The Magnetic Fields add Dublin date; re-release album on vinyl

By Jay Ziegler on April 16th, 2008

To follow up our story on The Magnetic Fields European 2008 Tour, the band announced late last night that another date has been added. The band will perform in Dublin on July 8th at Vicar Street. Tickets are currently €30 (about $60) and are available on sale at Ticketmaster April 18th.

Also, the band is re-releasing their fourth full-length album The Charm Of The Highway Strip on vinyl for the first time. According to the band’s myspace page:

Ten gothic country-pop road songs by Stephin Merritt. Originally released in 1994, The Charm of the Highway Strip was The Magnetic Fields’ Merge debut and fourth full-length album. Presented here on high quality 180-gram vinyl with beautiful artwork and full art euro-sleeve insert, this marks this classic record’s first appearance in LP format.

Preorder it here at the Merge Records homepage.

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