We’ve been having too much fun playing 69 Love Songs for you that we’re extending the celebration into 2025. Announcing the Spring 2025 69 Love Songs US & Canada Tour!
The artist pre-sale starts Wednesday, October 30 - Thursday, October 31. The pre-sale password is 69LS25 — and you can access ticket links on our calendar page. General sale begins on November 1.
Tickets are available for two added concerts in Washington, DC, that will kick off the October US leg of the 69 Love Songs Anniversary tour. The two-part concert takes place on Thursday and Friday, October 17+18, at the Lincoln Theatre in Washington, DC.
Stephin will be taking the stage at the Ford in LA this season. Catch him on July 24th doing a live Song Exploder with Hrishikesh Hirway discussing 69 Love Songs. Tickets are on sale now!
Dear friends- There have been some changes to our 69 Love Songs tour schedule. Please visit our calendar page for the latest dates and ticket links.
Happy Valentine’s Day!
As a Valentine’s Day surprise, we are happy to announce further US, Europe and UK live show dates for the 69 Love Songs tour, lasting throughout 2024. We will continue to perform the full album, all 69 songs in order over two nights. The newly announced concerts will feature Stephin Merritt, Sam Davol and Shirley Simms, Chris Ewen and Anthony Kaczynski. Visit the Calendar Page for ticketing info.
Pre-sale tickets will go on sale at 10AM local time in each market on 2/15 and will close at 10PM that same day. General sale will be on the 16th. The artist pre-sale password is LOVE25
There are still tickets remaining for the "69 Love Songs" anniversary concerts in March and April. The best availability for the New York concerts is on April 10+11, and San Francisco on April 28+29. These concerts will feature all the original musicians from the album, for a limited run.
There are still tickets remaining for the "69 Love Songs" anniversary concerts in New York and San Francisco, Los Angeles and Boston. To check availability, visit our Calendar page.
The best availability for the New York concerts is on April 10+11, and San Francisco on April 28+29. These concerts will feature all the original musicians from the album for a limited run!
Please note: The full album will be performed over two nights.
Due to overwhelming demand, The Magnetic Fields have added additional ‘69 Love Songs’ 25th Anniversary tour dates in Boston, New York, San Francisco and Chicago. Presales start tomorrow, July 26th, at 10am local, public on sale Friday.
A reminder that the full album will be performed over two nights.
We have been so thrilled with the response to our 69 Love Songs Anniversary US tour announcement, thank you!
For those who did not get tickets, we are working to add on some more dates, including New York. Please stand by and we will update you very soon.
MEANWHILE-- the Magnetic Fields are happy to announce new European tour dates for THIS year, in November, 2023!
To be clear, this is not a 69 Love Songs show. It is a continuation of a "retrospective" set, a mix of songs from all of our albums since the beginning. Including some from 69 Love Songs :)
We are so excited to return to some of our favorite cities, as well as play in some new places for the first time!
Tickets will go on sale this Friday at 10am, GMT.
The schedule can be found below, and here.
Sat 04 Nov, 2023 - Barcelona, Spain - Sala Apolo
Sun 05 Nov, 2023 - Zaragoza, Spain - Sala OASIS
Mon 06 Nov, 2023 - Madrid, Spain - La Paqui
Wed 08 Nov, 2023 - Lorient, France - Les indisciplinée
Fri 10 Nov, 2023- Rouen, France - Le 106
Sat 11 Nov, 2023- Paris , France - Le Petit Bain
Mon 13 Nov, 2023 - Brussels, Belgium - Orangerie
Wed 15 Nov, 2023 - Oslo, Norway - Rockefeller
Thu 16 Nov, 2023 - Gothenburg, Sweden - Pustervik
Fri 17 Nov, 2023 - Stockholm, Sweden - Stockholm Nalen
Sun 19 Nov, 2023 - Helsinki, Finland - Tavastia
Tue 21 Nov, 2023 - Istanbul, Turkey - (to be announced)
Wed 22 Nov, 2023 - Athens, Greece - Floyd
Fri 24 Nov, 2023 - Graz, Austria - Dom Im Berg, Autumn Leaves Festival
Sat 25 Nov, 2023 - Vienna, Austria - Bluebird Festival
In celebration of the 25th anniversary of its release, the Magnetic Fields will perform 69 Love Songs in its entirety over the course of 2 nights, for the first time in two decades.
The select run of dates will take place in Spring of 2024, with performances at MASS MoCA and in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. Sign up for presales & more info at houseoftomorrow.com now through Mon, July 10. Registered fans will receive a code for access to presales July 11
The tour will feature all the players from the 1999 triple disc, including Claudia Gonson, John Woo, Sam Davol, Shirley Simms, and Stephin Merritt, joined by Dudley Klute (East Coast only) and recent members Chris Ewen and Anthony Kaczynski. The Magnetic Fields will play the album as it was originally performed in the early 2000’s: the full album in order over 2 nights.
