#marnie stern

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Best Albums Of 2023 41-50

Oneohtrix Point Never- Again

Lil Yachty- Let's Start Here

Nas- Magic 3

Anohini & The Johnsons- My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross

Water From Your Eyes- Everyone's Crushed

Marnie Stern- The Comeback Kid

Open Mike Eagle- Another Marvel Of Ghetto Engineering

Shabazz Palaces-Robed In Rareness

Kali Uchis- Red Moon In Venus

SPELLING & The Mystery School- SPELLING & The Mystery School

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January 2, 2024.

There are only a couple of days each year that Tumblr takes a date and makes a fraction. Today is one of those days. I just wanted to explain why the date is written the way it is.

I'm sure you've all been experiencing the end-of-year lists. Personally, I love them. It makes for easy music perusing. It also serves as a reminder for a few releases that may have slipped my mind during the normal avalanche of new music.

Mt. St. Mtn. (Sacramento, California) had an amazing release year, but somehow XDS "Bicycle Ripper" didn't get a post. The story of the formation of the band is great - Japanese drummer in Chico answers a want ad for noise maker. XDS has moved around (but are back in Chico, California), and toured a lot over the past couple of years. They've toured with Deerhoof (whom they also remind me of). At times, they have a sound reminiscent of Marnie Stern, Buick or Starlight Mints.

[zaat]

Marnie Stern @ El Rey Theater, November 15, 2008.

Photos by losanjealous

[dustedmagazine]

Marnie Stern — The Comeback Kid (Joyful Noise)

A decade ago, when we last had a Marnie Stern album to consider, she was a beacon of instrumental prowess in a world of “Women who rock” features that largely confined themselves to singers. She was a shredder then and a shredder now, and dare we hope, the world has shifted so that this is no longer so remarkable? In any case, her latest album, The Comeback Kid, is full of shimmering, ultra fanciful castles of guitar-based sound, but it’s also kind of an experimental pop gem, like Deerhoof after a month of Guitar Hero or like OOIOO any time, really.

Stern has spent the last 10 years in ways both unsurprising (she had two kids now) and mildly unusual (she plays guitar on in Late Night’s 8G band). As a result, she sounds both refreshed from the hiatus and in sharp form from the practice. This is, of course, a contradiction, but makes sense when you think about it. Playing other people’s music five nights a week is very different from making your own songs and touring them.

In any case, she is audibly raring to go, in “Believing is Seeing.” She builds a song right in front of us, asking “What if I add this? And then?” and then adding it, big crashing power chords, antic dances of off kilter picking, handclaps, sugar-rush, girl-group shouts and refrains. “Don’t bow down,” she confides before launching the wholly, gloriously excessive “Working Memory” and then DOESN’T BOW DOWN. Instead she launches a Cecil B. DeMille production of an art punk song, with trebly choirs and neck warping firestorms of electric guitar wizardry. It’s the grand finale of all grand finales, but hold on, the album’s not even half over yet.

You’ve still got the stop-start giddy assault of “Earth Eater,” for instance, showcasing rapid-fire bursts of percussion and, again, guitar, as well as fizzy, popping, girl sung choruses that have something very Japanese about them. It’s here that I’m going to pull the Wendy Eisenberg card just because I can think of no other female artist with comparable chops and experimental pop tendencies, but Stern is pure pleasure where Eisenberg can sometimes seem a puzzle maker. You can turn it all off and enjoy The Comeback Kid—or listen in and enjoy the details. (Like that Van Halen solo right at the end of “Earth Eater.”)

Celebrate the comeback, sure, but it sounds like a big bang beginning.

Jennifer Kelly

[blackholefriend]

next show:

Marnie Stern: probably one of my favorite “solo acts” of math rock time, who also made one of my most listened to albums ever (effortfully titled This Is It And I Am It And You Are It And So Is That And He Is It And She Is It And It Is It And That Is That). so excited for her, especially after her recent album (comparatively effortlessly titled The Comeback Kid).

