Data from ESA’s Cluster mission has provided a recording of the eerie ‘song’ that Earth sings when it is hit by a solar storm. The new findings were published today in the AGU journal Geophysical ...

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 ...

Boston-based alternative act The Magnetic Fields, known for its quirky, self-effacing and conversational lyrics, released “Selections from 50 Song Memoir” to Spotify March 10. The album stays true to ...

Earth is at left and the large arc around it is our planet's magnetic bow shock, like the pattern the bow of a boat makes when moving through water. The swirling pattern to the right is the foreshock ...

The Magnetic Fields have roughly the cultural and commercial footprint as an arthouse cinema hit. But a few weeks ago, Stephin Merritt — the group’s songwriter and chief creative officer — found ...

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 rock band Magnetic Fields released its three-disc magnum opus, 69 Love Songs, back in 1999, and it was recognized immediately as a classic. The Village Voice’s Pazz & Jop Critics Poll, the most ...