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  Watch MNDR Outrun Reality in Mind-Bending, Art-Blending 'Faster Horses' Video

  April 24, 2013 – MNDR's excellent dance-pop album Feed Me Diamonds is more than eight months old, but its latest video makes it look like all that time was spent coming up with audacious visual ideas.The Stereogum-posted clip for euphoric floor-thumper "Faster Horses," directed by former hacker and Dead Prez: Bigger Than Hip-Hop documentarian John Threat, has enough going on for an album's worth of videos. …
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  Watch MNDR and Tokimonsta Hijack a Man's Dreams in 'Go With It' Video

  March 25, 2013 – MNDR's Amanda Warner is on a roll. After writing about middle class concerns for SPIN and releasing "a really ill techno record," the New York-based artist has cultivated an impressively diverse profile: paying homage to Serbian performance artists, performing "Feed Me Diamonds" on Letterman, remixing Metric, and collaborating with members of Duran Duran. …
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  MNDR Team With Duran Duran's Nick Rhodes for TV Mania Remix

  March 1, 2013 – The idea behind Duran Duran keyboardist Nick Rhodes and the band's former guitarist Warren Cuccurullo's side project TV Mania was so prescient, it's a little eerie: in the '90s, the two began work on what they imagined to be the soundtrack to a television show about a family who traded their freedom for reality-TV fame. …
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  Metric's 'Breathing Underwater' Soars in MNDR's Dance-Pop Remix

  February 14, 2013 – Metric's Synthetica standout "Breathing Underwater" has enough stadium-rock anthem in its genetic makeup that our reviewer Josh Modell called it "the ass-kicking younger sister of 'With or Without You.'" MNDR, the duo of Amanda Warner and Peter Wade, are steeped in the history of electronic dance music, as last year's Feed Me Diamonds exhilaratingly illustrates. …
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  MNDR Commands 'Feed Me Diamonds' on 'Letterman'

  December 18, 2012 – MNDR's Feed Me Diamonds is "a really ill techno record," as reviewer Julianne Escobedo Shepherd wrote, and while that's true, what stands out about the title track's performance last night on Late Show With David Letterman is just how non-technological it can be. Nothing for the seapunks to get their mermaid tails in a twist about here. …
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  MNDR's 'Feed Me Diamonds' Pays Homage in Drag to Marina Abramovíc

  December 12, 2012 – Sometimes SPIN fashion correspondent and occasional political essayist MNDR released a great record this year — "a really ill techno record," to be precise — and its titular track is at last getting the video treatment it deserves. "Feed Me Diamonds" is everything that Rihanna's "Diamonds" is not: a smart melding of pop and electronic production, empathy-inducing in its somber balladry, sung well, about death. …
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  MNDR on the Middle Class and Civil Liberties

  October 22, 2012 – At this point we have seen and felt the failure of "trickle down" economics. The gap between the "haves and have-nots" becomes greater and greater each and every day. I believe the answer is to relieve the strain and burden on the declining middle class in order to revive growth, small business, and entrepreneurship. …
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  Beat Down: AraabMuzik, Chromeo, and MNDR Spin a CMJ Frenzy

  October 19, 2012 –  …
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• MNDR, 'Feed Me Diamonds' (Ultra)

  September 19, 2012 – Pop's gone totally EDM, as we all know — stars from Nicki to Rihanna have been flocking to beatmakers like Calvin Harris in hopes of crafting that perfect rave, occasionally even with success. But we're not hearing too much pop that's rooted in a deep knowledge of electronic-music history: sugar-sweet anthems with a motherboard concealed inside. …
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  Behind the Runway: MNDR Chats Up Adrien Brody Backstage At Diesel Black Gold

  September 12, 2012 – Earlier this week, SPIN Fashion Week correspondents Julianne Escobedo Shepherd and Amanda "MNDR" Warner headed downtown to the Diesel Black Gold party, where the latter caught up with actor Adrien Brody backstage and quizzed him about music and fashion. Check out a snippet of their conversation as well as footage from the duo's trip to see Perry Ellis by Duckie Brown unfurl along the runway. …
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