Brooklyn Vegan — The album also has William covering songs by Bad Religion, ZZ Top, Johnny Cash, Bill Withers, Captain Beefheart, and more. Continue reading… more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Wand, King Gizzard, Shopping/Priests, Magnetic Fields, Kool and the Gang, Eartheater, Jayhawks, Kurt Vile, highlight Saturday's show options. Continue reading… more info

Brooklyn Vegan — We're giving away tickets to a bunch of upcoming shows in NYC, including The Decemberists, Grizzly Bear and Spoon, Courtney Barnett, Kurt Vile, Nick Cave, Mac DeMarco, The Magnetic Fields and more! Continue reading… more info

Brooklyn Vegan — We're giving away tickets to a bunch of upcoming shows in NYC, including Belle & Sebastian, Arctic Monkeys, David Byrne, The National presents There's No Leaving New York, alt-J, Jamiroquai, Mastodon and Primus, The Decemberists, The Magnet... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Stephin Merritt continues to tour The Magnetic Fields; 50 Song Memoir opus, in which he wrote a song about every year of his first five decades of existence. With a theatrical stage show, each city of the tour gets two nights... Continue reading… more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Plus: Superchunk, The Breeders, The Magnetic Fields, Nine Inch Nails/Jesus & Mary Chain, Neil Young, Mudhoney, The Charlatans, Gruff Rhys, and more. Continue reading… more info

Stereogum — Last year, Hundred Waters followed up their great 2014 album The Moon Rang Like A Bell with an equally great new one called Communicating . Earlier this year, the Los Angeles-via-Florida synth-folk experimentalists recorded a piano cover of the Magn... more info

Stereogum — When the Magnetic Fields released the landmark triple album 69 Love Songs in 1999, band mastermind Stephin Merritt would talk about the fundamental insincerity of the exercise. As a songwriter, Meritt wasn't particularly interested in love, but he wa... more info

Stereogum — Superchunk's upcoming album What A Time To Be Alive has already given us one absolute gem via the triumphantly defiant title track, and today they're sharing a second. This latest single "Erasure" features some all-star support from their Merge Recor... more info

Stereogum — The Magnetic Fields' Stephin Merritt writes songs about pretty much anything -- that's sorta his thing, right? -- so why not write a jingle for an advertisement for a new store called Virgil Normal located in Los Angeles' Silverlake neighborhood? Wel... more info