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American rock band

This commodity is about the band. For the ring's eponymous debut album, encounter OK Go (album).

OK Go
OK Go performing in 2012.

OK Go performing in 2012.
Background information
Origin Chicago, Illinois, U.South.
Genres
  • Culling rock
  • ability pop
  • popular stone
  • indie rock
  • indie pop
Years active 1998–nowadays
Labels
  • Paracadute
  • Capitol
  • EMI
  • BMG
Associated acts
  • Debate Team
  • Secret Dakota Ring
Website okgo.net
Members
  • Damian Kulash
  • Tim Nordwind
  • Dan Konopka
  • Andy Ross
Past members
  • Andy Duncan

OK Go is an American rock ring originally from Chicago, Illinois, at present based in Los Angeles, California. 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. The band is known for its often quirky and elaborate one-take music videos.

The original members formed equally OK Become in 1998 and released two studio albums before Duncan's deviation. The band's video for "Here It Goes Once again" won a Grammy Award for All-time Music Video in 2007.

History [edit]

External video
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Germination and early years (1998–2000) [edit]

The ring's atomic number 82 singer, Damian Kulash, met bassist Tim Nordwind at Interlochen Arts Camp in Traverse City, Michigan, when they were 11.[2] The ring name comes from an within joke developed at Interlochen; they had an often high fine art teacher who would repeatedly say, "OK... Go!" while they were drawing.[3] They kept in affect after camp, often exchanging mixtapes which influenced each others' musical tastes and the ring's future sound. They met the band's future guitarist and keyboardist Andy Duncan in high school.[4] Nordwind and Duncan moved to Chicago for college, and, with drummer Dan Konopka, formed the band Stanley'southward Joyful Racket.[5] Afterward graduating from Chocolate-brown University, Kulash moved to Chicago.[5] The quartet formed OK Go with the name being "an obvious pick for us" according to Nordwind.[3]

The band marketed themselves aggressively, putting up posters all effectually Chicago and touring heavily.[v] Inside a year the grouping had shared the stage with international artists such as Elliott Smith, the Hope Ring, the Olivia Tremor Control and Sloan.[5] At the end of 2000, the band was invited by radio host Ira Glass to serve as the firm band for alive performances of This American Life.[5] Glass besides helped the band creatively after asking Kulash the question, "Exercise you meet yourselves as beingness hostage or clever?"[5] Kulash struggled with the question earlier deciding that the answer was earnest. "I wanted to write a full-on rock vocal, one that made me feel like Queen songs made me feel," later which he wrote Become Over It.[5]

The band cocky-released two EPs, titled Dark-brown EP (2000) and Pink EP (2001), which were culled from an album's worth of songs recorded in February 2000 with producer Dave Trumfio, to serve as demos.[half dozen] [ commendation needed ] The demos did not land the band a label deal,[ commendation needed ] simply got them the attention of booking amanuensis Frank Riley, who offered them shows with They Might Be Giants, a human relationship that led to OK Get opening for the ring numerous times during this menses.[five] OK Go was introduced to the band's managing director past Giants' singer John Flansburgh, who had initially wanted to co-manage the group himself.[7] In 2001 the grouping moved to Los Angeles,[8] although they considered their Chicago roots important even a decade later.[9]

OK Go (2001–2004) [edit]

OK Become at the Albany Tulip Festival (May 2006)

Though the band had offers from bigger labels, they signed to Capitol Records in Apr 2001[5] believing that, as the get-go signing past newly hired label president Andy Slater,[ten] they would get more than attention and support.[11]

The band released its debut album, OK Go, on September 17, 2002, after it was pushed back by the label from its original June release date.[five] The album was recorded at the Capitol Studios in Los Angeles and, though the original program was to exercise pocket-sized tweaks to the original demos, the band ended upwards rerecording everything and adding 5 new songs, including the first single "Get Over It,"[five] which later appeared in Triple Play Baseball, Madden NFL 2003, and Guitar Hero v video games.[12] To promote the release, the label sent out miniature ping pong tables to press outlets,[vii] a reference to the "Become Over It" video directed by Francis Lawrence. In support of the album, the band toured with a various grouping of acts including the Vines, Phantom Planet, Superdrag, the Donnas, Fountains of Wayne, and Mew,[5] [13] [xiv] [xv] [16] and played a number of festival shows including Leeds in 2002 and 2003, and NoisePop, Reading, Witnness, and T in the Park in 2003.[17] [xviii] [19] [twenty] [21] [22]

