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ITUNES EXCLUSIVE!

OK GO — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 05:00:00 GMT

OK Go To Perform On "The Tonight Show With Conan O'Brien" This Friday, Jan. 8th; New Album Out Jan.

OK GO — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:00:00 GMT

OK GO TO PERFORM ON “THE TONIGHT SHOW
WITH CONAN O’BRIEN” THIS FRIDAY, JANUARY 8th

Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky Due Out January 12th On Capitol Records;
MySpace Gives Album Its World Premiere This Thursday, January 7th
You Tube will premiere the second video from new cd “This Too Shall Pass” on street date, January 12th
OK Go Collaborates With NASA And JPL Scientists, The Notre Dame Marching Band And Others To Create Videos For Each Of The Album’s 13 Tracks

(New York, NY) OK Go will perform on “The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien” this Friday, January 8th. The appearance comes just prior to the January 12th release of the band’s latest album, Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky, which earned a 4 ½ star out of 5 review from Alternative Press, reminding the critic to “start drafting that ‘Best of 2010’ list, right now” while Spin praised it as “ambitious,” comparing the rhythm section to a “stealth weapon…they explode with the force of a polyrhythmic fireworks display.”

The group has been busy developing videos to accompany each of the album’s 13 tracks. With 175 million video streams and counting, OK Go is the most-downloaded band ever. The group created an international phenomenon in 2005 with its “A Million Ways” video, which simply featured the four members dancing in a backyard, and followed it with the decade’s most-viewed music video, “Here It Goes Again,” which was awarded a GRAMMY®.

Working with friend and video director Tim Nackashi, OK Go has cooked up a color-drenched video for lead single “WTF?” using props purchased at the 99¢ Only Store and the band’s trademark single-shot approach. Fans can check out the “WTF?” video at:

http://vimeo.com/7166047

The “WTF?” video is also featured on the Yahoo! home page, MySpace (where it was a Staff Pick), AOL home page, MSN, Windows Media Guide, Alloy and Clear Channel. It’s been added to MTVu, Music Choice and, as the Buzz Clip of the Week, to Much Music. It’s attracted the attention of numerous bloggers – including Kanye West and William Gibson. Fans can also make their own “WTF?” video with their webcam as OK Go and friends created an open-source piece of software for fans…go to http://www.okgo.net/wtf_holidays.asp.

The Notre Dame marching band appear in OK Go’s next video – the first of two for “This Too Shall Pass” – which will premiere on YouTube on January 12th, the album’s release date. With its live performance, “This Too Shall Pass” marks the first time that a video and the recording session were one and the same. Passion Pit’s remix of the song – leaked by NME before Christmas – is in the Top 20 on the remix charts.

For future videos, the band has enlisted the talents of a team of engineers from NASA and Jet Propulsion Laboratories, animals, a Dutch artist and MIT Media Lab students.

MySpace will give the album its worldwide premiere on January 7th and NPR’s “Morning Edition” will run a piece on OK Go the following day, January 8th. Tastemaker radio stations such as KCRW are playing numerous tracks from the record, which was produced by ex-Mercury Rev member David Fridmann (Flaming Lips, MGMT) and is the follow-up to 2005’s Oh No.

The group contributed a new song to the film and soundtrack for “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” and will be on the upcoming Muppets Tribute album, scheduled for April 2010 release. Lead singer/guitarist Damian Kulash, who testified before Congress in support of net neutrality and has penned an Op Ed piece on the topic for The New York Times, will be writing a regular column for GQ’s website. In his first piece, he recounts OK Go’s experiences at Design Miami, where the band performed on Gibson guitars customized by designer Moritz Waldemeyer utilizing laser lights and FENDI materials. (http://www.gq.com/blogs/the-q/2009/12/ok-basel.html). The group has been featured in ad campaigns for Banana Republic and Uniqlo.

OK Go – comprising Damian Kulash, Tim Nordwind, Dan Konopka and Andy Ross – will tour extensively behind Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky, beginning with a series of U.K./European dates later this month.

Lots of Exciting News

OK GO — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Happy New Year everyone! There are a lot of exciting announcements brewing, what with the new album dropping next week and all... but for now here are a few quick updates from camp OK Go:

First, we'll be performing on the Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien this Friday, January 8th. Tune in!

Second, we were just confirmed for the Bamboozle Music Festival in New Jersey on May 2nd. Full info on the festival at http://www.thebamboozle.com/

Finally, our new website is coming! Check back soon to see the big changes.

Much more soon.

Happy Holidays from OK Go

OK GO — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 05:00:00 GMT

We all know you have to wait until January 12th to buy our new album, Of the Blue Colour of the Sky, but we wanted to give you something to tide you over for the gift giving season. It just didn't feel right otherwise.

As such, we are pleased to announce the release of the WTF? app, created by interactive designer Jonathan Bobrow and inspired by the amazing work of Tim Nackashi who created the official WTF? video.

Download the app from our site, and use it to create your own version of the video, or anything else you feel like making!

Happy Holidays,

OK Go

OK Go to perform live with Black Francis of The Pixies

OK GO — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 05:00:00 GMT

We are pleased to announce that OK Go are performing with Black Francis on Tuesday, December 8th 2009 as part of the event "Winston Calling: A Rock & Comedy Benefit" at The Echo in LA.

The benefit will raise money for the treatment of Baby Winston Bertrand. Tickets for the event, which also features Flea, Love & Rockets, She Wants Revenge, Weird Al Yankovic, Tenacious D, and more, are sold out. But you can still donate to this cause by going to the Facebook Page.

