Amanda Blank and MNDR along with Pacific theater are playing a benefit for Keep-A-Breast on Monday April 26th. Here’s some information about Keep-A-Breast and the show.

“100% of profits from this event will go to the Keep A Breast Foundation, a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization. Our mission is to help eradicate breast cancer by exposing young people to methods of prevention, early detection and support. Through art events, educational programs and fundraising efforts, we seek to increase breast cancer awareness among young people so they are better equipped to make choices and develop habits that will benefit their long-term health and well-being.”

Here are the details for this party!

Amanda Blank/MNDR/Pacific Theater @ The Bell House (149 7th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11215).  If you say I HEART BOOBIES, you get 5 dollars off of the cover. whoot!

Show starts @7:30pm

door: $15 (Click here to purchase tickets in advance)

Come out and show your support!

The Os Mais Potentes (kuduro group from Angola)/MNDR 7 inch split with artwork by Keren Richter is available now through FADER!!  This 7 inch series is a split release curated by FADER.  This is the first vinyl and 7 inch for MNDR…so to say the least I am taking a bath in rainbows right now!

There are only a limited amount available so click this link FADER 7 inch and follow the directions to receive your 7 inch.  Also MNDR made a special FADER extended mix of Jump In for this release with special breakdown and other secrets.  This will be the only release of this version of Jump In.  So seductive.

…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!!!!!!

I was thinking of records that really changed my perception of experimental pop music.  I was trying to recall records that effortlessly staddled both genres.  Then I remembered this cassette tape that my Triangle band mate (Brian Tester) left in my vehicle.  I would lose it in the vortex of the unknown in the subaru and then I would find it and leave it in my cassette player for monthes.  This record is OMD’s Dazzle Ships.  OMD’s Dazzle Ships (1982) is a concept record that includes pop perfection along with music concrete influenced sound scapes.  This complete work is a comment on The Cold War and Eastern Bloc politics.

Then after giving this record to Peter in the studio, he actually knew what a Dazzle Ship meant.  Dazzle painting, developed by marine painter Norman Wilkinson, was a style of geometric shaped camouflage painted on war ships in WWI and WWII.  This style of camouflage was not meant to hide the ships, but to disorientate the enemies perception of the ships direction and speed.

Also, I just discovered there were two different covers for this record.  Also, OMD is not just a prom dance.

“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

Miss. Beaston let us chrome plate our lifestyles.

Here’s the link.

So I am psyched on this.  Interview, VillageVoice Online, NY Times, FADER….checks it out in the print and online.

INTERVIEW MAGAZINE

FADER MAGAZINE ANIMAL COLLECTIVE ISSUE.  MNDR GF SECTION:

VILLAGE VOICE ONLINE:

NY TIMES: