The Magnetic Fields’ Stephin Merritt is a notoriously tricky interview. In my experience, most touring musicians and authors, recognizing that they’re essentially doing PR for themselves, will make an ...

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At a recent NPR All Songs Considered listening party at Berklee College of Music in Boston, something surprising and slightly magical occurred: the audience, hearing “The Book of Love” by The Magnetic ...

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Demanding of recognition but ever pushing back at attention, Stephin Merritt is a droopy-eyed Marlon Brando of art pop. A notoriously difficult interview, the singer-songwriter is prone to epic pauses ...

It must be hard to clash when you wear all brown. Impossible. The great thing about brown is when it fades, you can’t tell what color it originally was. There’s no sense of the “right” color ...

Famously cranky singer/songwriter Stephin Merritt and Somali-born artist Dalmar Yare are among the guests booked for the 6th annual MN Music Summit, kicking off April 20 in the St. Paul venues the ...

Merritt and The Magnetic Fields found mainstream renown when they released the gargantuan 69 Love Songs in 1999. As Merritt plunged the knife in on Ferdinand de Saussure and dryly wore his heart on ...

Stephin Merritt, the musician behind ventures as diverse as the Magnetic Fields and the Lemony Snicket audiobooks, is having a good year. The Magnetic Fields’ eighth studio album, Distortion, a ...