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From "Perfect" To "Don't Fix Me" SF Bay Area Based Alt/Rock Band MiGGs Defies Today's Sonic Trend towards Over Produced, Perfectly Polished Musical Candy and Delivers Sweet Imperfection in its new EP
San Francisco) -- MiGGs, the Bay Area alternative rock band that leveraged its fan devotion and musical acumen into a two-label deal for its second release, is now independently releasing its much-anticipated Acoustic EP "Late Nights and Early Mornings." Critics have hailed MiGGs as having a "great personality, a great live show and a signature sound with hit radio potential." MiGGs single from its sophomore release, "InsOmnia," a song called "Perfect" hit the top 50 on radio R&R in 2006. "InsOmnia" is what then led to the next recording, "Late Nights and Early Mornings." Late Nights is an acoustic EP that is about endings in one's life that you don't even see are there, but just happen to hit you over the head after completion of a new EP, in a strange twist of life imitating art in the form of a prediction of the future, instead of a revelation of the past.

"At the time I recorded the EP, says MiGGs frontman, Don Miggs, I didn't know it, but my life was falling apart, some of the guys in the band could not continue to tour, my marriage was crumbling, and there I was making this intimate recording of my own break up album before I knew the major relationships in my life were breaking up." All of the songs on the EP are raw acoustic, yet some filled with edge and angst. "While intimate, the first run through of what we thought were the final recordings sounded "sonically lifeless" by today's over-the-top 'Had a Bad Day' Daniel Powter and James Blunt standard recordings selling millions," says Miggs. So what to do? Well, on the shelf it went for some rest. Months passed trying to find that perfect balance between marketability and preserving the rawness of the recordings during a tug of war between Artist, Manager and Producer. Late Nights was produced by Chris Manning (Santana, Jellyfish, Third Eye Blind) and mixed by Producer/Composer John Carta (Hanna Montana, Grey's Anatomy, The Bachelor).

Late Nights And Early Mornings "As a producer, amongst other things, I see myself as a "sonic midwife" helping birth the music. And then the baby is delivered and EP is done, but then some wanted to fix it up, dress it up, maybe even put lipstick on the baby, and its not the same," says producer Chris Manning. Ironically and in stark contrast to MiGGs hit single "Perfect" from "InsOmnia," one of the songs featured on the new EP called "Don't Fix Me," is a blatant lyrical antithesis of Coldplay's song "Fix You." "Don't Fix Me" is also little slap in the face to the social mentality that "we all need to search for that magic bullet to quickly fix someone or something when sometimes its ok to be broken or flawed, says Kathleen Carpenter, MiGG's manager who co-wrote the lyrics to "Don't Fix Me."

To add a little more fuel to the debate about whether the artistic trend towards delivering only super bright and polished recordings will fade, MiGGs plans to let the fans decide, as it will soon digitally release the "Producer's Cuts" version of "Late Nights and Early Mornings," which sound more private, more personal. "While I understood the need to make the EP more commercially competitive, I did not want to miss delivering what we actually recorded. We knew going into this that this was NOT going to be a big sounding release," opines Miggs. "We didn't use electric guitars or drumsticks, and I did many vocals in one take, while also playing the guitar. Most of all, I wanted intimate. I wanted to hear the process deliver the quiet desperation." "While I believe that the final recordings released on the new EP captured that balance, they ended "slightly prettied up," says Miggs. "My favorite artists all made 'messy' records and those are the ones I use as a reference when it's all getting too nice, which we've been guilty of ourselves. I can't be the only artist who feels this way." "So I guess we will get a chance to hear what the some of MiGG's 32,000 plus fans on MySpace have to say after hearing how the different versions sit with them." MiGGs has also penned a deal with Digital Musicworks International Inc. (DMGI), the world's first all-digital full service music label to release the EP. DMGI also released, the band's second album, "InsOmnia," produced by the legendary Gavin MacKillop (Barenaked Ladies, Sugarcult MXPX) and John Convertino (Madonna, Goo Goo Dolls Live). "InsOmnia" was touted by reviewers as a "feast of intimate, honest lyrics, unforgettable solo and harmony vocals." And MiGG's Acoustic EP "Late Nights and Early Mornings" seeks to deliver a feast of intimate, unforgettable songs that could have been more 'perfect,' but may be even a more raw and satisfying feast.

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