The rock band Magnetic Fields released its three-disc magnum opus, 69 Love Songs, back in 1999, and it was recognized immediately as a classic. The Village Voice’s Pazz & Jop Critics Poll, the most ...

Twenty-five years after the release of 69 Love Songs, the triple album known for its emotional wit, genre-hopping range, and lyrical audacity, The Magnetic Fields are taking their cult classic on the ...

Wallace Stevens gave the world 13 ways of looking at a blackbird; nearly a century later, the Magnetic Fields gave it 69 ways of looking at a love song. Not ways of looking at love, mind you, but ways ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 'Laugh-out-loud hilarious': Stephin Merritt - Marcelo Krasilcic Before becoming a cult indie-rock star with his band The Magnetic ...

Halfway through the first installment of the multi-volume magnum opus from Stephin Merritt’s landmark project The Magnetic Fields, a disarming line upends the tenderness of the triple album’s most ...

A primer on the indie-rock band’s triple album, now celebrating its 25th anniversary. By Lindsay Zoladz The singer-songwriter behind Magnetic Fields is releasing “50 Song Memoir,” a five-CD set of ...

The Magnetic Fields’ first night in Chicago was part comedy show, part family reunion and full of joy for all kinds of music — though a certain 69 songs were top of mind. On Wednesday night, people of ...

Songs about the denial shown by someone left behind by their significant other aren’t all that uncommon. The songwriter who can find a metaphor to set that scenario apart can create something original ...

Stephin Merritt is a 42-year-old gay man of modest stature, with a wardrobe consisting mostly of clothes in various shades of brown. And, to some, he is the most terrifying man in pop music, a ...

Suki Waterhouse is in the midst of her biggest headlining tour to date, and she celebrated the second of two sold-out shows at Brooklyn Paramount in New York last night (Dec. 8) by welcoming the ...

Stephin Merritt has announced a four-show residency at NYC’s Symphony Space this fall dubbed ”From 69 to 50: A Stephin Merritt/Magnetic Fields Residency” with music spanning his whole career and most ...