Marnie Stern

Lil B to Play 4Knots Music Festival After Party

Over the last couple weeks we've rolled out all the acts playing this year's 4Knots Music Festival, our annual FREE outdoor concert taking place down at South Street Seaport's Pier 17 on June 29 from 1 - 8pm. And what a lineup it is: Kurt Vile, the Men, Parquet Courts, Marnie Stern, Reigning Sound, ... More >>

Kurt Vile, Marnie Stern More Confirmed to Play 4Knots Music Festival

The lineup for this year's 4Knots Music Festival--the Village Voice's free, all-day outdoor summer music extravaganza at the South Street Seaport (Pier 17) on June 29--is beginning to take shape. We've just booked a few big-name acts we're completely thrilled about.

TAPPED OUT

Marnie Stern comes home on the heels of her new album

Spring Arts Guide Picks: Music

Marnie Stern Gets Personal

It's when Marnie Stern, bundled in a gold puffer jacket, steps away from the Starbucks counter that I see she's covered from waist down in day-glo, neon lemon shoes sticking out from electric cerulean pants declaring her the brightest person on the Upper East Side before she's even opened her mouth. ... More >>

Meet Marnie Stern's dog, Fig, and Discover the World According to Frank Ocean Tweets

Hunker down with our favorite music stories of the week while Nemo blows through. Best of luck to youuuuuuuuus.

Our "Win A Date With Marnie Stern" Application

Hey, boys, check out this press release: Marnie Stern's on the market! WIN A RELEASE DATE DATE! Win An All-Expenses Paid Date With Marnie Stern On The Day of Her Album Release: March 19 Hipster guys, are you tired of seeing Marnie Stern have relationships with an endless array of losers and bores? ... More >>

EPIC FAIL

Death Grips won't be stopped

Win A Scholarship To The Women's Music Summit

The Women's Music Summit is a two-day conference at the Full Moon Resort in Big Indian where accomplished players like Marnie Stern, Melissa Auf Der Maur, and Meshell Ndgeocello will lead master classes, jam sessions, roundtables, and opportunities to connect, and it's scheduled to take place on Aug ... More >>

12 Albums From The Past Decade That Are Way Better Than Is This It

...despite these black marks, Is This It was a decade-defining record that set the agenda for how rock sounded and even looked throughout the aughts. More importantly, Is This It remains (takes deep breath, steels self for commenter rage) the single best album released in the past 10 years." — ... More >>

A Brief List Of Female Singer-Songwriters Who Might Not Fit The "White Girl With Acoustic Guitar" Mold, But Who Certainly Shouldn't Be Ignored By Overly Strict '90s Revivalists

Where, indeed. ​Hey, so the new Jane Pratt venture XOJane launched today! And one of the Sassy granddaughter's first music-related articles is Yet Another Thing About The Now Gingrich-Assisted '90s Fetishism Happening Right Now, in which Emily McCombs pleads, "Can the '90s Revival Include Fema ... More >>

Top 25 Headlines Not As Weird As "Dave Sitek Joins Jane's Addiction"

Good luck learning all the chord changes in "Jane Says," dude​So TV on the Radio's Dave Sitek has joined Jane's Addiction, in some unspecified bassist/songwriter/possibly-non-touring-member capacity, which is super bizarre when you first hear about it, but is, upon reflection, not the stranges ... More >>

Rob Harvilla's Top 10 Albums Of 2010

Naturally, this dude is involved​Distilling a full year of furtive, easily distracted, constantly overwhelmed listening down to a mere 10 albums is a ridiculous, agonizing, thoroughly loathsome undertaking, and yet here we all are, pulling nine fully formed sonic universes together and capping ... More >>

Zach Baron's Top 10 Albums of 2010

Guess who? Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​Alright, let's do this, before I change my mind. With apologies to The-Dream, Sleigh Bells, Ted Leo, Kylesa, Swans, Zola Jesus, Marnie Stern, and all other vestiges of my punk rock past, and especially you Nicki Minaj, who missed both of my lists this year. ... More >>

Was 2010 The Best Year For Music Ever? The Final Chapter: Katy Perry Is A Bad Feminist But We Are All Vulnerable Somehow

This has been Sound of the City's year-in-review rock-critic roundtable, an amiable ongoing conversation between five prominent Voice critics: Rob Harvilla, Zach Baron, Sean Fennessey, Maura Johnston, and Rich Juzwiak. We're sad to see it go. Sleigh Bells frontlady Alexis Krauss, you deserved your ... More >>

Week In Review: You Know We Were Kidding About That Best Year Ever Thing, Right?

