Frustrated with the public perception of Yoko Ono and her artistic legacy, Death Cab For Cutie’s Ben Gibbard took it upon himself to put together the new tribute album Ocean Child: Songs Of Yoko Ono. The LP features contributions from heavy hitters like Yo La Tengo, Sharon Van Etten, the Flaming Lips, the Magnetic Fields’ Ste...

Next week, Stephin Merritt's Magnetic Fields will release the new project Quickies, the latest in a long line of records written around a particular idea. This time, we're dealing with a five-EP box set -- 28 new songs, each under three minutes long, most with pretty funny song titles and concepts. We've already posted the…

Next month, the Magnetic Fields will release an album that isn't an album at all. Quickies, the new collection from Stephin Merritt's longtime cleverness-pop project, is a box set that'll feature 28 songs -- all under three minutes -- spread over five EPs. We've already posted the early tracks "The Day The Politicians Died" and…

With his long-running project the Magnetic Fields, Stephin Merritt loves releasing albums as grand conceptual stunts. The greatest of those stunts, the 69 Love Songs triple album, just turned 20. The latest of those stunts is a five-disc box set of 7" singles that'll be out next month. The new project Quickies will feature 28…

It's now been more than 20 years since Stephin Merritt's Magnetic Fields released the triple-LP conceptual pop masterpiece 69 Love Songs. Today, Merritt and his group have announced another grand project: A quintuple LP made up only of short songs. This spring, the Magnetic Fields will release Quickies, the follow-up to 2017's even-bigger, even-...