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.
Latest new romantic tracks
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Associates - Waiting For The Loveboat (extended voyage)
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “I’ve a dozen or so Associates singles on 12″ as well as a handful released by Billy Mackenzie under his…” on May 29th, 2024 →
Japan - Life In Tokyo +1 remix
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “So, what about those marvellous singles released in May 1979 that didn’t bother the charts. There’s a couple of personal…” on May 22nd, 2024 →
Spandau Ballet - To Cut A Long Story Short
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “Friday 10 May 2024. The date when this blog’s chief steward dug deep into the 7″ singles and more than…” on May 10th, 2024 →
Tubeway Army - Are Friends Electric
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 →
The Monochrome Set - Eine Symphonie Des Grauens
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “Having already seen that April 1979 was an excellent month chart-wise for quality new wave/post punk 45s, it’s time to…” on Apr 29th, 2024 →
Vicious Pink - So You Want To Love Me?
Record TurnoverFollow “RECORD TURNOVER 80s HITS #204 We’re trading the usual policy of 80s groups who turned in misses rather than hits…” on Apr 15th, 2024 →
System Olympia - 6am Romance
The Vinyl FactoryFollow “Permanent Rotation is a series in which producers, DJs, and musicians go deep on the albums that have inspired them.…” on Apr 15th, 2024 →
System Olympia - Tristessa
nialler9Follow “Best of 2023 | Irish albums | Best albums | Best songs | Best Of Podcasts | Guest lists |…” on Dec 21st, 2023 →
Private World - Through The Distance
FILTER MéxicoFollow “Antena fue un proyecto francés que en 1982 publicó un álbum que muchos consideran un clásico de la época por…” on Dec 15th, 2023 →