Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Exclusive , Q + A Marcelo Krasilcic Stephin Merritt is best known as the deadpan mastermind behind the Magnetic Fields , who will release a new synthesize-heavy album, 'Love at the Bottom of the Sea,' on March 5. The album will be their first for Merge Records since 1999's '69 Love Songs' and hails the end of their "no-synth trilogy." Merritt talked to [...]
Frank Yang A better writer might be able to come up with some angle that relates the sudden one-day cold snap that hit Toronto on Saturday and the long-awaited, much-anticipated local debut by Mr Charles Bradley at Lee's Palace, but sadly, all I can come up with is something like how it was cold outside but hot inside and that's pretty weaksauce, so I'll just move on. A little surprisingly, support for this tour came from across the Atlantic in the form of English power trio Little Barrie , who were [...]
Amazingly catchy new single from our favorite gay misanthrope, which is taken from the forthcoming Love at the Bottom of the Sea album. NSFW due to the nakedness .
Catch Magnetic Fields on Tour! Mar 6 Hudson, NY Helsinki Hudson Mar 7 Philadelphia, PA Union Transfer Mar 11 Minehead, UK All Tomorrow's Parties Mar 14, 15, 16 Austin, TX SXSW Mar 18 Vancouver, BC The Vogue Mar 19 Seattle, WA Neptune Theater Mar 20 Seattle, WA Neptune Theater Mar 21 Portland, OR Roseland Theater Mar 23 Los Angeles, CA Orpheum Theater Mar 24 Oakland, CA Fox Theater Mar 26 Chicago, IL Vic Theater Mar 27 Chicago, IL Vic Theater Mar 28 Iowa City, IA Englert Theater Mar 30 Toronto, ON Sound Academy Mar 31 Montreal, [...]
Toots & the Maytals are returning to Brooklyn Bowl on 3/25 and 3/27 . Tickets, at the links, on sale at noon. Yelawolf is playing Brooklyn Bowl on 3/13. Tickets on sale at noon. Tickets go on AmEx presale at noon for the recently-added Magnetic Fields show at Beacon Theater. Tickets [...]
Wednesday, February 8, 2012 Today's post is all about my newfound and totally unabashed love of the banjo. I suppose it isn't surprising. After all, violins and mandolins have long been favorite instruments of mine. Maybe they are the gateway to banjo love. I didn't plan for this to happen; no, in my mind banjos were relegated to rodeos and cheesy country songs. And yet, as of late, all I want to listen to are two songs that feature banjo. And there [...]
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Devotchka @ Metro in Chicago in January ( more by Ben Rodig ) The accidentally revealed it on the intitial tour announcement , so we always figured there would be two, but now the 2nd is annnounced too: " The Magnetic Fields have added a second show at the Beacon Theater in New York City on April 4th, the day following their current, nearly sold out show. Devotchka (acoustic) will open the show. Presale tickets are currently available via Music Today [...]
It has been said that all art is a product of its context. That is certainly true of the self-titled third album by New Zealand songwriter Annabel Alpers who records solo albums and performs live as Bachelorette . Bachelorette was recorded while Alpers was living a somewhat transient lifestyle with parts of the album recorded in Libya, Virginia, New Zeland, NYC and the UK. Each of these settings left a mark on the album. For example, the album's final track "Not Entertainment" features a sampled Muslim call to prayer that would ring out in her neighborhood while [...]
Poco más de un mes queda para el lanzamiento de Love at the bottom of the sea ( Merge , 2012) el próximo 06 de marzo. Y no hace mucho les mostramos un adelanto de lo que será el décimo primer disco de la banda de Boston. Ese mismo single "Andrew in drag" ya tiene video, y se los dejamos acá:
The Magnetic Fields publicará su nuevo disco, Love At The Bottom Of The Sea , el próximo 6 de marzo a través de Merge Records . Para ir abriendo boca, el grupo estadounidense liderado por Stephin Merritt ha publicado el videoclip correspondiente a su primer single, "Andrew In Drag" . Como se puede deducir por el título y por la letra , el tema principal es el travestismo. El concepto se basa, según el propio Merritt, en un hombre heterosexual que se enamora de su amigo travestido Andrew. De [...]
I don't know about where you are, but we are having a very mild winter. Not so mild that I should have been eating at outdoor burger joint Shake Shack last night, but I was and is where I snapped the picture that is now this week's cover art. There's lots of good new music on here, including the returns of a few favorite bands. Dig in: DOWNLOAD WINTRY MIX 2.03.2012 Tracklist: 1. Burning Hearts - Into the Wilderness [...]
El último sencillo de The Magnetic Fields , " Andrew In Drag ", extraído del álbum Love at the Bottom of the Sea , ha sido muy bien recibido, porque de acuerdo a la opinión general, regresa a sus raíces de un sonido más vintage/acústico. Aquí el video (que, les advertimos de una vez, es completamente NSFW) de " Andrew In Drag ", dirigido por Scott Valins:
Love at the Bottom of the Sea will be Los Angeles songwriter Stephin Merrit's eleventh record with the Magnetic Fields , so it's appropriate that the record's first single, "Andrew In Drag," sticks with (as you may guess) one of Merrit's favorite lyrical tropes – a blurring of gender lines. The track's slightly NSFW video sticks with that theme too as well as with the song's playful, indie-pop bounce, showing off the very different drag makeup routines of two characters. Watch the video while you wait for the record to drop on Merge on March 6. [...]
The Magnetic Fields release their new album Love At The Bottom Of The Sea on March 6th. They've posted a racy video for the first single "Andrew In Drag". Check it out here: The Magnetic Fields play the Sound Academy in Toronto on March 30th.
The Magnetic Fields – "Andrew in Drag" Love at the Bottom of the Sea comes out March 6th on Merge .
Ruth Swanson Seeing San Francisco's Ty Segall at Halifax Pop Explosion 2010 was one of the most unexpectedly rowdy/violent shows I've ever been in the middle of, which was a bit surprising considering that as rough and garage-y as his stuff is, it's not all that heavy. Certainly not the obvious soundtrack for the bedlam that ensued that evening. Maybe it was just Halifax. Anyways, despite enjoying his music well enough, I've made a point of avoiding his shows as the odds of me getting kicked in the head seem to [...]
Ready to drag it up for the weekender ? The MAGNETIC FIELDS are here for some inspiration via their nudey new video ANDREW IN DRAG . Jolz tune, fine NSFW video, radio wont touch it, you wont be able to get it outta your ears, watch as a str8 friend falls in love with the drag persona of his mate.
In case you have yet to see Magnetic Fields new video for the curious single "Andrew In Drag", be warned that there is some tranny nudity from a female tranny. Yes, you see some boobs at the video's end. The new video was directed by Scott Valins, and I have to say that it fits the song very well. Magnetic Fields' new album, Love at the Bottom of the Sea , is out March 6 on Merge in the U.S. and March 5 via Domino in the UK. Read more »
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