nice highlight in the American Songwriter blog for the New York Songwriters Circle — AS featured the video for my song All The Same Mistakes & there’s a nice big pretty picture of me, woo.

you can read their full post here

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…there’s an obvious chemistry between the singer and the band. The EP’s “Colossal” melds Pauley’s powerful voice with the band’s musical color in a way reminiscent of Aimee Mann, but with serious soul and some arena-rock aspirations. Lovely gives way to a big-rock climax, and it’s nearly undeniable.

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She’s being brought back to the Phoenix by Brad Eakins, who promotes concerts through Where’s Weljo Productions. “We had a huge response for her,” Eakins says. “Her music speaks for itself. She’s just an amazingly powerful, soulful artist.”

we helped raise $$ for our fav station wers by playing their live music week. so much fun, we love these guys.

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“Mieka is kind of bluesy, kind of R&B,” said Cassagnol. “… [Citizen Cope] is so much funkier, and yet it totally works because Mieka has got that down. But then we can get on stage with Ben Kweller and we can bring out more of rock and garage sound, so it can work with Ben Kweller.”


great interview with the band in boston. you can get to know all of us better. the girls conducting the interview & taking pictures were so fun

http://www.teapartyboston.com/2009/08/the-mieka-canon/

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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.


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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.

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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.”