The Magnetic Fields‘ awesome triple CD opus 69 Love Songs turns 25 next year, and to celebrate they’ve announced a series of shows featuring the album’s original players, happening in NYC, Chicago, ...

You'd think that people would have had enough of silly love songs? Not a chance. For Valentine's Day this year, we've modeled our love songs playlist after The Magnetic Fields' classic 69 Love Songs, ...

It’s asking a lot of an audience of a certain age — ahem — to return two nights in a row for one performance. Specifically, a performance of a masterwork so sprawling, its 69 songs must be played in ...

Wallace Stevens gave the world 13 ways of looking at a blackbird; nearly a century later, the Magnetic Fields gave it 69 ways of looking at a love song. Not ways of looking at love, mind you, but ways ...

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“Oh, you again,” says Stephin Merritt in his inimitable droll baritone, settling himself onto a high stool before a tray of percussive gizmos and miniature keyboard and glancing out at arguably ...

The rock band Magnetic Fields released its three-disc magnum opus, 69 Love Songs, back in 1999, and it was recognized immediately as a classic. The Village Voice’s Pazz & Jop Critics Poll, the most ...

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 ...