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
The Birthday Party - Release the Bats
Bandcamp DailyFollow “The legendary radio show lives on in these genre-spanning collections. Read full story on the Bandcamp Daily.” on Apr 30th →
The Jam - Funeral Pyre
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “The relatively recent passing of Rick Buckler went unmentioned on the blog. It wasn’t as much an oversight on my…” on Mar 21st →
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…” on Nov 14th, 2024 →
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, 2024 →
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, 2024 →
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, 2024 →
The Jam - Tales From The Riverbank
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, 2024 →
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 →
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 →
Fire Engines - Big Gold Dream
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “For the most basic of background info, here’s the opening para of the wiki entry:- David Alexander “Davy” Henderson (born…” on Feb 21st, 2022 →
Josef K - Sorry For Laughing +1 remix
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “Optic Nerve Recordings is the English-based reissue label specialising in releases from the 80’s and 90’s. I’ve picked up a…” on Feb 13th, 2022 →
Scars - All About You
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “From the archives of the Edinburgh Evening News, 27 October 2017:- Scars were a post-punk quartet who briefly kissed the…” on Oct 30th, 2021 →
The Fall - Middle Mass
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “And now to something which isn’t technically an album, and so qualifies for inclusion in this series. Slates was released…” on Jul 25th, 2021 →