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
Brian Eno - Dunwich Beach, Autumn, 1960
Big American NightFollow “Something bad happened by the lake. They wouldn’t talk about it. Neither would the man in the powder blue shirt.…” on May 22nd, 2012 →
Stevie Wonder - Jesus Children Of America
Big American NightFollow “Rehearsing for a concert in Los Angeles. Al Satterwhite, 1974 | buy print There are nights when I listen to…” on May 10th, 2012 →
Funkadelic - Mommy, What's a Funkadelic?
Big American NightFollow “Montgomery, Alabama. I parked in front of the First White House of the Confederacy just after midnight. Jefferson Davis. George…” on May 9th, 2012 →
Zapp & Roger - More Bounce To The Ounce
Big American NightFollow “Roger Troutman, 1981 Tonight we’re rewinding to Dayton, Ohio in 1979 where Roger Troutman’s rocking a sequin jacket and singing…” on May 2nd, 2012 →
Jonny Greenwood - Oil
Big American NightFollow “Somewhere in North Dakota. The back roads in Nebraska and the Dakotas are lonely places. Surreal hills and endless prairie.…” on Apr 10th, 2012 →
13th Floor Elevators - Slip Inside This House
Big American NightFollow “Somewhere in Wyoming The opening riff rings like a busted alarm clock that wakes you up then drags you under…” on Mar 11th, 2012 →
LEGOWELT - TRISTATE CRUISIN'III
Big American NightFollow “Carhenge, Nebraska “Driving was the only thing that felt natural in America. It was traditional. It was patriotic. When you…” on Mar 11th, 2012 →
Marjan - Kavir-e Del
Big American NightFollow “Somewhere in the Florida Everglades. They’ve got televisions in every damned restaurant these days. “It was my favorite swimsuit,” says…” on Feb 28th, 2012 →
Suicide - Devastation
Big American NightFollow “A few miles east of Tuba City, Arizona. “The message was clear: when society is dissolving, the best one can…” on Feb 15th, 2012 →
Bohren & Der Club Of Gore - Black City Skyline
Big American NightFollow “South Broadway, Los Angeles. “The Walkman changed the way we understand cities,” wrote William Gibson in 1989. “I first heard…” on Feb 15th, 2012 →
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Children Of The Night
Big American NightFollow “Herman Leonard — Art Blakey, 1958. On view at the New Orleans Museum of Art. Take a look at Herman…” on Feb 5th, 2012 →
Tim Hecker - Studio Suicide, 1980
Big American NightFollow “Dieter Roth’s Solo Scenes at The Museum of Modern Art, NYC “She wrote a children’s book about an aardvark and…” on Feb 4th, 2012 →
The Byrds - Jesus Is Just Alright
Big American NightFollow “The Fort Jefferson Memorial Cross in Kentucky There’s a big cross a few miles below the lost town of Cairo,…” on Jan 22nd, 2012 →
James Brown - Soulful Christmas
Big American NightFollow “James Brown performs for American troops during the Vietnam War. June, 1968. Photo by Christian Simonpietri/Sygma/Corbis “I ain’t talkin’ just…” on Dec 25th, 2011 →
Billie Holiday - Easy Living
Big American NightFollow “Spent the afternoon at the record store, flipping through crates of musty cardboard sleeves while listening to the guys behind…” on Dec 18th, 2011 →
Spiritualized - Medication
Big American NightFollow “I had strange weather in my head. Magnificent headaches and fast zaps, like I was being yanked someplace dark. At…” on Dec 8th, 2011 →
Paavoharju - Folk, Aamuauringon Tuntuinen
Big American NightFollow “View of Los Angeles from Mulholland Drive. Sometimes we’re hit with the urge to write a sentence or make a…” on Dec 3rd, 2011 →
Rameses III - The Kindness In Letting Go
Big American NightFollow “Somewhere in Missouri. America should spend these long autumn nights doing some serious soul-searching. Put on some gentle music. Brew…” on Nov 22nd, 2011 →
Miles Davis - Chez le Photographe du Motel
Big American NightFollow “Somewhere in California. “He understood for the first time that black-and-white was the only true medium for film as an…” on Nov 20th, 2011 →
Neu! - Negativland
Big American NightFollow “Digging through a box of my grandfather’s things, I found this blade. The sheath says 30 cents. Made in USA.…” on Nov 17th, 2011 →