Watch the official video for MNDR’s new single “#1 in Heaven” directed by SSION (aka Cody Critcheloe).

The new MNDR single, “#1 in Heaven” made NY Magazine’s Approval Matrix, landing distinctly on the “Brilliant” end of the spectrum. They like to think of it as “musical caffeine”.

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The MNDR official music video for “#1 in Heaven” just debuted on Spin.com. The video was directed by SSION (a.k.a. Cody Critcheloe) and features an appropriate amount of political imagery for a song about heiress-turned-revolutionary Patty Hearst. You can read more about the video on Spin.com.

Learn more about Director Cody Critcheloe at the SSION site.

Pitchfork is currently streaming MNDR’s new single “#1 in Heaven”, the first single from her upcoming full-length debut on Ultra Records. “#1 in Heaven” will be released officially tomorrow, January 17th.

Psychobuildings are in the running for The Deli Magazine’s Favorite Emerging Artist from 2011. Vote here and remember, you can only vote once per IP address.

Madonna has just revealed that her new album will be titled “M.D.N.A.”, which New York Magazine is guessing is some kind of reference-to/confusion-of MNDR and/or MDMA. Decide for yourself here.

MNDR is featured in V Magazine’s upcoming music issue. The new issue will hit newsstands soon, but you can read the article online here right now!

V Magazine is hosting a party line you can call to hear an exclusive preview of MNDR’s upcoming single, “#1 in Heaven” before it comes out officially on January 17th.  Call 1.855.MYV.3800 (1.855.698.3800) and select option “#1″ to hear it for yourself!

RCRDLBL’s year-end Top 100 Most Downloaded tracks list is out and MNDR grabs two spots! #49 most downloaded is MNDR’s signature 4-track remix of Foster The People’s “Pumped Up Kicks”. Also making the list, #79, is Discmann’s well titled “Off The Wagon” remix of MNDR’s “Jump In”.  If you haven’t already, you can download them for free here and here.

For more great remixes, take a listen to the full playlist on RCRDLBL.

Youtube user and Psychobuildings/MNDR fan, 1angelmiike, posted a great video mashup and fan edit, turning MNDR’s “DCC Train Remix” of Psychobuildings “Terror Management” into a 12-minute soundtrack for what appears to be a classic Italian slasher film… if it was directed by David Lynch.

MNDR just shot a music video for the upcoming single, “#1 In Heaven”. The single drops January 17, 2012 and the video, directed by Cody Critcheloe, will follow shortly after.

There’s been a bit of MNDR buzz going around recently, check out who’s been talking below:

The New York Times
The Wall Street Journal
Hard Candy Music
Dumb Bass
Umstrum
Excessive Swearing

Friends of WonderSound, Discmann and Sixtraxx have teamed up for a banger of a remix for MNDR’s song “Cut Me Out”. You can download the track for free from Green Label Sound here.

Discmann in his natural habitat

Need more Discmann and Sixtraxx? Check out their Summer Mix 2011 here.

The Psychobuildings Remix EP is still in preorder, but it’s getting a TON of press. Look who’s listening and don’t forget to preorder your copy here.

RCRDLBL
Sammy Bananas
Hype Machine
Off The Radar
Magnetic Magazine
Gotta Dance Dirty
Pure House
Discover Band
Neonized
Clipotheque
SoundCloud
Dumb Bass
Funky House Music
Schitz Popinov
Push Volume
Discover Band
La 3e Heure!
Global Libre
Butterflies Radio

Psychobuildings first official music video for “Terror Management”. Directed by Yoonha Park

Off The Record
Magnetic Magazine
Schmooze Blog
Buzz Chips
Cafe Maroon
Discover Band
Neonized
Clipotheque
The Glitoris

Come catch Psychobuildings at Brooklyn’s favorite venue, Glasslands Gallery, on November 13th. Psychobuildings headline with Papertwin and Modern Rivals opening. Preorder tickets HERE.

Glasslands Gallery
289 Kent Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11211
Sun, November 13
Doors: 8:30 PM
$10.00
21 and Over

Psychobuildings Live / MNDR DJ Nov 13, 2011

Check out the Deli magazine’s post CMJ interview with Psychobuildings.

Also a small Psychobuildings mention in the New York Times Arts section.

