OK Go

OK Go will be releasing their fourth studio album, Hungry Ghosts on October 17th via Paracadute/BMG. The new LP is teased not just with a behind-the-scenes video featuring new music, but the band will also be dropping a four-song EP, Upside Out, on June 17th via Paracadute featuring four original songs, including the bittersweet "The Writing's On The Wall." This single can also be heard in The Amazing Spider Man 2 film.

"We don't have a regular writing routine," says lead singer Damian Kulash. "It's more of a whatever-it-takes hunt for those songs that are just beyond our conscious grasp - the ones with all the feeling in them. It's like trying to scratch an itch in your brain, trying to reach those songs - like trying to grab something in your peripheral vision. So we go at them from a million angles and we wind up with a lot of disparate influences colliding. This album has moments of Aphex Twin bumping into INXS, and New Order piled on the Jackson 5. And as unlikely as those combinations are, it's the closest thing we've made, so far, to the music playing in our own minds."

OK Go has partnered with Pledge Music to create an elaborate pre-order campaign for Hungry Ghosts. The campaign offers such perks as a custom, modular, analog synth and music box that plays an exclusive OK Go song (a collaboration with Little Bits and Korg), a custom (and presumably fake) short-form documentary about the fan who's purchased the package and the opportunity to arrive at an OK Go concert on the tour bus with the band.

"The album is done, so this isn't a fundraising exercise," explains Kulash. "But by teaming up with Pledge Music, we are able to offer all sorts of cool stuff as part of our pre-order we wouldn't otherwise be able to."

Hailing from Chicago, Illinois, but now residing in LA, the band is composed of Damian Kulash (lead vocals, guitar), Tim Nordwind (bass guitar and vocals), Dan Konopka (drums and percussion) and Andy Ross (guitar, keyboards and vocals), who joined them in 2005, replacing Andy Duncan. They are known for their often elaborate and quirky music videos. The original members formed as OK Go in 1998 and released two studio albums before Duncan's departure. The band's video for "Here It Goes Again" won a "Grammy Award for Best Music Video" in 2007.

OK Go will be blending old favorites and brand new songs on a coast-to-coast North American headline tour, which will begin on July 15th in Sacramento, CA. The band is known for pulling out all the stops in its live performances and this run, in particular, will be packed with surprises and new interactive elements.

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