Brooklyn Vegan — by Chris La Putt DOWNLOAD: Laura Barrett - Bluebird (MP3) Last night (3/10) marked the first of the Magnetic Fields' 3-night run at Town Hall (they also played a show at BAM earlier in the tour) in New York City... more info

Live Daily — San Francisco's 18th annual Noise Pop Festival went off without a hitch again this year, bringing a stellar lineup of indie favorites to the Bay Area last week (2/23–3/1). Due to the event's popularity, additional venues such as Oakland's F... more info

Guardian Music — Peter Gabriel's 'song swap' project, Scratch My Back ... I'll Scratch Yours, has not materialised as planned, with artists either missing deadlines or refusing to participateThe flip side of Peter Gabriel's recent covers album, Scratch My Back, with ... more info

Rolling Stone — In this week’s New Music Report, we present another segment of Christian Rock, where Rolling Stone contributing editor Christian Hoard tells you what’s been on constant repeat on his stereo. This week, it’s the Magnetic Fields’ eighth album R... more info

Stereogum — The chamber folk of the Magnetic Fields latest, Realism, was the center point for a two-hour seated affair at the Brooklyn Academy of Music Saturday night. It was the night before Valentine's Day, but of course that was a mostly meaningless design... more info

411 Mania — The third album in the “no-synth” trilogy is like watching The Matrix Revolutions after the first two. more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Magnetic Fields @ Maxwell's in December 2008 (more by Natasha Ryan) tonight in NYC * Yes @ Town Hall * Steeve Hurdle @ The Stone * Jesse Malin @ Bowery Electric * Ebony Bones, Jessica 6 @ Southpaw * John... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Magnetic Fields @ Maxwell's in December 2008 (more by Natasha Ryan) tonight in NYC * Yes @ Town Hall * Steeve Hurdle @ The Stone * Jesse Malin @ Bowery Electric * Ebony Bones, Jessica 6 @ Southpaw * John... more info

Bradley's Almanac — The second show of The Magnetic Fields' two-night stand at Boston's Wilbur Theatre was full of memorable moments, and for anyone who's seen them before, you know I'm not just talking about the music. The back-and-forth between Stephin Merritt and ba... more info

Guardian Music — (Virgin)The covers album has a bad reputation: it is seen as something that gets released in lieu of something else, evidence that a songwriter's creative juices have dried up. In the case of Peter Gabriel, that's a state of affairs compounded by the... more info