In the United States, the anthology reached #one on the Billboard Heatseekers Nautical chart and #107 on the Billboard 200 Chart.[23] [24] In the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland, the first single "Get Over It" debuted at no. 27,[25] in the United kingdom singles chart on March sixteen, 2003, and the ring performed it on that week'south edition of Elevation of the Pops. Also that week, the single's video was named video of the calendar week by Q magazine.[26]

Oh No and You're Non Alone (2005–2008) [edit]

The band's second album, Oh No, was recorded in Malmö, Sweden, in the fall of 2004 and was produced by Tore Johansson (the Cardigans, Franz Ferdinand) and mixed past Dave Sardy (Nine Inch Nails, Jet, Organisation of a Down). After recording, in February 2005, Andy Duncan left the band citing creative differences, major label pressures, and the band's rigorous touring schedule.[12] [27] Duncan was replaced by Andy Ross, who won the job over thirty-four other guitarists who auditioned for the role, in a process that concluded with each candidate being asked about his or her willingness to practice a choreographed dance on phase.[28] Ross introduced himself to the band's fans past writing a web log entitled "The Will To Stone," in which he detailed life on the route beginning with his start testify with the band on February eighteen, 2005.[29]

The album was released in Baronial 2005. Oh No gained popularity for its first unmarried, "A Million Ways". Guitarist Andy Ross invented, designed and programmed a web application hosted at a1000000ways.com which allowed people to hear the single and to share information technology with their friends in exchange for free downloads from the iTunes music store.[30] The video for "A Meg Ways" featured the band in a lawn performing a dance choreographed by lead singer Kulash'due south sister, Trish Sie. By August 2006, the video had become the virtually downloaded music video ever with over ix 1000000 downloads.[31] The band performed the dance live on British Tv show Soccer AM, besides as on the late-dark American comedy show Mad Television set. The The states version of the album includes "9027 km", a 35-minute track of lead vocaliser Damian Kulash's girlfriend sleeping that is not listed on the album fine art.[32] Fans speculated that the track'due south name is derived from the distance between Los Angeles, California, and Malmö, Sweden, where the album was recorded and that the rail was included to prevent the band's label from using the extra space for digital rights management (DRM) software.[32] On December six, 2005, Kulash published an op-ed slice in The New York Times advocating confronting tape labels' utilise of DRM software.[33]

In support of Oh No, the ring toured extensively, sharing dates with bands such as Decease Cab For Cutie, Panic! at the Disco, Kaiser Chiefs, and Snow Patrol,[28] [34] [35] [36] as well as a slew of special performances including gratis shows on New year's Eve in New York City'southward Times Square and in the parking lot before the University of Michigan vs Michigan State Academy football game,[37] and festivals such as the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Bennicassim in Spain, Formoz Festival in Taiwan, Summer Sonic in Nippon, and Incheon Pentaport in South Korea.[38] [39] [40] [41] [42]

On November 7, 2006, later the success of the "Here It Goes Over again" video, the band released a deluxe DVD version of the album.[32] The DVD contains a documentary on the making of the album, the four official Capitol Records videos, a video of the ring's appearance on Chic-a-Go-Go, a 'super cut' of the hundreds of fan versions of the "A Million Ways" trip the light fantastic, a behind-the-scenes video of the making of the "Here Information technology Goes Again", rehearsals for the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards, an acoustic performance of "What to Do," a video for "There's A Burn down" featuring video game characters, a trip the light fantastic booth version of "Don't Inquire Me," and alive versions of "Do What Yous Want" and "You're And then Damn Hot."[32]

