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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Taj Mahal - Johnny Too Bad
27 LeggiesFollow “Normally in this series we finish off with a Mandatory Reggae Version (MRV) of whichever song it is we are…” on Nov 10th →
Rail Band - Duga
An Aquarium DrunkardFollow “Some serious heat via Bamako, 1973. Having been founded by saxophonist and trumpeter Tidiani Koné as the official orchestra of…” on Apr 1st →
Al Green - One Of These Good Old Days
HOLY SOULFollow “holysoul: Al Green-One Of These Good Old Days MP3” on May 31st, 2023 →
Bill Withers - Hope She'll Be Happier
HOLY SOULFollow “holysoul: Bill Withers Hope She’ll Be Happier This song. This concert. MP3” on Jan 9th, 2023 →
Phoebe Snow - Harpo's Blues
27 LeggiesFollow “Ladies and gentlemen, Mr Slim Harpo. And also Ms Phoebe Snow, with a song that isn't a tribute to Slim…” on Dec 18th, 2022 →
Stevie Wonder - You Haven't Done Nothin
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “The final set of matches from the first knockout round proved to be something of an anticlimax in that one…” on Oct 30th, 2022 →
Al Green - What a Wonderful Thing Love Is
HOLY SOULFollow “davidfuternick: Al Green What A Wonderful Thing Love Is (1972) Early 70’s Week keeps on truckin’ along. This is my…” on Jun 1st, 2021 →
Al Green - I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
Bandcamp DailyFollow “Go beyond “Let’s Stay Together” with 10 lesser-known Green gems. Read full story on the Bandcamp Daily.” on Mar 23rd, 2020 →
Lizz Wright - Wake Up Little Sparrow
Cover Lay DownFollow “The sparrow: a symbol of fragility, and a semaphore for desperation and despair. In our case, though, the term is…” on Jan 23rd, 2018 →
Randy Newman - Last Night I Had a Dream
Still in RockFollow “Randy Newman est un des grands noms de la chanson américaine. Sa génération de songwriters a une très grande influence…” on May 12th, 2014 →
Lou Rawls - Season Of The Witch
Cover MeFollow “Upon Donovan's birthday, a chance to see his songwriting run off with new sounds by the likes of Eartha Kitt,…” on May 10th, 2014 →
Herbie Hancock - Death Wish (Main Title)
20 jazz funk greatsFollow ““[Dino] De Laurentiis said ‘Get a cheap English band.’ Because the English bands were very successful. But I had a…” on May 4th, 2014 →
Mandrill - Khidja
The Weekly Beat SessionsFollow “The Original Sample: Khidja by Mandrill Download: disc-2-07-khidja.mp3 For those that don’t know, I am Filipino. I was born here…” on Nov 13th, 2013 →
Chuck Brown and the Soul Searchers - Blow your Whistle Twisted Soul Collective Rerub
The House of DiscoFollow “Todays freebie comes courtesy of a collective that disbanded a while back only to be reunited under the flag of…” on Aug 7th, 2013 →
Mandrill - Moroccan Nights
The Weekly Beat SessionsFollow “The Original Sample: Moroccan Nights by Mandrill Download: 16-moroccan-nights.mp3 This week’s sample comes from Mandrill’s 1973 album, Composite Truth. On…” on Jun 2nd, 2013 →
Cassandra Wilson - I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
Cover MeFollow “The classic C&W weeper gets covered by artists like Al Green, Cassandra Wilson, and... Little Richard??” on Mar 29th, 2013 →
Nina Simone - Heaven Belongs to You
27 LeggiesFollow “We are going upmarket a bit today, with Ms Nina Simone. In 1982 she released "Fodder On My Wings", an…” on Jan 22nd, 2013 →
Randy Newman - God's Song (That's Why I Love Mankind)
For The Sake Of The SongFollow “Today, Randall Stuart Newman is 69. This from the liner notes to his sardonic masterpiece Sail Away: "While I don't…” on Nov 28th, 2012 →
Bill Withers - Can We Pretend
soul sidesFollow “In honor of the new Bill Withers Complete Columbia and Sussex box set, I wrote a pair of pieces for…” on Nov 24th, 2012 →