A thing that happened. Photo by Phil Freeman.​In the week we debated whether 2010 was the best year for music ever (you guys know that was a joke, right?), we pitted Chris Brown against Katy Perry, Titus Andronicus against LCD Soundsystem, Taylor Swift against M.I.A., and house music against h ... More >>

CMJ Day 4: Marnie Stern, Hooray for Earth, and More Wake Up Early for the Village Voice/Redeye Party

​Darren Hanlon/Dean & Britta/Alessi's Ark/PVT/Hooray for Earth/Marnie Stern/Heidi Spencer/Calibro 35 Bowery Electric Friday, October 22 Better than: Reading newspapers. Who says you can't do this 24 hours a day? We stepped into the basement of Bowery Electric at around 11:50 yesterday mornin ... More >>

Week in Review: We're Not Done Yet

Dom makes a new friend. Photo by Sam Horine.​Usually this would be right around the time you'd catch us fleeing the office in terror, but since it's CMJ, we're merely fleeing in the office in search of yet more shows. Our CMJ coverage will continue throughout the weekend; you can find what we' ... More >>

CMJ Day Two: Marnie Stern, Dom, Tamaryn, And Lower Dens Kick Off The Stereogun Party At Santos Party House

"Stereogum!" Pics by Rob, more below.​Marnie Stern/Dom/Tamaryn/Lower Dens Santos Party House Wednesday, October 20 Better than: Just sitting at home reading ecstatic Tweets about the whole Phoenix/Daft Punk thing. So let's toss a few more ribald Marnie Stern exclamations on the pile. #1: "It ... More >>

Q&A: Baths Is Super-Excited about CMJ, Marnie Stern, Anderson Cooper

You can make this young boy's dream come true by introducing him to Anderson Cooper Thus far, Baths is most famous for his publicity shots, a stunningly fragile array of goofy portraits in which the electronic solo musician stands in old man's underwear, looking lost, sometimes accompanied by a gay ... More >>

Week in Review: Apollo Kids

​In the week one of this blog's authors inspired a short play about juggalo zombies and Lady Gaga, we celebrated by announcing the 2010 Village Voice/Redeye Distribution Day Party, featuring the great Marnie Stern, Hooray For Earth, and a bunch of others, including a wonderful special secret g ... More >>

So Pitchfork Is Hosting A Huge Music Festival Called #Offline In New York Next Week, Just In Time to Compete With CMJ

​Well, that's one way to let CMJ know what you think of it, if you are the vast music recommendation website Pitchfork--by having a multi-day, 30-plus band festival in the middle of Williamsburg during the marathon's prime three nights. They're calling it #Offline, paradoxical hashtag and all; ... More >>

Announcing the Village Voice/Redeye Distribution 2010 CMJ Day Party, Featuring Marnie Stern, Hooray For Earth, and a Special Secret Guest

Marnie Stern at the Rock Shop last week. Photo by Harvilla.​Because why not add to the general mayhem that will be sweeping the Lower East Side starting Tuesday of next week? We are pleased to announce the Voice will be teaming with Redeye Distribution to sponsor CMJ day party this year, featu ... More >>

Week in Review: Report Gang Activity

Have seen you seen this man?​In the week we wondered if it was still possible to sell out in 2010 (short answer: no), we also found ourselves introduced to the horrific new term "rape gaze," about which the less that's now said, the better. Cleanse your palate with the six best things you can ... More >>

Live: Marnie Stern Works Blue At The Rock Shop

A brief interlude between dirty jokes. Pics by Rob, more below.​Marnie Stern The Rock Shop Tuesday, October 5 Better than: Most Sarah Silverman routines Marnie Stern talks about vaginas a lot. Maybe you knew this. Tonight we are celebrating the release of her pretty great new album (self-tit ... More >>

The Fleeting Satisfaction of Marnie Stern

A ferocious guitar-shredder contemplates the neuroses that both drive and burden her

This Week's Voice: Marnie Stern, No Age, Jazz Consumer Guide, and More

Marnie Stern is not impressed. Photo by David Torch.​In this week's Village Voice, Mike Powell profiles the awesome Marnie Stern, Dan Weiss hails No Age's graduation to Their Own Sound, and Tom Hull strings together another edition of his Jazz Consumer Guide.

A Brief Catalog of All the Other Musicians Marnie Stern Has Dissed

Marnie Stern will cut you. Photo by David Torch.​Local guitar wizard Marnie Stern is making a wonderful bid right now to become the Kanye West of indie-rock--she's cocky but shy, confident but self-deprecating, and more musically savvy than she gets credit for, even as she constantly pays homa ... More >>

Week in Review: Sit Down, Man

​​​​Behold the amazing talents of Ryan Dombal.​In the week someone introduced us to the term "rap sabbatical," we got investigative, bringing news of the newfound hip-hop ban at Savalas (which sent DJ Ayres packing), HARD Fest's harsh words for M.I.A., Lil Wayne's prefe ... More >>

Week in Review: Female Guitar Players Are the New Black

The beach is in Bed-Stuy, suckers. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​In the week we asked a Georgia-certified divorce attorney whether The-Dream had left his wife while she was eight and a half months pregnant because he would have had to pay more child support had he waited the full nine (or was it ju ... More >>

