New-favorite-band alert!! Except, okay … it’s not a full multiperson band, it’s a supersonic one-lady band, and her name is MNDR.
So dope
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.
I grabbed her for a hot second to answer some very, very important questions about style and the future.
NAME: AMaNDa(R)
AGE: Carbon
OCCUPATION: Musician/MIDI mapper
WHEREABOUTS: Bushwick (via Oakland, via Fargo)
WHERE’D YOU GET THEM GLASSES, GURL? Phoenix Optical in Oakland, California. The owner is a 40-year couture-eyewear designer. I became his buddy; he has 20,000 pairs of dead-stock and one-off eyewear.
WHAT DO YOU WEAR WHEN YOU’RE FEELIN’ LUCKY? REM Fables of the Reconstruction tour T-shirt and some hot pants.
IF YOU HAD 5 GRAND THAT YOU HAD TO SPEND ON CLOTHES ’N’ STUFF, WHAT WOULD YA GET? Another pair of glasses, because I know I will lose/break mine soon. Also, I would like to buy anything from an over-the-top jewelry store run by an old lady who has “cuckoo” ideas about jewelry.
WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE STORE? See above. And Taqueria San Jose (East Oakland, California).
FAVORITE DESIGNER? Ellen Allien (owner of Bpitch Control/musician/DJ/producer).
WHAT ARE YOU LUSTING AFTER RIGHT NOW? Carbon-filament lightbulbs and glass-plate photography; anything Doepfer.
WHO’S GOT RAD STYLE? These Are Powers, Yoko Ono, Jane Fonda, political beliefs of Frank Zappa, and Wilma Mankiller.
WHAT’S THE VIBE FOR THE TWENTY-DIME? Feelings and minimalism.
MNDR is on tour right now and will be back in New York March 11 with YACHT. Not to be missed!
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