The Killers Concert Live Stream Wants Your Photo [EXCLUSIVE]

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Brian Anthony Hernandez
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The Killers Concert Live Stream Wants Your Photo [EXCLUSIVE]
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For The Killers upcoming concert in New York City, the rock band's members want to have "the whole world on stage" with them. How? Fans can submit photos of themselves holding up signs saying where they live.

Those photos will be plastered on big screens for everyone to see during the concert live stream, which will be directed by veteran filmmaker Werner Herzog and aired on YouTube and Vevo on Sept. 18 at 7 p.m. ET.

People can add their Instagram, Facebook or desktop photos to the project's Face to Face website.

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The digitally infused live stream is part of the American Express Unstaged concert series, which has netted more than 100 million content views. Each Unstaged concert pairs an artist with a well-known director: Kenny Cheseny with Jonathan Demme, Usher with Hamish Hamilton, Jack White with Gary Oldman, John Legend with Spike Lee and Mary J. Blige with Adam Shankman.

For Usher's Unstaged London concert in June, AmEx had fans submit digital avatars of themselves for a chance to be virtual backup dancers during his performance of "Scream" in Hammersmith Apollo. And for Jack White's show, fans were tasked with creating a digital mosaic by sending in photos of their faces.

The concerts coincide with the artists’ album releases. The livestreaming efforts have helped make six of the Unstaged acts' albums hit number one or two on the Billboard Hot 200 albums chart. The Killers's Battle Born comes out Sept. 17.

"I want to get the sense of having the whole world on stage with us," says drummer Ronnie Vannucci Jr. in this promo video shared exclusively with Mashable:

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