By Foster Kamer 1/20/12 5:20pm

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Stephen Merrit Video Game

The Museum of Natural History’s 200 Person Video Game, Starring Magnetic Fields’ Stephin Merritt

If you’re of the persuasion that, as great as they are, most planetariums need some spicing up, The Museum of Natural History now has you covered. In collaboration with Babycastles, New York City’s own D.I.Y. video arcade collective, the museum is presenting a one-night-only group video game, which stars—ahem—legendary indie rock group The Magnetic Fields’ singer-songwriter Stephin Merritt.  Read More

By Joe Pompeo 2/20/08 7:44pm

Stephin Merritt On Why He Wears Brown

Stephin Merritt wears brown on the outside because brown is how he feels on the inside. Or something like that. The beloved Magnetic Fields front man explains his penchant for the color that dominates his wardrobe in an interview with New York magazine this week. For one thing, he says, he wears brown Read More

By J. Gabriel Boylan 1/15/08 2:15pm

Magnetic Personality Disorder

There are two people’s voices I can impersonate well: that of Magnetic Fields frontman Stephin Merritt and Project Runway frontman Tim Gunn. It seems Merritt is forever impersonating as well, or perhaps just exploring the many forms of his beloved pop and rock songcraft. (Alas, Mr. Gunn specializes in another kind of craft, one that Read More

By James Hunter 10/18/99 12:00am

Unsung East Village Songwriter And His 69 Love Songs

The Magnetic Fields, 69 Love Songs (Merge).

Stephin Merritt, a 30-ish Yonkers-born resident of the East Village, pals around with a close-knit group of followers and collaborators, always carrying with him, these days, a Chihuahua named Irving, as in Berlin. Right now, his work inspires sane pop insiders to make enormous claims for him as Read More