Announcing Lavender Diamond’s Incorruptible Heart

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Damian checks in with exciting news:

Friends, I spent many months of last year producing the new album for Lavender Diamond. It was the first time I’ve produced a full record for anyone but my own bands, and I’m super proud of it. Can’t wait for you to hear the whole thing, but for now, a tiny taste. The first single is available for free, and you can listen below. -Damian

The full album will be out on September 25th, and will be the first album on OK Go’s own Paracadute label by an outside artist. Which, besides the fact that the album is already awesome, is awesome. Dave Fridmann, who mixed Of the Blue Colour of the Sky and many other fine albums, mixed the music. M. Ward plays on it. So, for that matter, does Damian.

Lavender Diamond are a mysterious psychedelic/cosmic folk band from Los Angeles, led by the wonderful singer Ms. Becky Stark. They put an EP in 2004 called The Cavalry of Light and an album called Imagine Our Love in 2007, which you can check out via the preceding Spotify links. We highly recommend both of them. Learn all about Lavender Diamond at the all-new lavenderdiamond.net.

OK Go To The Movies!

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3D movies are great, IMAX movies are amazing, too, and 3D IMAX movies just insane. If anybody made them anymore, old-fashioned Smell-O-Vision would surely be totally incredible. But–on May 10th–not only can you go to your local cinema and see OK Go on the big screen as part of This American Life Live!, but you can actually participate in OK Go’s performance. That’s the magic of radio. Well, that and smartphone technology and living in the future and such.

Simply download the free app, and be prepared to play along with the band on virtual handbells when the time comes. We suggest that you buy tickets in advance, as well as download the app ahead of time, since it’s hard to get phone service in some movie theaters. The show will be broadcast live from the Skirball Center at New York University and will feature TAL host Ira Glass, many of the show’s regular stars (including David Sedaris) and many other surprises.

We also recommend that you wipe the popcorn butter off your fingers before operating the app and please for the love of all that is special and wonderful in this great American land of ours to keep your phone on silent for the rest of the show.

Skyscrapers

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Trish Sie, OK Go’s longtime collaborator, tangos across town in the new video for “Skyscrapers.” You may remember her from choreographing and/or co-directing such OK Go videos as “All Is Not Lost,” “A Million Ways,” “White Knuckles,” and “Here It Goes Again.” Or perhaps her work with people like Rufus Wainwright and Miranda July. You also may remember her as Damian’s sister.

“Skyscrapers” is the latest OK Go song to which she has lent her playful elegance, and the below video is the lovely result. If you have a Nintendo 3DS, you can watch Trish and tango partner Moti Buchboot dance with the buildings in 3D. And if you happen to go dancing with your town anytime soon, let us know.

Announcing OKGopid.com

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If you’ve ever suspected that Cupid’s arrow wasn’t the most scientifically accurate method of finding one’s true love and that internet dating sites aren’t much of an improvement, well, you’re not alone. In conjunction with the bright minds at College Humor, OK Go is proud to announce the launch of OK Go-pid, the most fun but least successful dating site on the internet.

Just because it’s not April Fool’s Day doesn’t mean it’s not not real!

OK Go :: March playlist

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Spring is officially here, and so is the band’s latest Spotify playlist. Listen to it on Spotify or just vibe on the song titles.

“Oblivion” – Grimes
“Suzanne” – Nina Simone
“Weather Report” – The Tennors
“Cherry Oh Baby” – The Rolling Stones
“Why Don’t They Let Us Fall In Love” – The Ronettes
“Excuses” – The Morning Benders
“Born Under A Bad Sign” – Richard Hawley
“Burial” – Peter Tosh
“(I’m Not Your) Steppin’ Stone” – The Monkees
“You Don’t Know How It Feels” – Tom Petty
“Solitude Is Bliss” – Tame Impala
“Soul Sister” – Allen Toussaint
“Come and Get It” – Badfinger
“Mary Jane” – Elmer Gantry’s Velvet Opera
“I’m A Ram” – Al Green
“Do Wa Ditty (Blow That Thing)” – Zapp & Roger