Watch an Animated St. Vincent Cover Bob's Burgers Song
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Found in: Blogs, Awesome of the DayMagnetic Fields' Stephin Merritt Performs Song From Beck's Song Reader
Beck’s newest project Song Reader has taken music back to it’s roots. Releasing his new material only as sheet-music, Beck has provided blueprints for fans allowing them to add their own personal twist on songs written by him. During a recent appearance on WNYC’s Soundcheck radio show, Magnetic Fields singer Stephin Merritt sat down and performed one of the songs from Beck’s Song Reader, while Beck was on the phone.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsStephin 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
Found in: Music, ReviewsThis 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
Found in: Music, NewsAlbum 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
Found in: Featured AudioWFMU 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
Found in: Music, NewsStephin 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
Found in: Culture, NewsMagnetic 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
Found in: Movies, NewsStephin Merritt of Magnetic Fields Talks Antagonizing Straight People, Possible Christmas EP
Also, Irving Berlin, ABBA and Brian Eno... read more
Found in: Music, NewsMagnetic 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
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