Marnie Stern Returns, Declares "Female Guitar Players Are the New Black"

​Local guitar heroine Marnie Stern, whose great 2008 LP 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 seems like it came out way more than two years ago (though we don't miss the title), is finally ready to release a follow-up. Th ... More >>

Marnie Stern+White Hinterland+Anni Rossi

Tonight! Stereogum's 'Gum Bowl (w/ Woods, Effi Briest, and DJ St. Vincent), Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Japanther, Taken By Trees, And Roky Erickson w/ Okkervil River

via Stereogum"I'm-a whoop yo' ass at bowling, Alan Palomo."​Tonight, alt.celebrities defend the Eastern wilderness in Stereogum's inaugural bowling tournament, a/k/a the 'Gum Bowl, at Brooklyn Bowl. So after Marnie Stern beats the shit out of Neon Indian, a free (with RSVP) concert shall comme ... More >>

Damon Dash's Under 100 Is Officially Back! Ava Luna Record Release Show There Tonight

We will all live to play more Big Buck Hunter in this space, guys. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​They told us we'd gotten it shut down. They told us that it was called DD172, and that it had become a "hippie art collective right smack in the middle of one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in Manhatta ... More >>

Cancel That: Under 100 Is Officially Not Back, Tonight's Ava Luna Show Has Been Called Off Moved to the Silent Barn

Less Artists More Condos promoter Ariel Panero brings word: tonight's Ava Luna show with Suckers and Marnie Stern, heralded here just hours ago as the epic return of Damon Dash's Under 100 wonderland, has been shut down. Like we say around here, mea culpa. [Update: Silent Barn picked this one u ... More >>

Please Welcome Ava Luna, the Post-TVOTR, Dirty Projectors-Inflected Bedroom Soul Project You've Been Waiting For (Download the Proof: "Clips")

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. ​Brooklyn's Ava Luna is the rare band that needs to be heard to be believed. In the band's hazy, floaty, post-TVOTR-maybe conceit, post-punk grooves, soaring soul harmonies, and classic indie detachm ... More >>

The Inexplicable Surfer Blood Marnie Stern Connection, Plus An Apology

Surfer Blood got some swagger! When last we saw these kids in town, we had them figured for CMJ-style human sacrifice; the next day they played the second or third set of an appalling 12-show run and called the Voice out for doubting them. Then they were dazed kids; now they hold things down over ... More >>

Footage of Under 100's Final Show Surfaces

Well, probably the final show, anyway. [Update: Guess not. Word we just got says there was a Grooms, Ducktails, Talk Normal, and Marnie Stern show there last Saturday night. Has Dame changed his mind about shutting things down?] This These Are Powers/Cool Kids/Jay Electronica footage (not all from ... More >>

Haha: Impose Picks The "Best New Music of 2009"

On Monday, our home slices over at Impose unveiled their year-end 50 favorite acts of 2009. It's a uniquely varied list of familiar blog-sprayed faces (Animal Collective, Fever Ray, Black Lips, Dan Deacon, Black Dice), mixtape rappers (Gucci Mane, Freddie Gibbs, Drake), relative unknowns (Nisennen ... More >>

The Internet Broke. Go Outside Maybe.

​Behind the sad cascading scrawl of ones and zeros that have slowed to a infant crawl today is the tepid and glassy reflection of all of us, watching the great silent dove migration of people away from their desks and gradually realizing that we all may have to go see Daryl Hall & John Oates p ... More >>

Northside Festival Began Last Night, Magik Markers Played, Controversy Ensued at Shea Stadium

Magik Markers at Shea Stadium, photos Rebecca Smeyne So last night was the beginning of L Magazine's ambitious little festival that could, Northside Festival, and it is, by all appearances, cozier and far more endearingly starry-eyed than our old embattled, but lovable glue-bound horse CMJ, whose ... More >>

SXSW 2009: Getting Off on the Good Foot with Marnie Stern and Heartless Bastards

Heartless Bastards (Radio Room) Marnie Stern (Club De Ville) SXSW Wednesday Afternoon, March 18 Erika Wennerstrom's bandmates give her a tremendously wide berth onstage, three grizzled gentlemen crowding demurely to our far right as she holds court on the left, the sort of blast radius you'd give ... More >>

My Songwriting Adventure With Marnie Stern

Channeling exuberance and battling self-doubt on the Upper East Side

My Favorite Thing To Happen to the Hold Steady This Week: MSNBC.

I Wish You All Got More Excited About Women

Dirty Blonde: Book Eaters, CMJ, and Studio B's Demise

That infamous festival is back, though chicks may happily dominate this year

Vampire Weekend in the National League Playoffs?

Photos: The Death Set, Marnie Stern, Ex-Models at Death by Audio

Divorcing the iPod

An ascendant speed-metal goddess upgrades her accessories

Live: Marnie Stern, Lightning Bolt, et al at Third Ward