After visiting New Orleans in 2007, the band returned to tape an EP with New Orleans funk rock band Bonerama and producer Marker Nevers,[43] to raise money for musicians who were still displaced past the 2005 Hurricane Katrina. The EP, entitled You're Non Alone, was released on Mardi Gras, February 5, 2008.[44] The championship is taken from a line in David Bowie's "Stone 'northward' Roll Suicide," a encompass of which appears on the EP, along with renditions of Bob Dylan's "I Shall Be Released" and 3 songs from "Oh No."[43] The EP was sold exclusively through iTunes and raised over $twoscore,000, which helped purchase a new home for New Orleans musician Al "Carnival Time" Johnson in the Musicians Village. Johnson, who sings on "I Will Be Released," the final vocal on the EP, moved into his new home in December 2008.[45] In back up of the EP, OK Get and Bonearama played ii benefit shows, one on January 11, 2008, at Tipitina'southward in New Orleans, and the other on February ii, 2008, at the nine:30 Club in Washington DC, which was streamed live by NPR and featured on a subsequent NPR podcast.[43] [46]

Of the Blueish Colour of the Sky (2008–2012) [edit]

On Oct 12, 2008, OK Go appear that the members had finished writing new songs for its third album and were in the studios in upstate New York with producer Dave Fridmann (the Flaming Lips, MGMT).[47] The band previewed its tertiary album, titled Of the Blue Colour of the Sky, on a short sling of dates on the East Coast of the United States that March, starting in Philadelphia on March half-dozen, 2009 at the TLA Theatre. The name of the album comes from a pseudo-scientific volume written by Augustus Pleasonton in 1876 entitled The Influence of the Blue Ray of the Sunlight and of the Blue Color of the Heaven. The members of the band have stated that these songs are the "danciest, most anthemic, most heartbroken, and honest songs" of their career, and the album itself takes a much more than funky, dance-prone, however melancholy sound to it, drawing influence from Prince. On May 7, 2009, a song from the album, titled "Skyscrapers," was released for streaming online.[48] The first single, "WTF?", was released on Nov 17, 2009. On January eight, 2010, OK Get appeared on The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien and performed a song from the anthology, "This Too Shall Laissez passer". Of the Blue Colour of the Sky was released on January 12, 2010.[49]

After the first two videos for Of the Blueish Colour of the Sky were posted to YouTube in 2009, the band was quickly met with complaints from fans who were but able to view them on YouTube. In response, Kulash posted a long letter on the ring's website explaining the tape characterization's policies. The alphabetic character itself went viral,[50] afterward being reprinted in Gizmodo,[51] cited as "required reading" on BoingBoing,[52] and excerpted on many other websites. At the finish of the letter of the alphabet, Kulash included embed codes for the band's near recent video in straight opposition to the desires of the label. On Feb 20, 2010, the New York Times printed an Op-Ed in which Kulash furthered the arguments he made in his open letter.[53]

On March 9, 2010, the band uploaded a video to YouTube entitled "OK Become Announces new label," in which Kulash, accompanied by two dogs in neckties, announces the creation of Paracadute.[10] On March x, 2010, the band appear it had cutting ties with EMI and Capitol and formed the contained label Paracadute.[54] The split became official on Apr 1, 2010. Paracadute then assumed ownership of the anthology, "Of the Blue Colour of the Sky", though the band's first 2 albums, "OK Go" and "Oh No" remained itemize items of EMI.[55] That dark OK Go performed a single from its newly independent record on Tardily Dark with Jimmy Kimmel.[56] Now charting its own destiny equally an contained entity, the band has attempted to plot a new grade for itself, as Kulash puts it: "We're trying to be a DIY [practice-it-yourself] band in a post-major label earth."[57]

The starting time wholly new release on the band's characterization Paracadute Recordings was 180/365,[58] a alive album recorded over several shows in 2010, mixed by producer David Fridmann, and released on June 21, 2011. The album title refers to the number of concerts the band played in the course of i yr. A stream of the album premiered on the engineering website Mashable earlier its official street date.[59] To gloat the release, the band printed and sold ii hundred signed copies of 180/365: The Volume, a limited edition book of tour photographs by Nathaniel Wood which was made available only to purchasers of the album.[60] The anthology was sold digitally and on CD in half dozen-panel eco-friendly "Tron Pack" packaging from Norway.[61]

