Twin Cities: — The Swing State Voter Awareness Tour will be hitting the Twin Cities with Beastie Boys, Ben Harper and Tenacious D - Roy Wilkins Auditorium - Nov. 1. — While in town for a show at the State Theatre, Stephin Merritt of The Magnetic ... more info

Culture Bully — Twin Cities: — The Swing State Voter Awareness Tour will be hitting the Twin Cities with Beastie Boys, Ben Harper and Tenacious D - Roy Wilkins Auditorium - Nov. 1. — While in town for a show at the State Theatre, Stephin Merritt of The Magnetic ... more info

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Idolator — Sure, they sent us some crappy reality shows, but in the music television department the British will always definitely win out. I posted about Carla Bruni-Sarkozy on Later... With Jools Holland the other day, and it got me to thinking: Why don't we... more info

Undercover, Australia — Stephin Merrit of the Magnetic Fields has inspired a line of shoes from French shoemakers Bluedy. more info

Pitchfork — Photo by Kathryn YuFrench shoemakers Bluedy have created a line of footwear inspired by Magnetic Fields frontman (and, it should be noted, fashionable fella) Stephin Merritt. The collection is comprised of four different varieties of mid-top shoe, al... more info

The Music Slut — Believe it! Drowned In Sound reports: *Whilst feet related ranges are usually the reserve of the hip hop elite, a French shoe firm called Bluedy has decided to make a range of shoes as a homage to the music of The Magnetic Fields' main man, Stephin M... more info

Q4Music — French firm creates the 'Stephin' shoe in homage to Merritt more info

Pitchfork — Shugo Tokumaru makes his live U.S. debut at this weekend's Adventures in Modern Music festival in Chicago, which kicks off a brief but highly welcome North American tour. And he's got quite the welcoming committee lined up. The Japanese indie pop sta... more info