Quasi: also amazing. Featuring “Birds” is still one of my favorite indie pop / indie rock albums ever, with vulnerable lyricism and earworm melodies all over it. they’re touring for the anniversary of this album, but i would love to see a song from their most recent (titled Breaking the Balls of History).

nerd out over, i feel like they’re about to come on soon

[mr-craig]

Marnie Stern is releasing a new album — her first in ten years! The Comeback Kid is coming out in November. I am excited!

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Marnie Stern - Transformer (Official Music Video)

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Marnie Stern - Plain Speak

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11.21.24 Marnie Stern at TV Eye.

[cenaindie]

Marnie Stern – Ao Vivo – Hopscotch Music Festival https://cenaindie.com/album/marnie-stern-ao-vivo-hopscotch-music-festival/

[bandcampsnoop]

11/12/23.

It's finally here - the aptly named "The Comeback Kid" represents Marnie Stern's first album in 10 years. Since "The Chronicles of Marnia", Stern has been working as part of Seth Meyers' band, the 8G Band.

Stern (New York, New York) really is in a category all her own. There aren't any people (that I'm aware of) whose guitar work sounds like hers. But the overall vibe of the music does recall bands like Deerhoof, Tamar Aphek or Yonatan Gat.

Joyful Noise Recordings was lucky enough to land Stern for this release.

[theeverlastingshade]

Favorite Releases of November 2023

5. The Comeback Kid- Marnie Stern

Essentials: "Plain Speak", "The Natural", "Working Memory"

4. And The Wind (Live and Loose!)- MJ Lenderman and The Wind

Essentials: "Hangover Game", "Tastes Just Like It Costs", "TLC Cagematch"

3. Cartwheel- Hotline TNT

Essentials: "I Thought You'd Change", "Out of Town", "Spot Me 100"

2. infinity signature- Full Body 2

Essentials: "moonworld", "blue trio", "nokia login"

1. Empty Country II- Empty Country

Essentials: "Dustine", "FLA", "Pearl"

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#diamondceiling #Marniestern

[fortherecordpodcast]

For the Record #200: Marnie Stern's "The Comeback Kid"

Guitar virtuoso Marnie Stern comes back with her first album in 10 years, and the good news is, she still shreds. We discuss "The Comeback Kid" on episode #200 of "For the Record."

Episode link: hhttps://fortherecordpodcast.com/podcasts/media/2023-11-26-ftr-episode-200-marnie-stern-the-comeback-kid.mp3

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Or tune in to BFF.fm to hear us every other Thursday at 9:30am!

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Marnie Stern, The Comeback Kid

New music Wednesday

The enduringly dynamic components constituting the distinctive New Yorker sound remain as powerful and unpredictable as ever. However, the fear and uncertainty that previously propelled her music have somehow dissipated, giving way to a prevailing sense of victory and blissful self-approval. Despite its brevity, just thirty minutes, the album aligns seamlessly with the punk-influenced genre she both creates and executes.

[beginningspod]

It's time for Beginnings, the podcast where writer and performer Andy Beckerman talks to the comedians, writers, filmmakers and musicians he admires about their earliest creative experiences and the numerous ways in which a creative life can unfold.

On today's episode, I talk to musician Marnie Stern. Originally from New York City, Marnie didn't start out trying to pursue music professionally, and her first album In Advance of the Broken Arm came out in 2007 on Kill Rock Stars when she was 30-years-old. It instantly garnered acclaim, and was followed by This Is It and I Am It and You Are It and So Is That and He Is It and She Is It and It Is It and That Is That in 2008, a self-titled album two years later and The Chronicles of Marnia in 2013. The previous year, she made Spin Magazine's list of "100 Greatest Guitarists of all Time", and after Seth Meyers took over Late Night, Marnie eventually joined the 8G Band for a number of years. Most recently, Marnie has recorded her first album in ten years; The Comeback Kid is out now on Joyful Noise, and it's fantastic!

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