MiGGs Nabs Finalist Spot for Virgin College Mega Tour and Campaigns for National Emerging Artist Spot

MiGGs Nabs Finalist Spot for Virgin College Mega Tour and Campaigns for National Emerging Artist Spot

How Does an Emerging Artist Today, Like MiGGs, Attain a Spot on the 2005 Virgin College Mega Tour? Great Music, and, uh, Yes, COUPONS!!!

SAN FRANCISCO, March 7 /PRNewswire/ -- MiGGs, the popular alternative San Francisco rock band, was selected out of approximately 700 bands as the finalist in the San Francisco market for the Virgin College Mega Tour, which will be headlined by CAKE this year. The Virgin College Mega Tour selects nineteen bands across the country in each of its Virgin Megastore markets to vie for the spot of Emerging Artist on the tour. MiGGs has been selected as the band representing the San Francisco market. Over the following weeks each band will rev fans to purchase products from any Virgin Megastore using a specific bar-coded coupon, which they can download in PDF form; the band with the most coupons turned in to stores will win the Emerging Artist spot. Seriously.

For more information on the Virgin College Mega Tour, go to http://www.virgincollegemegatour.com/.

Download the Virgin Megastore 10% off coupon here: http://www.miggsband.com/images/VCMTcoupon.pdf. Good only through March 21, 2005. And can be used on almost any merchandise.

MiGGs released their sophomore album "insOmnia" on January 25, 2005. The album was released by 33rd Street Records, the coveted boutique shop owned by Tower Records, which will handle traditional CD sales and promotions for the quartet. The album has also been released by Digital Musicworks International, Inc. (DMI), the world's first all-digital, full-service music label, and is available on the Apple iTunes Store.

"insOmnia," the band's second album, is produced by the legendary Gavin MacKillop (Goo Goo Dolls, Barenaked Ladies, Sugarcult) with renowned producer mix/engineer JC Convertino (Talking Heads, Miles Davis, Madonna) producing two additional tracks at San Francisco's new state-of-the-art recording facility, SF Soundworks. Said one pre-release critic, "insOmnia is a feast of intimate, honest lyrics, unforgettable solo and harmony vocals, and music that can veer in a heartbeat from near silence to peaks of sonic power." If 5,000 new fans and 45,000 spins of the new music, on http://www.myspace.com/miggs, is an indicator, the fans love it too!

In addition, the band's song "Be" from the album "insOmnia" was used to promote FOX's popular television drama, "The O.C." The promo was aired during "American Idol," and will be included in the upcoming DVD release of "Fat Albert." "MiGGs is on its way to garnering national exposure, and is next in line to emerge from the prolific San Francisco music scene," said Morty Wiggins, President of 33rd Street Records.

The band is now touring nationally in support of "insOmnia" with radio promotion done by Crossover Media and publicity by Segue Entertainment and will be making special in-store appearances at Tower Records and Borders Books and Music stores across the country.

Management Contact: Publicity Contact: Kathleen F. Carpenter Katrina Markarian kcarpenter@shamanentertainment.comKatrina@segue-ent.com (925) 935-0700 (707) 578-6728 http://www.miggsband.com/http://www.segue-ent.com/

Label Contact: Radio Contact: Eli Spector Max Horowitz espector@33rdstreet.commax@crossovermedia.net (916) 371-2800 x247 (212) 465-2444 http://www.33rdstreet.com/http://www.crossovermedia.net/

Booking Contact: Teri Cruzan TeriCruzan@carnelianagency.com (360) 752-9829 x102 http://www.carnelianagency.com/http://www.digitalmusicworks.com/ * http://www.miggsband.com/

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Source: MiGGs

CONTACT: Management: Kathleen F. Carpenter, +1-925-935-0700, kcarpenter@shamanentertainment.com; or Publicity: Katrina Markarian, +1-707-578-6728, Katrina@segue-ent.com; or Label: Eli Spector, +1-916-371-2800 x247, espector@33rdstreet.com; or Radio: Max Horowitz, +1-212-465-2444, max@crossovermedia.net; or Booking: Teri Cruzan, +1-360-752-9829 x102, TeriCruzan@carnelianagency.com

Web site: http://www.digitalmusicworks.com/

Web site: http://www.crossovermedia.net/

Web site: http://www.segue-ent.com/

Web site: http://www.33rdstreet.com/

Web site: http://www.virgincollegemegatour.com/

Web site: http://www.miggsband.com/images/VCMTcoupon.pdf http://www.miggsband.com/

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