Pitchfork’s interview with the fleet-fingered Marnie Stern is chock-full of interesting material–her creative process, how she almost named her new album after a line from Arrested Development only to have St. Vincent beat her to it, the heart-cheering tidbit that she’s working on something with fellow guitar goddess Mary Timony (!!!). But I really liked the part where she described how the sometimes-alienating experience of going to shows alone and dealing with the attendant, excruciating “shop talk” with semi-strangers wound up plunging her into a period of crazy creativity:
ARTIST: Marnie Stern
TITLE: 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
WEB DEBUT: Sept. 16, 2008
RELEASE DATE: Oct. 7, 2008
Because the song at No. 29 aims for something more than plain ol’ guitar heroics.
