The Magnetic Fields are an American band founded and led by Stephin Merritt. Merritt is the group's primary songwriter, producer, and vocalist, as well as frequent multi-instrumentalist. The band is named after the André Breton/Philippe Soupault novel Les Champs Magnétiques.
Stephin Merritt is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, best known as the songwriter and principal singer of the bands the Magnetic Fields, the Gothic Archies, and Future Bible Heroes. He is known for his distinctive bass voice.
The 6ths was a band created by Stephin Merritt, also the primary songwriter and instrumentalist behind The Magnetic Fields, The Gothic Archies, and Future Bible Heroes. One story has it that the band was conceived when Merritt, observing that there was no tribute album dedicated to him, decided to make one himself. In the group, Merritt writes and plays songs which are then sung by other artists—a different artist on each track. It has so far produced two well-received albums and many different collaborations.
Merge Records is an independent record label based in Durham, North Carolina. It was founded in 1989 by Laura Ballance and Mac McCaughan. It began as an outlet for music from their band Superchunk and music created by friends, and has expanded to include artists from around the world, with records reaching the top of the Billboard music charts.
Figures on a Beach was an early synth-pop and beyond band from Detroit, Michigan that was active from 1981 to 1992. The band had two charting singles in 1989: "Accidentally 4th Street (Gloria)", which reached #14 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart and a cover of Bachman–Turner Overdrive's "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet", which peaked at #67 on the Billboard Hot 100.
69 Love Songs is the sixth studio album by American indie pop band the Magnetic Fields, released on September 14, 1999, by Merge Records. As its title indicates, 69 Love Songs is a three-volume concept album composed of 69 love songs, all written by Magnetic Fields frontman Stephin Merritt.
Claudia Miriam Gonson is an American musician best known for her work with The Magnetic Fields. She often provides the band lead vocals as well as performing the piano or drums. She is also the band's manager.
Christopher Ryan Walla is an American musician, record producer, and film music composer, best known for being a former guitarist and songwriter for the band Death Cab for Cutie.
Get Lost is the fifth studio album by American indie pop band The Magnetic Fields, released on October 24, 1995.
Valdís Óskarsdóttir is an Icelandic film editor, whose work includes The Celebration, Les Misérables, Finding Forrester and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Red Hot + Bothered is an anthology of the indie rock scene from the 1990s produced by Paul Heck. It was released as part of the Red Hot AIDS Benefit Series.
This article is a detailed listing of releases by singer-songwriter Stephin Merritt, including the discographies of The Magnetic Fields, The Gothic Archies, The 6ths, Future Bible Heroes, and solo releases by Merritt.
Eternal youth is the concept of immortality free of aging.
Memories of Love is the debut studio album by the American band Future Bible Heroes, released in 1997. Its accompanying booklet features twelve word puzzles and games that, if solved correctly, reveal the name of the band and the title of the album, plus the lyrics to each of the album's eleven songs.
Eternal Youth is the second studio album by American indie pop band Future Bible Heroes. It was released in 2002 on Instinct Records. The album was sung entirely by band member Claudia Gonson.
Gail O'Hara is an American editor, writer, photographer, recording label owner and filmmaker. She has worked at the Washington City Paper, SPIN, Time Out New York, ELLEgirl, EW, Modern Painters, Kinfolk and other publications.
Partygoing is the third studio album by American indie pop band Future Bible Heroes. Future Bible Heroes member and lead lyricist Stephin Merritt was inspired by the 1981 B-52's album Party Mix! to create Partygoing, conceived as "a party album that only just happens to be largely about drunk suicide, aging, death, loss, and despair."
The Lonely Robot is an EP by American synthpop group Future Bible Heroes, released on January 21, 2003 in the United States on Instinct Records. It consists of five remixes of songs that originally appeared on the Future Bible Heroes' 2002 album Eternal Youth, as well as two new songs.
Slow River Records was a Marblehead, Massachusetts-based independent record label.
Shirley Simms is an American singer and songwriter known for her work as a member of indie pop band the Magnetic Fields.
