Good news for lovers of cantankerous, hyperacusis-afflicted songwriters (also, just plain old good news): Stephin Merritt and his Magnetic Fields will be back with their eighth LP Realism on January 26th. This comes after a year that offered a particularly momentous Merritt milestone in the classic 69 Love Songs' 10th anniversary (alongside endo...

In January, The Lifted Brow, a biannual "50% fiction and 50% everything else" Melbourne-based magazine, is putting out an issue that includes two CDs with exclusive music from Spiral Stairs, the Magnetic Fields' Claudia Gonson, Frightened Rabbit, and Dan Deacon, among others. One of those others is the Wrens, whose "In Turkish Waters" debuted in...

The twentieth anniversary edition of the annual Rock for Kids Rock & Roll Charity Auction will take place December 5 at Chicago's Park West, with the aim of raising some coin for the city's homeless and underprivileged youngsters. Over the years, the Rock for Kids auction has raised more than three million dollars for the cause, and they...

Tickets are now available for a rare, month-long
Magnetic Fields tour, beginning on February 11 in Northampton, MA, and wrapping up with three nights (and six shows!) in mid-March at Chicago's

Magnetic Fields have announced details of their new album 'Distortion'.