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When news broke that the Flaming Lips were going to play eight separate shows in 24 hours in an attempt to eclipse a Guinness World Record set by Jay-Z, the collective response was something along the lines of, "Well, of course they are."

The Lips have done so much bonkers shit up to this point in their long career—from releasing a live album on a USB drive encased in a bubblegum-flavored gummy fetus to the release of a 24-hour long song available for sale on a hard drive stuffed inside an actual human skull—that few things they do can really be seen as surprising.

But when I received a press release announcing the world record attempt and the fact that the whole thing was going to be livestreamed, I knew that this ridiculous and gimmicky thing deserved, nay begged for, a ridiculous, gimmicky response: I was going to watch the whole thing, livetweeting the whole way, and keeping notes on my thoughts and what was sure to be my mental collapse around hour 18.

What follows is culled from those notes and my tweets, and timestamped (in PT) for your entertainment and edification. You can surely find videos from the eight Lips shows and everything in between to, I guess, play along at home. I wouldn't recommend it, though. Even though it involved a band I generally admire, it was one hell of a slog.

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Magnificently bespectacled electro-pop siren Amanda Warner, a/k/a MNDR, remains a bona fide SOTC obsession, combining tech-heavy Tigerbeat6 gearhounding with sharp hooks that make you think of Madonna and then make you feel ridiculous for thinking of Madonna until you conclude that thinking of Madonna is not actually so ridiculous. Great pop songs, is what we're saying here, and the trend continues with her new "Cut Me Out," available for stream/download/etc. right here and another triumph of digital churn and purring analog appeal. The track's embedded below; she'll bring her laptop-visuals-besotted live show to Terminal 5 on February 4 as the opening act for Chromeo, fellow adepts at the bridging the human/android divide by making the former dance like the latter, or vice versa.

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Free show alert: Popshop is "a new monthly pop club night that endeavors to bring the best new pop music the world has to offer to the streets of New York City every month," taking over the Lower East Side's Tammany Hall every first Thursday. Tomorrow night is its grand premiere, wisely featuring electro-pop SOTC fave MNDR, French Horn Rebellion, and (perhaps even more wisely) some drink-special action. It's free with an RSVP; get all that info here, and peep the somewhat confusing the flier below.

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Bad news for those who had their week in nightlife all planned out: Friday night's Noche de Los Muertos fete at Santos, to have featured Munchi, Maluca, DJ Comrade, DirtyFinger and Cobra Krames, has been canceled, (Not by any police action, though -- the MNDR show there will go as scheduled.) A particular bummer in the case of Munchi, the "moombahton maestro" (per our own Puja Patel, who's paid to know about these things) who was dropping in from his home in, uh, the Netherlands. Apparently they'll still looking for an alternate spot to do the show this weekend, so stay tuned; the MNDR-show flier is below, if you're looking for consolation. Which she'd be pretty great at providing, we reckon.

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MNDR, a/k/a Amanda Warner, a/k/a the thinking person's club-pop diva, has been a Voice obsession for awhile now; last seen stalking the stage with Q-Tip as part of Mark Ronson's improbably successful and coherent live electro-soul revue, her live shows are a tremendous audio-visual feast of the glamorous and the geeky, of mainstream-pop hedonism and Fader-subscriber semi-exotica. Do go see her if you get the chance. In the next few months you have a few.

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Ronson, MNDR, and Q-Tip (clockwise from top right) get down. Pics by Puja, more below

Mark Ronson & the Business Intl.
Webster Hall
Tuesday, October 12

Better Than: Mark Ronson's new hairdo.

Mark Ronson & the Business Intl. played their second homecoming show last night at Webster Hall. The cast of characters for both Ronson's new album and last night's show includes vocalists Alex Greenwald (of Phantom Planet) and Rose Elinor Dougall (of the Pipettes), Amanda Warner (a/k/a MNDR), rappers Q-Tip and Pill, and the surprising, warmly welcomed return of MC Spank Rock. It's an even weirder mix than his first full-length attempt, but if the new one's title, Record Collection, says anything, it's that his mash-up-DJ know-how has continued to translate into a smooth pop sensibility. Basically, if you can do a little bit of everything, and as long as it sounds cool, why not try?

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MNDR in action earlier this year.

MNDR/Class Actress
Bowery Ballroom
Wednesday, April 28

Your headliner tonight is actually spazzy Brit retro-soul whosit V.V. Brown, but I find the openers way more fascinating, two budding electro-pop stars carefully balancing the brusque and the bubbly, the icy and the cheesy. They play slightly chilly dance music but actually dance, is what I'm saying. Never underestimate the power of Actually Dancing.

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Mr. Palomo, elsewhere. CREDIT

Neon Indian/MNDR/Toro y Moi
Mercury Lounge
Tuesday, December 15

"Play that Pitchfork song, man!" hoots some dude in the crowd semi-derisively -- yeah, it's gonna be that kind of show. The gentleman is referring, one supposes, to the Top 100 Tracks of 100, and Neon Indian's double-dip therein, though honestly #74 ("Should Have Taken Acid With You") is way better than #13 ("Deadbeat Summer"), if only because it's fuckin' mid-December.

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