In July 2012, the band partnered with the Humble Bundle for a pay-what-you-will release of the remix collection Twelve Remixes Of Four Songs, alongside titles from MC Frontalot, They Might Be Giants, Christopher Can, Hitoshi Sakimoto, and Jonathan Coulton.[62]

The band's most successful instance of its new business model was a partnership with State Farm Insurance at a point when the company was looking to tap into a younger audience by creating a piece of interesting digital content.[63] The collaboration resulted in a music video for "This Also Shall Laissez passer" featuring a large Rube Goldberg automobile built in a warehouse.[64] Released on March 1, 2010, the video rapidly went viral, with 1.4 million YouTube views in the commencement 48 hours[63] and over l million total views equally of February 2016[update].[65] Since the "This As well Shall Laissez passer" Rube Goldberg Machine video, OK Become has employed a like make partnership model in projects with Range Rover,[66] Yahoo,[67] Cisco, Samsung,[69] Google Chrome,[seventy] Jose Cuervo,[71] and Chevrolet.[72]

Hungry Ghosts (2012–2019) [edit]

In Dec 2012, OK Go released a collection of rare songs, B-sides and covers called "Twelve Days of OK Go". The collection was released for free on the band's website and includes covers of songs by the Beatles, They Might Exist Giants, the Kinks, Adam and the Ants, and Pixies.[73]

Following Twelve Days of OK Go, in January 2013 the band announced Twelve Months of OK Go, a free long form release of new and rare recordings, B-sides, and covers distributed one vocal per month through the ring'southward email list and free mp3 web store.[74] The collection includes covers of songs by the Breeders, the Specials, and Nelly.[75] In March 2013, OK Go released a new single "I'm Not Through" through "Twelve Months of OK Go" and in partnership with advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi for The Saatchi & Saatchi Music Video Challenge.[76]

On April 3, 2013, OK Become announced on its YouTube channel that the band was in the process of recording its 4th anthology.[77]

On May vi, 2014, OK Go appear that its fourth studio album, Hungry Ghosts, would be released in October 2014. The anthology was made available for pre-order on the direct-to-fan platform, PledgeMusic.[78] The first official single, "The Writing's on the Wall" was released on June 17, 2014, forth with a music video that had reached over one 1000000 views within a day.

On October 14, 2014, Hungry Ghosts was released. Since then, the Pledge Music campaign has stopped. A music video for "I Won't Let Y'all Downwardly" was released on October 27, 2014. In its first ii weeks, the video hit 12 1000000 views on YouTube.[79] The video features a cameo from the J-popular band Perfume (see Other appearances).

The video for "Upside Downward & Within Out" was released on February 11, 2016, where the band perform the vocal while moving virtually in microgravity, with the help of a reduced-gravity aircraft provided by the Russian S7 Airlines.[lxxx] [81]

On July 20, 2016, OK Go released "I Don't Sympathize You," a stand-solitary single that was a collaboration with Perfume.

On November 24, 2016, OK Get released the music video for "The I Moment", featuring multiple seemingly unconnected events filmed in the span of a few seconds. The video is then slowed down to reveal each action being played in perfect synchronization with the song.[82] [83]

On November 23, 2017, OK Become released the music video for "Obsession." 567 printers were used to create a multicolored backdrop in the video.[84] [85]

Contempo activity (2020–nowadays) [edit]

In early 2020, during the first of the COVID-19 pandemic, Kulash and his wife fell ill with the 2019 novel coronavirus.[86] Afterwards his recovery, while the ring members were following stay-calm orders at their individual homes, they wrote and recorded "All Together Now" and filmed a video for it over 2 months equally a tribute to the healthcare workers battling the infection. The song and video were released on May 12, 2020, with proceeds going to Partners in Health.[87] [88] In early on 2021, the band released an acoustic encompass of "This Will Exist Our Year" by The Zombies, which they also covered in 2004. The ring has too uploaded several alternate music videos for "All Together Now" on YouTube, including diverse different clips sent to them by fans.

