Pop Candy — Thanks to Rank+File for brightening my morning with this cover of Stephin Merritt's Strange Powers. more info

DrownedInSound — For completists Obscurities is a must. For Magnetic Fields fans it's a worthwhile starting point for Stephin Merritt's other projects. Read the full story on DrownedinSound.com more info

Guardian Music — (Pompeii)Beirut's Zach Condon has always seemed like a songwriter lost on an eternal gap year – his recorded output has journeyed through eastern Europe (2006's Gulag Orkestar), Paris (2007's The Flying Club Cup) and Mexico (2009's March of the Za... more info

Guardian Music — Guardian and Observer writers are picking their favourite albums – with a view that you might do the same. Here, Mark Beaumont gives 69 reasons why he loves the Magnetic FieldsThe modestly recorded, immodestly conceived grand revue that is the Magn... more info

NME — 'Obscurities' is for an October release more info

Totally Fuzzy — Critically acclaimed songwriter and mastermind behind The Magnetic Fields, Stephin Merritt is set to release Obscurities on Merge Records August 23. Obscurities is a collection of Merritt's hard-to-find recordings dating back to his time on Merg... more info

Indie Selections For Your Erections — This week’s show was extra long, given that I filled in for the DJ with the show after me. Four hours in a radio station is a long time! Thus this week is cut into two different blocks, as one four hour mp3 is a bit insane. I played a bit m... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Austinist reviews 69 Love Scenes, a play inspired by Magnetic Fields' album 69 Love Songs. 69 Love Scenes, which opened last week at Salvage Vanguard Theater, is to a Magnetic Fields fanatic as X-Men: Generation X is to a die-hard... more info

Guardian Music — Our music team pick the songs or albums, old or new, they just can't turn offThe Wild Swans Glow in the Dark The Merseysiders' 1982 Zoo Records single The Revolutionary Spirit was one of the classic singles of the post-punk era. Founder Paul Simpson ... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — Merge Records just announced they will be releasing a collection of hard to find and previously unreleased tracks by the Magnetic Fields‘ Stephin Merritt. Entitled Obscurities, the set will feature songs during the bands run on the label from 1994-... more info