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 ...

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, 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“That I can go to Google and the third thing that comes up “Is Stephin Merritt a racist because he doesn’t like hip-hop?” It was so wrong and immoral, and it had never fully been cleared up.” A ...

So for the first installment of a new multimedia experiment called Project Song, All Songs Considered set up a bar for Merritt in NPR’s Studio 4A, an expansive wood-floored room with plenty of space ...

Magnetic Fields frontman Stephin Merritt has announced a solo tour for this spring/summer with longtime bandmate Sam Davol on cello. The press release notes, “For this series of performances, Merritt ...

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 ...

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 ...

“I’m used to sitting where I can fiddle with the climate controls,” Stephin Merritt, the fifty-three-year-old songwriter and composer, said the other day from the back seat of a Subaru Forester ...