The Magnetic Fields’ 69 Love Songs is a masterpiece in both senses of the term. Though singer-songwriter Stephin Merritt had been plying his trade as a craftsman of wonderfully witty ...

Last week, producers Seaview and Lorne Michaels announced some details about the new Broadway show All In: Comedy About Love ...

The Magnetic Fields will perform their watershed album over the course of two nights in each city, with the new dates set to ...

More recently, Joanna Newsom’s Have One On Me, at a mere 18 songs, sprawls rather languidly across three discs. Which makes 69 Love Songs, Stephin Merritt’s magnum opus, now satisfyingly ...

“Some of it’s just transcendental / some of it’s just really dumb.” Behold the beating heart of 69 Love Songs. Zipping between sincerity and silliness with plucky aplomb, the genre-smashing 1999 ...

The Magnetic Fields have been on the road celebrating the 25th anniversary of their magnum opus, 69 Love Songs, with equally epic two-night-stand performances across North America. On Tuesday, the ...

You are art in motion. Fellow Magnetic Fields Fans We sat in the balcony turret the first night of 69 Love Songs. Thanks for singing along with me! Hope you got to come back for Papa was a Rodeo.

There is no one else in pop like Stephin Merritt now, and 69 Love Songs is the monument that says so. Under the names The Magnetic Fields, Future Bible Heroes, The Gothic Archies and The 6ths ...

Or a cover of Beck’s “Debra,” or a Magnetic Fields song from “69 Love Songs.” After she started gigging regularly with Nick Barr, an arranger, trumpeter and guitar player, she told him ...

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.

Simon Rich’s new Broadway show, based on short stories he wrote for The New Yorker and inspired by the Magnetic Fields’ album “69 Love Songs,” made waves after announcing their rotating ...

The Magnetic Fields have been on the road celebrating the 25th anniversary of their magnum opus, 69 Love Songs, with equally epic two-night-stand performances across North America. On Tuesday ...