Paper Goddess: MNDR Talks Filling in for Duran Duran’s Nick Rhodes

Electropop artist MNDR, aka Amanda Warner, is lounging backstage at San Francisco’s Outside Lands festival, dressed in her casual-Friday post-show uniform of cargo pants and bomber jacket; her glittery smudges of neon teal eye shadow are the only glamorous evidence of the fact that, mere moments ago, she was on the main stage with Duran Duran, standing stoically behind the synth banks while channeling her inner “Planet Earth”-era Nick Rhodes in an impeccable white ruffled suit. Since Rhodes temporarily left Duran’s summer tour to attend to an “urgent family matter” in the U.K. ...