Magnetic Fields' Stephin Merritt Sets Unusual Solo Tour — rollingstone.com

Magnetic Fields mastermind Stephin Merritt has scheduled a rare 14-date solo U.S. tour with plans to perform a 26-song, alphabetized set each night. Accompanied by longtime bandmate Sam Davol on cello, Merritt will perform acoustic renditions of songs from throughout his career, ordering them alphabetically by song title. As such, these shows should be of particular interest to fans of such Magnetic Fields deep cuts like Distortion's "Xavier Says" or 69 Love Songs' "Xylophone Track," though a crapshoot for lovers of the band's 2004 effort, i. 

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