Legends, distant memories and old friends fill a very busy week here in D.C. Shows abound and genres be damned, with Milkman's Union, The Who, Mirah and The Magnetic Fields, to name a few.
Moogfest 2012 is approaching. The unusual music festival takes up the experimental spirit of electronic music innovator Bob Moog and pushes it into ev...
In "Quick!," the Magnetic Fields' second video for their 2012 album Love At The Bottom Of The Sea, a man and woman fall in love not at the bottom of ...
One more night with Bruce and a rare evening with Pulp keep me away from the District for a couple of nights this week. The Magnetic Fields will be at the 9:30 Club on Monday.
If you’re of the persuasion that, as great as they are, most planetariums need some spicing up, The Museum of Natural History now has you covered. I...
For the writers of 69 Love Songs, no boy-meets-girl-falls-in-love song formula will do. This time around, The Magnetic Fields are playing around with ...
This "redistricting" of the zodiac is really nothing to stress about. But if it teaches us anything, it's that we need to know more about how the stars, our home planet Earth and the Sun work.
A songwriter who can dream up lyrics like, "When we kiss, it feels like a flying saucer landing," can score those lyrics in any one of a thousand, inf...
What would music be right now without the Magnetic Fields? With lyrics as strange and magical as Stephin Merritt's voice, the Magnetic Fields' songs ...
When you're 40something, you're probably better off trying to live in the present tense and not in the past -- even at your high school reunion.
In an interview, Joan Armatrading shares some insights with us into her latest album, her career, and, of course, her stint in The New York City Marathon.
