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The Magnetic Fields Announce New Album

Merge Records has announced that The Magnetic Fields will return to the label for a new record due out sometime next year. The album will be chief songwriter Stephin Merritt’s first Magnetic Fields LP with Merge since 1999’s lengthy-yet-cherished 69 Love Songs. Before the new record, however, Merritt has a rarities collection titled Obscurities coming out on the label Aug. 23....  read more

50+ Free Christmas mp3s

A couple weeks ago, we released a 13-song Christmas sampler, but more Christmas music kept flooding our inbox. So we’ve compiled a list of artists giving away free mp3s from all over the web. Happy holidays from all of us at Paste!...  read more

Best Music of 2010 (So Far): Austin L. Ray, Web Editor

Spoiler alert: There is no Beach House or Sleigh Bells after the jump. You may want to find another article to click on if this is the sort of thing that might upset you...  read more

Magnetic Fields: 69 Love Songs

Big Love: Lush, lovely misanthropy ages well Shopping for music reissues is like hitting the sundae buffet on your birthday: It’s one of the few times you are allowed, if not obligated, to put aside your cares about portion size. In the world of repackaged albums, volume is king, sets are super-sized and few demos are considered too scruffy for inclusion. The most bank-breaking reissue of Pearl Jam’s Ten, for example, came with dueling mixes of the album, a live DVD, a vinyl LP, a replica cassette of Vedder’s early demos, some recipes, a coupon for 50 percent off your...  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

Download The Magnetic Fields' "The Book of Love"

Download The Magnetic Fields' "The Book of Love" here.The reissued vinyl box set edition of The Magnetic Fields' 69 Love Songs will be released April 20 on Merge....  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

The Magnetic Fields: Realism

Stephin Merritt completes his “no synth” trilogy Providing the counterpart to 2008’s noise-pop experiment Distortion, The Magnetic Fields’ latest, Realism, is the band’s first attempt at folk music. Setting aside all instruments requiring an electric cord, Stephin Merritt and his bandmates trade the former album’s fixation on feedback and fuzz for a focus on crisp textures and neatly arranged acoustic instruments such as banjo, tuba, cello and accordion....  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