The Magnetic Fields’ first night in Chicago was part comedy show, part family reunion and full of joy for all kinds of music — though a certain 69 songs were top of mind. On Wednesday night, people of ...

Halfway through the first installment of the multi-volume magnum opus from Stephin Merritt’s landmark project The Magnetic Fields, a disarming line upends the tenderness of the triple album’s most ...

The Magnetic Fields return to Iowa City at the Englert Theatre for a two-day performance on Friday, May 16 and Saturday, May 17. (Mark Ynys-Mon) Buy Photo The Gazette offers audio versions of articles ...

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 ...

Stephin Merritt is an observer by nature. As the creative force behind The Magnetic Fields, an indie-pop establishment, Merritt has spent the past 20-plus years of his life drawing out romance with a ...

Taking place within a venue/coffeeshop whose vibes are, respectfully, supernaturally strange, Morbidly Beautiful contributor Alyssa Miller stages a terrifyingly good mashup of music and movie.

Earth's magnetic field occasionally bursts into song — but these compositions are written with electromagnetic radiation, not sound waves. When converted to audio signals, though, these strange bursts ...