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Week two of the remix contest has come and gone. Superstar Dave Fridmann has spoken and declared the two remixes below to be winners! The contest runs until October 14th. Weekly winners are featured here and will be available for free download on our digital database. Keep the rock coming!

In case you missed it, we’ve got a remix contest going on for our new single White Knuckles. The contest runs until October 14th, and every week until then our remix judge extraordinaire Dave Fridmann will be picking weekly winners. These weekly winners will be featured here on our website and the mp3s will be available as free downloads on our digital database.

Have a listen to this week’s winners right here:

If you’ve been enjoying our new video for White Knuckles lately, you might be asking yourself: How can I own this digital file so that I don’t have to click on the YouTube link 90 times a day? Fear not, we are here to help. Currently you have two options:

1. Purchase the video on our website. We’ll donate a portion of net proceeds to the ASPCA, specifically for the support of animal rescue.

2. If you live in the UK, Eire, France, Germany or Spain, you can buy the White Knuckles EP on iTunes. It includes the video and the studio version of the album as well as four remixes of White Knuckles by folks like Boys Like Us, Static Revenger, and Sam Sparrow. That whole package is only £2.49. A pretty sweet deal. And hey, you can always just donate directly to the ASPCA.

So, think about it, and act accordingly.

The time, it is nigh. The brand new video for “White Knuckles” premiered today, Monday, September 20th on the Ellen Degeneres Show (check local listings for details). You can watch it here, or on her site, or anywhere else that good taste and reason rule.

We do so hope you enjoy it.

Also, for you TV watching Americans, we’ll be performing “White Knuckles” on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” this evening. The rest of you will just have to wait until someone posts it to YouTube.

Before the unending excitement of tomorrow gets underway, we wanted to let you know that we are releasing an “Extra Nice Edition” of our album Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky. You can pre-order the US/Canada version (release date Nov 2) in our online store, or if you live outside the US/Canada, that version is released on October 18th and you’ll be able to pre-order via iTunes very soon. We’ll bring you those details as soon as we have them.

So what do you get, you lucky purchaser of yet-another-version-of-our-album? We’ve had a lot of people ask us about the recording process for this album, and it got us thinking about all the material we had around from those sessions and generally what that experience was like for us. So in addition to the original 13- song collection, the Extra Nice Edition will feature:

• A second disc that includes our original demo recordings for many of the songs on the album, some live and alternative versions of tracks, two cover songs, and an in-depth interview of the whole band and producer Dave Fridmann by Ira Glass. Over 65 minutes of previously unreleased material here…
• Access to the “Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky DIGITAL DATABASE”. This database includes an unreleased collection of new OK Go remixes that we’re calling Twelve Remixes of Four Songs and is available instantly when you order via the pre-sale on our site. We see the database as a way to continue to add material to the album once it’s out, without having to find complicated ways to get it to you. It is an experiment for us, and one that we’re pretty excited about.

So that’s it in a nutshell. We’ll be telling you more about it in the coming weeks. We look forward to getting it in your hands and hearing what you think.

Today is the day: we want to hear what you can do with our song! Today through October 14th we’ll be taking remix submission of ‘White Knuckles’. Don’t hold back! If you’ve never remixed a song in your life don’t be scared. We’ve paired up with Indaba, which makes it easy to get creative without having to know your way around a studio. If you are a remix veteran, Indaba also allows you to download the stems and do whatever you want in whatever program you want.

You can find the full lowdown here: http://bit.ly/okgoremix

Starting Sept. 21st the amazing Dave Fridmann will pick a weekly winner whose track will be featured across all things OK Go as well as some other cool bonuses (it’s a surprise, yo). The grand prize winner will be announced on October 29th and will have their version of ‘White Knuckles’ mastered and made available for download in Rock Band. The grand prize winner will also receive a gaming console, a copy of Rock Band 3, and a set of Rock Band instruments!

To say that we are excited is an understatement. So get mixin’!

That’s right everyone, we’ll be launching a remix contest for ‘White Knuckles’ next week on the 7th. The contest will be curated by the infamous Dave Fridmann and the winner will have their track mixed for Rock Band plus win an entire Rock Band set up to play their track with their friends. Freakin’ awesome right?! Want even more details? Check back here soon for an update but in the meantime start listening to WK on repeat for inspiration.