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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Pet Shop Boys - Always
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “A little bit of background as it’s something I was very much unaware of. This is all from the ‘History’…” on May 7th, 2023 →
Pet Shop Boys - The Boy Who Couldn't Keep His Clothes On
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “What follows is likely to be the longest single posting in the series……but that’s as much down to contemporary review…” on Apr 23rd, 2023 →
Pet Shop Boys - Hit And Miss
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “The first sighting of the Pet Shop Boys in 1996 came on 19 February at the Brit Awards. Not that…” on Apr 16th, 2023 →
Pet Shop Boys - Decadence +1 remix
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “No sooner had Go West taken its leave of the singles charts was another single readied from Very. I Wouldn’t…” on Apr 2nd, 2023 →
Pet Shop Boys - Music For Boys
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “As mentioned last week, Pet Shop Boys spent much of the first half of 1991 on a world tour which…” on Mar 19th, 2023 →
Pet Shop Boys - Don Juan +1 remix
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “And now we reach what I think is my favourite phase of the Pet Shop Boys between September 1988 and…” on Feb 18th, 2023 →
Pet Shop Boys - That's My Impression +1 remix
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “My huge thanks to those of you who gave such warm welcomes to this new series. Just to clarify on…” on Jan 28th, 2023 →
Saint Etienne - How I Learned To Love The Bomb
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “…..it might have sounded like this. The words of The Robster when talking about this song as part of his…” on Nov 15th, 2022 →
Lush - Cat's Chorus
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “hypocrite : noun 1. a person who pretends to have virtues, moral or religious beliefs, principles, etc., that he or…” on Nov 2nd, 2022 →
Teenage Fanclub - Broken
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “I was thinking it was about time again to write up something about Teenage Fanclub. I thought I’d focus in…” on Oct 31st, 2022 →
The Monkees - As We Go Along
Plain Or Pan?Follow “To have been even a peripheral cog in that late ’60s/early ’70s Laurel Canyon songwriting wheel would have been quite…” on Oct 10th, 2022 →
Idlewild - No Generation
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “Idlewild are another on the long list of bands who I’ve a lot of time for without ever immersing myself…” on Aug 25th, 2022 →
The Cure - The Exploding Boy
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “A TWO-PART GUEST POSTING BY POST PUNK MONK The backstory was written last week, but in summary it’s the chance…” on Aug 19th, 2022 →
Swing Out Sister - Fever
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “A TWO-PART GUEST POSTING BY POST PUNK MONK It’s always incredibly satisfying when the comments section goes into overdrive, which…” on Aug 11th, 2022 →
Happy Mondays - Boom
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “Regular readers will know that I’m offering up a short series dealing with the contents of the Use Hearing Protection…” on Jul 14th, 2022 →
Kylie Minogue - Rendezvous At Sunset
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “The picture above should give it away that this is not a triple posting about Los Angeles…… The facts. Can’t…” on Jul 12th, 2022 →
The Style Council - Party Chambers
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “It’s always the same when the calendar flips round to June…..I get all nostalgic for bygone, warm and carefree days.…” on Jun 13th, 2022 →
Edwyn Collins - You're Gonna Love This One
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “This is the song written and recorded jointly by Edwyn Collins and two members of Franz Ferdinand, and released as…” on May 12th, 2022 →
Public Image Ltd. - The Cowboy Song
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “The question posed by the title of the posting relates o the b-side of the 45 I’m having a look…” on Apr 20th, 2022 →