Those who missed the live collaboration between Bonerama and modern-rock wunderkinds OK Go’s benefit gig for Sweet Home New Orleans and Al “Carnival Time” Johnson at Tipitina’s in January can still hear the collaboration with the five-song EP You’re Not Alone—released only through iTunes. It’s an oddly charming little affair, confirming that Bonerama can further modernize a brass/rock fusion that often is content to update Led Zeppelin or Hendrix.

As powerful as the horn section can be—bombast is often Bonerama’s calling card—the arrangements and tone suggest a subtler backdrop to showcase OK Go lead singer Damian Kulash. Kulash does a sweet rendition of David Bowie’s “Rock ’n’ Roll Suicide” (a fun but curious choice), his swagger sometimes recalling Pulp’s Jarvis Cocker. Even more impressive is how comfortably pianist David Torkanowsky handles the barrelhouse approach infused in this re-working.

The rest of the EP consists of three OK Go tunes—“It’s a Disaster,” “Oh Lately It’s So Quiet” and “A Million Ways,” all from 2005’s Oh No—and a collaboration with Mr. Carnival Time himself on a dirge-like cover of Bob Dylan’s “I Shall Be Released,” with its opening lines: “They say ev’rything can be replaced, / Yet ev’ry distance is not near. / So I remember ev’ry face / Of ev’ry man who put me here.” Johnson sings with a soulful voice that still resonates after all these years, and it makes one wonder what the three parties might have done with his signature Mardi Gras classic.

Neither intrusive nor expansive, Bonerama’s horns simply fit into the proceedings nicely, adding some bounce here and some swinging flourish there, all for a good cause.