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.
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foodman - Pichi Pichi
Chicago ReaderFollow “Takahide Higuchi is drawn to simple pleasures. The Japanese producer also known as Foodman first created music in a PlayStation…” on Dec 7th →
Machine Girl - MG1
Chicago ReaderFollow “Machine Girl makes rave music for weebs who’ve read American Hardcore. Long Island producer and vocalist Matt Stephenson launched the…” on Dec 7th →
Molder - Catastrophic Reconfiguration
Chicago ReaderFollow “Chicago’s metal scene has a well-deserved reputation as one of the country’s most eclectic and prolific. As 2024 comes to…” on Dec 7th →
Cass Cwik & the Small Gas Engines - Calumet River
Chicago ReaderFollow “Cass Cwik and his band the Small Gas Engines specialize in an engaging variety of folk music that recalls Bob…” on Dec 7th →
gabby fluke-mogul and Lily Finnegan - Unknown Caller
Chicago ReaderFollow “First dates can be fraught and awkward. But in improvised music, where the word “date” means something different, they’re mostly…” on Dec 4th →
Annalee Koehn - How the Rain it Fell
Chicago ReaderFollow “Alkilith, Thy Dark Majesty The new EP from Alkilith, the minimalist dungeon-synth project of Zak Kiernan, arrives just weeks after…” on Nov 27th →
Pharmakon - WITHER AND WARP
Chicago ReaderFollow “Pharmakon embraces duality through sound. For 17 years, power-electronics artist Margaret Chardiet has been making bristling, textural chaos under the…” on Nov 27th →
Robert Hood - Nothing Stops Detroit
Chicago ReaderFollow “The Reader has spilled plenty of ink over the years in celebration of Robert Hood, who cofounded Detroit techno collective…” on Nov 27th →
Coalesce - Through Sparrows I Rest (Live at BBC's Maida Vale Studios)
Chicago ReaderFollow “When I first got into hardcore music in the early 2000s, I heard bogeyman-style tales about metalcore giants Coalesce and…” on Nov 27th →
Isaiah Collier & The Chosen Few - The Time Is Now
Chicago ReaderFollow “Chicago saxophonist and composer Isaiah Collier conceptualized The Story of 400 Years as a student fellow at the University of…” on Nov 27th →
Abby Sage - Milk
Chicago ReaderFollow “Abby Sage makes gauzy folk-pop that evokes a romantic sense of decay, like a pink-wigged Marie Antoinette raking her finger…” on Nov 23rd →
Prize Horse - Your Time
Chicago ReaderFollow “Minneapolis trio Prize Horse play pensive, moody posthardcore whose burnished surfaces and carefully structured negative spaces give it remarkable depth.…” on Nov 23rd →
Blood Incantation - The Stargate (Tablet I)
Chicago ReaderFollow “Blood Incantation’s fourth album, Absolute Elsewhere (Century Media), has been getting a ton of attention since it was released in…” on Nov 23rd →
billy woods - spongebob
Chicago ReaderFollow “Rapper Billy Woods and producer Kenny Segal are one of hip-hop’s best duos, and this year they’ve joined forces again…” on Nov 23rd →
Cloud Nothings - Now Hear In
Chicago ReaderFollow “Cloud Nothings formed in Cleveland and leveled up in Chicago. The trio, which evolved from a solo project of songwriter…” on Nov 23rd →
JOZEF VAN WISSEM - HYMN TO THE SUN
Chicago ReaderFollow ““The Lute is Eternal,” proclaims the text that concludes the ten-minute video to Jozef van Wissem’s 2023 single “The Call…” on Nov 23rd →