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.

Damian dropped some knowledge on the wide world today, courtesy of an op-ed piece in the Washington Post:

On the Internet, when I send my ones and zeros somewhere, they shouldn’t have to wait in line behind the ones and zeros of wealthier people or corporations. That’s the way the Net was designed, and it’s central to a concept called “net neutrality,” which ensures that Internet service providers can’t pick favorites.

Recently, though, big telecommunications companies have argued that their investment in the Net’s infrastructure should allow them more control over how it’s used. The concerned nerds of the world are up in arms, and there’s been a long, loud public debate…
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Dear New Orleans…” is available today for download! Including New Orleans-inspired songs by us and other awesome bands. Proceeds go to New Orleans nonprofits working to support the region’s culture and community.

For more info and to download go here: http://www.dearneworleansmusic.org/

Our fall tour is posted below. Tickets for all US shows go on sale this Friday, August 20th. Probably best for you to take the day off work, sing some songs, buy some tickets, make a little holiday of it. Tell your boss we said it was OK.

8/20 – Lowlands Festival, Biddinghuizen, NL (Sold Out)

8/21 – Pukkelpop, Hasselt, BE (Sold Out)

8/22 – Highfield Festival, Grossposna, DE

8/24 – Tavastia, Helsinki, FI (18+)

8/25 – Oulu Music Video Festival, Oulu, FI

9/11 – Union County Music Fest, Clark, NJ

9/12 – Life Is Good Festival, Boston, MA

9/12 – Video Music Brazil, Sao Paolo, BR

9/17 – Estudio Emme, Sao Paolo, BR

9/18 – Becco, Porto Allegre, BR

9/25 – BAM Festival, Barcelona, ES

10/3 – LA County Fair, Pomona, CA

10/6 – Fox Theater, Boulder, CO

10/10 – House of Blues, Chicago, IL

10/12 – Discover Louisville Festival, Louisville, KY

10/13 – Beachland Ballroom, Cleveland, OH

10/14 – Phoenix Theater, Toronto, ON

10/15 – Capital City Music Hall, Ottawa, ON

10/16 – Le National, Montreal, QC

10/17 – Higher Ground, Burlington, VT

10/20 – Port City Music Hall, Portland, ME

10/21 – PopTech Conference, Camden, ME

10/26 – Westcott Theater, Syracuse, NY

10/27 – Northern Lights, Clifton Park, NY

10/28 – Webster Theater, Hartford, CT

10/29 – Terminal 5, New York, NY

11/2 – Orange Peel, Asheville, NC

11/3 – Music Farm, Charleston, SC

11/4 – 40 Watt Club, Athens, GA

11/5 – Mercy Lounge, Nashville, TN

11/6 – Tipitina’s, New Orleans, LA

11/19 – The Hub @ UC-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA

Don’t forget that we have three festival shows coming up over the next two weekends, starting TONIGHT. One of them has “party” right in the title, how could these not be fun?!

Aug 6, 2010 - WBRU Summer Concert Series, Providence, RI
Aug 7, 2010 - 104.5 Block Party, Philadelphia, PA
Aug 14, 2010 - KahBang Festival, Bangor, ME

Just a quick update to let you know that we’ll be playing a bunch of festivals and some club dates in Europe over the next 10 days. If you are in the area, come give us a high five!

Jul 22, 2010 – Italia Wave Love Festival, Livorno, Toscana, IT
Jul 24, 2010 – Splendour Fest, Nottingham, GB
Jul 25, 2010 – Manchester Academy 3, Manchester, GB
Jul 27, 2010 – Fleece, Bristol, GB
Jul 28, 2010 – Electric Ballroom, London, GB
Jul 30, 2010 – Y Not Festival, Matlock, Derbyshire, GB
Jul 31, 2010 – Kendal Calling Festival, Penrith, Northwest, GB

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We are super excited to share our new video for ‘End Love’ with you and hope you love watching it as much as we loved making it. In the continuing spirit of the brave, new OK Go world, you can watch it above, or on our YouTube page, or embed it to your hearts desire…AND for the first time in the history of our videos, you can now download it absolutely FREE. We are actually so stoked about this last part that we’ve put together a Facebook Contest to encourage such behavior.

The contest is simple: download our video, upload it to your Facebook page, and get your friends to comment on it. The upload with the most comments in two weeks wins. Want to participate?

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE VIDEO AND FOR A CHANCE TO WIN AN iPAD

PS – You will soon be able to buy the HD version of the video on iTunes…

We are pleased to announce some fantastic new goodies available TODAY in our Merch Store. These items will ship the in the first two weeks of July.

The two new items are:

1. Limited Edition Spring 2010 US Tour Fan Photo Poster

If you were at any of our shows this tour, you might remember Damian taking a photo of the crowd from the stage. You might have seen them appear on our Facebook page, and you might have even tagged yourself or your friends. We have now created a poster that includes 34 of these fan photos, as well as a live shot of the guys from stage. Behold yourselves!

2. Limited Edition Spring 2010 US Tour USB Drive

All tour long we sold USB drives at the end of each show that included the audio recording of that night’s concert, our latest album, and the three videos from the album. We are now pleased to announce a special, limited edition USB drive that includes both an electric set and an acoustic set from our tour, both in specially mastered, higher quality 320kbps mp3 format.
The complete contents of the drive are as follows:

• Our May 7th Electric Set from the beautiful sounding House of Blues in Boston, MA
• Our May 24th Acoustic Set from Ex’pression College in Emeryville, CA
• Our album, Of the Blue Colour of the Sky
• The first three videos from our latest album
• An exclusive tour photo gallery with shots of the boys backstage, on the bus, and everywhere in between…
• An exclusive thank-you video from the band