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.
Latest 1981 tracks
Cerrone - Hooked On You +2 remixes
Bandcamp DailyFollow “Hailed by everyone from Nile Rodgers to James Murphy, Cerrone is a dance music giant. Read full story on the…” 7 days ago →
APB - Shoot You Down
Bandcamp DailyFollow “Thanks to support from local station WLIR, APB broke through big time on L.I. in the ’80s. Read full story…” on Aug 13th →
The Fall - Leave The Capitol
Bandcamp DailyFollow “Ajay Saggar of a million bands since time immemorial not only loves music, he lives it—and this edition of Big…” on Jul 24th →
Fire Engines - Candyskin
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “This one has been inspired by an event that took place back in June 2015, one that I wrote about…” on May 28th →
The Jam - Funeral Pyre
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “Another one that was picked up in Canada. Absolute Beginners was only ever issued on 7″ in the UK. It…” on Jan 28th →
Gun Club - Preaching The Blues
Bandcamp DailyFollow “Here are some major touchpoints from the cowpunk catalog to be found on Bandcamp. Read full story on the Bandcamp…” on Jan 17th →
The Teardrop Explodes - Reward
Plain Or Pan?Follow “A film. Bleached out print, grainy in places with muted, filtered, Instagram-to-the-max colours; subtle mustards, pale yellows, murky beige, an…” on Dec 6th, 2023 →
Bush Tetras - Das Ah Riot
27 LeggiesFollow “It's time for another one of my irregular series of searingly insight-free gig reviews. A summary for those of you…” on Nov 9th, 2023 →
The Thompson Twins - Perfect Game
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “A DEBUT GUEST POSTING by ADRIAN MAHON You reach that age… I’ve been meaning to do this for a while.…” on Jul 12th, 2023 →
Squeeze - Piccadilly
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “Squeeze have been around since time began. OK, not exactly, but it’s fast approaching 50 years. The two principal songwriting…” on Mar 6th, 2023 →
China Crisis - African And White
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “A GUEST POSTING by MARTIN ELLIOT (Our Swedish Correspondent) It’s Fun To Entertain About a month ago there was a…” on Jan 16th, 2023 →
Fun Boy Three - The Lunatics (Have Taken Over The Asylum)
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 →
China Crisis - African and White
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “The above poster is the best illustration I could find that China Crisis are still on the go all these…” on Nov 9th, 2022 →
Pigbag - Papa's Got A Brand New Pigbag
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “The above pictured man with the flag is, arguably, the most (in)famous Assistant Referee in world football. His name is…” on Oct 10th, 2022 →
Blondie - Rapture +13 remixes
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “At long last, we reach the knockout stages of the 2022 ICA World Cup, with just the 64 sides left…” on Sep 4th, 2022 →
Matthew Young - Running Up That Hill
UndertheradarFollow “Aotearoa singer and producer speaks about the journey to his record's release.” on Jul 14th, 2022 →
Starter - Minijupe
Record TurnoverFollow “RECORD TURNOVER 80s HITS #129 Starter formed in Switzerland in 1980 by Francis Foss who was also a fashion designer…” on Jun 29th, 2022 →
New Order - Truth
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “I thought, for the fiftieth entry in this series in which a song is ripped direct from the vinyl and…” on Mar 6th, 2022 →