Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 'Laugh-out-loud hilarious': Stephin Merritt - Marcelo Krasilcic Before becoming a cult indie-rock star with his band The Magnetic ...

Stephin Merritt, front man of the Magnetic Fields and the subject of the amusing documentary "Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields," doesn't suffer fools gladly - actually, he doesn ...

“That I can go to Google and the third thing that comes up “Is Stephin Merritt a racist because he doesn’t like hip-hop?” It was so wrong and immoral, and it had never fully been cleared up.” A ...

The Magnetic Fields mastermind and notably witty curmudgeon Stephin Merritt apparently loves Scrabble. This makes total sense. In fact, he loves Scrabble so much that he wrote and published a book of ...

Talkhouse and Mailchimp Presents have launched a new podcast called Listening, which will feature appearances by Wilco‘s Jeff Tweedy (along with Spencer and Sammy Tweedy), Waxahatchee‘s Katie ...

Magnetic Fields frontman Stephin Merritt has announced a solo tour for this spring/summer with longtime bandmate Sam Davol on cello. The press release notes, “For this series of performances, Merritt ...

So for the first installment of a new multimedia experiment called Project Song, All Songs Considered set up a bar for Merritt in NPR’s Studio 4A, an expansive wood-floored room with plenty of space ...

Stephin Merritt on stage at the Lucille Lortel Theater. Photograph by Hamish Robertson. "You really can't miss the pianos," says Stephin Merritt, the singer-songwriter best known as the front man of ...

Jeopardy’s annual Tournament of Champions wrapped up last week and I’m pleased to report that two good things happened. First, the victor, 29-year-old Colby Burnett, is from Chicago (sort of—he ...

You have to admit it’s a little funny, the sudden abundance of Stephin Merritt during Black History Month. It seems like just yesterday Merritt was being called the New York Times’ nearest available ...

“I’m used to sitting where I can fiddle with the climate controls,” Stephin Merritt, the fifty-three-year-old songwriter and composer, said the other day from the back seat of a Subaru Forester ...

Taylor Swift, Jay-Z and other music legends in their own words. By Michael Barbaro, Luke Vander Ploeg, Alex Barron, Wendy Dorr, Sophia Lanman, Daniel Powell and Diane Wong He twists, ironizes and ...