Rilo Kiley & Lupe Fiasco Added to 2007 'mtvU Woodies' Performance Lineup

NEW YORK, Nov. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Adding to an already stellar assemblage of emerging and established acts dominating the college music scene, today mtvU, MTV's 24-hour college network, announced that two more acclaimed performers have joined the 2007 "mtvU Woodie Awards" bill: Rilo Kiley and Lupe Fiasco. Perennial college favorites Rilo Kiley are riding high off their recent breakout release "Under the Blacklight," and Lupe Fiasco is mounting an attack on the college charts with his brand new, red hot single, "Superstar." These acts will take the stage tonight at New York's Roseland Ballroom along with Tokyo Police Club, The Academy Is ... and Spank Rock to deliver knockout live performances to a crowd packed full of college students and their favorite emerging artists.

Now in their fourth year, the "mtvU Woodie Awards" are the only awards honoring the music college students live their lives to - and a launching pad where the stars of tomorrow are anointed by the prophets of new music. Presenters and attendees on hand for the seminal college music event will include Annie Lennox, Q-Tip, Gym Class Heroes, Peter and Bjorn, Talib Kweli, Tom Delonge and Dave Kennedy of Angels & Airwaves, Guster, EL-P, Say Anything, Boys Like Girls, Motion City Soundtrack, Cage, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Kidz in the Hall and other surprise guests.

The monster night of live music will kick off with Secondhand Serenade (singer-songwriter John Vesely) delivering a special acoustic performance at an exclusive Woodies pre-party, sponsored by Citi, taking place at Spotlight Live in Times Square just hours before the main show begins. World renowned dj RJD2 will then get the party started at Roseland, spinning a mix of Woodie- nominated artists and songs for the college crowd as the start of the 2007 "mtvU Woodie Awards" draws near. All this will set the stage for a memorable concert event and awards show with college students in front of the camera and behind the scenes, presenting, introducing and honoring their favorite music and acts.

The 2007 "mtvU Woodie Awards" will premiere simultaneously on mtvU and mtvU.com Thursday, November 15th at 8pm ET. MTV will debut a special 30 minute version of the 2007 "mtvU Woodies" Saturday, November 17th at 10pm ET / PT. The special will have an encore run on MTV2 November 18th at 12:30am ET / PT.

Top nominees for the 2007 "mtvU Woodie Awards" include The Shins, with three nominations, and Modest Mouse, Gym Class Heroes, Lily Allen, Justice, Linkin Park and The Academy Is ... , which each picked up two nods. Amy Winehouse, Arcade Fire, Lil' Wayne, Bright Eyes, The Knife, Common, Klaxons, M.I.A., Spoon, CSS, The Rapture, TV on the Radio, Thom Yorke and Paramore were all nominated as well. Nearly fifty emerging and influential artists are nominated for the fourth annual "mtvU Woodies." Full info on nominees, performers and more is available at Woodies.mtvU.com.

The fourth-annual "mtvU Woodie Awards" is sponsored by Citi, Ford College Student Purchase Program, Garnier Fructis, Sony Playstation, T-Mobile, Windows Live Messenger and American Airlines, the official airline of the 2007 mtvU Woodies.

About mtvU

Broadcast to more than 750 colleges across the country, with a combined enrollment of nearly 7.5 million, mtvU is the largest, most comprehensive television network just for college students. Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, mtvU can be seen in the dining areas, fitness centers, student lounges and dorm rooms of campuses throughout the U.S. mtvU is dedicated to every aspect of college life, reaching students everywhere they are, through a three pronged approach -- on-air, online and on campus. mtvU focuses on content including music videos from emerging artists which can't be seen anywhere else, news, student life features, events and pro-social initiatives. mtvU is always on campus, with more than 500 events per year, including exclusive concerts, giveaways, shooting mtvU series and more. For more information about mtvU, and for a complete programming schedule, visit http://www.mtvu.com/.

In September 2005, mtvU became the first MTV Networks channel to also be distributed in its entirety online. The network is simulcast and available on demand at mtvU.com 24/7, featuring all of network's on-air content plus exclusive new music, original series and student-produced programming for college students and music fans everywhere.

mtvU also owns and operates the College Media Network, the largest interactive network of online college newspapers in the US, and RateMyProfessors.com, the Internet's largest listing of collegiate professor ratings. The College Media Network comprises nearly 550 campus publications that serve institutions including Brown University, the University of Illinois, the University of Southern California, the University of Texas at Austin and Duke University, with a combined enrollment of over 5.5 million students, reaching an average of 5 million unique users each month. RateMyProfessors.com reaches approximately 1.5 million college students each month, via the site's more than 6.6 million student-generated ratings of over 1,000,000 college professors.

MTV Networks, a unit of Viacom , is one of the world's leading creators of programming and content across all media platforms. MTV Networks, with more than 140 channels worldwide, owns and operates the following television programming services -- MTV: MUSIC TELEVISION, MTV2, VH1, mtvU, NICKELODEON, NICK at NITE, COMEDY CENTRAL, TV LAND, SPIKE TV, CMT, NOGGIN/THE N, VH1 CLASSIC, MTVN INTERNATIONAL and THE DIGITAL SUITE FROM MTV NETWORKS, a package of 13 digital services, all of these networks trademarks of MTV Networks. MTV Networks connects with its audiences through its robust consumer products businesses and its more than 300 interactive properties worldwide, including online, broadband, wireless and interactive television services and also has licensing agreements, joint ventures, and syndication deals whereby all of its programming services can be seen worldwide.