With the Magnetic Fields, Stephin Merritt has written, produced, and recorded ten albums, including 69 Love Songs, which was named one of the 500 best albums of all time by Rolling Stone.

The Magnetic Fields were able to get through eight of their 69 Love Songs during a performance on NPR's Tiny Desk Concert series. The special performance allowed Stephin Merritt and co. to offer ...

Not ways of looking at love, mind you, but ways of looking at the love song, a concept that songwriter Stephin Merritt and his merry band of collaborators stretched to its semiotic limits in ...

Synthesizers may return to the Magnetic Fields' orbit for their tenth album, but the important variance springs from Stephin Merritt's mood — apparently, the itch to score a Stanley Donen movie.

Even though his lyrics tend to evoke ambiguity, Stephin Merritt explains his songwriting process in very simple terms. “I sit around in gay bars for a few hours every day with a drink in one hand and ...

Daredevil: Born Again reunites Murdock with his old pals Karen (Deborah Ann Woll) and Foggy (Elden Henson), as well as an old ...

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As he releases new Magnetic Fields album 50 Song Memoir, Stephin Merritt doesn't delve into the past for his Baker's Dozen list but instead gives tQ an A-Z of some contemporary favourites, from Japan ...

Stephin Merritt’ s band, The Magnetic Fields, is technically a five-piece outfit, but for all intents and purposes, Merritt runs... Ashley and James Schwalm had what seemed like a fairy tale ...