This week, Rolling Stone published its reranking of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" in a transparent effort to rile up Boomers. Even knowing that Rolling Stone's rejiggering of the "500 greatest" ...

It’s asking a lot of an audience of a certain age — ahem — to return two nights in a row for one performance. Specifically, a performance of a masterwork so sprawling, its 69 songs must be played in ...

Magnetic Fields‘ ambitious 50 Song Memoir is out March 3, 2017 via Nonesuch. For it, Stephin Merritt has written one song for every year he’s spent on the planet so far, from 1966 through 2015, a mix ...

The iconic gates are open to the public for the first time. It's one of the most iconic Beatles songs. Now, it's poised to become a bucket list destination for fans everywhere. For the first time, ...

Wallace Stevens gave the world 13 ways of looking at a blackbird; nearly a century later, the Magnetic Fields gave it 69 ways of looking at a love song. Not ways of looking at love, mind you, but ways ...

The Magnetic Fields‘ awesome triple CD opus 69 Love Songs turns 25 next year, and to celebrate they’ve announced a series of shows featuring the album’s original players, happening in NYC, Chicago, ...

One of the challenges with an ever-growing collection of digital music in iTunes is making sure you’ve got the proper metadata captured for each song. Metadata, as Wikipedia explains, is data about ...

You know the song. It's the older-than-old school marching band-style anthem that pumps up Lions fans every time they hear it and sing along to it in the stands. It's not hip, and it won't be climbing ...

Although we are told that first impressions are usually correct (the "go with your gut" approach), the liner notes for this release nearly derailed my enjoyment of the music. The notes, such as they ...

While the sardonic album title alludes to a session fraught with rancorous despair, guitarist Scott Fields' Bitter Love Songs is, perhaps ironically, one of his most accessible efforts. Born in ...