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.
Fragile Animals - Worldview
Indie ObsessiveFollow “This is the second set of ten Indie songs of 2025. We acknowledge the fact that it is difficult to…” last week →
El Michels Affair - Carry Me Away feat. Norah Jones
I Thought I Heard A SoundFollow “Ah, another year, another year older, another year closer to kissing dirt. I should be less glib in my introduction…” last week →
Franz Ferdinand - Missing You
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “January 2005, and the NME trumpets its upcoming annual awards event via a specially compiled CD How much great music…” on Dec 28th, 2025 →
Lucrecia Dalt - no death no danger
Groove MagazineFollow “Ein Jahr, unzählige Releases â und nur wenige haben wirklich gezündet. Diese Alben sind bei uns hängen geblieben. Der Beitrag…” last week →
Fiona Fiasco - Stacy
WhiteLight//WhiteHeatFollow “Favorite Music Videos of 2025: Women’s Edition Better late than never, we might say. Here is the Favorite Music Videos…” yesterday →
The Strokes - On The Other Side
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “Check NME every week for 2005’s brightest stars, and we’ll see you again with the cream of the crop this…” last week →
Phia & Josh - As The World Falls Down (David Bowie cover for Rolling Stone Germany)
music islandsFollow “Labyrinth (1986) – As the World Falls Down There’s such a sad love Deep in your eyes A kind of…” last week →
Green Day - Letterbomb
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “Given away with the NME on 18 June 2005. The day I turned 42 years old. From the blurb :-…” on Dec 25th, 2025 →
Hutch - Never Like The First Time
SodweeFollow “Jazz hands down, walls back up, soul wide open. Some debut singles arrive with fireworks. Hutch’s Never Like The First…” on Dec 26th, 2025 →
Purple Mountains - All My Happiness is Gone
Dada StrainFollow “Clockwise from upper left: Alicia Coleman, Innov Gnawa, David Berman, Theo Parrish Before I unleash a better-part-of-two-weeks list of gigs…” on Dec 26th, 2025 →
David Bowie - Tonight
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “2-8 December It’s the run-up to Christmas, and I did the research, fully anticipating there would be little to look…” on Dec 11th, 2025 →
Milkweed - Exile of the Sons of Uisliu
KLOF MagazineFollow “It’s that tough time of the year again, when music writers feel like they’re throwing some of their favourite artists…” on Dec 12th, 2025 →
Momma - I Want You (Fever)
God Is In The TV Follow “It’s very hard condense my favourite tracks of the last year down to twenty-five but here are the ones that…” on Dec 12th, 2025 →
Fatboy Slim, The Rolling Stones - Satisfaction Skank
Indie For BunniesFollow “Southern Fried e ABKCO Music & Records presentano al mondo “Satisfaction Skank”, una storica collaborazione ufficiale tra Fatboy Slim e…” on Dec 12th, 2025 →
Second Idol - Third Culture Kids
darkeninheartFollow “Australian four-piece Second Idol deliver Third Culture Kids, the urgent new single taken from their forthcoming album Mongrel, out soon…” on Dec 7th, 2025 →
Shadowing - Alive?
