Big American NightFollow “Somewhere on the Bayou The Intracoastal Waterway runs 3000 miles from Boston down to the Florida Keys and across the…” on Aug 26th, 2012 →
Dirty Beaches - A Hundred Highways
Big American NightFollow “Along old Route 66 in Arizona She dreams of doing jigsaw puzzles on rainy afternoons. She’s got a supervisor with…” on Aug 22nd, 2012 →
Gene Pitney - A Town Without Pity
Big American NightFollow “The swimming pool at Two Guns, Arizona Busted concrete, cracked lumber, glass and graffiti all over the place. The shattered…” on Aug 12th, 2012 →
Mouse on Mars - Chagrin
Big American NightFollow “Night signs in America Slouched in a white plastic chair, I listened to a former Marine describe how he tried…” on Aug 6th, 2012 →
Curtis Mayfield - (Don't Worry) If There's A Hell Below We're All Gonna Go
Big American NightFollow “Somewhere in Michigan A big old Thunderbird pulls up to the curb blasting Curtis Mayfield. Doors pop open. The driver…” on Jul 13th, 2012 →
Parliament - Bop Gun (Endangered Species)
Big American NightFollow “Rationale I’d like to ban guns. They have no place in the modern world and they certainly don’t belong in…” on Jun 18th, 2012 →
Jan Jelinek - Music to Interrogate By
Big American NightFollow “Scottsdale, Arizona We did not land on the moon. 9/11 was an inside job. Roosevelt allowed Pearl Harbor to be…” on Jun 8th, 2012 →
Dora Alexander - Russia, Leave God's Moon Alone
Big American NightFollow “They climbed for hours because there were no roads, choking on dust and hauling bags loaded with equipment. Klieg lights,…” on Jun 3rd, 2012 →
Oliver Blank - Welcome to the Moon
Big American NightFollow “NASA officials in Houston join the flight controllers in celebrating the conclusion of the Apollo 11 mission. July 24, 1969.…” on Jun 3rd, 2012 →
Peer Raben - Sysiphos At Work
Big American NightFollow “Left to my own devices, I’m pretty sure I’d be holed up in some dead-end motel in the desert, drinking…” on Jun 3rd, 2012 →