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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.

Read the whole article here.

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.

Read the full article here.

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.

 
 
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