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The Mieka Canon’s lyrical folk sound is reminiscent of Tori Amos with an edgier backing band, or perhaps a female version of Jeff Buckley. The band’s unique blend of powerful, poetic lyrics accompanied by melodic, rock-influenced guitars mesmerized the crowd in the smallish venue, leading many a hungover partygoer to groove along before it even hit mid-afternoon.

she gave us five stars as well !!

Jeff Buckley’s mother came to one of our shows in Austin a few days ago … Brian & I on a whim decided to sing “Hallelujah” to her … Dave (our drummer) whipped out his iPhone when he realized the significance of the moment and recorded us — apologies for the missing half of the 1st verse, but we hadn’t intended to tape it AT ALL (thank you dave) … you also miss me telling the audience “I’m scared shitless to perform this” but perhaps that would take away from the ambience.

after our set, she told Brian she didn’t want the show to end, and our egos are now set forever … she also told me to “keep him alive” … we’re sure as hell trying our best, Mary.

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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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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. 


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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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