Psychobuildings will be playing 3 shows at CMJ this year.

Tonight! Tuesday Oct 18th 10PM The Delancey (Full band) – The Deli Magazine Showcase
Thursday Oct 20th 9PM Fontanas – 4Neverland and Heart is a Spade Showcase
Thursday Oct 20th 12PM Union Pool – All Hands Electric Showcase

Here’s the video for Make Out’s new single, “You Can’t Be Friends With Everyone”! The video was directed by John Threat and Diane Martel and features bandmates Jesper Mortensen (“Junior” of Junior Senior fame) and Leah Hennessey wrecking some serious havoc. The song was produced by Peter Wade and Amanda Warner of MNDR and was recorded and mixed in WonderSound by Emmett Farley.

It’s true! WonderSound artist MNDR has officially signed to Ultra Records and will be releasing a single and full length album in the near future, dates TBA. Look out for shows in NYC, LA and Miami soon!

Psychobuildings have just announced their second CMJ showcase! They will be playing the Deli Magazine CMJ show on Tuesday the 18th of October at The Delancey in New York City. The show will be on the main floor of The Delancey with Psychobuildings on stage at 10:20 pm.

MNDR has been nominated for an MTV O Award in the “Best Web-Born Artist” category! The MTV O Awards are focused on music in the digital world, from “Best Music Hack” to “Best Artist With A Cameraphone”. You can vote 20 times a day here and don’t forget to tell your friends with Facebook and Twitter sharing!

MTV O Music Awards vote for MNDR!

The first of a few shows to be announced, Psychobuildings will be playing A Heart Is a Spade and 4Neverland’s CMJ 2011 Party. The show is at Fontana’s in Manhattan on October 20th, and starts at 7:30 pm. See you there!

• Making Frendz – 7:30
• Joywave – 8:20
• Psychobuildings – 9:10
• Ski Lodge – 10:00
• Cold Fronts – 10:50
• Dinowalrus – 1140
• Freshkills – 12:30

We recently found these amazing photos of Psychobuildings performing in JF & Son jumpsuits.

Psychobuildings are DJing at Lolita Bar this Saturday, August 20th. Come on out!

Lolita Bar
266 Broome Street
New York, NY 10002
11pm – ???
FREE!

UPDATE 8.12.11: The single is now certified at 3.2 million in sales worldwide!

MNDR’s hit with Mark Ronson and The Business Int’l just keeps going. “Bang Bang Bang” was featured on Now That’s What I Call Music! 77 in the United Kingdom which has now sold more than 1.2 million copies and been certified Platinum!

You can get one here at iTunes!

Psychobuildings will be playing their first show of the summer opening for Stone’s Throw’s James Pants at the Glasslands in Brooklyn. Be there August 16th, to be one of the first to experience new songs and dance moves.

Austra - Sparkle EP

Take a listen below:

http://soundcloud.com/dominorecordco/austra-spellwork-mndr/s-zF6Rj

Psychobuildings

Psychobuildings online press.

Blogs:
Psychobuildings at USA Today
Psychobuildings at No Conclusion Blog
Psychobuildings are 1 of 20 jazz funk greats
Psychobuildings at Transparent Blog
Psychobuildings at A Heart is a Spade Blog
Psychobuildings at PMA Blog
Psychobuildings at PopMatters
Psychobuildings at I Nearly Died Of Boredom
Psychobuildings at Baby Sue
Psychobuildings at Metromix
Psychobuildings at Tiny Mix Tapes
Psychobuildings at Daydream Station
Psychobuildings at The Deli

Fader:
Psychobuildings at the Fader
Psychobuildings Birds of Prey at the Fader
Psychobuildings Terror Management at the Fader

RCRD LBL:
Psychobuildings at RCRD LBL
Psychobuildings Paradise at RCRD LBL

Pitchfork:
Psychobuildings at Pitchfork
Psychobuildings No Man’s Land at Pitchfork

Stereogum:
Psychobuildings at Stereogum
Psychobuildings Terror Management at Stereogum

WonderSound’s own Peter Wade will be swapping out his position behind the board for an evening behind the decks with fellow DJ’s Small Change, Preservation, Duane Harriott and Alec D. The night will feature only 45RPM vinyl, no serrato and no CDs.

