Posts tagged as Magnetic Fields
Second Magnetic Fields New York Show
Good news for anyone who had plans on April 3: The Magnetic Fields have added a date at the Beacon Theater on April 4. Details are here.
The Magnetic Fields, "Andrew In Drag"
Here's the video for the first single from the forthcoming Magnetic Fields album, Love at the Bottom of the Sea. Be careful, THERE IS NAKEDNESS INVOLVED. I would not want you to get fired. Much like Sunday's Super Bowl, the clip is all about "playing with the ambiguities of gender and attraction," so this is the perfect time to release it. Anyway, don't forget about THE NAKEDNESS.
The Magnetic Fields, "Andrew In Drag"
What a great time for new music releases! Here's the first single from the forthcoming Magnetic Fields album, Love at the Bottom of the Sea. The album is full of bells and whistles in the good way. And synths abound. Synths! [Via]
New Magnetic Fields Album, With Synths. Synths!
"After putting out their 'synth-free trilogy,' The Magnetic Fields are returning to their signature mix of synth and acoustic sounds. Merritt notes about the new album that 'instead of using a synthesizer as a melodic instrument, much of the time I used it as a compositional destructive mechanism, something eating away at the apparent order of my perfectionist arrangements. I was very happy to be using synthesizers in ways that I had not done before. Most of the synthesizers on the record didn't exist when we were last using synthesizers.' The songs – none over three minutes long – were recorded with Merritt's usual cast of collaborators: Claudia Gonson, Sam Davol, John Woo, Shirley Simms, Johny Blood and Daniel Handler." READ MORE
Stephin Merritt Collection Coming Out In August
Oooh! Stephin Merritt’s Obscurities is being released this summer. Hear a track here.
Apparently, When Ultramafic Rock Melts, Its Conductivity Spikes, And That's Why Io Distorts Jupiter's Magnetic Field As Dramatically As It Does
"Later experiments in mineral physics found out that when ultramafic rocks, which are rocks very high in magnesium and iron—when those are melted, their conductivity shoots up by orders or magnitude. And it is that very high conductivity that can create the type of signature we have seen. So, we needed mineral physics to catch up with our data." READ MORE
The Magnetic Fields' "69 Love Songs," In Order
69. Love is Like Jazz
68. Experimental Music Love
67. Xylophone Track
66. Two Kinds of People
65. Zebra
64. How Fucking Romantic
63. Strange Eyes
62. For We Are the King of the Boudoir
61. Roses
60. Punk Love
59. Fido, Your Leash is Too Long
58. Love in the Shadows
57. Meaningless
56. Abigail, Belle of Kilronan
55. Queen of the Savages
54. Let's Pretend We're Bunny Rabbits
53. World Love
52. Love is Like a Bottle of Gin
51. Long-Forgotten Fairytale
50. Epitaph for My Heart
49. Blue You
48. I Can't Touch You Anymore
47. The Cactus Where Your Heart Should Be
46. My Sentimental Melody
45. Very Funny
44. It's a Crime
43. No One Will Ever Love You
42. The Sun Goes Down and the World Goes Dancing
41. Underwear
40. The One You Really Love
40. Wi' Nae Wee Bairn Ye'll Me Beget
39. The Night You Can't Remember
38. My Only Friend
37. Boa Constrictor
36. A Pretty Girl is Like...
35. Bitter Tears
34. The Way You Say Good-Night
33. Yeah. Oh, Yeah
32. Nothing Matters When We're Dancing
31. Asleep and Dreaming
30. The Death of Ferdinand de Saussure
29. Parades Go By
28. Acoustic Guitar
27. How to Say Goodbye
26. Reno Dakota
25. I'm Sorry I Love You
24. Time Enough for Rocking When We're Old
23. I Don't Want to Get Over You
22. If You Don't Cry
21. Kiss Me Like You Mean It
20. I Don't Believe in the Sun
19. All My Little Words
17. I Shatter
16. A Chicken with Its Head Cut Off
15. Promises of Eternity
14. Washington, D.C.
13. The Things We Did and Didn't Do
12. Come Back from San Francisco
11. When My Boy Walks Down the Street
10. Busby Berkeley Dreams
9. Grand Canyon
8. (Crazy for You But) Not That Crazy
7. I Think I Need a New Heart
6. Papa Was a Rodeo
5. Sweet-Lovin' Man
4. The Book of Love
3. Absolutely Cuckoo
2. The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side
1. You're My Only Home
What Claudia Gonson Has Read
"At around 11 or 12, I became completely obsessed with reading, probably because I was in a hormonal shit storm and couldn’t deal with human beings. My recollection of my 6th grade year is spending each day with my head on my desk. After school, I went to the fantasy section of the Cambridge Public Library and sat on the floor, piling through each title; Susan Cooper’s The Dark is Rising series, which I read several times, Lloyd Alexander’s various books like Taran Wanderer, some series about dragons which I am blanking on, Ursula Le Guin, Madeleine L’Engle, Narnia, etc." READ MORE
Magnetic Fields Movie Almost Here
We've been waiting for this one for a while, so good news: "The feature documentary 'Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and The Magnetic Fields' starts its theatrical run on Wednesday, October 27 at New York City's Film Forum. Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields will appear in person alongside the filmmakers at the 8:10PM shows on Wednesday, October 27 and Friday, October 29. Tickets go on sale October 20 at the Film Forum website."
The Magnetic Fields: Live At Town Hall, New York City, March 11, 2010
Some historical perspective: A long time ago there was a magazine called CMJ New Music Monthly which came with a CD offering 15 or so recent tracks from generally obscure bands that pretentious young white people like myself favored back in the days when this nation was so carefree that its biggest obsession centered around a figure skater and her skeevy boyfriend who had attacked a rival figure skater and her friend Ron Goldman. Or something. Anyway, CMJ New Music Monthly was pretty great, because back before the Internet you had to rely on your friends or your local college radio station to find out about new bands, which was fine in theory except sometimes your friends tried to get you into shit like Infectious Grooves and the DJs at most college radio stations were unbearable because they affected these terribly desperate airs of terminal hipness even though, come on, you're a fucking DJ at a college radio station, the only thing that could make you less cool is if you wrote for the newspaper. So sometimes the system broke down. And that's why we were happy to have CMJ, even though it was kind of expensive and that one time they included that Youssou N'Dour collaboration with Neneh Cherry you kind of got the feeling they were doing it because they thought they were supposed to and not because they were super into it. READ MORE
