Stephin Merritt leads The Magnetic Fields, but it hardly defines him. The prolific and genre-hopping songwriter and arranger also leads the groups The 6ths, The Gothic Archies, and Future Bible Heroes...when he feels like it. In addition, he's writing the music to a Broadway adaptation of Neil Gaiman's novella "Coraline" that is due in 2009. more ›

Say you’re drunk. Or, better yet, you just woke up after one of those Mexican Martini nights, so it's one of those mornings where the sun, you’re sure, is already blazing its blaze just beyond your bedroom window, yet you can only spot a squeak of it through the blinds, and that little bit of light is really all you handle. Anything more would send you into full-on fury, but that special kind of fury where you can’t really do anything, because, truly, you feel like shit. more ›