Marnie Stern

Music:

Member Since: 1/1/2006
Band Website: ITs BUstEd..Im wOrKiNg oN iT!!
Influences: Hella, Orthrelm, Yoko Ono, Deerhoof, Animal C, Khaki King, US Maple, Ex-Models
Sounds Like: IN ADVANCE OF THE BROKEN ARM released on February 20th 2007 on KILL ROCK STARS)

For U.S. booking please contact CHRISTIAN BERNHARDT [email protected]

For U.K., EUROPE, & AUSTRALIA booking please contact MARK LEWIS
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Kelefa Sanneh, THE NEW YORK TIMES
Yes! It's hard to muster a more nuanced response to Marnie Stern, a previously obscure shredder and yawper who has just released the year's most exciting rock 'n' roll album. True, there are 10 months left, but you could spend at least half of them puzzling your way through “In Advance of the Broken Arm,” her riotous debut... This raucous, wriggly music will certainly make Ms. Stern a cult sensation, and no doubt she's not expecting anything more than that. But don't imagine that this album is some sort of endurance test: it's too joyful, and too pretty, to be considered difficult.

Will Hermes, THE NEW YORK TIMES, Sunday, March 11, 2007
Guitar Heroes, Make That Heroines, in Indie Rock, Ms. Stern’s debut, “In Advance of the Broken Arm,” released last month on the venerable punk label Kill Rock Stars, does fit into the punk tradition of hollered vocals and serrated melodies that that famous Seattle group helped popularize. But her flamboyant guitar approach also connects it to the ornate, virtuosic traditions of progressive rock and heavy metal: genres that punk once aimed to vanquish with a return to the three-chord simplicity and raw primitivism of early rock. Yes, virtuosity is now a virtue in the indie world.

Jon Pareles, THE NEW YORK TIMES, March 19, 2007
Marnie Stern was onstage alone with her guitar in one among more than a thousand showcase concerts at the annual South by Southwest Music festival. She wasn't exactly a typical singer-songwriter. Her guitar was electric; her backup band was an iPod clipped to a belt loop, and it blasted...

PITCHFORK MEDIA
...next-big-thing...you know for fucking sure Stern has it-- a charisma and technique that already distinguishes her as pure Technicolor in a glutted, black-and-white scene.

EXCLAIM! MAGAZINE
Don't judge a book by its cover, is the sort of advice a musician like Marnie Stern has probably adopted as a credo throughout her musical path. Hiding behind her Fender Jaguar, the petite blonde singer-songwriter appears harmless, but once she strikes a chord all earplugs in the room run away in fear. You see, Stern doesn't just play her guitar enthusiastically, she attacks her axe with complete and utter abandon, and it's spectacular to hear... here is your new goddess, so give her love!

THE WASHINGTON POST
The most fascinating racket we might hear in 2007 comes from a virtuoso metalhead with the fashion sense of a soccer mom. Her name is Marnie Stern and she put on a dizzying show...the guitar-slinging Brooklynite's excellent debut album, "In Advance of the Broken Arm," landed in stores earlier that day -- it's a manic and mystifying affair, teeming with kiddie-friendly melodies and heavy-metal histrionics...enough to make your head spin, without making your head ache. The woman has chops...

PREFIX MAGAZINE
...every so often a prodigal thrasher blazes through, momentarily challenging the status quo and carving out a niche in the pantheon of guitar greatness with a new breed of ax mastery. Enter Marnie Stern. Signed to Kill Rock Stars after sending in a home demo, the singer-guitarist wowed 'em at CMJ in the fall, and on In Advance of the Broken Arm, her two-years-in-the-making debut written and recorded with Hella's Zach Hill serving as drummer/producer/co-conspirator, the out-of-leftfield bedroom player delivers on that early promise. Built from hypnotic hammer-ons, stutter-stepping time signatures and blazing tones, this is a pop record gone astray, a noise-y affair with a charming rough-and-tumble sunniness on every track that manages to impress technically while at the same time delivering dizzyingly cohesive songs.

THE GUARDIAN
Make way for the world's first female axe hero As innovative as Ian Williams and as fast as Eddie Van Halen, Marnie Stern is reinventing the electric guitar. She uses the overtly metal (and unfashionable) playing-styles of shredding and tapping (both incredibly technical, making it possible to play extremely fast, à la Eddie Van Halen), but turns it on its head to create something truly arresting, original and which completely transcends its problematic stylistic roots. Math-pop or avant-rock are terms that have been deployed liberally by journalists so far when trying to describe Marnie Stern's sound, but even these broad terms prove to be problematic after the first listen. I think Marnie Stern could be about to become the Emmeline Pankhurst of rock.
Record Label: Kill Rock Stars
Type of Label: Indie