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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Bronski Beat - It Ain't Necessarily So
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “4-10 November The highest new entry on the singles chart back in the first week in November 1986 belonged to…” on Nov 9th →
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Tesla Girls
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “2-8 September The month of August 1984 did offer up some gems, including what I have long held to be…” on Sep 9th →
Marc And The Mambas - My Former Self
Moonbuilding WeeklyFollow “At the risk of repeating myself, as if, the new issue of Moonbuilding, the print version of all this, still…” on Aug 15th →
Blancmange - The Day Before You Came
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “July 1984. I spent most of the month inter-railing, myself and two girls using youth hostels en route to go…” on Jul 16th →
The Human League - Life On Your Own
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “June 1984. The month I turned 21 years of age. I wish I had a photo or two to show…” on Jun 10th →
The Human League - The Lebanon
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “The month of April hadn’t been too shabby, and indeed the first of the charts being looked at this time…” on May 12th →
System Olympia - On Repeat feat Reinen
Record TurnoverFollow “It’s about time we checked in with the London-based producer and DJ System Olympia. In fact, she released a new…” on May 1st →
Heaven 17 - I'm Your Money (12" version)
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “A guest posting by Fraser Pettigrew (aka our New Zealand correspondent) The Smirks were a short-lived band from Manchester whose…” on Apr 22nd →
Japan - Taking Islands In Africa
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “I mentioned a long while back, in referring to the single Life In Tokyo as part of one the features…” on Apr 21st →
Duran Duran - The Reflex
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “I finished off last month’s two-part look back at the singles chart of 1984 with a degree of pessimism that…” on Apr 15th →
Simple Minds - Up On The Catwalk
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “Following on from yesterday’s witterings……… 18 – 24 March The first two weeks of this chart hadn’t seen any spectacularly…” on Mar 11th →
Visage - Never Enough (clip)
Post-Punk MonkFollow “[…continued from last post] It was a dozen years ago today when I first posted about the Visage Mark III…” on Feb 21st →
China Crisis - Wishful Thinking
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “The 1979 series was so well-received that I felt there really should be some sort of follow-up. The 1979 series…” on Jan 16th →
Chappell Roan - Good Luck, Babe!
said the gramophoneFollow “For the twentieth time, I am here on a blog called Said the Gramophone to share my favourite songs of…” on Dec 7th, 2024 →
Tomo Akikawabaya - Le Voleur
The QuietusFollow “As another year in the zone hurtles to a close, our Rum Music correspondent rounds up her favourite releases of…” on Dec 3rd, 2024 →
Gary Numan - Complex
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “A slight deviation from the norm in that this instalment also happens to cover a few days from October 1979,…” on Nov 4th, 2024 →
Spandau Ballet - Chant No.1 (extended)
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “I hadn’t intended to do such a quick follow-up to the post from earlier this week, but it felt like…” on Aug 23rd, 2024 →
Simple Minds - Promised You A Miracle
Plain Or Pan?Follow “Lagging behind the curve again, I’ve only recently read Themes For Great Cities, Graeme Thomson’s exquisitely researched and expertly written…” on Aug 12th, 2024 →