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Mieka also discussed her third trip to the SXSW music festival held in Austin, Texas every year. This was the first she year she decided to bring her band along, the crew made a three day there, three day back journey to the annual event.
“It was fun once I got over the guilt of cramping them in the car ’cause I couldn’t afford to buy them plane tickets, but we had a good time,” she said. 


omg rainn wilson is following me on twitter !!

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Rainn Wilson has also expressed interest in bluesy singer/songwriter Mieka Pauley. Wilson has chosen to follow Pauley on Twitter (an honor that he has only given 60 other people).

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About 20 of the 1,800 bands who played the SXSW Music and Media Conference 
this past weekend were from [Boston]. As they made their way back home from 
Austin, Texas, some of them wrote in to let us know about their trips …

Pauley writes, “We felt right at home cranking our distortion and ambient noise pedals. We 
took no prisoners in our attempt to melt the faces of each audience member, 
individually.”


A lot of interesting things have happened to us in the past year or so. We won a few contests, made some money, got hooked up with a great producer, and wrote some great songs. A certain clarity has developed with regard to our identity, as a band. A creative force, resulting from 4 (and sometimes 5) distinct personalities has somehow managed to transcend any one of its singular creative voices, culminating in what has become… Mieka Pauley. Which brings us to the week of South by Southwest, 2009… a chance to find out what happens when (putting lame band bios aside) you throw a handful of seriously neurotic music nerds into a soccer-mom-van and send them across the country to play shows.

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last night at the Ultimate Gossip Girl Summit 4 was so much fun – the host, comedian sara benincasa, invited me to perform an original song about gossip girl’s chuck bass. (in the audience was Chuck 2.0 from season 2, episode 12 – that’s a picture of us on the right). one of the gossip girl panelists, comedian baratunde thurston, & I wrote some lyrics over a loose version of a d’angelo song, and here’s the result:


Shit, Damn, Motherchucker – Mieka Pauley Sings To Chuck Bass by miekapauley