http://yourstru.ly/2010/01/25/dear-holly/

Friends!

You can now hear "Waves" from my forthcoming LP The Magician's Private Library out February 23rd on XL : : LISTEN HERE

Also, I'm excited to announce that I'm performing a solo acoustic show for the Happy Ending Music & Reading Series at Joe's Pub on February 10th with authors Joshua Ferris, Ron Carlson & Padgett Powell. Purchase tickets here


If you can't make it to Joe's Pub, come see me and the band perform at our Other Music in-store on February 15th @ 8pm. FREE!!

 xo, holly


 

Hello,

I'm writing to you from a warm room on a chilly Brooklyn morning. Since the end of September Timmy and I have been out on the road. We kicked it off with The Antlers in Chicago, headed across the Midwest and up to Toronto, Buffalo (Niagara Falls!!) then down to DC, Philly, Dartmouth College (which IS an Ivy League school, dammit!) and finally back home with a show at Maxwell's. You can hear a song from that set where The Antlers joined us onstage for a Pink Floyd cover. It was hard to leave The Antlers, we really fell head over heels for them.
More to come from Holly/The Antlers collaboration, don't you worry...

A few days later, Timmy and I hopped a plane across the pond to London and played one night opening for the lovely Wild Beasts and Blue Roses (both really great bands!); took a train to Paris to meet up with The xx and the big orange tour bus. From there we drove to Amsterdam (with a couple stow-aways, no seriously) and had quite the Epica experience.

From there we played at a beautiful venue in Brussels (watch a video of us playing "No One Just Is"), after that we played a few shows in Germany, we had a minor set back in Munich when the bus broke down  in the center of town on a very narrow turn (sorry drivers of Munich).
Alas, Rich the mighty tour manager and Terry the "extraordinary at everything" man, saved the day with an 11 hour train journey to Bologna (by way of  fair Verona... where we all stopped and quoted a little Shakespeare).

The last few days are a bit of a sleepless daze, there was a show in Milan and a 4am flight back to London with The XX kids, who are absolute gems! We had such a blast with all of them..

Timmy and I played one more show (our first headlining) in London, before getting on a flight back to New York to play two shows as part of the College Music Journal Festival (aka CMJ... click here to see a video of "Mark My Words" at Le Poisson Rouge.

Lastly, a few days after the CMJ madness died down Timmy and I had the great honor of playing a show at Bowery Ballroom with our dear, dear friends Nada Surf backing us! Holy Crow! There are some good pictures here.

Its been a busy but interesting Fall so far, now we have two weeks to catch our breath before heading down to Austin and then out to the West Coast for a string of dates with The XX and The Friendly Fires!! We will be traveling from San Diego all the way to Vancouver, but I have a feeling the dates are going to go quickly, so get your tickets now!!

After that I'm checking out until February (when the record comes out... yessss!)... That was a lengthy, but much needed update...

I hope this finds you all well, and welcome to all the new additions.

Thank yous for the support!

xoxox
Holly

XL Recordings is excited to announce the signing of HOLLY MIRANDA. Holly is a New York based musician and her debut album will be released in early 2010. It will be preceded by a 7"/digital single in November with a song called "Forest Green Oh Forest Green" and a cover of Yoko Ono's "Nobody Sees Me Like You Do".

Holly has been singing for as long as she can remember. She first began playing in New York at age 16, when she dropped out of high school in Michigan, told her mom she was going to visit her sister in New York for a few weeks, and never turned back. She soon discovered the world of the East Village and started playing at places like The Sidewalk and meeting kindred spirits in the New York scene. Whether solo or with her band, she's become an artist consistently able to mesmerize with her range as well as her songs.

