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<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right"><b><span style="color:black">For Immediate Release:</span></b><span style="color:black"><br>
May 22, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:24.0pt;color:black">CHESTER FRENCH RELEASE NEW SINGLE “INTERESTING TIMES” TODAY<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:22.0pt;color:black">ALBUM
<b><u>Music 4 TNGERS</u></b> COMING IN JUNE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;color:black;background:white"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:black"><img width="139" height="208" id="_x0000_i1033" src="cid:image002.jpg@01CD3823.0E263C10"></span><span style="color:black"><img width="139" height="208" id="_x0000_i1032" src="cid:image004.jpg@01CD3823.0E263C10"></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:black;background:white"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;background:white">“Painstakingly crafted self-aware pop songs…for the duo, musical boundaries are just imaginary fences.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="color:black;background:white"><img width="49" height="17" id="_x0000_i1031" src="cid:image006.jpg@01CD3823.0E263C10"></span></b><span style="color:black;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;background:white">“With its watery keyboards, minor key melody, and poor-little-rich-girl lyrics, the band brings the smoky pop genius of the Zombies oohing
and aahing back to life.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="color:black;background:white"><img width="43" height="21" id="_x0000_i1030" src="cid:image008.jpg@01CD3823.0E263C10"></span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;background:white"> “<i>Love The Future</i> – a collection of pop songs with Brian Wilson melodies, early-Beck humor and synth beats”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="color:black;background:white"><img width="91" height="19" id="_x0000_i1029" src="cid:image010.jpg@01CD3823.0E263C10"></span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Los Angeles, CA—May 22, 2012…Today
<b>Chester French</b> release their new single, “<b>Interesting Times</b>,” in anticipation of their upcoming full-length
<b><u>Music 4 TNGERS</u></b> coming this June. “</span>With its hazy electronica and floating vocals, they've created a sonically captivating background to the song's dominant ruminations of life and loss,” states Pure Volume.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Available acoustically as well (both on <a href="http://bit.ly/Jyar2w">
iTunes</a>), listen to the main version of “<b>Interesting Times</b>” <a href="http://soundcloud.com/pressheresounds/chester-french-interesting/s-yUm8h">
<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">HERE</span></b></a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;background:white">The duo, comprised of singer and songwriter
<b>D.A. Wallach</b> and multi-instrumentalist and composer <b>Max Drummey</b>, bring together classic songwriting and pop hooks with adventurous, experimental arrangements. Chester French has drawn comparisons with everyone from Weezer to The Gorillaz, though
their 2009 debut <u>Love The Future</u> was written, engineered, and produced by the duo for less than $2,000.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;background:white">In addition to <u>
Love the Future</u>, Chester French also released a free, full-length concept album entitled
<u>Jacques Jams Vol. 1: Endurance</u>. The album featured collaborations with Jermaine Dupri, Diddy, Pharrell, Talib Kweli, Bun B, Janelle Monae, and many others. Over 400,000 fans have since downloaded
<u>Jacques Jams</u> and publications ranging from <i>VIBE</i> to the <i>New York Times</i> have praised the project’s creativity.</span><span style="color:black">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;background:white">To record their upcoming album, the duo moved back to D.A.’s hometown in Wisconsin and began working on their forthcoming album, which approaches their typically melodic pop songwriting from a
more visceral, electronic and emotionally unvarnished perspective. Entirely self-written and self-produced over two winters in a small village recording studio, the album is a sonically dense and lyrically direct window into the minds of two unconventional
artists coming to terms with materialism, race, love, and other existentially vexing matters.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;background:white"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;background:white">Over Max’s lush and obliquely-beautiful arrangements, D.A. delivers concise, honest lyrics that capture the moment of their creation and cement a collection of ten songs that will fulfill the high
expectations of Chester French’s diverse and dedicated fans.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:black"><img border="0" width="286" height="286" id="Picture_x0020_4" src="cid:image012.jpg@01CD3823.0E263C10" alt="Description: Description: interesting-times-2.jpg"></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:black">“Musical savants. Brian Wilson meets Motown with guitars….A single song manages to blend Weezerian sarcasm, Roy Orbison-like melancholia, Beatlesque melody, New Wave-y synths,
and Funkadelic-style beats.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:#1F497D"> </span><b><span style="color:black"><img border="0" width="73" height="38" id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image014.jpg@01CD3823.0E263C10" alt="Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: cid:image007.jpg@01CCEB13.2FB419E0"></span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span class="description"><span style="color:black"> “Infectiously tunes…the Beastie Boys covering the Beach Boys”</span></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:black"><img border="0" width="92" height="23" id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image016.jpg@01CD3823.0E263C10" alt="Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: cid:image001.png@01CCEB13.2FB419E0"></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:blue"><img border="0" width="50" height="99" id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image018.jpg@01CD3823.0E263C10"></span><br>
<a href="http://www.chesterfrench.com"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">www.chesterfrench.com</span></b></a><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">
<br>
</span></b><a href="http://www.twitter.com/dachesterfrench"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">twitter.com/dachesterfrench</span></b></a><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><br>
</span></b><a href="http://www.facebook.com/chesterfrench"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">www.facebook.com/chesterfrench</span></b></a><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#1F497D"> </span></b><b><span style="color:black">Max Drummey</span></b><span style="color:black">: Originally from Boston, Drummey is an accomplished producer and film-composer. Classically trained on guitar, he also
plays more than fifteen instruments and has toured extensively both in Chester French and with friends like Travis McCoy and Patrick Stump. Max is currently producing for a number of other artists and is looking forward to the release of two award-winning
films that he scored in 2011.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">D.A. </span></b><a href="http://www.allmusic.com/artist/wallach-p1024527" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Wallach</span></b></a><span style="color:black">: A Milwaukee
native, D.A. is Chester French’s primary lyricist and singer. Beyond the group, he collaborates with Grammy-winning producers Supa Dups and Jack Splash in his side-projects D.A. & The Supa Dups and The Brothers Voodoo, respectively. He is also an in-demand
songwriter, frequently working with Rick Ross, Cassie, and other artists. When not creating music, D.A. invests in or advises a number of technology companies, including Spotify, where he is the official Artist In Residence. In 2012, Forbes selected D.A. as
one of its 40 Under 40 in Music. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:17.0pt">If you would like an advance copy of the album please contact:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>Jennie Boddy</b> or
<b>Derek Sherron</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>PRESS HERE<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center">p: <a href="tel:212.246.2640" target="_blank">
<span style="font-size:9.0pt">212.246.2640</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center">e: <a href="mailto:jennie@pressherepublicity.com" target="_blank">
<b><span style="font-size:9.0pt">jennie@pressherepublicity.com</span></b></a><b><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><u><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:blue">derek@pressherepublicity.com</span></u></b><b><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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