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Magnetic Fields Release New Song, "Andrew in Drag"

The Magnetic Fields released another synth and acoustic-blending track today from their upcoming album, Love at the Bottom of the Sea. The track will be a welcome addition to fans of the band who will instantly recognize “Andrew in Drag” as a Magnetic Fields effort.   read more

25 Albums We're Looking Forward to in 2012

It’s 2012, a year long-rumored to bring about the end of the world. So, if our time really is limited, there's no reason to waste it on bad music. Here are 25 albums we expect to be among the best of the year.   read more

The Magnetic Fields Announce New Album, Tour

The Magnetic Fields will return to Merge Records after a dozen years and three albums later with their upcoming Love at the Bottom of the Sea. It will be their first album on the label since 1999 after releasing a trilogy of no-synth albums released on Nonesuch Records.  read more

Stephin Merritt: Obscurities

The old adage about odds and sods collections like Obscurities—which, perhaps fittingly, marks Stephin Merritt and his Magnetic Fields’ return to Merge Records, where both first made their names—is that they’re only for completists and obsessives. That they usually comprise weird or somehow “less good” compositions, outtakes that weren’t A-list enough to make their way onto proper albums and instead get dumped onto compilations like this, often as a way to fulfill label contracts or simply serve as vanity projects....  read more

Stephin Merritt's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Score Takes an Encore

In May, Magnetic Fields frontman Stephin Merritt lent his musical chops to San Francisco's 53rd International Film Festival. Each year, the festival selects contemporary musician to compose an original score to a well-known silent film, to be performed live; this year, Merritt was tasked with scoring Stuart Paton's 1916 take on 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. And it seems that he did a nice job of it, because he'll be revisiting the original score at an encore performance on July 11....  read more

Ten New Releases to Look Forward to in January 2010

As you struggle to keep those resolutions and catch up on 2009 releases, it's important to remember that the new year means new music...  read more

Peter Gabriel Orchestral Covers Album On the Way

Peter Gabriel first LP in seven years will be something of a group project, an orchestral covers album that hosts an eclectic bunch of music hot shots performing each others’ songs. The title, Scratch My Back, plays along with the record’s tit-for-tat song swaps among artists like Arcade Fire, Bon Iver, Radiohead, Randy Newman and The Kinks, according to The Guardian....  read more

These five song titles are complete sentences.

One-word song titles are easy to type into iTunes and all, but I like it when artists go all out and use complete sentences for song titles. It's more revealing...especially when the sentence is "I Am Totally Not Down With Rob's Alien" (Minus The Bear). Here are five of my other favorites. ...  read more

Spiral Stairs, Wrens, many more contribute to Lifted Brow

Those crazy kids at The Lifted Brow are winding down their buzz-worthy multimedia project. After the announcement of their "Fake Bookshelf" project earlier this year, the Australia-based zine has (finally!) announced pre-orders for the issue, due out Jan. 17....  read more

Stephin Merritt inspires shoes, preps music for Neil Gaiman

What do you do when you find yourself so inspired by the Magnetic Fields' 69 Love Songs album you call it "the most beautiful CD of the 20th century"? You make shoes, apparently....  read more