Come see how it used to be done.

The Emerson
561 Myrtle Ave, Brooklyn
Thursday June 23rd, 2011
9PM – 3AM
FREE

You can also download DJ Wade Reggae Mixtapes for free!

5 on 45 DJ the Emerson

Painted Face at WonderSound. Photos Zach Callahan.

After releasing two killer singles last year NYC’s Psychobuildings unveil their first 12″ record in EP format. Just shy of 20 minutes this slab of vinyl showcases the band’s already unbeatable dance numbers as well as some finely constructed psychedelic trance inducers heard previously only in their much buzzed about live set. Balancing New Romantic synth explorations with the beat boxing lyricism of Old School Hip-Hop Psychobuildings have come up sounding fresh in delivery and style. Front man Peter LaBier brings the guts back into pop with a feel for groove and and an ear for hooks. His spirited vocals recall legendary post-punk singers like Robert Smith and David Byrne while his frenetic dance moves would make the King of Pop smile. Produced by the band, mixed by hit making sound engineer Peter Wade and fleshed out by the synth wizardry of Peter Schuette and multi-instrumentalist Juan Pieczanski, the self-titled EP fires on all cylinders from start to finish.

Pre-order Psychobuildings EP, available in CD or 12″ vinyl. Street date is July 12th, 2011.

Psychobuildings

Psychobuildings

Psychobuildings press photos by Su-Ling Blois.

It was back in February, and based on this fan-made video invite, it was awesome.  Watch Ian Kenneth Tulud bust some of his best moves to the sounds of Psychobuildings’ “Terror Management” below.  And if you want to guarantee your next house party is just as awesome, make sure to get Psychobuildings debut EP available now.

Psychobuildings front-man Peter LaBier testing video effects with director David Yoonha Park for upcoming “Terror Management” video.

“Cut Me Out” is this summer’s soundtrack.  Currently airing all over Cinemax, check out their summer movie preview set to MNDR’s newest single. Inception never looked so good!

WonderSound is proud to announce it’s newest act, Psychobuildings. The NY band is currently in the studio working on their first full length with producer Peter Wade, and their debut self-titled EP drops this July via All Hands Electric. The six song EP delivers upbeat-yet-dark dance grooves just in time for summer.

Visit the Psychobuildings Official Website for updates from the band and other cultural anecdotes.

Follow Psychobuildings on twitter: @psychobldgs

More links:
Psychobuildings Facebook
Psychobuildings MySpace
Psychobuildings YouTube
Psychobuildings Last.FM

MNDR and WonderSound recently participated in the MINI Countryman Wanderlust series, a multi-regional event soliciting artists across the nation to create various one-of-a-kind adventures in non-traditional settings. On May 4th, local New York City guests were invited to drive upstate in their personal Mini Coopers to experience a unique audiovisual installation in the woods at sunset. WonderSound’s Peter Wade and Amanda Warner from MNDR, musician and video artist Greg Zifcak, and artists Rob Seward, Jamie Careirro, and 0thers contributed to the experience.

To read more about the event, click here.

Psychobuildings have been collaborating with sculptor and visual artist Ryan Johnson to expand the stage show. His latest addition to the performance is a set of colored russian doll style nesting columns, the largest of which is around eight feet tall.

Psychobuildings Stage Pillars

Psychobuildings Stage Pillars w/ Peter LaBier

MNDR has just remixed Rai Knight’s “New New” in Wade and Warner’s lo-fi “4-Track” remix style.  The remix was composed and recorded on 4 tracks of analog tape using Rai’s original vocal edited in ProTools.  Wade’s Yamaha RX5 drum machine provided the back beat and was layered with spring reverb and delay directly to tape.  Then synths were overdubbed (Voyager and SE-1) through UA  2-610′s and a vintage Omnipressor.

The remix was mixed at WonderSound by Emmett Farley.

Listen to the New New (MNDR Remix)

A track sheet from the session is here:

MNDR was featured last night on Last Call with Carson Daly.

