Stephin Merritt

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

Live Review, 3/24/12: The Magnetic Fields Do Quirk Quietly at the Fox Theater

The Magnetic Fields Saturday, March 24, 2012 The Fox Theater, Oakland Better than: Whispering at the library. On Saturday, the Magnetic Fields gave the mellowest performance six people have ever given at the Fox Theater in Oakland. Well, anyway, that's how it felt: Like one long, precious, and ver ... More >>

Odd Future's The OF Tape, Vol. 2: A First Listen

​Odd Future is here, get used to it. Posse albums usually failed in the past because the star rapper's cohorts are always such dickheads, but when being dickheads is your selling point.... This unambitious sampler might be where the Goblin-polarized legions get won back. And don't think they're no ... More >>

This Is Post-Rock

​Odd Future is here, get used to it. Posse albums usually failed in the past because the star rapper's cohorts are always such dickheads, but when being dickheads is your selling point.... This unambitious sampler might be where the Goblin-polarized legions get won back. And don't think they're no ... More >>

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"Coraline": Even Stephin Merritt can't save SF Playhouse's disappointing musical

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Walking Into Yourself

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Walking Into Yourself

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No Relation to Ian, Far's We Know

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Stories from the Sea: Stephin Merritt Scores a Jules Verne Classic

The textures and melodrama of silent films always seizes me. I love the body language. The ambient tones. I love the speedy scores and heightened drama. Oh man, do I love how an old organ trills. So when I saw that Stephin Merritt of Magnetic Fields is scoring the 1916 silent film 20,000 Leagues U ... More >>

Music Picks For the San Francisco International Film Festival

T Bone Burnett ​The San Francisco International Film Festival will fill theaters with the sound of music over the next two weeks. Launched yesterday, the 53rd edition of SFIFF promises both music-related films and live events, including an opening-weekend conversation with T Bone Burnett on Satur ... More >>

Arthouse movie listings for February 24-March 2, 2010

T Bone Burnett ​The San Francisco International Film Festival will fill theaters with the sound of music over the next two weeks. Launched yesterday, the 53rd edition of SFIFF promises both music-related films and live events, including an opening-weekend conversation with T Bone Burnett on Satur ... More >>

Reviewing Noise Pop headliners' new CDs

T Bone Burnett ​The San Francisco International Film Festival will fill theaters with the sound of music over the next two weeks. Launched yesterday, the 53rd edition of SFIFF promises both music-related films and live events, including an opening-weekend conversation with T Bone Burnett on Satur ... More >>

Merritt Based

T Bone Burnett ​The San Francisco International Film Festival will fill theaters with the sound of music over the next two weeks. Launched yesterday, the 53rd edition of SFIFF promises both music-related films and live events, including an opening-weekend conversation with T Bone Burnett on Satur ... More >>

Stephin Merritt Spends Spring in SF, Scores for SFIFF

Marcelo Krasilcic​If you've listened to any amount of Magnetic Fields music, you know main man Stephin Merritt loves few things more than (playfully) reaming the idea of love. That being said, the droll lyricist and musician seems to truly love the Bay Area. At the end of this month, he has two sh ... More >>

Jamie Stewart's infinite sadness is exhausting

Marcelo Krasilcic​If you've listened to any amount of Magnetic Fields music, you know main man Stephin Merritt loves few things more than (playfully) reaming the idea of love. That being said, the droll lyricist and musician seems to truly love the Bay Area. At the end of this month, he has two sh ... More >>

Getting 'Touchy' in 2008

Marcelo Krasilcic​If you've listened to any amount of Magnetic Fields music, you know main man Stephin Merritt loves few things more than (playfully) reaming the idea of love. That being said, the droll lyricist and musician seems to truly love the Bay Area. At the end of this month, he has two sh ... More >>

Talking Music series emphasizes the brains behind the songs

Marcelo Krasilcic​If you've listened to any amount of Magnetic Fields music, you know main man Stephin Merritt loves few things more than (playfully) reaming the idea of love. That being said, the droll lyricist and musician seems to truly love the Bay Area. At the end of this month, he has two sh ... More >>

Lead Members from Magnetic Fields, Mountain Goats, New Pornographers Talk Music for SF Lecture Series

Marcelo Krasilcic​If you've listened to any amount of Magnetic Fields music, you know main man Stephin Merritt loves few things more than (playfully) reaming the idea of love. That being said, the droll lyricist and musician seems to truly love the Bay Area. At the end of this month, he has two sh ... More >>

Magnetic Fields: Stephin Merritt Goes Heavy on the Deadpan

Marcelo Krasilcic​If you've listened to any amount of Magnetic Fields music, you know main man Stephin Merritt loves few things more than (playfully) reaming the idea of love. That being said, the droll lyricist and musician seems to truly love the Bay Area. At the end of this month, he has two sh ... More >>

Magnetic Fields

Distortion (Nonesuch)

Loney, Dear

Loney, Noir. (Sub Pop)

The Hidden Cameras

Awoo (Arts & Crafts)

Dave Douglas soundtracks Fatty Arbuckle, Jen Leckman impersonates Stephin Merritt.

Awoo (Arts & Crafts)

Crossing the Threshold

Step into architecture

John Vanderslice

Pixel Revolt

Making the Cut

Directors on the same page

Hear This

The sullen '80s pop of Now It's Overhead; the Pixies' triumphant return to the Bay Area

The Magnetic Fields

i (Nonesuch)

Holy Grails

Just when we thought it was safe to turn our backs on instrumental indie rock

Bird's-Eye View

Get over your phobia in time for this Vertigo-themed gala

Hear This

The Magnetic Fields' Stephin Merritt is too prolific to lay low

Pete Krebs & the Gossamer Wings

I Know It By Heart

Various Artists

Reproductions: Songs of the Human League (March)

The 6ths

Hyacinths and Thistles (Merge)

Riff Raff

Welcome to the Atrocity Exhibition; Musical Theater

House Of Tudor

Magnetic Fields, Citizen Fish, Ana D., and eX-Girl

Their Noise

After 10 years, Superchunk and Merge Records are still working, albeit quietly

Hear This

After 10 years, Superchunk and Merge Records are still working, albeit quietly

The Book of Lists

SF Weekly contributors salute the best (and worst) music of 1995

Night+Day

SF Weekly contributors salute the best (and worst) music of 1995

Recordings

SF Weekly contributors salute the best (and worst) music of 1995

The Dark Shadow

Barbara Manning and the S.F. Seals find that Truth Walks in Sleepy Shadows

Recordings

Barbara Manning and the S.F. Seals find that Truth Walks in Sleepy Shadows