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

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.

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excerpt:
“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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excerpt:
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. 


Cosmopolitan Magazine and the New York Songwriters Circle are celebrating my contest wins with me & the band at our Canal Room show this friday night. Q104.3FM’s Jonathan Clarke is hosting the show, and Bess Rogers & co-StarLaunch-ee Alexa Wilkinson will also be there. this show is going to be amazing. I really hope you can make it out.

tune in to 104.3FM in nyc (or stream q1043.com) sunday night at 9pm – I did a live performance and interview with Jonathan Clarke for Out of the Box. what a fun guy. we talked about the New York Songwriters Circle and Cosmo, and I played All The Same Mistakes.

9PM Sunday night, 11/22/08
Q1043 Radio NYC
104.3 FM in the NYC area
streamed from q1043.com
Out of the Box

as promised, here’s a video of the performance that won me grand prize in the New York Songwriters Circle 2008 Songwriting Contest:

yay my song All The Same Mistakes won the grand prize in the New York Songwriters Circle 2008 songwriting contest. brian, andrew, and I played the semi-finals wednesday night, and then I played solo thursday night in the finals. I’m honored to be recognized by nysc and excited to be more involved with them. I got money, studio time, stage time, and radio time; I am psyched. hopefully they’ll post audio or video, and I’ll make sure to post that here.

update 11/20/08:
here’s the official press release

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.