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 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.

**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

See the full photo set here and check out MNDR’s upcoming SXSW performances.

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 upcoming SXSW performances.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7-32SnhwHg

Read more here.

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.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC-Jg2zVdT8

Read more at The Fader.

MNDR at her activity center

MNDR on the keys

See more photos on Metromix.

MNDR with lightshow in full effect

MNDR at Mercury Lounge

See more photos on Brooklyn Vegan.