Damian Kulash once stated in a livestream that he has been working on some new music, but not specifically in an album form.[89] Kulash besides hinted in an interview that he might exercise another video in zero gravity for a future vocal similarly to "Upside Down and Within Out."[90]

Videos [edit]

OK Go has earned considerable fame for the band's creative and often low-budget music videos, about of which have been promoted through Cyberspace video sharing sites like YouTube.[91] Many of these have become viral videos; the 2006 video for "Here It Goes Over again", in which the band performed a complex routine with the assistance of motorized treadmills, received over 50 meg views on YouTube within four years.[92] The band's video for "Needing/Getting", released Feb 5, 2012 in partnership with Chevrolet, debuted during Super Bowl XLVI and has over 47 million views on YouTube.[93] Samuel Bayer, who produced many music videos in the 1990s, asserted that OK Go's promotion of music videos on the Internet was akin to Nirvana's ushering in the grunge movement.[92] Many of the videos also utilize long or single-shot takes, which Salon 's Matt Zoller Seitz claims "restore[s] a sense of wonder to the musical number by letting the performers' humanity shine through and allowing them to exercise their thing with a minimum of filmmaking interference".[94] The success of OK Get's music first won the band the 14th Annual Webby Special Accomplishment Award for Film and Video Artist of the Yr.[95] The video for "This Too Shall Laissez passer" was named both "Video of the Twelvemonth" and "Best Rock Video" at the 3rd annual UK Music Video Awards.[96] "This Too Shall Laissez passer" won the LA Film Fest'due south Audition Laurels for Best Music Video,[97] U.k. MVA Awards – Music Video of the Year Winner 2010,[98] among others.

The band has worked with directors including Francis Lawrence, Olivier Gondry (brother of Michel Gondry), Brian 50. Perkins, Scott Keiner, and Todd Sullivan. The videos have been screened and displayed at museums, art galleries, and motion picture festivals around the earth including the Guggenheim Museum,[99] the Museum of the Moving Prototype,[100] the Edinburgh International Film Festival,[101] the Los Angeles County Museum of Fine art, the Los Angeles Film Festival,[102] [103] and the Saatchi & Saatchi New Manager's Showcase.[104]

In 2008, Damian Kulash said that the band had non produced the music videos as part of whatsoever overt "Machiavellian" marketing campaign. "In neither case did we think, 'A-ha, this will get people to buy our records.' It has always been our position that the reason you current of air up in a rock band is you desire to brand stuff. You want to do artistic things for a living."[105] On the release of the ring'due south video for "The Writing's on the Wall" in 2014, Kulash explained to Rolling Rock that the band continued to make such quirky videos post-obit their success subsequently "Here It Goes Once more" considering the ring worried about being considered a one-hit wonder: "We could go in two directions: We could either attempt to out-absurd it – endeavour to out-run it like Radiohead did with 'Pitter-patter' – or just embrace it and go, OK, what actually worked here."[106]

Other appearances [edit]

"Get Over It" is featured in the EA Sports video games Triple Play 2002 and Madden NFL 2003, while a censored version of "Don't Ask Me" is featured in MVP Baseball 2003 [107] [108] [109] and as background to the transitions in the British TV show The Inbetweeners.

Also, "Here It Goes Again" was featured in Rock Band, Guitar Hero v and SSX on Tour; while "Do What You Desire" was featured in a back to schoolhouse idiot box campaign for J. C. Penney and the video games EA Sports NHL 06, Guitar Hero: On Tour, and Burnout Revenge.[110] [111] [112] "Invincible" was a theme song for ABC'southward Saturday Dark Football for the 2006 season.[112] The band's vocal "A Million Ways" was featured in Ring Hero.[113]

The band contributed a embrace of the Zombies "This Will Exist Our Twelvemonth" as the lead track of Future Soundtrack for America, a political benefit album put out by Barsuk Records in the fall of 2004.[114] Lead singer Damian Kulash wrote a how-to-guide entitled "How Your Band Tin can Burn Bush" for bands hoping to assist unseat President George W. Bush.[115] [116]

