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.
Influential blogger Sheena Beaston has put #4 on the top “Beasts” to watch in 2010.
I’m digging on a number of the NYC new kids on the block, if you will. If recalled correctly, together, they make up one of the largest chunks of beastly words. They are: Theophilus London, MNDR, Sleigh Bells and Zambri. Each are recording, some with full debut albums due out in 2010. Color us stoked.
–Sheena Beaston
Check Sheena Beaston’s complete list of BE[a]STS to Watch in 2010.
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.
In case you didn’t make it to any of MNDR’s sold out shows last week with Neon Indian, there’s been a bit of press out there to remind you what you missed. Latest is a review of the show in the Village Voice:
One-woman Brooklyn-by-way-of-Oakland band MNDR is way, way more enjoyable — I am profoundly suspicious of anyone who self-identifies as “ghettotech,” but she’s brassy and volatile and cheeseball-anthemic in a not-unlike-Lady-Gaga sort of way. “OK, seriously, you can move to this music!” she thunders at a packed house too mesmerized by her light show to move. “This is techno!” Nonplussed, she soon moves on to the next track: “This is about being in love in China. And post-Bush globalization. This is not a joke. Everything I do is dead serious.”
MNDR just played two great shows with Neon Indian at the Mercury Lounge in New York. Check out the New York Times review of the Wednesday night show which described MNDR as
“the one-person dance machine Amanda Warner, who unlike the other acts on the bill, had no interest in obscuring anything. Her music was blunt and ecstatic, an antidote to boys in hiding.”
“I don’t want to make a record,” says Amanda Warner, a.k.a. the latest, hottest, most effervescent minimal-techno electro-pop project to hit Brooklyn. “I want every song to be a number one. I want it to be huge and the best thing I can make.” Warner came to Bushwick last winter by way of Oakland, California–but it was in her hometown of Fargo, North Dakota, that she learned to multitrack at the age of nine. “I’m a mega, mega gear nerd,” she admits. MNDR will release her debut album, a collection of singles produced by Peter Wade, in spring 2010. More info at mndrmndr.com — Lucy Madison
Stamma Ramma’s wicked cut “Hood In,” on the dub-step inspired dancehall riddim Gravy Rice, is starting to collect spins!
We just found this KEXP playlist, and the Reggae Got Soul riddim is also featured on this show. Big Up to Sharmaji of the Sub Swara crew for the link up!
The Reggae Got Soul Riddim is catching spins all over!
Here are a couple of international broadcasts:
It’s large in France – Prince Thierry hot on Reggae Got Soul…
Prince Thierry plays Reggae Got Soul Riddim
Check out big tunes from Highah Seekah, Stamma Ramma, Sugar Minott, and King Django rinsed out by John Public on Dublin City Radio.
