Hi everyone.  On Wednesday we’re hosting a parade!  We’re gathering friends and fans and a whole bunch of instruments and playing an 8-mile-long collaborative party-concert.  The dawn of battery-powered amplifiers has come, and we are putting ours in wagons and harnessing them to ourselves and taking the rock to the streets.  But really it’s more than a parade, because it’s also a giant collective city-sized drawing of the the letters ‘OK GO’ using ourselves as the ‘Etch’ and Los Angeles as the ‘Sketch’ in one giant, city-sized musical Etch-a-Sketch-ing. If this doesn’t make any sense, allow Damian to clarify:

Clear? We’re able to throw this party because Range Rover Evoque (it’s a car) has a program (the City Shapers Program) to fund art projects in twelve cities around the world, and this is ours.  We’re using standard GPS technology and an iPhone app to track our journey and draw out our path.  In short: mobile music party makes a picture.

You should do this too.  Download the app (it’s free) and plan a journey through your town.  It’s like dancing with your city.  You don’t need to plan a whole parade or even involve music at all – you could just take a walk or a drive or bike ride with a friend or two and draw out something awesome.  Draw your spirit animal or spell out the word that best describes you. And take pictures or video while you do it.  Then share the map-picture and the footage with us.  We’ll compile the map-pictures and the best moments of making them into one glorious little film.

WANT TO JOIN US? Do you live near LA? Do you play a musical instrument?  Do you want to be in OK Go’s parade on Wednesday? Or do you NOT play a musical instrument but you can bang a pot/pan and dance? We’re playing an 8-mile long communal party-concert on Wednesday afternoon in LA. If you want to come, hit okgonewsletter@gmail.com and let us know what instrument you play, or why we should invite you.

Project Page on Range Rover’s Site
Free iPhone App for making your own

We are excited to share with you the video for our song Last Leaf. It is comprised entirely of photographs…15 still shots for every second of video. Oh yes, and toast. Lots and lots of toast.

The result is a bit different than the last few videos we’ve made from this album, and we hope you like it.

Last Leaf was made in partnership with Samsung NX100 iFn – http://www.cre8yourworld.com.

It was directed by OK Go, Nadeem Mazen and Ali Mohammad of Serious Business Design.

Geoff Mcfetridge from Champion Graphics developed the hand-drawn animation.

Produced by Shirley Moyers.

Today is THE DAY. Not Election Day (well, yes, Election Day) and not El Dia de los Muertos (well, yes, El Dia de los Muertos) but ALSO it’s the day that the EXTRA NICE EDITION of our album Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky is released in the US and Canada!

A fan dubbed it #ExtraNiceTuesday on Twitter, and that has a nice ring to it, so we’re stealing it (in the true spirit of the internet). Happy Extra Nice Tuesday everyone!

The Extra Nice Edition of the album comes complete with an entire second disc of bonus material, as well as a download card for 12 OK Go remixes.

You can buy it at places like:
The Official OK Go Merch Store
iTunes
Amazon
Your Favorite Independent Retailer

You can listen to three tracks from the release on AOL Spinner.
We’ll be streaming other tracks here on our website throughout the week, so be sure to check back for that. And thanks for supporting the re-release, everyone. We know it can seem insane to release an album three times, but let’s just say we are finally getting to do things the way we want and can’t help releasing more material related to this album. We hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we enjoyed making it.

We are pleased to announce the winners of our ‘White Knuckles’ Remix Contest. Almost 400 entries were submitted over the last six weeks, and we’ve had a blast listening to them and sharing them with our fans. We asked the producer of our most recent album, Dave Fridmann, to pick winners and he has decreed that The Big Robot is the grand prize winner of the remix contest! Congrats, Big Robot.

The two runners up (call them the 2nd and 3rd place winners, in no particular order, if you like) are Jackal Island and Science for Girls. Check out their great tracks below and then be insanely jealous of all the awesome prizes they’re getting. What prizes, you ask? These prizes:

Grand Prize
• The Big Robot’s remix will be available as an official track on the Rock Band Network
• A Rock Band 3 XBox Game
• A XBox 360 Video Game Console
• A complete set of Rock Band instruments

Runners Up
• A signed set of the ‘This Too Shall Pass’ ping pong balls
• A White Knuckles vinyl import from the UK
• A copy of the Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky – Extra Nice Edition
• A copy of Rock Band 3

Thank you all for your awesome remixes! We’ve all been rocking out to them for weeks, and will continue to do so.
If you want to hear all 383 submissions, you can find them HERE.

As of RIGHT NOW, if you live anywhere in the world (except the US or Canada…) you can own the Extra Nice Edition of our album, Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky. Are you simply quivering with excitement? We assume so. This deluxe package includes an entire second disc, as well as a download card. You get all sorts of good stuff like:

• 12 remixes of 4 OK Go songs by artists like Ra Ra Riot, Passion Pit, Sam Sparro, Static Revenger, and more.
• The original demos for 9 of the tracks from the album.
• Alternative and live versions of several album tracks.
• An interview with the band and producer Dave Fridmann by “This American Life” host Ira Glass

Fantabulous, no? We think so. You can purchase this feat of engineering and audio magic at any of the following (region specific) retailers:

Belgium: Fnac

France: Fnac | Amazon

Germany: Amazon

Netherlands: Bol.com

Norway: Platekompaniet

Sweden: Ginza

Switzerland: CeDe

UK: iTunes | Amazon | HMV | Play | Record Store | 7Digital

And fear not, US and Canada: You’ll be able to buy your copy starting November 2nd. Heck, you can even pre-order your copy RIGHT NOW.

Track Listings:

Disc One

1. WTF?
2. This Too Shall Pass
3. All Is Not Lost
4. Needing/Getting
5. Skyscrapers
6. White Knuckles
7. I Want You So Bad I Can’t Breathe
8. End Love
9. Before The Earth Was Round
10. Last Leaf
11. Back From Kathmandu
12. While You Were Asleep
13. In The Glass

Disc Two

Songs

1. Skyscrapers (Bristol Version)
2. Shooting The Moon
3. Louisiana Land
4. This Too Shall Pass (Marching Band Version)
5. Gigantic (Pixies Cover)
6. This Will Be Our Year (The Zombies Cover)
7. This Too Shall Pass (Passion Pit Sunday Hangover Remix)

Demos

8. Skyscrapers
9. I Want You So Bad I Can’t Breathe (If You’re Down)
10. Needing/Getting (More Than You Could Know)
11. Back From Kathmandu
12. Shooting the Moon (Over the Moon)
13. Before The Earth Was Round
14. All Is Not Lost (You Will Lose)
15. While You Were Asleep (Break The Sand)
16. Last Leaf

Ira Glass In Conversation with OK Go and Dave Fridmann

17. The Sound of the New Record
18. Chatting with Dave
19. Dave Defends Distortion
20. Recording Last Leaf
21. Playing Live
22. Lyrics