After visiting New Orleans in 2006, the band recorded an EP with New Orleans funk rock band Bonerama, to raise money for musicians who were nonetheless displaced by the 2005 Hurricane Katrina. The EP, entitled You're Not Alone, was released on Feb 5, 2008.[44] [117]

In 2007, OK Go wrote the fight song for the Chicago soccer squad, Chicago Fire S.C. The song was offered on the team's official website as a free download. Also in 2007, OK Get covered the Pixies "Gigantic" for American Laundromat Records Dig for Burn: A Tribute to Pixies CD.[118]

The band's song Do What Yous Desire could as well be heard on the in-game radio in the LucasArts published video game Thrillville: Off The Rails. "Here It Goes Again" is also featured in the minigame Stunt Passenger.[119]

In 2009, the band appeared as the wedding ceremony band Tastes Like Chicken in DreamWorks' I Love Yous, Human starring Paul Rudd and Jason Segel.[120]

In April 2010, OK Go collaborated with Brett Doar of Syyn Labs to build a speciality Rube Goldberg Auto called "The Colbert Machine" for the band's appearance on The Colbert Study.[121] At the cease of the episode, the ring performed "This Too Shall Laissez passer" with host Stephen Colbert singing atomic number 82 vocals.[121] Later that yr, the OK Go song "Hither Information technology Goes Once more" was included in the soundtrack for the children's film Ramona and Beezus.[122]

In 2011, OK Go were featured in the meta-documentary The Greatest Movie Ever Sold past Morgan Spurlock with the song "The Greatest Vocal I Ever Heard". In the picture show, Damian Kulash says: "Does that hateful... Hold on, if we make the theme for The Greatest Flick E'er Sold, does that mean that we're the greatest rock band e'er to write a theme song?" whereby Spurlock responds: "Absolutely."[123]

On May ix, 2013, the band, through its label Paracadute,[64] released Say The Same Matter, a collaborative word guessing game app for iOS and Android in which two players attempt to guess the same discussion, by finding common points betwixt two random starting words.[124] The app, which was created past guitarist Andy Ross during the band's down fourth dimension, is based on an improv game which the band plays together while on tour. The band advertised the app by releasing a comedic video that introduces and explains the game.[125] On May 15, 2013, "Say The Same Thing" became the l billionth download in Apple's App Shop.[125]

OK Go also contributed a song to the 2015 film Hot Tub Time Machine two titled, "Y'all're a Fucking Nerd and No One Likes You."[126]

In February 2015, the band was featured in a segment created to help children learn colors in a premiere for "The Cookie Thief", a Sesame Street movie special.[127]

In March 2015, OK Go made a cameo appearance in the music video for "Pick Me Up" by Japanese electropop group Perfume, following Perfume's cameo advent at the get-go of OK Get's "I Won't Let You lot Down".

In June 2019, the band was featured in the Ripley's Believe It or Not goggle box program on the Travel Channel, showing the making of the music video for their song "The One Moment."

Charity work [edit]

In 2007, the ring released You're Non Alone, a charity EP whose proceeds raised money for musicians displaced by Hurricane Katrina. The successful EP, which helped purchase a dwelling house for New Orleans musician Al "Carnival Fourth dimension" Johnson, was the most public instance of the band's increasing interest in politics and social issues, as the campaign included promotional appearances on Late Night with David Letterman equally well every bit charity concerts. Earlier examples of the band's activism include a x-page PDF titled "How Your Band Can Burn Bush," which was written by Kulash and distributed on the band's website.[128] [129] Other efforts have included direct appeals to fans of the band via the band'southward email newsletter,[130] auctioning themselves off on behalf of Sweet Relief Musician's Fund,[131] and the Burrito Project in which the grouping enlisted fans to join them in handing out burritos to homeless people before concerts. In Chicago, the band partnered with the Inspiration Corporation, a local provider of services to the homeless.[132] The band has played several high-profile political and clemency events, including a Super Tuesday Voter Awareness testify hosted by Stella in 2008,[133] and a star-studded do good in Los Angeles led by Frank Blackness, and including Weird Al, Tenacious D, and others.[134] Lead singer Damian Kulash has written Op-eds in the New York Times on digital rights management[135] and net neutrality,[136] an consequence he besides testified most in front end of the House Judiciary Antitrust Task Forcefulness almost in March 2008,[137] and too discussed with the FCC commissioner. The day afterward that meeting, it was appear that the Internet would be reclassified nether Championship ii of the telecommunication act — one of the band's short-term goals,[138] which the band members nodded to in their five-word Webby acceptance speech communication: "Fight for Net Neutrality at present."[139]

