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  See Marnie Stern's Fantastical Yet Down-to-Earth 'Immortals' Video

  March 26, 2013 – Marnie Stern's latest video vividly captures what makes her music tick. On just-released SPIN Essential album Chronicles of Marnia, the New York noise-popper puts her familiar blizzards of finger-tapped guitar notes beneath lyrics wracked with self-questioning. …
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  Marnie Stern, 'The Chronicles of Marnia' (Kill Rock Stars)

  March 18, 2013 – Optimism against the odds: That's been Marnie Stern's attitude from the beginning. Optimism that, out of the approximate 3,543 notes per song she might attempt, guitar-wise, she'd manage to hit at least 3,000. …
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  10 Albums You Can Hear Now: Dave Grohl, Marnie Stern, 'Spring Breakers,' and More

  March 7, 2013 – For this week's round of ready-to-stream albums, we present an LP from current SPIN cover star Dave Grohl and the newest full-length from recent SPIN profile subject William Tyler. Grab a pair of headphones and plug into those two records, as well as the eight others below:1) Dave Grohl and Friends, Sound City: Real to Reel. "Stevie Nicks sounds as urgent and bewitching as ever... …
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  Watch Fred Armisen, Marnie Stern Seriously Cover TLC's 'Waterfalls' Live in NYC

  February 21, 2013 – If it was still up in the air whether Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein are laughing with — instead of at — well-meaning but oblivious hipsters on Portlandia, the question was answered once in for all on Tuesday night at Bowery Ballroom in New York City. …
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  Hear Marnie Stern's Favorite New Marnie Stern Song 'Nothing Is Easy'

  February 14, 2013 – Marnie Stern's incoming fourth full-length, The Chronicles of Marnia (out March 19 via Kill Rock Stars), may be "less nutso," but newly released track "Nothing is Easy" (Stern's personal favorite from the new LP) still trades heavily in the New York guitar goddess' tightly-coiled six-string eccentricities. …
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  Meet Marnie Stern's Dog, Fig, Who Just Survived a Harrowing Near-Death Experience

  February 1, 2013 – I got her when she was three months old. I kept saying, "I want a dog, I want a dog," but I didn't mean it. "I want to get married, I want a dog," but not seriously. But then my mom said, "I got you a dog, come down here and get it." You did what? …
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  Win a Date With Guitar Goddess Marnie Stern

  January 23, 2013 – File under: "evil marketing genius" and "things that are awesome/dangerous." Kill Rock Stars is offering a "release date date" with guitar goddess Marnie Stern. What does that mean exactly? Well, what it sounds like. One lucky fan will win, by application, an all-expenses-paid date with the noise-popper on March 19, the day that her new album The Chronicles of Marnia drops. …
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  Hear Marnie Stern's Longing Waltz for 'East Side Glory'

  January 17, 2013 – New York guitar wizard Marnie Stern recently told SPIN that for her upcoming fourth album, the brilliantly titled Chronicles of Marnia (out March 19 via Kill Rock Stars), she wanted to try something "less nutso." Stern said, "I was trying to focus on songwriting. Not guitar playing." Between the LP's cheerily frantic first taste, "Year of the Glad," and now waltzy second sample, "East Side Glory," it's clear that Stern ha …
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  Inside Marnie Stern's 'Less Nutso' New Album 'The Chronicles of Marnia'

  December 11, 2012 – "When I first started writing songs, I was doing a lot of folky stuff with the guitar, and my mom said, 'Ugh, it's so boring. Why don't you rock it up a little bit? Make it rock'n'roll.'" That one conversation, says Marnie Stern, has shaped the way she's approached songwriting for much of her decade-long career. …
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  SPIN's 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time

  May 3, 2012 – To celebrate the new generation of shredders profiled in our May/June "Loud Issue," the SPIN staff decided to find some wheedle in a haystack, taking on the impossible task of ranking our favorite guitar players of all time. …
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