On Friday night, the Smashing Pumpkin took a break from rehearsals to join Mavis Staples at WTTW's Chicago Tonight 25th Anniversary Benefit. The pair sang "For What It's Worth," "Will The Circle Be Unbroken," and "I'll Take You There." SmashingPumpkins.com... CONTINUE READING BILLY CORGAN ACCIDENTALLY CELEBRATES RECORD STORE DAY»
Posted on April 20, 2009 in (23 comments)
Tags: Billy Corgan | Courtney Love | Marnie Stern | Mavis Staples | Record Store Day | VEGA
I'm not the only one at Stereogum who goes out to see live music, but I'm the one who goes out to see the most live music. And then I'm the one who sits around anally cataloging and indexing it... CONTINUE READING 20 GREAT CONCERTS FROM 2008»
Posted on December 29, 2008 in , (83 comments)
Tags: Animal Collective | Apes And Androids | Dirty Projectors | Fleet Foxes | Franz Ferdinand | Gang Gang Dance | Joanna Newsom | King Khan | Krallice | Lightning Bolt | Marnie Stern | My Bloody Valentine | My Morning Jacket | of Montreal | Portishead | Radiohead | Robyn | Saul Williams | Sigur Rós
Last week Marnie Stern announced that she'd setup a kissing both (with her as the kissed) at her two weekend shows with Gang Gang Dance in San Francisco and Los Angeles. (That's what she was in training for, see?) The... CONTINUE READING MARNIE STERN'S KISSING BOOTH, A REVIEW»
Posted on November 17, 2008 (17 comments)
Tags: Magic Wands | Marnie Stern | Stephen Malkmus
Marnie Stern's "Don't Stop Believin'" cover could also work as a soundtrack for "Ruler"'s Rocky. Instead of Philadelphia, we get an egged-up Stern waking up at 4AM in NYC to run stairs, chase a rubber chicken, punch a small slab... CONTINUE READING NEW MARNIE STERN VIDEO - "RULER" »
Posted on November 11, 2008 in (3 comments)
Tags: Marnie Stern | Rachel Goodrich | Vampire Weekend
It's fitting that Perpetua came upon this, since it was his great interview with Marnie that framed its significance: until now, the ruler of the CMJ '08, Ms. Marnie Stern, has never learned someone else's song. And she's broken that... CONTINUE READING MARNIE STERN COVERS "DON'T STOP BELIEVIN'" »
Posted on October 30, 2008 in (18 comments)
Tags: Journey | Marnie Stern | Ponytail
The crew here managed to fly through some 70+ sets of music last week, and boy is our abilty-to-wade-through-the-sadness-that's-passing-for-buzzed-up-indie-rock tired. There's a very scientific formula to attaining that coveted "Guess I should see this band 'cause everybody's saying I should"... CONTINUE READING STEREOGUM'S TOP 8 FROM CMJ '08»
Posted on October 27, 2008 in (28 comments)
Tags: CMJ | Crystal Antlers | Crystal Stilts | Delta Spirit | Gang Gang Dance | Marnie Stern | Ponytail | The Music Tapes | Tobacco | Wye Oak
The crapshoot buffet of 25 minute sets from overextended bands is now closed, thanks. When you're out all day and all night, you encounter lots -- some undercooked and unpalatable flller, some that's ripe and right, lots never intended for... CONTINUE READING CMJ '08: IT'S A PHOTO WRAP»
Posted on October 27, 2008 in (1 comments)
Tags: Au | Awesome New Republic | Cause Co-Motion! | CMJ | Emmy The Great | Fight Bite | Little Boots | Marnie Stern | Reggie Watts | School Of Seven Bells | Takka Takka | The Physics Of Meaning | Violens
We got a late start in inaugurating the new Studio at Webster Hall, but it was worth the wait. Scheduled for midnight to 4AM, our CMJ kick-off party ran about an hour behind schedule, but even at 4:30AM -- after... CONTINUE READING CMJ '08: STEREOGUM LATE NIGHT @ THE STUDIO AT WEBSTER HALL»
Posted on October 22, 2008 in , (5 comments)
Tags: CMJ | Crystal Stilts | Gang Gang Dance | Marnie Stern | Ponytail
Stereogum's 2008 CMJ event is a jam-packed show taking place midnight to 4 a.m. on Tuesday, 10/21. It's at the brand new venue The Studio at Webster Hall (yes, located inside Webster Hall). It's so new, our show takes place... CONTINUE READING STEREOGUM LATE NIGHT @ CMJ 2008»
Posted on October 13, 2008 in (14 comments)
Tags: Crystal Stilts | Gang Gang Dance | Marnie Stern | Ponytail
When posting Marnie Stern's "Transformer," I said something about how the way she approaches songwriting feels like she's stumbling upon something for the first time, blowing her own mind over and over. That "stumble"'s not meant as a knock --... CONTINUE READING NEW MARNIE STERN VIDEO - "TRANSFORMER" »
Posted on September 30, 2008 in (7 comments)
Tags: Marnie Stern | St. Vincent
We extolled the virtues of Marnie Stern's 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 (out 10/7... CONTINUE READING NEW MARNIE STERN - "RULER"»
Posted on September 10, 2008 (7 comments)
Tags: Marnie Stern | Max Tundra | Passion Pit | SXSW
We're not too far off from the release of Marnie Stern's follow-up to last year's In Advance Of The Broken Arm. And I learned something this Labor Day weekend, while literally listening to nothing but the new one: It is... CONTINUE READING NEW MARNIE STERN - "SHEA STADIUM" (STEREOGUM PREMIERE)»
Posted on September 2, 2008 (3 comments)
Tags: Dirty Projectors | Marnie Stern | SXSW | These United States | Zach Hill
Not sure what the contributing factors were, but it seemed like everybody was a little frustrated yesterday down at SouthBy; people showing up to the right day party at the wrong time, jumbling their schedules, taking wrong turns in what's... CONTINUE READING SXSW: THURSDAY IN AUSTIN»
Posted on March 16, 2007 in , (10 comments)
Tags: Amy Winehouse | Andrew Bird | Bat For Lashes | Cloud Cult | Danava | Elvis Perkins | Marnie Stern | Midnight Movies | New Violators | Sloan | SXSW | The Besnard Lakes | The Hylozoists | Tiny Masters Of Today | To Live And Die In LA | Under Byen
There's an aesthetic shift brewing in indie rock, or so says a great piece in the New York Times exploring the virtuoso guitar accumen of a couple of indie ladies on the rise, Marnie Stern and Kaki King. They write:Which... CONTINUE READING AN ERUPTION OF VIRTUOSITY IN INDIE ROCK»
Posted on March 12, 2007 in (54 comments)
Tags: Kaki King | Marnie Stern | Van Halen
