Marnie Stern Melts Your Face With KRS LP, Tour, MP3
For a solo artist, Marnie Stern seriously stirs up a lot of noise. Layering frenetic, in-your-face guitar over half-sung/half-spoken vocals and spastic drumming, the New York-based guitar virtuoso-- who amazed audiences last fall at CMJ-- makes it immediately apparent why she's described by her label as "The DIY Lady Shredder."
Until recently, Stern was an unsigned, make-demos-in-her-bedroom kind of solo act (another epithet-- this one designated by her booking agency-- is "The Upper East Side Recluse"). Then Kill Rock Stars discovered her via one of those demos and signed her to its 5RC imprint almost immediately.
5RC folded following Slim Moon's departure from Kill Rock Stars, which means Marnie's much-anticipated, slightly-delayed debut full length, In Advance of the Broken Arm, will arrive February 20 on KRS. Collecting songs Marnie's written over the past two years, and produced by Hella's Zach Hill (who also drums on the album), the LP comes armed with 13 blistering tracks. We're priveleged to share one of them with you.
Get your click on with our exclusive download of "Every Single Line Means Something", a slash-and-burn attack of Stern's shredding and Hill's epic pounding. This shit is bananas.
Not to be missed, Stern brings her sonic assault to the road in February with 5RC graduate BARR, hits up SXSW, and will later join Hill for a TBA summertime rampage/romp.
In Advance of the Broken Arm:
01 Vibrational Match
02 Grapefruit
03 Every Single Line Means Something
04 Precious Metal
05 Put All Your Eggs in One Basket and Then Watch That Basket!!
06 Logical Volume
07 Absorb Those Numbers
08 This American Life
09 Letters From Rimbaud
10 The Weight of a Rock
11 Plato's Fucked Up Cave
12 Healer
13 Patterns of a Diamond Ceiling
Marnie Marnie Marnie:
02-03 New York, NY - TBA ^%
02-14 New York, NY - Cake Shop (record release) *#
02-15 Poughkeepsie, NY - Vassar College *
02-18 Baltimore, MD - The Depot *
02-19 Philadelphia, PA - Danger Danger *
02-20 Washington, DC - Warehouse Next Door *
02-21 Chapel Hill, NC - Nightlight *
02-23 Atlanta, GA - Drunken Unicorn *
02-24 New Orleans, LA - Green Room *
02-25 Houston, TX - The Proletariat *
02-26 Austin, TX - Emo's *
02-28 Flagstaff, AZ - Robot House *
03-02 Pomona, CA - 5ifty Bucks Gallery *
03-03 Los Angeles, CA - The Smell *
03-04 San Luis Obispo, CA - Steynburg Gallery *
03-05 San Francisco, CA - The Knockout *
03-06 Oakland, CA - 21 Grand *
03-08 Olympia, WA - Le Voyeur *
03-09 Seattle, WA - Gallery 1412 *
03-10 Portland, OR - Rotture *
03-11 Boise, ID - House Party *
03-12 Boise, ID - University of Idaho (afternoon show) *
03-13 Denver, CO - Rhinoceropolis *
03-16 Austin, TX - Free Agency/Terrorbird Media Party (SXSW)
03-17 Austin, TX - Kill Rock Stars Showcase (SXSW)
03-19 Chicago, IL - TBA
03-20 Detroit, MI - Scrummage University *
03-21 Rochester, NY - AV Space *
03-22 North Adams, MA - Contemporary Art Center *
03-23 Providence, RI - AS220 *
03-24 Brooklyn, NY - Uncle Paulie's *
^ with Japanther, Bestfwends
% with High Places
* with BARR
# with the Punks
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