The Princeton Record Exchange Blog listed MNDR as one of the top ten bands to see at this years upcoming South by Southwest Music Conference in Austin, Texas.
She’s the one-woman show that has been slowly stealing the hearts of hipsters everywhere. To see her on stage is something else — tables of computers, keyboards and wires — it looks like some kind of ninth grade physics project. What blasts out of the speakers are well crafted mixes of electro-pop and dance, literally making it impossible to stand still. Match this energy with MNDR’s voice, which is both understated and intoxicating, and what you have is the perfect vibe for that basement party you’ve been meaning to throw.
Read the full list here.
MNDR was interviewed by Full Frontal Fashion about her glasses, favorite jewelry store, and her thoughts on the new year.
This tall spire of awesome with the fluffed-out blonde cloud of hair and giant white eyeglasses (love, love, love them) put on the most incredible, dance-crazy show I have seen in a while at Coco 66 this past weekend. Before I saw her, I had heard two tracks and was totally feeling it, but I have to say that seeing her break it down live, with a goemetric light show flickering over her to the beat of her voice, is a whole different and amazing thing. MNDR is little bit M.I.A., a little bit Cyndi Lauper, a whole lot exactly what my iPod has been dying for.
Read the interview here.
Jessica Hopper at The Chicago Reader wrote up a piece on MNDR in anticipation for her sold out show with Yacht at The Empty Bottle on February 27th.
MNDR is Amanda Warner, who has voyaged from Portland to Minneapolis to Oakland to Brooklyn, along the way studying jazz bass at Macalester College, backing Sean “Har Mar Superstar” Tillman in his project Sean Na Na, playing winsome, toothy indietronica with Triangle, and wrecking brains in the Bay Area art-rave scene. Now she’s making a go of it as a solo act: she’s both producer and singer of MNDR’s authoritative and approachable experimental club music, and she’s formidable on both fronts. She makes seamless, studied bump, with plenty of fuzzed-out artful bits that underscore rather than obscure her hooks; she’s sort of like Diplo and the Missing Persons’ Dale Bozzio rolled into one. YACHT headlines; MNDR and Bobby Birdman open.
Read more here.
The Spaceball Ricochet posted a great video of MNDR’s performance at CoCo 66 in Brooklyn on February 20th and even compared her set to seeing MIA back in 2004. Check out that light show!:
Read more here.
The Fader posted a video and reviewed MNDR’s show on February 16th at the Brooklyn Bowl. Take a look!:
When MNDR played our monthly FADER Bowl, we were convinced the crystal necklace she was wearing was going to shoot lasers out of it, or perhaps assist in her animorphing to a unicorn and spiriting away to save a distant land. While that didn’t happen, she did look pretty superhero-like beneath the pink light of the stage, holding court with yet another one of her future mega-hits. And even if she can’t control the universe with her accessories, she clearly has quite a handle over pixel-stars and synth modules, which is good enough for us if she’s gonna keep making songs like this.
Read more at The Fader.
MNDR’s show last Tuesday night with Restless People at the Brooklyn Bowl has gotten tons of coverage all over. The Tastes Like Caramel blog wrote a bit about their “favorite new chick on the block” and The Fader loved MNDR’s show, too. You can check out The Culture of Me for some great live shots of MNDR, herself.
MNDR @ Glasslands
MNDR @ Glasslands
MNDR @ Glasslands
MNDR @ Glasslands
Brooklyn Vegan posted MNDR’s track “I Go Away” on their website as a free download as a follow up to their announcement of MNDR’s upcoming tour with YACHT. Listen to the “I Go Away” here.
The music blog Not Many Experts featured MNDR in their “New Noise” section, calling her a “genuine star”. Describing her track “C.L.U.B.” as “the perfect balance between kooky charm and radio rollicking accessibility,” they’d bet everyone else will start referring to MNDR as a “genuine star” pretty soon, too.
MNDR has a whole mess of tour dates listed on her blog! In addition to her tour dates with These Are Powers and some killer upcoming NYC shows, she has just announced a big tour opening up for YACHT as they plow all across North America on their way to South by Southwest music conference. You’ve got no excuses, check this girl out now!
1/30/10 – More Condos Less Artists w/Ex-Models and TBA in Tribeca, NY
2/08/10 – Brooklyn Bowl Fader Party w/RESTLESS PEOPLE
2/13/10 – Southpaw w/EBONY BONES>>BKLYN, NY
2/16/10 – Brooklyn Bowl w/WAVVES
2/20/10 – TBA w/These Are Powers (These Are Powers/Javelin Ep Release Party), NYC
2/26/10 – The Cave w/YACHT/BOBBY BIRDMAN>>Carleton College, MN
2/27/10 – Empty bottle w/YACHT/BOBBY BIRDMAN>>Chicago, IL
2/28/10 – The Horn Gallery w/YACHT/BOBBY BIRDMAN>>Kenyon College Gambier, OH
3/02/10 – The Pike Room at Crofoot Ballroom w/YACHT/BOBBY BIRDMAN>>Pontiac, MI
3/03/10 – The Casbah w/YACHT/BOBBY BIRDMAN>>Hamilton, ON
3/04/10 – Wrongbar w/YACHT/BOBBY BIRDMAN>>Toronto, ON
3/05/10 – Ritual w/YACHT/BOBBY BIRDMAN>>Ottawa, ON
3/06/10 – Le Belmont w/YACHT/BOBBY BIRDMAN>>Montreal, QC
3/07/10 – Big Orbit Soundlab w/YACHT/BOBBY BIRDMAN>>Buffalo, NY
3/11/10 – Bowery Ballroom w/YACHT/BOBBY BIRDMAN>>NYC
3/12/10 – Jesus Camp w/These Are Power/Lemonade>>Baltimore, MD
3/13/10 – The Triple w/These Are Power/Lemonade>>Richmond, VA
3/14/10 – The Pinhook w/These Are Power/Lemonade>>Durham, NC
3/15/10 – 529 w/These Are Power/Lemonade>>Atlanta, GA
3/16/10 – The Den w/These Are Power/Lemonade>>New Orleans, LA