The band has also used the massive popularity of its videos to farther its favored causes. Downloads of the "White Knuckles" video went to ASPCA and were earmarked for rural animal shelters, and the video itself ends with a call to support animal rescue.[140] A marching band costume from "This Too Shall Pass" was auctioned off to feed the homeless[141] and 11 of the signed Gretsch guitars and amplifiers used in "Needing/Getting" were sold to benefit the Fender Music Foundation, which provides instruments to music didactics programs.[142] [143]

OK Get has also allowed its music on do good albums, most notably Dear New Orleans, a 31-vocal online compilation that benefits a multifariousness of New Orleans organizations. Lyrics from the band's contribution, "Louisiana Land", reference a number of New Orleans personalities and institutions, which the New Orleans Times-Picayune called "indicative of simply how deeply the members of OK Go waded into the local gestalt."[144] and the Future Soundtrack for America, a compilation released by Barsuk Records that benefited MoveOn.org and Music for America, which included OK Go's cover of "This Will Exist Our Year" past The Zombies.[145]

On January 18, 2017, two days before Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States, OK Get released a cover of the politically charged Morrissey song "Interesting Drug". The music video includes images of Trump and other prominent political figures as bad people and ends with a list of organizations the band recommends viewers back up. Fans of the band had mixed reactions, prompting this status update on OK GO's Facebook page: "Morrissey Official wrote this song well-nigh 30 years ago only it seems truer to us now than ever. The comments we've gotten over the by twenty-four hours are fascinating. Nosotros especially applaud those who disagree with us without abandoning civility or respect. Y'all requite us hope."[146]

In recent years, OK Become has worked on OK Go Sandbox to create music videos and educational tools with the Playful Learning Lab (a partnership with the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota).

Special appearances and tours [edit]

From 2002 to 2005, OK Go toured across N America and Europe on tours with the Vines, Phantom Planet, Superdrag, the Music, Fountains of Wayne, Kaiser Chiefs, the Redwalls, Brendan Benson, and She Wants Revenge.[147]

On Oct 20, 2005, OK Go appeared on Practiced Morning America to teach and perform the trip the light fantastic from the "A 1000000 Means" video.[148]

On Dec 31, 2005, the band performed surrounded by pyrotechnics and confetti on the Pontiac Garage Stage in New York City for the Times Square New year'due south Eve Commemoration.[149]

In May 2006, OK Go toured with Panic! at the Disco; in September the band toured the U.K. supporting Motility City Soundtrack before returning to the United states of america to tour with Decease Cab for Cutie in tardily 2006 and Snow Patrol in Spring 2007. In Summer 2007, OK Go opened for the Fray on its Northward American bout.[147]

On February 4, 2008, OK Become headlined a fundraiser for the Barack Obama presidential entrada at Bowery Ballroom in New York City on the night before the Super Tuesday elections.[150] The event was hosted by singer/songwriter Craig Wedren and the comedy grouping Stella.[150]

On Feb 23, 2008, the ring performed at the release party for Ben Karlin's collection of essays Things I've Learned From Women Who've Dumped Me at the Steve Allen Theater in Hollywood.[151] Pb singer Damian Kulash contributed an essay for the collection entitled "A Canis familiaris Is Not A Reason To Stay Together."[152] Comedians Stephen Colbert, Volition Forte, Andy Richter, Dan Savage, and Patton Oswalt too contributed essays to the collection.[153]