Click below for both performances from the show, plus an interview with the artist:

VIDEO 1:  Interview intro and her Echoplex (LA) performance of “Cut Me Out”

VIDEO 2:  Second performance of “Fade To Black”

Tune in tomorrow night to watch MNDR perform 2 songs on Last Call With Carson Daly! The setlist includes “Fade To Black” and “Cut Me Out.”  The all new episode also features Mike Mills and Foster the People. The show starts Tuesday May 24 at 1:35AM EST on NBC.

Psychobuildings front-man Peter LaBier messing around with some dance steps.

We dig this video featuring MNDR at this season’s first AUDIOPHILE show at The Brooklyn Museum. The footage captures the energy and slick museum aesthetic of a memorable night. 2 more shows on the horizon for the series.

Click here to watch on vimeo

After the devastating earthquake in Japan, WonderSound friends The Freelance Whales asked us to participate in a benefit EP to help Japan rebuild. We remixed “Hannah” and here’s how we did it.

The remix was programmed primarily on a Roland Jupiter 6 analog synth tracked through a Universal Audio 2-610 and Distressor. I cut up the original drums from the session, re-amped them, and layered them with 12 bit drum samples from my Yamaha RX5 drum machine.  The concept was to build slowly, drop everything out and then experience a brain overload where we throw everything at it. With a stunning mix from studio engineer Emmett Farley, the remix of the popular single “Hannah” was born.

-Peter Wade

http://www.freelancewhales.com/

Freelance Whales has recently released a new, collaborative benefit EP. All net proceeds aid victims of the earthquakes in Japan. The album boasts 8 tracks including remixes by Ra Ra Riot and our own Peter Wade on track #1 “Hannah.”

Learn more and get one (or two) at:

http://www.freelancewhales.com/

MNDR has released a surprise new breakdown of pop track “Cut Me Out.”  Producer Peter Wade created this exclusive driving Dub version, specifically for Green Label Sound fans. It’s MNDR remixing MNDR and it’s free for download here!

Drums were sequenced on a Linn Drum and tracked right to analog 1/2″ tape with spring and delay printed live.  Wade and Warner then laid live bass guitar, synths and hand claps recorded with natural reverb from the front hall of Wade’s former studio “LaBronze Johnson”.  Two original heavily processed Jupiter-6 sounds were created to make up the synth bassline and pads.  Then the FX were overdubbed while Warner kicked and prodded the spring reverb tank and Wade dialed up delay throws.

Thanks to Oliver Dearan for this fun new remix cover of MNDR’s ‘Caligula.’  Oliver hails from Taunton, UK and puts up regular mixes of his favorite artists. Learn more about him here.

Fresh from the blogosphere, check out the Oos & Ahhs Dubstep remix of MNDR’s “I Go Away.” This is an unsolicited fan remix, and we love it! It’s an upbeat surprise and a very fresh spin on the track.

On Friday April 15, MNDR played to a packed house at the Brooklyn Museum, the first show for the season’s Audiophile Series. Poised in the spacious, modern glass entrance atop a freshly built stage with her trademark light projections, MNDR’s set included a stripped down “I Go Away,” new single “Cut Me Out,” and a first-time performance of “Broken Hearts.” The audience enjoyed a complimentary vodka hour and an opening set by New Villager, engulfed in the captivating setting of art in its many forms.

Click below for a live video of the new song “Broken Hearts” from the show (Brooklyn Vegan has titled it “Cry”):
MNDR – Broken Hearts – New Song – Brooklyn Museum – 4/15/11 by brooklynvegan

Scroll for photos from the event. More photos can be seen on these sites:
Prefix Magazine
Metromix
Brooklyn Vegan

(C) Vincent Cornelli

(C) Vincent Cornelli

(C) Vincent Cornelli

photo by Chris La Putt for Brooklyn Vegan

Click here to watch an exclusive performance from MNDR of “I Go Away” on Rolling Stone Live.

Click here to read a write up of MNDR on NikeWomen.com. They call out the song “Caligula” to help you break a sweat, declaring “the spacey track will get your blood pumping with its pulsating beats and textured sound effects.”

MNDR’s single “Cut Me Out” is in heavy rotation on 5FM, South Africa’s Top 40 radio station based in Johannesburg. The native music blogs have reported she’s “made her way to our shores.”

Spring is in the air and MNDR is performing scores of shows across the map this month. Check out the below schedule for the details.

