Articles and Reviews: the Magnetic Fields
Album/EP/Single Reviews
Reviews of 69 Love Songs
Bombast-xxx: Vol
3 *added 5/1/01*
El
Pais (in Spanish!) *added 5/1/01*
Music
Emissions *added 5/1/01*
CD Consumer
The
Sunday Times (London)
The
Guardian
NME
Rocket
Fuel
Outlines
(best of 1999 list)
Chickfactor
Village
Voice review by Robert Christgau
Salon
(best of 1999 lists)
Beer
SF Bay Guardian
Pitchfork
City
Search (alt locations: 1,
2)
CMJ
Canoe
Pop
Matters
Freaky Trigger
Minneapolis
City Pages
The
News & Observer (Raleigh)
Amplifier Online
Alternative
Press
Nashua
Telegraph Online
Willamette
Week
The Pathetic
Caverns
Flak
Las
Vegas Sun
Village
Voice
SonicNet
Spin
Cycle (alt
location)
Washington
Post
The War Against
Silence
New
York Observer
Drawer B: Vol 1,
Vol
2, Vol 3
Salon
review by Greil Marcus
Reviews of the "I Don't Believe You" 7" single
SlingShot
Kickers
The War
Against Silence
Phaser
Drawer B
Reviews of Get Lost
NME
Queer
Zine Explosion
Review by Traddles
the Pop-Picking Pooch
OutNOW! review
by Robey Pointer
Indie
Boy review by Robey Pointer (same review, different layout)
The
Chronicle
The War
Against Silence
Review of the "All the Umbrellas in London" 7" single
The War
Against Silence
Review of The Charm of the Highway Strip
Maroon
Reviews of Holiday
Pitchfork
Salon
review by Douglas Wolk
33
RPM
Drawer B
Worcester
Phoenix
Reviews of The House of Tomorrow
Pitchfork
Caught in
Flux
Salon
review by Douglas Wolk
Drawer B
Worcester
Phoenix
Indie
Boy
The War
Against Silence
Reviews of The Wayward Bus/Distant Plastic Trees
The
Washington Post
The
Chronicle
Review of the "100,000 Fireflies" single
Freaky Trigger:
"100 Best Singles of the 90s"
Compilation Appearances
Review of Oh, Merge
(includes the Susan-sings version of "Take Ecstasy with Me")
Review by Jeffrey
Norman *added 5/1/01*
Salon
Reviews of Pop Romantique
(includes cover of Bassiak's "Le Tourbillion")
Chickfactor
Review by Jeffrey
Norman
Drawer
B
Billboard
Reviews of Merge 100
(includes "Smoke and Mirrors" remix)
Kickstand
KSPC
Music Director's Picks of the Week
Reviews of Random
(includes cover of Gary Numan's "I Die: You Die")
Review by Al Crawford
The War
Against Silence
Reviews of Crash Course for the Ravers
(includes cover of David Bowie's "Heroes")
Goldmine
Scratch
Reviews of performances by the Magnetic
Fields
Clubplanet.com
- Trocadero, Philadelphia, PA (4/14/01) *added
5/1/01*
Washington
Post - 9:30 Club, Washington, D.C. (4/13/01) *added
5/1/01*
Luna
Kafé - Prime Club, Cologne (11/3/00) and De Balie, Amsterdam
(11/4/00) *added 5/1/01*
Battery
Park, NYC (8/3/00) by Fred Solinger
Dotmusic
- Queen Elizabeth Hall, London (7/25/00)
Ironminds
- El Rey Theatre, Los Angeles, CA (6/11/00)
San
Francisco Chronicle - Bimbo's, San Francisco, CA (3/5/00)
Splendid
- Black Cat, Washington, DC (1/22/00)
Rolling
Stone - Irving Plaza, NYC (12/2/99)
Philadelphia
Inquirer - Harrison Auditorium, Philadelphia, PA (11/99)
Salon
- Merge's 10th Anniversary at the Cat's Cradle in Carrboro, NC (7/23/99)
Music365
- Bowery Ballroom, NYC (5/21/99)
Great American Music Hall,
San Francisco, CA (8/12/98) by Robey Pointer
Ink
Nineteen - in Tampa (7/30/98)
Flow
- Cat's Cradle in Carrboro, NC (7/26/98)
Spontaneous
Combustion - Westbeth Theatre, NYC (4/19/97) (link is currently
broken)
Miscellaneous Reviews and Articles
Modern
Humorist gift suggestions - comments on 69 Love Songs *added
5/1/01*
Tangents
- "The Magnetic Fields vs. Belle and Sebastian" *added
5/1/01*
W. Minc Productions page
on 69 Love Songs *added 5/1/01*
ASCAP
Playback
article on the Magnetic Fields
The
Village Voice 1999 Pazz & Jopp Critics' Poll: article by Robert
Christgau
The
Village Voice 1999 Pazz & Jopp Critics' Poll: comments by various
reviewers
Epinions page on 69
Love Songs
Consumers Guide
review of Stars Forever by Momus: (compares to 69 Love Songs)
SonicNet
article on 69 Love Songs (alt
location)
SonicNet
article about forthcoming 69 Love Songs tour
Douglas
Wolk's Small Mouth article (Boston Phoenix) on silence (mentions
the track of silence on the Merge reissue of The Wayward Bus/Distant
Plastic Trees)
Addicted
to Noise review of the 1998 TeenBeat Sampler (mentions the "Smoke
and Mirrors" remix)
The
Tufts Daily Syrup USA Valentine's Day Bash pre-performance teaser (short
mention of the Magnetic Fields)
Jacksonville.com
article on the Magnetic Fields (pre-performance teaser)
Barcelona Acció
Musical - article on the Magnetic Fields (in Spanish!)
Los Angeles Times
article "Breaking Out of the Big Apple"
Addicted
to Noise article "The Strange Pull of Magnetic Fields"
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