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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.


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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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. 


amazon mp3 and cosmopolitan magazine’s starlaunch have teamed up to promote my cd Elijah Drop Your Gun – and you can download the entire album for free from now until March 10th. get your copy, leave a review & spread the word – I’m all for giving shit away. take THAT all you suits in the music biz.

Elijah Drop Your Gun :: free @ amazonmp3.com

for the holidays, soundwave merch and I are offering a deal on the perfect gift for all your family and friends and strangers and enemies – $25 gets you a mieka pauley t-shirt and an autographed copy of my cd Elijah Drop Your Gun. as I’m writing this message, soundwave has informed me that a link to this bundle will be available within the next couple hours HERE.

just found out my song “all the same mistakes” made it to the finals of the new york songwriters circle songwriting contest – top 12 out of thousands of entries. woo

the finals will take place live at the bitter end in nyc on nov 5 & 6 – you’ll get to hear a stripped down acoustic version of that song.