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<p><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">For Immediate Release:<br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">July 10, 2013</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black"><img width="439" height="85" id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CE7D57.0B82A0A0" alt="ylogo"><br>
</span></b><b><span style="font-size:22.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">YEAH YEAH YEAHS ANNOUNCE #SINGYYYOURHEARTOUT CONTEST
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</span></b><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">SWEETEST SERENADER OF "DESPAIR" WINS!</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">(Credit: Photo by Dan Martensen; Concept by KK Barrett)</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">Submission Deadline is August 9th, 2013</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">July 10,<span style="color:black"> 2013 – New York, NY -
</span></span></i><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">Yeah Yeah Yeahs</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black"> invite fans to sing their hearts out to their new single “<b>Despair.</b>”
If you can find the time in the intimacy of your wasted summer days and wasted summer nights, send a submission of your heartfelt performance of the song’s first verse to the band. Whomever the band chooses wins a special prize directly from the Yeah Yeah
Yeahs.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">A tip from
<b>Karen O</b> to fans: “This is not about how perfect you sound or cute you look, this is about singing what's in your heart and having a good time doing it. Anyone who has the balls to put it out there is good in my book, haters be damned.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#1F497D">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">This song is for you!”</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">To submit your performance, upload your video to Youtube or Vine and Tweet a link with the hashtag
<b>#SINGYYYOURHEARTOUT</b>. The top 10 videos with the most votes will be the 10 finalists. The overall winner will receive a special prize directly from the band. Lyrics can be found on the official contest page HERE:
<b><a href="http://yeahyeahyeahs.com/sing-yyyour-heart-out" target="_blank">yeahyeahyeahs.com/sing-yyyour-heart-out</a></b>.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">“<b>Despair</b>” is the second single off the NYC-based trio’s
</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">album<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b><i><u>Mosquito</u>
</i></b>(Interscope<span style="color:black">), which entered the Billboard Top 200 this April at #5.
</span></span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">Yeah Yeah Yeahs</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black"> recently debuted the music video for “<b>Despair</b>” which was directed
by Patrick Daughters (“<b>Maps</b>,” “<b>Gold Lion</b>”).</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#1F497D">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">The band reached new heights with the video – literally. Skyscraper heights. 102-story, 443-meter, Empire State Building heights, to be exact</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#1F497D">.
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">The concept for the video came courtesy of Noisey.com, who decided they wanted to co-produce a video for the band’s single by pairing New York’s quintessential landmark with New
York’s quintessential band.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Watch the video HERE:
</span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#1F497D"><a href="http://noisey.vice.com/music-video-premieres/yeah-yeah-yeahs-despair">http://noisey.vice.com/music-video-premieres/yeah-yeah-yeahs-despair</a></span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">.</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black"><a href="http://www.yeahyeahyeahs.com" target="_blank">http://www.yeahyeahyeahs.com</a>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/yeahyeahyeahs" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/yeahyeahyeahs</a>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black"><a href="http://www.twitter.com/YYYs" target="_blank">http://www.twitter.com/YYYs</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black"><img border="0" width="49" height="71" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image003.jpg@01CE7D57.0B82A0A0" alt="http://www.sonicscoop.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/interscope_records__logo_.jpg"></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">For more information on
<b>Yeah Yeah Yeahs</b>, please contact:<br>
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Press Here Publicity</b> <br>
Jennie Boddy <br>
212-246-2640<br>
<a href="mailto:jennie@pressherepublicity.com" target="_blank">jennie@pressherepublicity.com</a>
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