The Magnetic Fields’ 69 Love Songs is a masterpiece in both senses of the term. Though singer-songwriter Stephin Merritt had been plying his trade as a craftsman of wonderfully witty ...

Last week, producers Seaview and Lorne Michaels announced some details about the new Broadway show All In: Comedy About Love ...

The group's ambitious album will get an equally ambitious live show strung across two nights at the Pabst Theater.

The Magnetic Fields will perform their watershed album over the course of two nights in each city, with the new dates set to ...

“Some of it’s just transcendental / some of it’s just really dumb.” Behold the beating heart of 69 Love Songs. Zipping between sincerity and silliness with plucky aplomb, the genre-smashing 1999 ...

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The Magnetic Fields have been on the road celebrating the 25th anniversary of their magnum opus, 69 Love Songs, with equally epic two-night-stand performances across North America. On Tuesday ...

There is no one else in pop like Stephin Merritt now, and 69 Love Songs is the monument that says so. Under the names The Magnetic Fields, Future Bible Heroes, The Gothic Archies and The 6ths ...

In a way, following the epic triple album 69 Love Songs is an impossible feat. In the interim, Merritt has worked on musicals, offshoot bands, soundtracks and Chinese operas, as though struggling ...

Simon Rich’s new Broadway show, based on short stories he wrote for The New Yorker and inspired by the Magnetic Fields’ album “69 Love Songs,” made waves after announcing their rotating ...

The lyrics are a sentimental homage to lifelong love, made all the more tragic by Lennon’s early death. Songs of loss do not get any more wistful than this beautiful reflection on life and time ...