News in Brief: Stephin Merritt, Bell Gardens, Sebastian Blanck, Do-Division

-- Every year, The Village Voice (full disclosure: my old employer), hands out the Obie Awards, recognizing achievement in off-Broadway theater. This year, Magnetic Fields frontman Stephin Merrit won an Obie for the music and lyrics he wrote for the stage version of Coraline. -- Brian McBride is one half of the beloved ambient duo Stars of the Lid, and now he's also half of a new group called Bell Gardens, which also includes Kenneth James Gibson of [a]pendics.shuffle. This week, Failed Bet...

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