Ok Go Teams With Designer Moritz Waldemeyer And Fendi For Groundbreaking Design Performance

OK GO — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT

OK GO TEAMS WITH DESIGNER MORITZ WALDEMEYER AND FENDI FOR GROUNDBREAKING DESIGN PERFORMANCE AT DESIGN MIAMI/, HELD DECEMBER 1st – 5th

Band’s New Single/Video “WTF?” Available Now On The iTunes Music Store;
Upcoming Album, Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky, Due Out January 12, 2010

(New York, NY) OK Go, the mind-bending band that gave us what is largely considered the decade’s most-viewed music video, the treadmill-manned “Here It Goes Again,” will join with Design Miami/, FENDI and technologically-pioneering designer Moritz Waldemeyer to stage a groundbreaking Design Performance at Design Miami/, the pre-eminent international fair for limited edition design. The fair will take place December 1st through December 5th in Miami Design District.

Waldemeyer, renowned for his extraordinary designs influenced by his background as a research scientist in mechatronics and LED lighting, will customize a selection of Gibson guitars with laser lights and FENDI materials, which OK Go will play live throughout the event. When played, the guitar’s lasers interact with a video wall and leave traces that illustrate the music in real time. The lasers emulate the strings of the guitar, and vibrations transmit beautiful visual interpretations of the sound.

“It's such a pleasure to be working with Moritz again. He's one of those rare and wonderful artists who's equally inventive in the domain of minute technological details and broad, open-ended creative ideas,” says OK Go vocalist/guitarist Damian Kulash, who was featured in Uniqlo’s recent international advertising campaign. “He designed the LED jackets that we wore in our stage show a couple years ago, and it was a perfect match. Our brand of performance – super-saturated, super visual, super fun – is precisely the right arena for his design. We knew right away that we needed to make instruments with him, and ever since we've been looking for the opportunity to realize our dream of playing guitars that are their own light show. We're incredibly excited, and thankful that FENDI and Design Miami/ have made this possible.”

The single and video for “WTF?” – OK Go’s Prince-inspired, odd-time-signature hip shaker – premiered on the iTunes Music Store earlier this week. The video, directed by the band and Tim Nackashi (“Gnarls Barkley – Live,” the award-winning documentary “Dirty Work,”) debuts this Sunday night/Monday morning on MTVu‘s “Subterranean,” airing at 2:00 a.m. E.S.T. “WTF?” is the lead single from OK Go’s upcoming album, Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky, set for release on January 12, 2010 on Capitol Records. Fans who pre-order the album on iTunes will instantly receive an additional track, entitled “Back from Katmandu.”

Produced by ex-Mercury Rev member David Fridmann (Flaming Lips, MGMT), Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky takes its name from an 1876 book promoting the erroneous theory that blue light cures all ills. Both danceable and contemplative, the new album is introspective with a vein of surrealism running through it – a compelling follow-up to OK Go’s acclaimed 2005 release, Oh No. The band’s homemade videos for two of Oh No’s hits, “A Million Ways” and “Here It Goes Again,” set numerous viewing records as they helped transform the then-fledgling YouTube into a household name. “Here It Goes Again,” which won a GRAMMY® award for “Best Short Form Music Video” in 2007, was even parodied on “The Simpsons.” The band’s non-stop touring regimen took them to five continents in 31 consecutive months. In 2008, OK Go released the EP You’re not Alone, a swaggering collaboration with the trombone band Bonerama that benefited musicians displaced by Hurricane Katrina. The band wraps up a series of Midwestern dates this Saturday and will embark on a U.K. tour in January.

OK Go is Damian Kulash, Tim Nordwind, Dan Konopka, Andy Ross.

For more information about OK Go, please visit:
www.okgo.net
www.myspace.com/okgo
www.facebook.com/okgo
www.youtube.com/okgo
www.twitter.com/okgo

WTF? For The World

OK GO — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT

Our new single and video, "WTF?" are out right now, enjoying their
world premiere in the US iTunes store. Yes, you read that correctly.
The "world premiere" is US only, but we've just been informed that
they'll be in all the iTunes stores soon, so if you're outside of the
states, do not fret. We'll let you know the moment they arrive.

A special note to you Americans: the rest of the world is catching up.
This is your moment! Buy the single and video here:
http://bit.ly/okgowtf and pre-order the new album, too.

Brand New Video and Single Available Right Now

OK GO — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT

The last time OK Go released a new video, Jay-Z was a Mets fan, Barack Obama was being inducted into the United Federation Of Planets, and this song was a number one hit. Or at least it feels that way. Which is why today is such a very, very good day. The boys are proud to announce the world premiere of WTF?, their new single and video, in the iTunes store right now, right here.

Lets not beat around the bush. The song is awesome. And the video is face-melting. And for the next little while you can buy them together for $2.49. That's a savings of $0.50! So why are you still here? Get watching!

And listen to the new song right here!
WTF? by okgo

The Notre Dame Marching Band is Amazing

OK GO — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 04:00:00 GMT

The Notre Dame Marching Band is fantastic for lots of reasons, not least of which is that this afternoon they'll do their picture perfect cover of "Here It Goes Again" during the game against Boston College. It won't be on the TV, but if you go to NBC Sports (we're thinking it'll probably be here or here) you can watch the awesomeness go down live.

US Midwest Tour This November

OK GO — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 04:00:00 GMT

The band will be doing a short run of November shows in the great American middle west, all of which should be on sale right now. Drop whatever you're doing--which we both know is sitting in your one-piece pajamas surfing Le Internet--and buy your hot little tickets right now. Details on the shows page.