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.”

Snowboard-inspired outdoors wear company, Isaora, has featured MNDR’s unreleased “I Go Away” as the musical backdrop in their launch video for their debut collection. Check out men’s and women’s fashions in the Isaora online store and of course, the video below:

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