Pop music spotlight: The Magnetic Fields

November 10, 2012 at 8:10PM
The Magnetic Fields
The Magnetic Fields (Marcelo Krasilcic/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Tuesday: Since their legendary 1999 collection "69 Love Songs," the Magnetic Fields have made quick, quirky and clever odes to amore their signature trademark. Songwriter Stephin Merritt (left) delivered some delightfully odd ones on the band's latest, "Love at the Bottom of the Sea," a lighter and poppier collection that landed something of a surprise hit in "Andrew in Drag." Opener Gal Musette is a ukulele-plucking 14-year-old California girl who's penning 70 love songs in response to Magnetic Fields. Oh, fer cute! (8 p.m. Tue. $30. First Avenue, 701 1st Av. N., Mpls. 612-338-8388.)

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about the writer

Chris Riemenschneider

Critic / Reporter

Chris Riemenschneider has been covering the Twin Cities music scene since 2001, long enough for Prince to shout him out during "Play That Funky Music (White Boy)." The St. Paul native authored the book "First Avenue: Minnesota's Mainroom" and previously worked as a music critic at the Austin American-Statesman in Texas.

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