Magnetic Fields

Live music continues to make its slow return to NYC, including at City Winery, where The Magnetic Fields' Stephin Merritt played a pair of socially distanced shows on Friday.

Including Animal Collective, Anohni, Belle & Sebastian, Neu!, Vashti Bunyan, Neutral Milk Hotel, Keith Hudson, Galaxie 500, Cornelius, Sun Ra, Vampire Weekend, Anti-Pop Consortium, Magnetic Fields, Cluster, El-P, The Fall, The Monks, Sharon Van Etten, Yo La Tengo, The Strokes, William Basinski, Serge Gainsbourg, Matana Roberts, TV on the Radio, The National, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Os Mutantes, and more.

One of the best independent labels of the last three decades, Merge Records has released so many amazing records over the years -- here are 20 of our favorites.

This past Saturday at Symphony Space marked the third night of the four-show A Stephin Merritt / The Magnetic Fields Residency that features two nights of Magnetic Fields, and a show each for his bands The Gothic Archies and Future Bible Heroes...

Phil Elverum of Mount Eerie, Laura Jane Grace, Jeff Tweedy, Colin Meloy of The Decemberists, Sharon Van Etten, Fred Armisen and others also read chapters from Michael Azerrad's indispensable 2001 chronicle, which is getting its first audiobook edition.

Listen to new songs by Sarah Shook, hard rock supergroup Deadland Ritual, Wintersleep, Magnetic Fields covers by Worriers and Palehound, and more.

A new tribute album to '69 Love Songs' comes out this week and also features Sidney Gish, Palehound, Illuminati Hotties, Jeffrey Lewis, and more.

Stephin Merritt continues to tour The Magnetic Fields; 50 Song Memoir opus, in which he wrote a song about every year of his first five decades of existence. With a theatrical stage show, each city of the tour gets two nights...

Blood Orange, Angel Olsen and Stephin Merritt are among the performers for the 2018 Tibet House benefit that happens at NYC's Carnegie Hall on March 3. Also performing are Philip Glass, St. Paul and the Broken Bones, Rhiannon Giddens, Resistance Revival Chorus and Techung...

Superchunk's new album What A Time to Be Alive is out February 16.