Friday April 15: Brooklyn, NY
AUDIOPHILE Concert Series at the Brooklyn Museum, 7PM. Free show!

Friday April 22: Chicago, IL
‘Stic Of The Week’ Presents…MNDR (DJ Set) at Beauty Bar in Chicago, 10PM. $5.
Click here for the facebook event page.

Saturday April 23: St. Paul, MN
Macalester College Annual Springfest w/ The Dodos and Dan Deacon. 3-8PM. $5 or free with Mac ID.

Friday April 29: Camden Town, London
Camden Crawl Festival at Jazz Cafe, 9:25PM.
Click here for ticketing information.

Saturday April 30: Camden Town, London
Camden Crawl Festival at Dingalls, 12:30am.
Click here for ticketing information.

On Friday MNDR will perform at the Brooklyn Museum of Art with New Villager, kicking off the Spring Audiophile series in partnership with L Magazine. The performances celebrate “the most prolific and innovative emerging talent of Brooklyn’s thriving music scene.” To top if off, the three-part concert series is *FREE* with museum admission.

Friday, April 15, 7PM
Brooklyn Museum of Art
200 Eastern Pkwy., at Washington Ave, 1st Floor

Click here to check out Pitchfork’s coverage of Psychobuildings live at Santos Party House. The video features a brief interview with the band followed by a dizzying performance of “No Man’s Land.”

Stay tuned for more from the Brooklyn trio here at Wondersound.

MNDR’s track “Caligula” is featured in MTV’s newest episode of “The Hard Times of RJ Berger” (Season 2) | Ep. 3. In case you missed the premier April 4, check out the replays all week long on MTV and MTV2.

Click to check out this behind the scenes video that gets more in-depth on MNDR’s high tech music video for “Cut Me Out”.  Director Timothy Saccenti explains the some of the original concepts  and digital artist Ivan Safrin talks a bit about how they made use of a hacked Microsoft Kinnect to create the amazing visuals seen though out the music video.  Watch the behind the scenes video below:

MNDR first official music video takes you on a trip through the uncanny valley with deconstructed digital clones, high tech Kinnect hacking, and all other kinds of wonderful weirdness. Watch it below and download the song for free here.

When MNDR performed recently at Santos Party House, Pitchfork’s Tunnelvision crew was there to capture the show and find out a couple details about how the live show came together. Check out the video here.

Hervé takes MNDR’s “Cut Me Out” and gives it his signature remix treatment, cutting up the original and turning it into an epic dancefloor masterpiece! Get it for free here.

Haven’t heard the original? Get that here.

The MNDR 4-track remix of Foster the People’s “Pumped Up Kicks” was picked by the Washinton Post for their weekly playlist.  Haven’t heard it yet?  Download it from RCRDLBL here.

Brooklyn indie rock buzz band, Translations, stopped in at WonderSound and became the first full band to record live in the new space.  In a whirlwind session, Translations belted out their song “Push” through sticks and strings, amps and microphones, and onto 16-track analog tape.

WonderSound has a new home base in the heart of the East Village, NYC.

Welcome to the Neighborhood

For those of you who were unable to make it, pictures are now available of MNDR’s recent performance at Spin Magazine’s iPad app launch party. Check out the sweet party flicks here.

Tom Tom Magazine hosted an elegant affair at the Ace Hotel to celebrate the release of Issue 5. The night’s lineup included a DJ set MNDR, as well as performances by MAKE OUT, Val Inc., The Suzan,  and DJ Designer Imposter. Check it out here.

Spin Magazine put together it’s annual list of Next Big Things for 2011 featuring Lykke Li, James Blake, and of course, MNDR. If you want to beat your friends to the bandwagon read the full article online here, or check out the March Issue of Spin today!

MNDR’s latest single “Cut Me Out” is now available as a free download! Check out the single at Green Label Sound.

MNDR makes an appearance in Rolling Stone’s 50 Best Songs of 2010 with “Bang Bang Bang” by Mark Ronson and the Business Int’l. MNDR is featured on “Bang Bang Bang” alongside rap legend Q-Tip in what Rolling Stone described as a “synth-pop fire starter.” Check out the list here.

MNDR was in studio with John Schaefer at WNYC this past Friday, December 17th. As part of the Soundcheck program, she performed a few songs live in studio and talked about collaborating with Mark Ronson, the writing process, and her various successes of the past year.

