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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Woody Guthrie - The Biggest Thing Man Has Ever Done
Star Maker MachineFollow “Woody Gurthrie: The Biggest Thing That Man Has Ever Done [purchase] I’m staying in the political song area again, but…” on Jan 17th, 2022 →
The Fall - Return
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “It’s been four weeks since the previous edition of this series. We had reached December 1990 in terms of the…” on Jan 15th, 2022 →
Haircut 100 - Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl) +1 remix
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “I never did, and never will, get annoyed by Haircut 100. Their songs were too good and too enjoyable to…” on Aug 6th, 2021 →
The Fall - Fit And Working Again
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 →
The Wedding Present - Crawl
Here Comes The FloodFollow “photo: Jessica McMillan English indie pioneers The Wedding Present have been busy revisiting their back catalog, with new recordings of…” on Apr 17th, 2021 →
John Cale - Strange Times In Casablanca
27 LeggiesFollow “A couple of weeks ago our friends over at 40 Year Itch did a round up of albums released in…” on Apr 15th, 2021 →
Spectrum - How You Satisfy Me
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “Burning Badgers Vinyl – The Lost LPs #4 Soul Kiss(Glide Divine) – Spectrum (1992, Silvertone Records) SWC writes…….. The second…” on Mar 1st, 2021 →
The Wedding Present - It's Not Unusual
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “Play loud and blow away those Monday morning cobwebs. mp3: The Wedding Present – Kennedy It entered the Top 40…” on Nov 1st, 2020 →
The Specials - Too Much Too Young (live)
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “4 April 2014 A LOT OF THE FOLK PICTURED ON THIS SLEEVE WILL BE GRANDPARENTS NOW… There are loads of…” on Sep 4th, 2020 →
The Prats - Disco Pope
The Listening Post BlogFollow “I’ve been craving some no frills, good old DIY sounds today and then stumbled upon today’s song! Voila! You don’t…” on Aug 15th, 2020 →
The Buff Medways - Troubled Mind
For The RabbitsFollow “We Say… Splitting their time between Croydon and Brighton, Jetstream Pony formed through a love of post-punk and indie-pop, and…” on Jun 8th, 2020 →
Leatherface - God Is Dead
PopMattersFollow “Since punk is a wide-ranging umbrella genre saturated with numerous subcultures, styles, aesthetics, and attitudes, making a list is more…” on Apr 29th, 2020 →
Jackie-O Motherfucker - Hey! Mr. Sky
DoklandsFollow “Here are Jackie-O Motherfucker, those forbidding and unrelenting musical experimenters, producing something very much like a radio-friendly psychedelic folk song.…” on Apr 26th, 2020 →
The Wedding Present - Brassneck
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “It was turning into a dull and routine Friday at work in mid-November, counting down the hours till the freedom…” on Jan 14th, 2020 →
Vic Chesnutt - Gravity Of The Situation
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “A GUEST POSTING by HYBRID SOC PROF, our Michigan Correspondent A TRAGICOMIC SOUTHERN GOTHIC ICA To a certain extent, it’s…” on Dec 12th, 2019 →
Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine - Rubbish
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “ICA 50 was a joint effort by SWC and Badger in which they pulled out a perfect 10 from Carter…” on Oct 25th, 2019 →
Richard Hell & The Voidoids - Who Says?
For The Sake Of The SongFollow “"There's nothing to win by this sort of an outcry..." Be that as it may, 'who says it's good to…” on Mar 29th, 2019 →
Buzzcocks - Nostalgia
For The Sake Of The SongFollow “Just got the sad news that Pete Shelley has passed away. The Buzzcocks frontman, who more or less singlehandedly invented…” on Dec 7th, 2018 →
The Members - The Sound Of The Suburbs
Crying All The Way To The Chip ShopFollow “Originally published December 2008 “Do you know the road I live in—Ellesmere Road, West Bletchley? Even if you don’t, you…” on Nov 26th, 2018 →