LargeHeartedBoy — Arundhati Roy talked to the New York Times about her new novel The Ministry of Utmost Happiness. Stream a new Magnetic Fields song. eBooks on sale for $1.99 today: I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen by Sylvie Simmons... more info

Stereogum — The Magnetic Fields are releasing their 50 Song Memoir next month, and we've already heard five tracks from it, each covering a different year in Stephin Merritt's life. Today, he's shared another one, "'83 Foxx And I," along with a video directed by... more info

Yahoo! Music — Get details on the coming year's most-anticipated albums, including releases from Gorillaz, LCD Soundsystem, Jesus and Mary Chain, Lorde, The National, Spoon, Broken Social Scene, Slowdive, Beck, The xx, Grandaddy, The Magnetic Fields, and many ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Tonight's NYC shows include Bon Iver, The Hold Steady, Cyndi Lauper's holiday show, Hot 97's holiday show, Beth Orton, Lindstrom, Rock Lottery, The Magnetic Fields, and more. Continue reading… more info

Brooklyn Vegan — The STACKED Barcelona festival also has Solange, Van Morrison, Run the Jewels, Miguel, Flying Lotus, The Magnetic Fields, Death Grips, Descendents, Angel Olsen, Broken Social Scene, Japandroids, Swans & still so much more. Continue reading… more info

Yahoo! Music — Our guide to this week's (and last week's) album releases also features the week's top new music videos from artists like Metallica, Kate Bush, and A Tribe Called Quest, plus brand new streaming music from The Weeknd, The Magnetic Fiel... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Karl Ove Knausgaard talked about writing his first novel at the Paris Review. Stream five new Magnetic Fields songs. 14 "best books of 2016" lists were added to the master aggregation at Largehearted Boy yesterday (bringing the total number to... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — There's a song for every year of Stephin Merritt's life. Continue reading… more info

KEXP Seattle — Stephin Merritt likes to keep it clever with his long-running project The Magnetic Fields. From 1999’s 3-CD set 69 Love Songs, to his recent A-Z tour (performing a song starting with each letter of the alphabet), and now a five CD set titled 50 Son... more info

Consequence of Sound — Newly expanded as a seven-piece, the band kicks off its US tour tomorrow. more info