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Mieka calls her music “soulful alt-pop/indie-rock.” We just call it good shit. Think (a grittier) Sarah McLachlan meets (a well-adjusted) Bjork. Plus brilliant lyrics.


here’s another audio recording of a live show – this time, of me & the band at Rockwood last thursday. and wow, the band & I had such a good time – it was an amazing show. check out tracks 1, 2, & 7 in particular because those are the songs going on the new ep we’re working on.

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Mieka Pauley & Band Live at Rockwood Music Hall on April 23, 2009
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here’s an audio recording of a live solo show I just did last friday. hallelujah was captured pretty well … a lot of you have been asking for a recording of that … well, here you go. and for free to boot.

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Mieka Pauley Live at Rockwood Music Hall on April 10, 2009
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I’ve been obsessed with daytrotter for a while, and I finally got to stop by their studios in the quad cities while on tour last fall. the session got posted today – I am so happy with how the piece turned out – daytrotter puts the art back into the music scene. I recorded, acoustic & live-to-two-track, #1 a new-ish song “We’re All Gonna Die”; #2 a cover of my friend noam weinstein‘s “When I Get My”; #3 the first track from my last album (elijah drop your gun) “All The Same Mistakes”; and #4 the a capella “Marked Man”.

here’s an excerpt from their write-up:

Beauty In The Business Of Toughness

Words by Sean Moeller // Illustration by Johnnie Cluney // Sound engineering by Mike Gentry

…She brings words to her tongue that don’t feel to be of difficult conception, as if they are the particles that have just been swishing around her canals and veins for all of her eternity, which is the only eternity that matters much. They are the pieces of her that she’s never going to get rid of and it comes out as music that will make you feel minty and it will make you feel misty and just the right temperature – where the sun’s blazing down on you on an otherwise chilly day. She takes fate on a day-to-day basis and that could be the smartest thing anyone can do. You carve your own way or whittle your own coffin.

I recently did an interview for NBC LXTV (video), as part of the New York Songwriters Circle and that piece is now on Taxi TV in nyc. anyway, I played rockwood last night, and I had a good number of unrelated people come up and tell me they saw me on their cab ride. I had no idea it would be so pervasive, this is wild.

too bad I ride the subway.

the band & I did a new music video – it’s for All The Same Mistakes off Elijah Drop Your Gun. it was shot by the wonderful Eric Hurt with help from Johnny St Ours.

here it is, hope you enjoy:

Mieka Pauley – All The Same Mistakes – Music Video by miekapauley

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“I didn’t really understand what songwriting was; I was just trying to make songs that made my voice sound good.”
A surprising statement, coming from fast-rising singer/songwriter Mieka Pauley, who’s gone on to win the first-ever Starbucks Emerging Artist Award, take the top award at the New York Songwriter’s Competition, and be named Cosmopolitan’s “Fun Fearless Female Rock Star of the Year” in the publication’s StarLaunch competition – not to mention a plethora of plaudits for her self-released 2007 album, Elijah Drop Your Gun.