My friend Danika has a new store up and an amazing amount of press and features on her next level jewelry.  She made MNDR some brain frying pieces to wear on stage and about town.  Many people have asked where they could find more of her stuff and well….the internet.  Check out her stuff click here. Use the word SECRETSOCIETY to receive 10% discount.

So Peter Wade has been suggesting to use a Shepards Tone somewhere in our music since our first day writing music together.  A Shepard tone, named after Roger Shepard, is a sound consisting of a superposition of sine waves separated by octaves. When played with the base pitch of the tone moving upwards or downwards, it is referred to as the Shepard scale. This creates the auditory illusion of a tone that continually ascends or descends in pitch, yet which ultimately seems to get no higher or lower.^[1]

The U.B.C.L. (C.L.U.B.) hook on that record has always sort of dissatisfied us since we first made it.  It seemed like we didn’t try hard enough to come up with a distinctive vocal treatment.  So recently, Peter Wade put into place a Shepard’s Tone patch and inserted the vocals to create an ever ascending and descending effect to the vocals.  Very helium mushrooms.  It took a lot of concentration and focus to create this patch, but I think we got something very new for vocal treatment.

Here is what it looks like as a patch in ProTools.  So those of you who have the original version of C.L.U.B., get ready to hear an updated version.

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!

This tour was really amazing and what I like to call “family style” and formally named TEEN YOGA TOUR! Lemonade are old friends of mine from SF and These Are Powers are ancient bros from tour past.  Lemonade and These Are Powers traded off headlining with MNDR as the opener.  We played all ages shows for the most part along with one drunk show.

Lemonade really killed it every night with their distinct brand of Soca/Tropical dance music.  These Are Powers obviously killed it ever night with their Timbaland inspired beats/Throbbing Gristle dissonance and absolute raw high energy live show.  Certainly one of the best live bands touring.

Again, These Are Powers jumped in into their gang by letting me ride in their tour van.  We plugged in our laptops, made beats through the car stereo, and saw a lot more of Alabama than expected.  Solidarity forever!  Best shows were at Jesus Camp in Baltimore (obviously) and 529 in Atlanta.

This is the only picture I can post to paint the picture of this tour.

So I am back from a 5 week stint on the road.

First half of the tour was with the outstanding and uncompromising music of Yacht. The brainchild of two “get free” thinkers. Along side their awesomeness was Bobby Birdman(guitar/bass/background vox) and Jeffrey Jerusalem (drums). The bill was amazing with Bobby Birdman opening every show. These amazing folks took me into their van and into their arms and awesome lifestyle choices.
I think our collective best show was in Toronto at Wrongbar. The show was sold out and the crowd was ready for everything. People were wasted and happy. I got to DJ before Yacht and also ate some really killer sushi.  My second favorite show was at Bowery Ballroom…well actually Chicago was killer.  All of the shows were amazing.

Yacht is on tour now with LCD Soundsystem throughout Europe!  Go and see them.  Also I grabbed these photos from the Brooklyn Vegan write up of the Bowery show.  All photos taken by Zach Stern .

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.

- 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!!!!!!

Have a new song I am very excited about.  Peter and I began the song in an awesome manner.  We both just stopped talking and started to make beats.  They were both in the right vein.  So we took my beats and ran it through this ipod speaker thing.

The Mighty Hammer of Thor!!!