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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...