The Magnetic Fields - 2008 Tour Dates & presale

The Town Hall tickets that go on sale Friday are actually for the venue in Seattle, not New York. No word on the NYC sale date yet. Man, I wish musictoday didn't suck so much.

Is the pre-sale sold out already? I can't get tickets for either night.

how big is town hall?

"The Town Hall tickets that go on sale Friday are actually for the venue in Seattle, not New York. "

oh oops, I guess I stopped reading after "Town Hall". thanks!

BV, according to the MF official site, you were right the first time:

http://houseoftomorrow.com/calendar.php

Did anyone manage to get tickets? They'd all gone for both nights in New York by 11am.

how can you support a racist trannie?

not only a racist but one that toils in obscurity for years only to release a freak good album, and then 2 years later refuse to play it... good show!

What's up with the Stephen Merritt smear campaign? If you're going to keep calling the guy a racist, at least provide reasons.

Some retarded new yorker reporter called stephen merritt a racist for not liking Hey Ya. You can google it. He provides about as much evidence as the commenters here have.

Forget being a racist which he may or may not be but ummm this band is not relevant anymore. Their time has come and gone. I saw them a few times during their heyday but this will probably be a yawnfest.

I managed to get two tickets for the friday show. it sold out pretty quick, I tried for saturday and they were gone

It was Sasha Frere-Jones. He said SM is a racist because he doesn't like hip hop, and he said he liked the song "Zip A Dee Doo Dah" from an old, notoriously racist Disney movie. SFJ is an idiot who is apparently in denial that he's white.

These shows are not sold out. Just their fanclub presale is sold out.

They are relevant to people who continue to listen to great bands for longer than their 5 seconds in the hipster spotlight. How lame of us for not being mindless drones!

SFJ also says SM is a racist because only 10 of his top 100 records of the century are from black artists.

Also, it was Jessica Hopper who painted SM a racist for liking Zip A Dee Doo Dah - and misquoting him about the merits of the film it was from.

does anyone know what it means on their website when it says that the tickets will be on sale at the town hall box office november 9 and 10 only... then on sale at ticketmaster november 10? is it only a limited amount on sale directly from the box office?

is this a good band?

I'm pretty sure hip hop did not like Stephen Merritt first.

Town Hall Theatre is big enough to have a balcony seating chart. fuck it. have fun with your binoculars kids.

"They are relevant to people who continue to listen to great bands for longer than their 5 seconds in the hipster spotlight. How lame of us for not being mindless drones!

Posted by Anonymous | November 5, 2007 11:58 AM"

Wrong you schmuck, They are just not relevant anymore. Taking a wild guess, i would say you are gay...not that there's anything wrong with that.

stephin is also djing tonight at the beauty bar NYC along with M.E.N. djing in the back room.

what time do they go on?

Someone on last.fm sent me an invite to record this band. I don't know much about them, but this entire thread has me intrigued. Gay racists!

Oh yeah, and Town Hall is actually a pretty intimate place, and has excellent acoustics. The front rows of the balcony are excellent seats.

fanclub/internet pre sale is onlyh 10% of capacity so they go quick

"Taking a wild guess, i would say you are gay..."

wow.

"Town Hall Theatre is big enough to have a balcony seating chart. fuck it. have fun with your binoculars kids."

Town Hall is small and is one of the best venues in the city to see any artist. But by any means, strick yourself to seeing shows in small clubs and abandon artists when they get more successful. There'll be more room for the rest of us.

"stephin is also djing tonight at the beauty bar NYC along with M.E.N. djing in the back room.

Posted by gooch | November 5, 2007 12:10 PM"

You mean MEN BLOWING in the back room, don't you?
Sorry, it was too easy.

Yeah, Anon 12:08 is pushing all my buttons. But that's okay, because he's no longer relevant. It's all about 12:38 now.

zen question of the day: how can a band that doesn't record live play live? and if steve merritt plays everything over multiple tracks, what's with these other purported band members?

zen question of the day: how can a band that doesn't record live play live? and if steve merritt plays everything over multiple tracks, what's with these other purported band members?

zen answer of the day: magic

I don't think Stephin Merritt plays everything on the records. Actually I'm sure he doesn't. I saw TMF play at Town Hall a few years ago, after "i" came out. Longtime members Claudia Gonson, John Woo, and Sam Davol (all pictured above) played. It was great!

went to their show at Carnegie Hall when i came out and I enjoyedit a lot.
who cares if he is a racist? if you don't like him/them don't go and stop bitching

"went to their show at Carnegie Hall when i came out and I enjoyedit a lot.
who cares if he is a racist? if you don't like him/them don't go and stop bitching

Posted by Anonymous | November 5, 2007 1:06 PM"

Yeah anon above, you dope. we should all stop bitchin about a pesky thing like racism. Just ignore it and let it happen. It is so annoying when people complain about racists. Why cant people take their oppression like a man.

why the fuck does everyone think he's a racist?

because some dumb reporter said so, nonetheless. come on people, this isn't the sixties when everyone believed media like the Bible itself.
racism is a strong word to use freely based on what other people say. i bet noone has heard this guy say asingle racist word, and yet everybody jumps at the first opportunity to bring him down.
i guess that's the New York way...

what reporter? does anyone have a link to said article? i find these claims to be ridiculous...

http://www.slate.com/id/2141421/

Sasha Frere-Jones (he of the recent, infamous New Yorker article) suggested that Merritt might be a racist because it is not apparent that he appreciates "black music". And because he likes the song "Zip Ah Dee Do Dah" from the racist film "Song of the South". Which he admitted is a terrible movie. So can this stop now? You can discover how silly and overblown this "racist" issue is by searching the internet, which you appear to be already on.

stephin merritt is a racist because he doesn't care for hip hop and thinks zip-a-dee-doo-dah (zip-a-dee-yay) is a niffty song? please, that's completely skewed logic. my oh my what a wonderful day.

"zen question of the day: how can a band that doesn't record live play live?"

ask prince.

"and if steve merritt plays everything over multiple tracks, what's with these other purported band members?"

ask the revolution.

this is such a nice blog. how does it attract such dimwits?

(for the record, the magnetic fields are a very good live band.)

SASHA FRERE-JONES IS A RACIST

what's with this lame-brained idea that ALL black people are completely represented in popular music in the first place, or that there is such a nice and neat little category as "black music." do bad brains sound like matthew shipp? do either of those sound like the ying-yang twins? does every black person on the planet feel adequately represented by the available pool of black musical artists past or present? that seems like a big assumption to me.

you could probably accuse stephen merritt of being whitebread, or having whitebread music taste, but is that a crime? calling him a racist is pretty far-fetched.

Does anyone know when the non-presale tickets are on sale? (Nothing yet on Ticketmaster.)

i'm pretty sure i read an interview with stephin in salon.com a few years ago, and they asked if he liked hey ya, and he said he "tapped his foot the first hundred times he heard it." maybe i am not remembering right.

i used to work at a black nightclub (i'm white), and my black boss hated hip-hop and rap. now i know he was a racist! hooray!

i'd go if stephen merchant was playing

I noticed that SF/J's year-end list came well short of including the mandatory 10% gay artists. He also under-represented Native Americans, Pacific Islanders, and Animists.

Or we could just drop the whole ridiculous notion that what you listen to reflects your deep-seated feelings towards humanity.

Sasha Frere-Jones has a racist name.

fyi,

magnetic fields tickets go on sale this friday (11/9) at noon.

They are accordant to humans who abide to accept to abundant bands for best than their 5 abnormal in the hipster spotlight. How bruised of us for not getting asinine drones!

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