It's now been more than 20 years since Stephin Merritt's Magnetic Fields released the triple-LP conceptual pop masterpiece 69 Love Songs. Today, Merritt and his group have announced another grand project: A quintuple LP made up only of short songs. This spring, the Magnetic Fields will release Quickies, the follow-up to 2017's even-bigger, even-...

The Magnetic Fields' magnum opus is regularly missed off of Best Album polls due to a technicality, and columnist Mark Beaumont isn't having itDavid Miliband. The perfectly lovely couple who finally get onto the Coach Trip coach two days before it hits Ibiza. The new political party that forms while Chuka Umunna’s on holiday. Fate and bad tim...

Earlier today, the Pains Of Being Pure At Heart premiered a new track — a cover of the Magnetic Fields’ “Jeremy” — on a fan’s Tumblr, which is a pretty awesome move. Taking the good vibes even further, the band’s Peggy Wang wrote an extended note about her personal relationshi...

On a recent Australian jaunt, the Shins stopped by the Aussie radio network Triple J and played an acoustic session. In the process, they tried out a cover of the Magnetic Fields’ recent single “Andrew In Drag,” and James Mercer did a pretty admirable job hitting the song’s drawn-out Broadway notes. Watch ...

The next video from the Mag Fields’ Love At The Bottom Of The Sea is for “Quick!,” the Shirley Simms-sung/Claudia Gonson harmonized track about having one foot out the door on a broken relationship. (The last one was for “Andrew In Drag,” which starred Andrew in drag.) The story here follows two ...