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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

This Week’s New Album Releases (8/23/2011)

This week sees, among others, the highly anticipated release of Stephen Malkmus’ Mirror Traffic. The Beck-produced album is Malkmus’ fifth, and his first since the super-successful Pavement reunion tour.   read more

Album Stream: Stephin Merritt - Obscurities

Listen to Stephin Merritt's Obscurities—a 14-song collection of unreleased and rare tracks written before his classic Magnetic Fields record 69 Love Songs—all this week.  read more

WFMU is Giving You the Chance to Sing with Yo La Tengo and Drink Tea with Stephin Merritt

Independent freeform radio station WFMU (one of our 40 Best Little Radio Stations in the U.S.) has staged a benefit auction offering more than your standard promotional CD....  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

Magnetic Fields Documetary Strange Powers Gets Release Date

After hitting the festival circuit this spring, the documentary Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields has been picked up by Variance films and given a proper theatrical release date. The film, directed by Kerthy Fix and Gail O’Hara, will premiere at New York’s Film Forum (one of Paste’s Best Movie Houses in America) Oct. 27. A nationwide run of the film will follow, with dates yet to be announced....  read more

Stephin Merritt of Magnetic Fields Talks Antagonizing Straight People, Possible Christmas EP

Also, Irving Berlin, ABBA and Brian Eno...  read more

Magnetic Fields News Round-Up: 20,000 Leagues Score, Strange Powers Documentary, 69 Love Songs Vinyl Box

Stephin Merritt is often not a particularly amiable guy. “There was some kind of perception of Stephin as the Grumpy of rock ‘n’ roll,” author Neil Gaiman quips in the trailer for a documentary about the Magnetic Fields’ cantankerous frontman. “He makes Lou Reed look like Little Orphan Annie.”...  read more

Magnetic Fields Announce New Album, Realism, Out Jan. 26

As a sort of musical renaissance man, Stephin Merritt has come a long way with the Magnetic Fields (amongst other side projects), tweaking fluid pop tracks with his own production expertise and contributing as many instruments as he’s able to play for their past seven full-length albums....  read more

Coraline Hits the Screen, Stage and Page

While author Neil Gaiman is perhaps best known for...  read more