“In the video for her 2008 song "Ruler", Marnie Stern played Rocky. The fictitious Philly boxer was a fitting kindred spirit: Stern writes from the perspective of the underdog, the late bloomer, the ragtag mortal with a serious case of god-envy. Her idiosyncratic guitar playing echoes this, too. Some guitarists emerge herculean, their technique as natural and seamless as Apollo Creed's uppercut-- b”
