Five songs have been uploaded to YouTube from The Magnetic Fields‘ 50 Song Memoir album.
The record is going to be another typically thorough undertaking from Stephin Merritt, consisting of one song for each year of his life across five discs, released on March 3rd.
There’s US tour dates soon after, most consisting of two night stays though there’ll only be one chance to catch gigs in Los Angeles and Oakland, California.
More two-show runs are coming up before the end of 2016 too; in North Adams, Massachusetts from tomorrow and Brooklyn in early December.
Tour dates:
NOVEMBER 2016
18, 19 – North Adams, Massachusetts, MASS MoCA
DECEMBER 2016
2, 3 – Brooklyn, New York, BAM Howard Gilman Opera House
MARCH 2017
15,16 – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Union Transfer
18, 19 – Washington D.C., Lincoln Theatre
27, 28 – Atlanta, Georgia, Variety Playhouse
APRIL 2017
14, 15 – Boston, Massachusetts, Berklee Performance Center
19, 20 – Chicago, Illinois, Thalia Hall
22, 23 – Minneapolis, Minnesota, Fitzgerald Theatre
27 – Los Angeles, California, Royce Hall UCLA
30 – Oakland, California, Fox Theater
MAY 2017
3, 4 – Portland, Oregon, Revolution Hall
6, 7 – Seattle, Washington, Moore Theatre