Video: The Magnetic Fields - The Village In The Morning

I am typically NOT a morning person, but for some reason, about once a week I wake up at 6 a.m. and cannot go back to bed. It is that day of the week again, much to my chagrin. While I am up, here are some fun things: 1. New hair from yesterday. It looks much less pink in person: 2. The Magnetic Fields, live on KEXP last week: The Magnetic Fields: With Whom to Dance? The Magnetic Fields: The [...]

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The Magnetic Fields are having an unprecedented amount of announcements this month! The band haven't been on tour since the release of their last album, entitled simply "i". Lead singer, Stephen Merritt, offered a little insight into that title in this interview: "Well, I was making a record that didn't have a theme to it and more than half the song titles started with I. So it jumped up and down and screamed "look at me, look at me." So what could I do. It chose me more than [...]