MAGNETIC FIELDS TOUR DATES
March 22/23—MASS MoCA
April 3/4—New York, NY
April 5/6—New York, NY
April 19/20—Chicago, IL
April 23/24—Los Angeles, CA
April 26/27—San Francisco, CA
HELLO EAST COAST! We just ended our spring tour yesterday, but we're not done yet. Today, we're announcing a few more shows for the early summer(ish). We'll be in Boston, Philly, and DC. Pre-sale for Boston and Philly starts tomorrow (the 5th), so sign up and stay tuned for that password. General sale starts on April 7th. DC has its own sign up.
All info here.
We’re pleased to announce our 2023 US Spring Tour!
Tickets are available for most shows now! For Phoenix, Pittsburgh, and St. Louis, please sign up to be the first to be notified when tickets go on sale.
The Magnetic Fields are excited to announce that we are traveling for the first time to Mexico, Chile, Uruguay and Argentina! We will be performing four shows in early December, 2022, one in each country. Two of these concerts are festivals. For more information including ticket links, visit the calendar page.
With everything going on in the world these days, it slipped our minds to tell you about two special releases that have come out over the past month.
The 30th anniversary reissue of THE HOUSE OF TOMORROW is now available for the first time on beautiful 12" green vinyl! Never before released as a 12-inch, the b-side of this 30th anniversary remastered edition of The House of Tomorrow features an etching of Buckminster Fuller’s visionary D.I.Y. Dymaxion House floor plan. The vinyl is available on opaque spring green (as well as basic black). Purchase it here.
Also, Stephin’s song “If I Were A Kookaburra” is featured on Volume II of The Birdsong Project’s “For the Birds” - a star-studded anthology of music compiled by Randall Poster to benefit the National Audubon Society. Take a listen.
There has been a show added to the Magnetic Fields’ September, 2022 European tour dates.
The band will play at LAV in Lisbon, Portugal, on 10 September. This will be the final show addition to this run of shows.
Tickets for this show will go on sale on 14 May at 10AM GMT. The ticket link plus links to get tickets for all of the UK/EU tour dates is here.
We are pleased to announce a series of concerts planned for the early summer and early fall, 2022. The dates will take place in a mix of outdoor festival stages and indoor venues throughout the UK and Europe. The band will perform intimate, orchestral arrangements of songs spanning our multi decade career, including material from 69 Love Songs. Stephin Merritt will be joined by Sam Davol, Shirley Simms, Chris Ewen, and Anthony Kaczynski.
For tickets, visit the calendar page.
We are pleased to announce a sixteen-date tour of select US and Canadian cities in April 2022. These intimate concerts will feature a setlist spanning our three-decade career, including material from our earliest albums to now. The tour will also celebrate the release of the special 30th-anniversary vinyl edition of our 1992 EP, “The House of Tomorrow.”
PRE-SALES begin TOMORROW at 10am for all shows.
Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Friday at 10am (except for Raleigh, NC, which will go on sale on Wednesday, December 15th).
On January 28, 2022, Merge will reissue The House of Tomorrow, one of our earliest releases. Never before released as a 12-inch, the b-side of this 30th anniversary remastered edition of The House of Tomorrow features an etching of Buckminster Fuller’s visionary D.I.Y. Dymaxion House floor plan.
The vinyl is available on opaque spring green as well as basic black, but don’t press Stephin Merritt to discuss the color’s charms, please. “My favorite shade of green is brown.”
Pre-order the album at the Merge store or your local indie record store!
The Magnetic Fields' City Winery residency, originally scheduled for spring 2020, has been rescheduled for October and November 2021. The band will be performing at intimate City Winery venues in seven cities - Atlanta, Chicago, Nashville, Boston, New York, Washington, and Philadelphia. In addition to songs from "Quickies", the shows will be a retrospective romp through their entire catalogue, including a healthy dose of "69 Love Songs" era music. The Magnetic Fields will be supported by Christian Lee Hutson on all of the dates.
Get tickets here.
THE MAGNETIC FIELDS CITY WINERY RESIDENCIES
Oct 23–25 Boston
Oct 28–31 New York City
Nov 2–4 Philadelphia
Nov 6–8 Washington, DC
Nov 11 & 12 Atlanta
Nov 14 Nashville
Nov 16–19 Chicago
SURPRISE! On Friday, April 16th, Stephin will be playing two sets on one night at City Winery NYC! They will be socially distanced with limited seating. Tickets on sale NOW!
It is with great sadness that we learned yesterday that our bandmate and friend LD Beghtol has passed away. LD sang several songs on 69 Love Songs, and also designed the covers and booklet art for the 3-disc set. LD also made the book 69 Love Songs: A Field Guide (33 1/3) . LD has participated in various other musical collaborations with Stephin Merritt over the years, including several hilarious concerts by The Three Terrors, with Dudley Kludt. He will be missed.