Summary: <p>Watch Live via Facebook:</p> <p>Some folks get a fast car, a tattoo, or a drum set for their mid-life crisis. However, New York singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Stephin Merritt, songwriter of <a href="http://www.houseoftomorrow.com/" target="_blank">The Magnetic Fields</a> recorded <em><a href="http://www.nonesuch.com/albums/50-song-memoir" target="_blank">50 Song Memoir</a></em>: a five-disc, two-and-a-half-hour audio autobiography, featuring one song for each year of his life from conception to teenage years; early explorations of synthesizer to when he founded The Magnetic Fields, and made <em>69 Love Songs; </em>all the way up to 2015, his 50th year. There were certain rules: no more than seven instruments per song (which works well for the live band configuration), and no instrument could be used more than seven times across the album - oh and the song material came from personal life events. </p> <p>When the band performs the collection of songs live, it takes two full nights to perform, which they'll do on <a href="https://www.ticketmaster.com/venueartist/6/774536" target="_blank">June 15 & 16 at the Apollo Theater</a>. Stephin Merritt and Sam Davol are in the studio to play a few of these story-songs of cartoon pop, club disco, fractured love songs, and beyond, and maybe tell a few stories too. </p>
