Stephin Merritt has had a cult following for 30 years, but few expected his inclusion on the New York Times list of the 30 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...