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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Ragana - Desolation's Flower
Chicago ReaderFollow “Last year, Olympia-based duo Ragana released their fourth full-length album, Desolation’s Flower (the Flenser), which balances radical political vision with…” 2 days ago →
Mei Semones - Kabutomushi
Chicago ReaderFollow “Brooklyn singer-songwriter Mei Semones combines jazz, bossa nova, and indie rock in charming, understated songs that drip with romance, infatuation,…” 2 days ago →
LOCRIAN - Chronoscapes
Chicago ReaderFollow “Metal music often exists at an odd intersection between cathartic, lowbrow lunkhead aggression and adventurous arty abstraction. Since the mid-2000s,…” 3 days ago →
Fcukers - Homie Don’t Shake
Chicago ReaderFollow “The hype around the Dare a couple years ago has made me skeptical of (if not hostile to) any emerging…” 3 days ago →
Spiral Galaxy - Celestial Omen
Chicago ReaderFollow “No reasonable person would describe the COVID pandemic as anything other than a catastrophe, but it’s important to look for…” 3 days ago →
full body 2 - enix wake
Chicago ReaderFollow “Of all the emerging bands nourishing today’s shoegaze resurgence, Philadelphia trio Full Body 2 best use the style’s amniotic atmospheres…” 3 days ago →
PRFBBQ - Mooner - Happily
Chicago ReaderFollow “On a sweltering summer day in 2010, I stepped off the Chicago Avenue bus in front of a nondescript building…” last week →
PORCUPINE - All Is Vapor
Chicago ReaderFollow “Nick Acosta started publishing New Morality Zine in 2014 and launched a record label, also called New Morality Zine (NMZ),…” last week →
Torture - Overture 2001
Chicago ReaderFollow “If you pay close attention to underground heavy music, I’m probably not the first person you’ve heard mention Torture, or…” on Jul 11th →
care_online - Styrofoam bubblebath
Chicago ReaderFollow “In April 2023, experimental dance producer and DJ Care launched the Mages Guild label with a 27-track compilation called Midimagick…” on Jul 10th →
Hotline TNT - I Thought You'd Change
Chicago ReaderFollow “Hotline TNT mastermind Will Anderson writes shoegaze songs like he’s in a power-pop band. His melodies combine sweet immediacy with…” on Jul 10th →
Redd Kross - Born Innocent
Chicago ReaderFollow “Redd Kross are one of those righteous “band’s bands.” This long-running Los Angeles outfit, legends in the worlds of punk…” on Jul 8th →
Julie Byrne - Moonless
Chicago ReaderFollow “Julie Byrne’s music is rooted in connection and care. The Buffalo-born singer-songwriter (and onetime Chicagoan) first picked up the guitar…” on Jul 8th →
Radius Etc - One4Siifu 101
Chicago ReaderFollow “Producer and performer Ramon Norwood, 42, aka Radius or Radius Etc, is a self-described nomad, and not just in terms…” on Jul 3rd →
Jackie DeShannon - When You Walk In the Room
Chicago ReaderFollow “Chicago, like any city, likes to claim beloved artists as its own, even if they weren’t born or raised here…” on Jul 3rd →