Magnetic Fields

The album features one song about every year of the first five decades of Stephin Merritt’s life.

Few shows currently on TV are as music and song filled, without being a “musical,” as Bob’s Burgers. The animated series’ many musical moments — 107 of them to be precise — have now been collected for The Bob’s Burgers Music Album which will be out via Sub Pop on May 12. In addition to the regular cast…

This week’s show featured music from Magnetic Fields, Future Islands, The xx, Pond, Father John Misty, David Bazan, Ryan Adams, plus oldies but goldies from The Smiths, Bad Brainds, PJ Harvey and more.

The song is from The Magnetic Fields’ new opus ’50 Song Memoir.’

There’s a song for every year of Stephin Merritt’s life.

’50 Song Memoir,’ which chronicles all five decades of Stephin Merritt’s life, will be out in early 2017 and they’ll perform every song on the album in each city across two nights.

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The 2015 Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival happened over the weekend with events at The Bell House and Union Hall (and then a EMCF edition of StarTalk Live…

Magnetic Fields frontman Stephin Merritt has announced a solo tour for this spring/summer with longtime bandmate Sam Davol on cello. The press release notes, “For this series of performances, Merritt will present a set of solo, acoustic versions of selected songs from his extensive cata…

This sums it up nicely:Stephin Merritt, songwriter and frontman of the critically acclaimed Magnetic Fields, will be in Chicago on November 8 for a rare, intimate solo performance at the Old Town School of Folk Music at 7:00pm…