Download, stream, and share here.

UK label, Trouble Records, will be releasing Fade To Black and I Go Away as a double single. It will be available in limited edition silk screened CD, vinyl 7-inch, and digital download on January 10, 2011 and pre-orders are currently filling up. Order yours here.

Shazam, the seemingly-magical iPhone app that can listen to music and tell you the artist, song, and album, also has powers to predict the future.  Based on the music Shazam users have been tagging, the company predicts what’s going to be big in the upcoming year.  Previous years have predicted current stars like Nicki Minaj and Lady Gaga and this year Shazam has picked MNDR as most likely to breakthrough in 2011.

Read the full article here.

You can now order your own copy of MNDR’s single “Caligula” on 12-inch vinyl from the Rough Trade online store! This is a super-limited (138) edition release from What The…? Records and is hand numbered.

MNDR’s Amanda Warner is making her music video debut in Mark Ronson’s first single “Bang Bang Bang”. The video was directed by Warren Fu and also features Q-Tip along with some intergalactic breakdancers and other party-goers.

MNDR was given Pitchforks’s “Best New Music” stamp in their review of “I Go Away” from her debut EP.

Brooklyn’s Amanda Warner makes dynamic electro-pop under the moniker MNDR, and she’s been building buzz with her project while also working with folks like Mark Ronson. “I Go Away”, a major highlight from the her debut EP, E.P.E., is filled with distinctive synths that melt all over a spare, echoing drum beat like a candy house left out in the hot sun. It’s a serious slow-dance pop confection, but Warner keeps a clear head lyrically. “I Go Away” initially sounds like a post-relationship-fallout slow burner, as she asks, “How did I get here/ Without feeling anything”. Soon, though, you realize that she isn’t calming down– she’s getting pumped up. “This is my anthem/ I know it like I know everything”, Warner softly declares, as if she’s getting ready to step out in front of the curtain, before letting out titular squeaks during a chorus that favorably evokes Santigold as the track builds to its cathartic peak.

Take a listen for yourself here.

VBS.tv (Vice magazine’s online video haven) just posted a great segment on Mark Ronson as part of their Creator’s Project series with Intel. In the clip Mark talks about his career as a DJ and producer and how his new single “Bang Bang Bang”, featuring MNDR and Q-Tip, came together. Watch out for some great live shots of MNDR at about 3:30. Mark Ronson Creator’s Project

Look out for MNDR playing alongside Mark Ronson at the Creator’s Project on June 25th/26th in NYC.

NME has selected MNDR’s “Fade to Black” for the latest installment of it’s Radar Mixtape series. NME’s Radar Mixtape Volume 3 is stocked with some great other “breakthrough” artists such as Funeral Party, Twin Sister, and MNDR stage-sharer, Class Actress. The mixtape is available as a free download, so get it while it’s hot!

“Bang Bang Bang (feat. MNDR and Q-Tip)” is the first single from Mark Ronson’s forthcoming album Record Collection. The song debuted May 25th on Zane Lowe’s BBC Radio 1 show. “Bang Bang Bang” written by Mark, Amanda, Peter Wade, Nick Hodgson, Homer Steinweiss, Alex Greenwald and Q-Tip features additional MNDR style synths provided by Wade and Warner. Record Collection is due out this fall, but you can hear the premiere of “Bang Bang Bang” here!

Music blog King of the Gigabitches wrote another great review of MNDR’s show at Bowery Ballroom last night. Not gonna paraphrase, just check it out:

How did I just find out about you last night? I can’t really say much about what was going on stage because I was too busy texting my friends in DC about you. I’d like you to teach a course to every other New York “dance” artist out there on how to work a stage. How to use Ableton to sequence your set to that each tracks flows to the next. How to use visuals. Basically, just how to “be.” Get them out. Get them out of music venues and get them into raves. Teach them how people fucking dance…

You did all of this with a 102-degree fever? Fuck. Just. Fuck. I am almost angry that I had never seen you before.

Read the whole review here.

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.

