(Bite Communications) - PLUG San Francisco is confirmed for January 18, 2007 at 12 Galaxies, 2565 Mission Street, San Francisco. As part of the PLUG City Highlight Tour, PLUG San Francisco will continue to spotlight local music scenes across North
America and recognize each city's unique indie community. PLUG and imeem, committed supporters of the local independent music scene, are excited to present the SF installment of the PLUG City Highlight Tour, featuring some of the best local unsigned bands in the area. Fans can check out profiles of the performing bands at https://plugsf.imeem.com/. With the success of PLUG Brooklyn and PLUG
Detroit City Highlight shows, we're thrilled to focus on the west coast
PLUG and imeem are holding a contest to give one up-and-coming band a chance to open up for the rising indie bands playing PLUG SF.
• Bands can quickly and easily create an imeem profile to feature photos, video, and more
• Bands will submit an original song to the PLUG San Francisco 'meem' (for the uninitiated, that's a group area within the imeem.com online community)
• The bands headlining the show will judge the top rated songs
• One lucky winner will be chosen to perform on the PLUG bill
For more information and to enter the contest, please visit: https://plugsf.imeem.com/.
The City Highlight tour has launched successful events in Austin, Brooklyn, Miami, Toronto and Detroit in 2006, as well as the upcoming PLUG LA on January 13th. PLUG partners with top promoters and trendsetters across North America to curate all-local shows highlighting the best up-and-coming bands, artists, film makers, fashion designers, blogs, zines and more.
"With the success of PLUG Brooklyn and PLUG Detroit City Highlight shows, we're thrilled to focus on the west coast," said Gerry Hart, founder PLUG. "We're also excited to partner with imeem again, to feature the performing bands, as well as holding our local band contests to find the best up-and-coming SF bands exclusively on imeem.com. PLUG is intent on connecting fans to their local music scene, and it's very easy to discover them utilizing imeem's social media community for our City Highlight Tour."
"Imeem is excited to partner with PLUG to showcase the independent music scene in San Francisco," said Steve Jang, vice president of marketing and business development, imeem, inc. "PLUG and imeem are featuring photos, videos, and music on our community, where fans can check out artists that played the recent Brooklyn and Detroit PLUG City Highlight Tours as well as connect to the local indie music scene in these cities, and beyond."
The PLUG City Highlight Tour is an extension of the PLUG Independent Awards, which will be held in New York City on February 10, 2007. This year's nominees and voting ballot can be viewed at https://plugawards.com/general_vote.php, until January 26, 2007. Past performances at the ceremonies have included Sufjan Stevens, Ted Leo & The Pharmacists, Aesop Rock, RJD2, The National and Celebration. Past presenters have included TV on the Radio, Matisyahu, Laura Cantrell and Langhorne Slim. In 2005, Wayne Coyne from The Flaming Lips "beamed in" from the set of Christmas On Mars to accept a PLUG Impact Award.
Please visit the PLUG website for more details and to view the 3 minute EPK at: https://plug.imeem.com/video/YadVkgF3/the_plug_awards/.
https://plug.imeem.com • https://www.plugawards.com
