4KNOTS VIDEO OF THE DAY: “IMMORTALS” BY MARNIE STERN

“Give me a sign,” Marnie Stern sings on “Proof of Life” from her latest album, the awesomely titled The Chronicles of Marnia (Kill Rock Stars, March 2013), continuing, “I am something / I am someone.” The New York based guitarist with the uniquely high-pitched voice should find plenty of proof that she is indeed someone on Saturday, when she plays the free 4Knots Music Festival at the South Street Seaport along with Kurt Vile & the Violators, the Men, Parquet Courts, White Lung, Hunters, Reigning Sound, the Babies, Fat Tony, Heliotropes, and Steve Gunn. The new record, the follow-up to 2010’s eponymous disc and 2008’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, includes such other tracks as “Year of the Glad,” “Hell Yes,” “Nothing Is Easy,” and “East Side Glory,” featuring hyperactive instrumentation highlighted by Stern’s virtuoso guitar work and philosophical, poetic lyrics. Expect lots of east side glory on Saturday when Stern gets revved up at Piers 16 & 17 for the fest, which takes place on two stages and runs from 1:00 to 8:00.