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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Nurse With Wound - Two Shaves and a Shine
Bandcamp DailyFollow “Navigating the labyrinthine discography of an experimental music giant. Read full story on the Bandcamp Daily.” on Jan 15th →
The Ruts - Jah War
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “You know the script by now. I delve into my big bumper book of Indie Songs (The Great Indie Discography…” on Nov 18th, 2024 →
The Stranglers - Nuclear Device
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “The first of the singles charts to be looked back at this time around covers 30 September–6 October. The Top…” on Oct 8th, 2024 →
The Wedding Present - Thanks
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “With apologies for the slightly blurred image today – I didn’t realise until looking at it for the purposes of…” on Aug 13th, 2024 →
The Fall - Return
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “Things haven’t quite been what they should be round these parts in recent weeks. There have been daily posts, but…” on Jul 23rd, 2024 →
Lambchop - This Corrosion
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “One of the problems when a blog like this has been going so long is the inevitability of umpteen repeats…” on May 14th, 2024 →
XTC - Life Begins At The Hop
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “The top end of the first new chart of May 1979 didn’t unearth as many gems as recent weeks, but…” on May 7th, 2024 →
Dear Nora - Make You Smile
Chicago ReaderFollow “Singer-songwriter Katy Davidson cofounded Dear Nora in Portland, Oregon, at the end of the 90s. By then the Pacific Northwest…” on Mar 29th, 2024 →
The Colourfield - Thinking Of You
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “Here comes an ICA from a short-lived band, with just two albums and seven UK singles to select from. Despite…” on Mar 11th, 2024 →
Billy Bragg - St Swithin's Day
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “I’ve never actually seen a copy of the debut single by Billy Bragg, but then again, it’s never been the…” on Feb 18th, 2024 →
Buzzcocks - Promises
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “Last month, in the final part of the year-long series on the singles charts of 1983, I promised that the…” on Jan 11th, 2024 →
The Wedding Present - Gone
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “A month after Kennedy had grabbed the indie-world by its lapels and given it the most almighty of shakes, the…” on Dec 16th, 2023 →
The Wedding Present - It's Not Unusual
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “The next 45 from The Wedding Present has proved to be the most popular of them all among the fan…” on Dec 9th, 2023 →
The Wedding Present - You Should Always Keep In Touch With Your Friends
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “It’s still 1986, and we’ve reached the release of the third single, one which came out on 7″ and 12″…” on Oct 22nd, 2023 →
Prefab Sprout - Moving The River
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “Steve McQueen- Prefab Sprout (1985) There were some singers or bands whose collective bodies of works were analysed in a…” on May 9th, 2023 →
Superchunk - Precision Auto
Pequenos Classicos PerdidosFollow “On the mouth, terceiro disco dos Chunks, chegou aos 30 anos de idade em fevereiro último e muito provavelmente há…” on Mar 7th, 2023 →
Fun Boy Three - The Tunnel Of Love
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “Thanks again for all the feedback after the initial part of this series. The Top 10 of the singles chart…” on Feb 19th, 2023 →