Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 'Laugh-out-loud hilarious': Stephin Merritt - Marcelo Krasilcic Before becoming a cult indie-rock star with his band The Magnetic ...

You have to admit it’s a little funny, the sudden abundance of Stephin Merritt during Black History Month. It seems like just yesterday Merritt was being called the New York Times’ nearest available ...

Stephin Merritt, front man of the Magnetic Fields and the subject of the amusing documentary "Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields," doesn't suffer fools gladly - actually, he doesn ...

Bob Boilen reviews the new documentary about Merritt, Strange Powers. He says the film will make longtime fans love the artist even more, while... In the trailer to a new documentary about Stephin ...

Having finished up a tour with cellist Sam Davol earlier this summer, Magnetic Fields main man Stephin Merritt will be playing City Winery this fall on November 14. It’s a late show (9:15 doors) and ...

Stephin Merritt is a 42-year-old gay man of modest stature, with a wardrobe consisting mostly of clothes in various shades of brown. And, to some, he is the most terrifying man in pop music, a ...

Less is more, according to what’s left of the record industry. It’s a singles-driven era and albums typically clock in at 50 minutes or less. And then there’s the indie alt-pop Magnetic Fields’ ...

About 10 years ago, a triple CD by an eccentric chamber-pop band called the Magnetic Fields made it clear that singer-songwriter Stephin Merritt is one of the wryest lyricist-tunesmiths of his ...

The Magnetic Fields mastermind and notably witty curmudgeon Stephin Merritt apparently loves Scrabble. This makes total sense. In fact, he loves Scrabble so much that he wrote and published a book of ...

It’s been nearly two decades since The Magnetic Fields captured the public’s attention with 69 Love Songs, a triple-CD bonanza of tunes about a single topic. Now the group’s leader Stephin Merritt is ...

Stephin Merritt on stage at the Lucille Lortel Theater. Photograph by Hamish Robertson. "You really can't miss the pianos," says Stephin Merritt, the singer-songwriter best known as the front man of ...

Jeopardy’s annual Tournament of Champions wrapped up last week and I’m pleased to report that two good things happened. First, the victor, 29-year-old Colby Burnett, is from Chicago (sort of—he ...