From 2009 to 2011, OK Go headlined an extensive tour beyond Due north America, Europe, South America, and Asia in support of Of the Blue Colour of the Heaven, including festival appearances at Kanrocksas Music Festival (Kansas City, UsA.), Festival Cultura Quente (Caldas de Reis, Spain), and Positivus Festival (Salacgrīva, Latvia).[147]

OK Get at 2010 WWDC Bash wearing conference jackets

On May 6, 2010, The Baltimore Sunday reported that OK Become was selling USB flash drives with recordings of each show on the Spring 2010 U.S. Tour[154]

On May 23, 2010, the ring performed live underwater on stage at Maker Faire in San Mateo California.[155] The ring members' heads were each submerged in water bubbles attached to animate apparatuses for the duration of the performance, with lead vocalizer Damian Kulash completely submerged in a tank of water.[155]

On June 10, 2010, the band was the surprise musical guest at Apple Inc.'s 2010 World Broad Developers Conference.[156]

In Oct 2010, OK Go performed acoustic versions of "White Knuckles", "Here It Goes Once again", and "This Likewise Shall Pass", along with a handbell version of "Return", at the Poptech! Conference in Camden, ME.[157]

On Nov 17, 2010, OK Go visited the Today Show for a special Today Goes Viral series and helped hosts Ann Curry, Meredith Vieira, Matt Lauer, and Al Roker create a cease motion video set to "White Knuckles." In the video, the hosts were enclosed in glass containers filled with brightly colored ping pong assurance.[158]

On Nov 27, 2010, OK Get joined the Yo Gabba Gabba! Party In My Urban center tour for a special guest operation at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles.[159]

On June 23, 2011, the ring gave a costless concert at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, to celebrate the 14th anniversary of the Millennium Stage. During the show, the ring performed "Return" on handbells.[160] In accelerate of the performance, the Kennedy Center invited 15 Twitter followers and guests to film the show, in society to produce the organization's offset crowd-sourced concert video.[161]

On August 3, 2011, OK Become performed at Barack Obama'southward 50th birthday political party, along with musicians Jennifer Hudson and Herbie Hancock at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago.[162] [163]

On August ten, 2011, the band did a live television functioning of the trip the light fantastic toe the members created with Pilobolus for their All Is Not Lost interactive video on the NBC prove America's Got Talent[164]

On January 31, 2012, OK Get appeared on the children's television show Sesame Street in a video called "3 Chief Colors" meant to teach the young audience most red, yellowish, bluish, and the colors made when you lot mix them.[165] "3 Chief Colors" was simultaneously released as a game on the Sesame Street website.[165]

On May 10, 2012, OK Go was the featured ring on This American Life Live!, a special performance of the evidence telecast live to movie theaters across the US and Canada.[166] By downloading a smartphone app coded by guitarist Andy Ross, viewers were able to play along with the band's handbell performance of "Needing/Getting".[167]

Musical style [edit]

OK Go'due south music style has mostly been regarded as alternative rock,[168] [169] [170] [171] ability pop,[172] [173] pop stone,[174] [175] [176] indie rock,[177] [178] and indie popular.[173] [179]

Members [edit]

Electric current

  • Damian Kulash – lead vocals, rhythm guitar, keyboards, programming (1998–nowadays)
  • Tim Nordwind – bass guitar, keyboards, bankroll vocals (1998–nowadays)
  • Dan Konopka – drums, percussion (1998–nowadays)
  • Andy Ross – lead guitar, keyboards, pianoforte, bankroll vocals (2005–nowadays)

Former

  • Andy Duncan – lead guitar, keyboards, backing vocals (1998–2005)

Timeline [edit]

Discography [edit]

  • OK Go (2002)
  • Oh No (2005)
  • Of the Blue Colour of the Sky (2010)
  • Hungry Ghosts (2014)

Awards and nominations [edit]

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External links [edit]

  • Official website
  • OK Go'southward channel on YouTube
  • WaveCat Playlist
  • Say The Same Thing website
  • Band Blog
  • OK Go at IMDb

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