MNDR played a great show with V.V. Brown and Class Actress at the Bowery Ballroom in NYC last night and The Village Voice was on hand to soak it all in. They really loved her projections, calling it a “a hell of a mind-bending spectacle going behind her, a mixture of Atari-style blocky stuff and digital Spirograph fantasias synced up to respond to both her voice and, ideally, ours.” Though of course that’s nothing without “her muscular, blaring gearhead-techno anthems, with startlingly gooey pop centers, are rousing enough; the mighty ‘Fade to Black’ especially.”
As a physical presence, too, Warner is fascinating, with her blocky white glasses and slightly regal, slightly nerdy air, gripping her mic stand with authority and vogue-ing with aplomb. She casually mentions that she was in the ER last night with a fever of 102; her set actually climaxes between songs, where she tests the whole voice-activated light show thing, wherein we all scream and the screen behind her slowly turns solid white. “Now we’re all connected, like string theory,” she announces, satisfied. “Even though string theory is kinda fake.”
Read the whole article on the Village Voice’s website.
The Huffington Post ran it’s SXSW follow up article today and listed MNDR as “Best Show”.
The best show I saw all week was put on by one lady band MNDR, a modern-era, Janis Joplin-esque songstress who took the stage with crystals hanging from her neck and a safety pin barely keeping her shirt on.
It’s just her and her keyboard and a boatload of enthusiasm. There weren’t more than 40 people there to see her perform but she brought the funk like it was Madison Square Garden. And every time the beat dropped — a beat she has no doubt heard hundreds, if not thousands of times — she reacted with so much joy it was like she had just been kissed by a puppy.
Check out their full review of MNDR’s set and the rest of the superlatives here.
MNDR has announced her showcases for South by Southwest. Coming fresh off her tour with Yacht and her (current) tour with These Are Powers, MNDR hits the stage starting on Wednesday and keeps bringing the party everyday until Saturday night. Showcase info below:
**Wednesday (3/17)**
1pm
SESAC Day Stage Cafe
Austin Convention Center, 4th Floor
**Wednesday (3/17)**
4:30pm
Music Gym
815 East 6th Street (at Frontage Rd)
**Thursday (3/18)**
10pm-Midnight
SESAC Party
The Velveeta Room
525 East 6th Street (btwn Neches and Red River)
**Friday (3/19)**
4pm
Brooklyn Vegan Day Party
Club de Ville
900 Red River Street (btwn 9th and 10th)
**Saturday (3/20)**
11:30pm
Grand Life/VICE Party
Lanai Lounge 422 Congress Avenue
**Sunday (3/21)**
1AM (Monday Morning)
MtyMx Festival
Monterrey Mexico
Brooklyn Vegan was on hand to witness MNDR’s sold-out performance at the Bowery Ballroom in New York, opening for Yacht. Looks like it was a crazy show with projections in full effect:
See the full photo set here and check out MNDR’s upcoming SXSW performances.
The Village Voice selected MNDR as one of the top New York-based acts to see for their “SXSW Cheat Sheet 2010″. It looks like she’s got a number of shows lined up over the week so you’ll be able to experience what the Village Voice did firsthand:
Sneaking onto a snoozy recent Mercury Lounge lineup of charisma-less “chillwave” wallflowers, flagrantly nerdy electro-diva MNDR dropped like a bomb, with an enormous pair of glasses, an epilepsy-inducing light show, some fantastic dance-pop jams (“Fade to Black” especially), and a bombastic, unignorable personality: “OK, seriously, you can move to this music! This is techno!” The Fader is in love with her, and rightly so: An apparent tech-head, she can build you an amp out of spare parts and then blast all manner of engrossing egghead dance-floor ephemera through it. Here’s your Lady Gaga in training, if she doesn’t morph into something weirder, flashier, better.
Check out the rest of the list here and of course, catch MNDR at her upcoming SXSW performances.
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.
Metromix New York posted a bunch of great pictures of MNDR and her new light show from her December 16th show with Neon Indian at Mercury Lounge.
MNDR at her activity center
MNDR on the keys
See more photos on Metromix.
Brooklyn Vegan’s review of MNDR’s December 15 show with Neon Indian and Toro y Moi at the Mercury Lounge in NYC. This was the first performance with her new lightshow designed by collaborating artist Jamie Carreiro.
MNDR with lightshow in full effect
MNDR at Mercury Lounge
See more photos on Brooklyn Vegan.
