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.

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 ...

The musician Stephin Merritt once joked that he would be happy to sell only a single copy of each album he makes, provided that single copy costs $100,000. Which coincidentally is pretty close to ...

Stephin Merritt’ s band, The Magnetic Fields, is technically a five-piece outfit, but for all intents and purposes, Merritt runs... A viral earworm about a breakup turned the Beaches into ...