Holly starts a tour with Antlers tonight in Chicago, and will be in Europe in October for shows with Wild Beasts and The xx. She will be back in NYC for a CMJ show on October 23rd.
9/21 Chicago, IL Subterranean %
9/22 Detroit, MI Majestic Café %
9/24 Toronto, ON Horseshoe Tavern %
9/25 Buffalo, NY 9th Word %
9/28 Providence, RI Jerkys %
9/30 Washington, DC DC9 %
10/3 Hoboken, NJ Maxwell's %
10/8 London, UK The Garage $
10/9 Paris, FR Point Ephemere @
10/10 Amsterdam, NL Paradiso @
10/11 Brussels, BE Botanique/Rotonde @
10/13 Berlin, DE Lido @
10/14 Hamburg, DE Uebel & Gefarlich-Turmzimmer @
10/15 Cologne, DE Luxor @
10/16 Munich, DE 59-1 @
10/17 Bologne, IT Covo Club @
10/18 Milan, IT La Casa 139 @
10/20 London, UK The Social #
10/23 New York, NY Le Poisson Rouge (CMJ, with Glasser, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson)

% - with Antlers
$ - with Wild Beasts
@ - with The xx
# - headlining
 
 “Holly Miranda’s falsetto makes the walls collapse.” —Vanity Fair
“...a less fearful Cat Power, a more substantive Feist, a Norah Jones with actual feeling.” —New York Times
“Whether she’s performing a cappella or surrounded by a full, warm fuzz of music—as on her Dave Sitek–produced forthcoming debut—Miranda is a rare talent.” - Time Out NY

More Holly:
http://www.themagiciansprivatelibrary.com/
http://www.youtube.com/user/hollymirandavlog
http://www.hollymiranda.com/
Watch Vincent Moon Takeaway show: http://www.vimeo.com/4824908

Last Minute Reminder About The Show Tomorrow Night!!

I am so excited for this show tomorrow night at 92y that I want to make sure you know what time and how to get there.. and did I mention that Joan As Police Woman is also performing??
(http://www.myspace.com/joanaspolicewoman)
duh!

come on!
xx
holly

Saturday, July 25th @ 92y Tribeca
200 Hudson St @ Canal St.
Doors @ 8pm

get tickets here:
http://www.92y.org/shop/event_detail.asp?category=92Tri+92YTribeca+Music888&productid=T-MM5PJ30&adsource=hpcollage_92TriJoanAsPolice&xad=hpcollage_92TriJoanAsPolice

   
By Subway:

92YTribeca is located at 200 Hudson Street at the intersection of Canal and Hudson Streets.

Train A/C/E: Exit at Canal Street (front of trains headed uptown/back of trains headed downtown). Walk west on Canal to Hudson. Make a left on Hudson. 92YTribeca will be a block down on your left.

1: Exit at Canal Street. Walk (2 blocks) west on Canal to Hudson. Make a left on Hudson. 92YTribeca will be a block down on your left.

6: Exit at Canal Street. Walk (9 blocks) west on Canal to Hudson. Make a left on Hudson. 92YTribeca will be a block down on your left.

Hey everyone, So the 'Sleep on Fire EP' has arrived!! Physical copies will be available at our show tomorrow night at Mercury Lounge with Illinois! More information soon about ordering it online! Hope to see you tomorrow! xoxoxo Holly

Tuesday, May 5th   (Cinco de HAYOOOOOO)
Mercury Lounge
217 East Houston Street (between Ludlow & Essex)
New York, NY

F train to Second Ave, walk 5 blocks east on Houston

7pm - Workout
8pm - Kenan Bells
9pm - Holly Miranda
10pm - Illinois


Also I've been nominated to be Deli Magazine's artist of the month... Please go and vote!!

http://www.thedelimagazine.com/snacks.php


The winner gets some cool studio time, and mastering time and free shirts.. so if I win, we all win cause it will probably result in you guys getting a free song and swag!!

SO GO VOTE!!

xoxo
holly

can you dig it ? xo holly

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/14/arts/music/14mira.html

http://www.ponytailmagazine.com/features/brooklyn-frequencies/brooklyn-frequencies2.php

dig it!

i just want to say "thanks kanye" for blogging on your blog about a blog that blogged about my song 'slow burn treason'.. then this other blog picked up kanye blog and blogged it all over again. so i just thought i'd blog to say thanks. drop me an email and i'll give you the whole record. i heard you like to be the first on the scene :)

xo holly