WE LOVE THATFollow “Aus Portland, Oregon erreichen uns Shadowing mit ihrem authentischen 80er Jahre Post Punk. Der Song ‚Alive‘ überzeugt mit seiner Roughness…” on Dec 25th, 2025 →
DECEITS - Please, Wake Up
darkeninheartFollow “Rather than leaning into gothic tropes of despair and mortality, Please, Wake Up channels a different kind of darkness. It…” on Dec 7th, 2025 →
Carsick Cars - Farewell
Pop Rock RecordFollow “Over the past month or so I’ve seen an appreciable and dramatic increase in internet traffic to this site from…” on Dec 7th, 2025 →
Kim Wilde - Trail Of Destruction Project K Remix +1 more
Teases and DaresFollow “Well it’s been quite the year for Kim Wilde. A new studio album ‘Closer’ arrived in the first month of…” on Dec 7th, 2025 →
The Hickey Underworld - Constant Wave On A Rock
Dansende BerenFollow “We hoeven daar geen seconde over na te denken wanneer iemand ons vraagt naar een top drie van de coolste…” on Dec 7th, 2025 →
Diar Storm - Echos im Licht
ReGen MagazineFollow “Hailing from Essen, Germany, Diar Storm has released Echos im Licht as her latest EP, which was preceded by a…” on Dec 7th, 2025 →
The Bug Club - Jealous Boy
Chicago ReaderFollow “The Bug Club Thu 12/11 and Fri 12/12 at Empty Bottle The post Quirky Welsh rockers the Bug Club keep…” on Dec 5th, 2025 →
Avalon Emerson & the Charm - Eden
MixmagFollow “All the biggest releases on our radar” on Dec 7th, 2025 →
hemwick witch - Partners
Destroy//ExistFollow “Rising from Los Angeles’ ever-fertile shadow circuit, Hemwick Witch step forward with Partners, their first single and accompanying video following…” on Dec 8th, 2025 →
halovox - First Bite
ReGen MagazineFollow “Friday, December 5 saw the release of “First Bite,” the latest single from North Carolina electro/synthpop outfit Halovox, with founder…” on Dec 6th, 2025 →
Eugene S. Robinson - I've Gotta be Me
ReGen MagazineFollow “With the dissolution of Oxbow in 2024, vocalist/lyricist Eugene S. Robinson has been on a full throttle forward trajectory working…” on Dec 6th, 2025 →
Silent Child - Get Well Soon
AnalogueTrashFollow “Voices In The Dark, the new EP from LA-based multi-instrumentalist and producer Silent Child, tells a story, rather like the…” on Dec 9th, 2025 →
Magnifik Music - Imagination
Zone NightsFollow “Samm (BE) enciende la mecha del fin de semana a puro afro house con su nuevo lanzamiento, hablamos…” on Dec 6th, 2025 →
Wire - Three Girl Rhumba
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “a guest series, courtesy of a very friendly lawyer Origin Stories JC explains……I hate to move Jonny’s column around and…” on Dec 3rd, 2025 →
Wednesday - Townies
Rosy OverdriveFollow “The third annual Rosy Overdrive Reader’s Poll has now been summed, tallied, and assembled! We asked you about your favorite…” last week →
Oscar Scheller - 1% (With Lily Allen)
The FaderFollow “The British superstar will be performing West End Girl in 2026” on Dec 5th, 2025 →
SPLLIT - Canned Air
BrooklynVeganFollow “New Orleans duo The Convenience, who released the terrific Like Cartoon Vampires earlier this year, are here to rep for…” on Dec 5th, 2025 →
Erratix - No Luv Lost
Add To Wantlist Follow “Some artists could stand to release a little less, but with others, you just wish they’d hit “record” more often.…” on Dec 5th, 2025 →
The Photocopies - Constant Reminders
Add To Wantlist Follow “Somewhere in the back of our minds, we still hold onto the dream of bringing to life some of those…” on Dec 5th, 2025 →
Herbert & Momoko - Babystar
said the gramophoneFollow “Voilà and please enjoy - for the 21st time - Said the Gramophone's favourite songs of the year. One hundred…” on Dec 2nd, 2025 →
The Raincoats - Shouting Out Loud
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “A guest series by Fraser Pettigrew (aka our New Zealand correspondent) #10: The Raincoats – Extended Play (1994) The role…” on Dec 2nd, 2025 →
Matt Pond PA - Holiday Road
Christmas a Go GoFollow “National Lampoon is an American national treasure, a comedy magazine, radioshow and theatre comedy show. In Europe, we got to…” on Dec 3rd, 2025 →
Danz CM - Lärm I (Hey Angel)
The TonearmFollow “Once you catch the krautrock bug, you typically carry it for the rest of your life. That's the conclusion I've…” on Dec 3rd, 2025 →
Elastica - Connection
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “a guest series, courtesy of a very friendly lawyer Origin Stories JC explains……I hate to move Jonny’s column around and…” on Dec 3rd, 2025 →
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