Stephin Merritt is one of America’s most original and distinctive singer-songwriters. He has contributed music to soundtracks, works of musical theater, and television commercials, but he remains best ...

The Magnetic Fields’ Stephin Merritt is a notoriously tricky interview. In my experience, most touring musicians and authors, recognizing that they’re essentially doing PR for themselves, will make an ...

Demanding of recognition but ever pushing back at attention, Stephin Merritt is a droopy-eyed Marlon Brando of art pop. A notoriously difficult interview, the singer-songwriter is prone to epic pauses ...

One year ago, Congress defunded public media. Now that we're 100% community funded, please become a sustaining member or increase your existing membership today. Stephin Merritt I Photo by: Marcelo ...

It must be hard to clash when you wear all brown. Impossible. The great thing about brown is when it fades, you can’t tell what color it originally was. There’s no sense of the “right” color ...

Stephin Merritt, the musician behind ventures as diverse as the Magnetic Fields and the Lemony Snicket audiobooks, is having a good year. The Magnetic Fields’ eighth studio album, Distortion, a ...

The Magnetic Fields play tonight and tomorrow night at Town Hall in support of their latest album, Realism, and Stranger contributor Chris Estey recently interviewed Merritt about folk, pop, ...