Liz and Sean of Xeno and Oaklander are the most successful live sequencing, analog synthesis band I have ever seen.  They are able to seemlessly develop ideas and construct songs using nothing but analog synthesizers and sequencers.  Beyond the gear, their music is amazing.

…awesome story after the show……

“Took a rope and made a handle and tied to the back of a car and skate boarded behind a car over the Richmond bridge..drunk at 3am going 35MPH” -Luke

These Are Powers Candyman 12′ ep is out now on RVNG Int’l. My favorite track is World Class People and also the Teengirl Fantasy World Class People remix.  MNDR had the major honor of playing the ep release along side a face melting set by Blondes at CoCo66 (best bar live music venue in all of NYC).  The show was absolutely amazing.  There was a crazy fireworks type lighting event that occurred throughout the entire show along with an audience made of pure electricity.

Here is the ep.  It is available via RVNG Int’l website.  This is an essential 2010 spin for any music lover/dj.

Also here are some live pics from Village Voice Blog. Photos by Rebecca Smeyne

Also check out the video for Candyman!

THESE ARE POWERS “CANDYMAN” from KNOWMORE on Vimeo.

This tour is full of snowdrifts and snow bunnies.

Minneapolis show was at club Medu$a with DJs Solid Gold, Soviet Panda, Elite Gymnastics was absolutely next level.  Medu$a is an amazing DIY space tucked away in a secret location at the West Bank with nothing but a bonfire to keep you all warm in the midst of a blizzard.  150 kids showed up to connect emotionally.  It was one word..magnetic

The Cave at Carleton College in Northfield, MN is the hometown of Malt O Meal and academia.  This was the first night of the Yacht/Bobby Birdman/MNDR tour.  The show was so heated that we blew the amps and speakers.  sweat (perspiration)

Saturday night at The Empty Bottle means eating at Bite, whiskey, and tons of absolutely amazing Chicago people.  I love Chicago…I love your musicians….I love your clubs…I love what you got.

- 1/30/2010 More Condos Less Artists w/Ex-Models and TBA in Tribeca, NYC

- 2/9/2010 Brooklyn Bowl Fader Party w/RESTLESS PEOPLE

-2/13/2010 College w/YACHT>>HAMILTON, NY

-2/16/2010 Brooklyn Bowl w/WAVVES

-2/20/2010 CoCo 66  w/These Are Powers  Ep Release Party w/BLONDES Greenpoint, NYC

2/21/2010 Glasslands Williamsburgh Fashion Week >>Brooklyn

-2/25/2010 @ Medusa w/DJ Soviet Panda >>MINNEAPOLIS, MN

-2/26/2010 The Cave w/YACHT/BOBBY BIRDMAN>>Carleton College, MN

-2/27/2010 Empty bottle w/YACHT/BOBBY BIRDMAN>>Chicago, IL

-2/28/2010 The Horn Gallery w/YACHT/BOBBY BIRDMAN>>Kenyon College Gambier, OH

-3/2/2010 The Pike Room at Crofoot Ballroom w/YACHT/BOBBY BIRDMAN>>Pontiac, MI

-3/3/2010 The Casbah w/YACHT/BOBBY BIRDMAN>>Hamilton, ON

-3/4/2010 Wrongbar w/YACHT/BOBBY BIRDMAN>>Toronto, ON

-3/5/2010 Ritual w/YACHT/BOBBY BIRDMAN>>Ottawa, ON

-3/6/2010 Le Belmont w/YACHT/BOBBY BIRDMAN>>Montreal, QC

-3/7/2010 Big Orbit Soundlab w/YACHT/BOBBY BIRDMAN>>Buffalo, NY

-3/11/2010 Bowery Ballroom w/YACHT/BOBBY BIRDMAN>>NYC

-3/12/2010 Jesus Camp w/These Are Power/Lemonade>>Baltimore, MD

-3/13/2010 The Triple w/These Are Power/Lemonade>>Richmond, VA

-3/14/2010 The Pinhook w/These Are Power/Lemonade>>Durham, NC

-3/15/2010 529 w/These Are Power/Lemonade>>Atlanta, GA

-3/16/2010 The Den w/These Are Power/Lemonade>>New Orleans, LA

-SXSW TBA!!!!!!

Billy (WAVVES)

I am going to the rehearsal.  I hope.

WE ARE PLASTIC ONO BAND on February 16 sold out immediately! Due to popular demand, a special dress rehearsal show featuring Yoko Ono and her core band (Sean Lennon, Yuka Honda, and Cornelius) has been added. They have never done anything like this before and probably never will again. This will certainly be a once-in-a-lifetime experience, and while no special guest artists are slated to rehearse, you never know…

BAM Howard Gilman Opera House

Recently I felt really stuck with how was I writing music.  I felt like my beats were sort of reflective and dull.  I was talking with my friend Jaqueline from 0th and we were reminiscing about old times in SF.  A couple of times I hung in her art studio while she was quilting vinyl and we would bond over Cluster…..specifically the Zuckerzeit album.  I searched my mp3’s and found the record and listened to it four times until I fell asleep.  It blew up my brain.  I have listened to it 5000 times and I felt like I was listening to it for the first time.

Cluster (Hans Joachim-Roedelius/Deiter Mobieus/Conny Plank) are a seminal krautrock/electronic pop/ambient group from 1970s’ Germany.  They were also in a band with Brian Eno called Harmonia, a ground breaking ambient group. Clusters’ 1974 album Zuckerzeit seems to be timeless.  It is impossible to tell if this record was made 35 years ago or 5 minutes in the future.  Julianne Cope of Tear Drop Explodes (and Krautrock expert/author) hails that Zuckerzeit is one of the best Krautrock records ever recorded.

Zuckerzeit is a collaboration between Cluster and Michael Rother of Neu!.  Rother’s influence on this record is apparent when listening to its Motorik, repetitive and rhythmic, influence.  The Collaboration between Cluster and Rother perfectly highlights Clusters’ melodic sensibility/synth design with Rother’s rhythmic perfection.  It is so fucking good.  This record influenced all that is electronic music.

A couple of years ago Cluster toured the US.  I saw them in SF at Great American Music Hall and it was probably one of the best decisions I have made.

basically just listen to this record…and I love Krautrock…