news
07.28.08 Tunejar
"Sweetly sorrowful and lushly orchestrated, Mia and Jonah are unassuming and express thier innermost experiences simply and purely. Genuine, timeless and telling...."
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http://www.tunejar.com
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06.16.08 Glide Magazine Interview
"One late spring day during my sophomore year of college, four or five months after my grandma passed away from a not-so-lengthy bout with lung cancer, I walked out of the English building and onto the quad. At the base of the concrete stairs, I saw a pile of pink dogwood blossoms shed by the nearby trees intermixed with a plentiful smattering of cigarette butts. I had been living in a hyperaware state for quite some time by then, but the juxtaposition of the ugly and the beautiful, sitting there on the ground, stunned me.."
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http://www.glidemagazine.com
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05.19.08 New Tour Blog - featuring a slice of "candy shop"
Candy Shop - 105 degrees in Ashland,OR and Jonah and I had our first “Ice Cream at a Shop” experience. We’ve known each other 4 years and never once have we gone out to an ice cream shop for a couple of cones... We decided the event must be documented....
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Tour Blog
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05.09.08 Eugene Weekly
"It's hard to know what to write about groups that have been critically compared to other really famous and beloved acts. Mia and Jonah pose this problem in spades. I almost don't want to say which bands other writers think this Bay Area duo sounds like, or..."
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http://www.eugeneweekly.com
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05.09.08 The Register Guard
"On “Silver Moon,” Mia Mustari’s vulnerable vocals approach those of the haunting and evocative Margo Timmins from Cowboy Junkies..."
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http://www.registerguard.com
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05.07.08 New Tour Blog
Go West Young Man - and woman - I have fallen so grossly behind on this blogging biz that I am going to show you Texas through Cali in one fell swoop...As you may know, we were in Texas when we received a few phone calls from some folks in the SoCal area wondering...
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Tour Blog
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05.07.08 North Bay Bohemian
"Rooms for Adelaide, the new album by folksy Oakland duo Mia and Jonah, is an early candidate for one of those year-end "Best Music You Never Heard in 2008"¯ lists..."
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05.04.08 Music Morsels
"This Oakland based singer/songwriter duo create mesmerizing music, blending their diverse vocal styles in haunting, soul-tugging harmony..."
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http://www.musicmorselsonline.com
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04.29.08 Nascent Mag
"Americana tag team Mia and Jonah may be the musical equivalent of mac and cheese: Just as hearty helpings of the comfort food offer a simple but soothing cure for empty stomachs, the spare, commiserative melodies composing the Oakland duo’s second full-length, Rooms for Adelaide, transpire as the recipe to fill empty souls..."
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http://www.nascentmag.com
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04.11.08 New Tour Blog
Elevation - High up in the Rocky Mountains is Cottonwood Hot Springs. A snowy paradise for the adventurous spirit. 8 thousand feet up we went. Our stomachs felt queasy. Our minds went floating around without us....
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Tour Blog
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04.06.08 Hybrid Magazine
"Mia and Jonah keep a fluid country-folk pace rolling through their latest release Rooms For Adelaide...."
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http://www.hybridmagazine.com/
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03.29.08 New Tour Blog
Check out where our latest adventures on the road have taken us!
Tour Blog
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02.12.08 The San Francisco Bay Guardian reviews "Rooms for Adelaide"
"On their 2005 first self-released album, Shine I, Mia Mustari and Jonah Blumstein delved into everything from folk to jazz, holding it all together at the seams with strong indie rock sensibilities...."
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http://www.sfbg.com/
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02.14.08 Fall in Love at our Valentines Day CD Release Party!!
Save the Date 2/14/08 on your calender! We are hosting our CD Release Party
on Valentines Day at Amnesia with Sonya Cotton and Emily Jane White. For details
click here.
http://www.amnesiathebar.com
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2008 Rooms for Adelaide US Tour
We
are taking our new album, "Rooms for Adelaide" across the US on
2008 Tour. Click here to see if we are coming to your
town.
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01.26.08 Harbin Hot Springs
Our next show is on 1/26/08 at Harbin Hot Springs with Nancy Kuo on Violin/Viola/Cello. Find out the details
here.
To reserve a spot in the front row call 1-800-622-2477 or go to
http://www.harbin.org
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01.11.08 The Daily Vault Reviews "Rooms for Adelaide"
"It never ceases to amaze me how much good music by independent artists is being produced these days. Releasing their music on the internet and performing literally hundreds of times per year...."
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http://www.dailyvault.com/
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12.23.07 The Big Take-Over Reviews "Rooms for Adelaide"
"This cute Oakland couple plays and sings a bright but punchy acoustic folk-pop that's completely NPR-ready, and should be featured there soon. For their second LP, following 2005's Shine I, they blend in choice hints of Americana, a little bluegrass-country..."
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http://www.bigtakeover.com/
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12.20.08 Evolution Of Media Review's "Rooms for Adelaide"
"As a music town, Oakland California is better known for the gritty sounds that emit from it’s urban suburban streets, like funk (a la Tower of Power) and rap. Sweetly acoustic Americana is definitely not something I’d expect to hear from an Oakland resident, and yet I’ve been digging the second album by Mia & Jonah who are Oaktown-based and proud of it..."
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http://www.evolutionofmedia.com
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12.17.07 Oakland Magazine features "3 Stories High"
The song
3 Stories High has been chosen to feature this month in
Oakland Magazine's "Local Sounds". Click
here
to visit Oakland Magazine online.
http://www.oaklandmagazine.com
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12.04.07 Performer Magazine Reveiw's "Rooms for Adelaide"
"It's not easy to follow a great debut with an even greater sophomore effort, but Mia Mustari and Jonah Blumstein are clearly not bothering to reinvent the wheel. Last time out on Shine I, the Oakland duo presented a more stripped-down approach to its often introspective, occasionally whimsical songs..."
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http://www.performermag.com
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11.09.07 Mia and Jonah perform at Virgin Mega Store
We'll be playing SF Vigin Mega Store 11/09/07. We are also featured on the
"Hometown Heros" listening station inside the store. Stop by 2 Stockton
St.@Market to see us play and pick up pre release copies of our new album.
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11.01.07 The ChickenFish Speaks Reviews "Rooms for Adelaide"
"The music on this release has a contemporary folk flair that is wonderfully complimented by the male & female vocalist. Mia and Jonah trade off lead vocals though out the release with the other playing the support role..."
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http://www.thechickenfishspeaks.com
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10.01.07 Acoustic Cafe features "Adelaide"
Acoustic Cafe, an internationally syndicated radio program, has chosen the
song "Adelaide" to feature in its once a month program called "One
to Watch". Thank you to Rob Reinhart for this great opportunity!! Click
here to visit Acoustic Cafe
and listen to Rob's program online.
http://www.acafe.com
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09.01.07 Walnotes Reviews "Rooms for Adelaide"
"I had the good fortune of attending a performance at The House of Love Cabaret by a duo known by their first names, Mia and Jonah. This happened maybe two or three years ago. It was one of those experiences that stuck with me though...."
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