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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.

MNDR makes Sheena Beaston BE[a]STS to Watch in 2010

WonderSound — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 06:44:54 +0000

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.

MNDR at Mercury Lounge Dec 16th

WonderSound — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 18:32:07 +0000

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.

MNDR at Mercury Lounge Dec 15th

WonderSound — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 18:29:25 +0000

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.

Village Voice on MNDR at Mercury

WonderSound — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 18:28:46 +0000

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.”

New York Times picks up on MNDR

WonderSound Crew — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:17:36 +0000

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.”