WonderSound latest riddim project “Tip Pon Toe” has leaked to the internet. Named after Rihanna’s scorching version (penned by Peter Wade and Angela Hunte (who also penned “New York” for Alicia Keys and Jay-Z)), the “Tip Pon Toe” riddim also features wicked versions from Spragga Benz, Shelene, Don Rey and Stamma Ramma and is now voicing additional artists.  Check it out here:

Available soon from WonderSound Records.

For those of you who didn’t get a chance to pick up your copy of MNDR’s E.P.E. release on recent tours with Yacht and These Are Powers, you can now download it from iTunes! It’s MNDR’s first official release and features four songs we’ve been listening too quite a bit lately here at WonderSound. Get your copy here!

MNDR has a new split 7-inch out with Angolan kuduro stars Os Mais Potentes. MNDR’s side features an exclusive extended mix of “Jump In” and Os Mais Potentes bring the kuduro hard with their “Yoyo”. It’s part of a series of split 7-inches The Fader and Southern Comfort have been releasing featuring a wide variety of artists from Wavves to Little Boots to M. Ward and Jim James. To get your copy, leave a comment (make sure to use your real email) on Fader’s website. They’ve only got a limited supply so get on that quick!

SESAC just featured MNDR in their Spring 2010 Magazine. Tracking Amanda’s growth from North Dakota to playing with the band Triangle in California’s Bay Area to her work with The Yeah Yeah Yeahs to striking out as front person for MNDR.

MNDR in SESAC's Spring 2010 Magazine

“I make music every day, even if it doesn’t lead anywhere,” she says. “Peter and I will start making sketches in the studio, and things will start to develop. The only rule is that I want to avoid the ‘I want to make a song that sounds like this’ trap. The lyrics come along as the song gets built – I’ll usually have a picture or a story in my head, and together we’ll just kind of let it take us where it will.”

Read the full article online here.

It was a congregation of abbreviations when NME stopped MNDR to talk about her music at SXSW.

I found out later on that she’s a professional ‘top-line’ writer for numerous mahoosive major label popstars. Combine that fact with a nifty sideline in serious minimal techno disc-spinning and all the pieces of her puzzle begin to fall ever-so-neatly into place. We got chatting afterwards. We covered the same conversational ground you’d expect with any lektro-pop hopeful. Y’know; Black Flag, world economics etc.

Watch video of MNDR live at SXSW and her interview with NME here.

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 was featured as the first SXSW report on the Chicago Reader. They loved Warner’s “hi-NRG techno-pop heat” and emotional resonance with mohawked teenagers.

I feel like the only place really suited for MNDR is a stadium, on a bill between Rihanna and Gwen Stefani. I feel like she’s the people’s Rihanna, up from jazz dork to glam dazzle. She whipped her glasses off accidentally and played it off as a dance move and everyone cheered.

Read the full article here.

Examiner.com’s picks for what to see at SXSW, including Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, Spoon, and MNDR. Here’s what they had to say about MNDR:

And don’t overlook MNDR just because of today’s daytime show. This one-woman act will break-out the beats no matter how high the sun. She’s opened for some of the biggest names in independent music, but in Austin she’s going her own way with dance tracks right on the edge of early techno and current synth-pop. MNDR plays tomorrow’s SESAC party, BrooklynVegan’s day party on Friday and the Grand Life/VICE party on Saturday. Don’t worry, work on the debut MNDR album is underway with producer Peter Wade.

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The Cedar Music Blog just posted a write up of MNDR’s show with Bobby Birdman and Yacht at Carlton College. They loved the show and said:

It definitely helps that Birdman and MNDR are both total hotties. MNDR sounds like the techno-y version of my fave musician, Mikhaela Yvonne Maricich, who performs as The Blow. Both put on one woman shows with undeniably catchy beats.

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Spinner.com got the spin on MNDR in an exclusive interview.

MNDR is the pseudonym of Amanda Warner, a jet-setting party gal who, along with band mate Peter Wade, creates club music that blows minds and wiggles behinds. Known for her high-energy live shows, MNDR is takin’ the indie electronic world by storm with lights, sound and more hooks than you can shake a stick at.

Read the interview here.

MNDR has announced showcases for South by Southwest. Coming fresh off tour with Yacht and 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″. With shows lined up over the week, 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 upcoming SXSW performances.

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’s Amanda Warner 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 the 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.

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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!:

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