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.
The Specials - A Message To You Rudy
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “The first of the singles charts to be looked back at this time around covers 30 September–6 October. The Top…” on Oct 8th →
The Specials - Gangsters
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “My summer of ’79 saw me enter the big bad world of paid employment. I actually told a few lies…” on Jul 11th →
The Specials - Friday Night, Saturday Morning
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “It was a text from Jacques the Kipper at just before 11pm last night. ‘Terry Hall’ JtK has been a…” on Dec 19th, 2022 →
The Specials - Too Much Too Young
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “I thought I’d illustrate my own effort with the sleeve of the debut album by The Fun Boy Three –…” on Feb 9th, 2021 →
The Specials - The Boiler
Plain Or Pan?Follow “When Jerry Dammers slipped off his loafers and eased The Specials into the exotica-tinged territory that constituted the More Specials…” on Sep 16th, 2020 →
The Specials - Guns Of Navarone (live)
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “4 April 2014 A LOT OF THE FOLK PICTURED ON THIS SLEEVE WILL BE GRANDPARENTS NOW… There are loads of…” on Sep 4th, 2020 →
The Specials - Ghost Town +5 remixes
We All Want Someone To Shout ForFollow “Longstanding English heroes The Specials returned last year with their politically charged new album Encore (their first album of originals…” on Jun 20th, 2019 →
The Specials - Skinhead Moonstomp
Plain Or Pan?Follow “Skinhead Moonstomp by Symarip is like a rocksteady Slade; a 14 hole high bovver-booted ‘n braces metaphorical boot to the…” on Dec 28th, 2018 →
The Prodigy - Ghost Town (The Specials Cover)
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “I’ve a compilation effort on the shelf entitled Independents Day ID08. It’s a 2xCD collection, one of which has a…” on Jul 10th, 2017 →
Save Ferris - New Sound (feat. Neville Staple from The Specials)
surviving the golden ageFollow “Admittedly, it’s been a really long time since I thought about Save Ferris. It was back when I burned their…” on Feb 9th, 2017 →
The Specials - Doesn't Make It Alright
Across The Kitchen TableFollow “The above picture shows a sticker that had been stuck on a memorial to the volunteers from Glasgow that went…” on Jun 29th, 2016 →
The Specials - International Jet Set
Crying All The Way To The Chip ShopFollow “Advertising laws in Britain permitted beer and wine to be sold on television but the harder stuff could only be…” on Apr 25th, 2016 →
The Specials - Ghost Town +5 remixes
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “ORIGINALLY POSTED ON WEDNESDAY 30 APRIL 2008 Like many others of my age in 1980, I bought a whole bundle…” on Apr 1st, 2016 →