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OK Go

March 17, 2023

This article is about the band. For the band's eponymous debut album, see OK Go (album).

OK Go is an American rock band originally from Chicago, Illinois, now 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 quirky and elaborate music videos which are often filmed in one take.

OK Go
OK Go performing in 2012.
From left: Tim Norwind, Damian Kulash, Dan Konopka, Andy Ross
Background information
OriginChicago, Illinois, U.S.
Genres
Years active1998–present
Labels
Members
Past members
  • Andy Duncan
Websiteokgo.net

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.

History

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Formation and early years (1998–2000)

The band's lead singer, Damian Kulash, met bassist Tim Nordwind at Interlochen Arts Camp near Traverse City, Michigan, when they were 11.[2] The band name comes from an inside joke developed at Interlochen; they had an often high art teacher who would repeatedly say, "OK... Go!" while they were drawing.[3] They kept in touch after camp, often exchanging mixtapes which influenced each others' musical tastes and the band'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's Joyful Noise.[5] After graduating from Brown University, Kulash moved to Chicago.[5] The quartet formed OK Go with the name being "an obvious choice for us" according to Nordwind.[3]

The band marketed themselves aggressively, putting up posters all around Chicago and touring heavily.[5] Within a year the group had shared the stage with international artists such as Elliott Smith, the Promise 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 house band for live performances of This American Life.[5] Glass also helped the band creatively after asking Kulash the question, "Do you see yourselves as being earnest or clever?"[5] Kulash struggled with the question before deciding that the answer was earnest. "I wanted to write a full-on rock song, one that made me feel like Queen songs made me feel," after which he wrote Get Over It.[5]

The band self-released two EPs, titled 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.[6][citation needed] The demos did not land the band a label deal,[citation needed] but got them the attention of booking agent Frank Riley, who offered them shows with They Might Be Giants, a relationship that led to OK Go opening for the band numerous times during this period.[5] OK Go was introduced to the band's manager by Giants' singer John Flansburgh, who had initially wanted to co-manage the group himself.[7] In 2001 the group moved to Los Angeles,[8] although they considered their Chicago roots important even a decade later.[9]

OK Go (2001–2004)

 
OK Go at the Albany Tulip Festival (May 2006)
Main article: OK Go (album)

Though the band had offers from bigger labels, they signed to Capitol Records in April 2001[5] believing that, as the first signing by newly hired label president Andy Slater,[10] they would get more 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.[5] The album was recorded at the Capitol Studios in Los Angeles and, though the original plan was to do minor tweaks to the original demos, the band ended up rerecording everything and adding five new songs, including the first single "Get Over It,"[5] which later appeared in Triple Play Baseball, Madden NFL 2003, and Guitar Hero 5 video games.[12] To promote the release, the label sent out miniature ping pong tables to press outlets,[7] a reference to the "Get Over It" video directed by Francis Lawrence. In support of the album, the band toured with a diverse group of acts including the Vines, Phantom Planet, Superdrag, the Donnas, Fountains of Wayne, and Mew,[5][13][14][15][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][18][19][20][21][22]

In the United States, the album reached #1 on the Billboard Heatseekers Chart and #107 on the Billboard 200 Chart.[23][24] In the United Kingdom, the first single "Get Over It" debuted at no. 27,[25] in the UK singles chart on March 16, 2003, and the band performed it on that week's edition of Top of the Pops. Also that week, the single's video was named video of the week by Q magazine.[26]

Oh No and You're Not Alone (2005–2008)

Main article: Oh No (OK Go album)

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 by Dave Sardy (Nine Inch Nails, Jet, System 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 ended with each candidate being asked about his or her willingness to do a choreographed dance on stage.[28] Ross introduced himself to the band's fans by writing a blog entitled "The Will To Rock," in which he detailed life on the road beginning with his first show with the band on February 18, 2005.[29]

The album was released in August 2005. Oh No gained popularity for its first single, "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 it with their friends in exchange for free downloads from the iTunes music store.[30] The video for "A Million Ways" featured the band in a backyard performing a dance choreographed by lead singer Kulash's sister, Trish Sie. By August 2006, the video had become the most downloaded music video ever with over 9 million downloads.[31] The band performed the dance live on British TV show Soccer AM, as well as on the late-night American comedy show Mad TV. The US version of the album includes "9027 km", a 35-minute track of lead singer Damian Kulash's girlfriend sleeping that is not listed on the album art.[32] Fans speculated that the track's name is derived from the distance between Los Angeles, California, and Malmö, Sweden, where the album was recorded and that the track was included to prevent the band's label from using the extra space for digital rights management (DRM) software.[32] On December 6, 2005, Kulash published an op-ed piece in The New York Times advocating against record labels' use of DRM software.[33]

In support of Oh No, the band toured extensively, sharing dates with bands such as Death 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 free shows on New Year's Eve in New York City's Times Square and in the parking lot before the University of Michigan vs Michigan State University football game,[37] and festivals such as the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Bennicassim in Spain, Formoz Festival in Taiwan, Summer Sonic in Japan, and Incheon Pentaport in South Korea.[38][39][40][41][42]

On November 7, 2006, after the success of the "Here It Goes 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 band's appearance on Chic-a-Go-Go, a 'super cut' of the hundreds of fan versions of the "A Million Ways" dance, a behind-the-scenes video of the making of the "Here It Goes Again", rehearsals for the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards, an acoustic performance of "What to Do," a video for "There's A Fire" featuring video game characters, a dance booth version of "Don't Ask Me," and live versions of "Do What You Want" and "You're So Damn Hot."[32]

After visiting New Orleans in 2007, the band returned to record an EP with New Orleans funk rock band Bonerama and producer Mark Nevers,[43] to raise money for musicians who were still displaced by the 2005 Hurricane Katrina. The EP, entitled You're Not Alone, was released on Mardi Gras, February 5, 2008.[44] The title is taken from a line in David Bowie's "Rock 'n' Roll Suicide," a cover of which appears on the EP, along with renditions of Bob Dylan's "I Shall Be Released" and three songs from "Oh No."[43] The EP was sold exclusively through iTunes and raised over $40,000, which helped buy 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 song on the EP, moved into his new home in December 2008.[45] In support of the EP, OK Go and Bonearama played two benefit shows, one on January 11, 2008, at Tipitina's in New Orleans, and the other on February 2, 2008, at the 9:30 Club in Washington DC, which was streamed live by NPR and featured on a subsequent NPR podcast.[43][46]

Of the Blue Colour of the Sky (2008–2012)

Main article: Of the Blue Colour of the Sky

On October 12, 2008, OK Go announced 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 third 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 6, 2009, at the TLA Theatre. The name of the album comes from a pseudo-scientific book written by Augustus Pleasonton in 1876 entitled The Influence of the Blue Ray of the Sunlight and of the Blue Colour of the Sky. 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 funky, dance-prone, yet 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 November 17, 2009. On January 8, 2010, OK Go appeared on The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien and performed a song from the album, "This Too Shall Pass". Of the Blue Colour of the Sky was released on January 12, 2010.[49]

After the first two videos for Of the Blue Colour of the Sky were posted to YouTube in 2009, the band was quickly met with complaints from fans who were only able to view them on YouTube. In response, Kulash posted a long letter on the band's website explaining the record label's policies. The letter itself went viral,[50] after being reprinted in Gizmodo,[51] cited as "required reading" on BoingBoing,[52] and excerpted on many other websites. At the end of the letter, Kulash included embed codes for the band's most recent video in direct opposition to the desires of the label. On February 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 Go Announces new label," in which Kulash, accompanied by two dogs in neckties, announces the creation of Paracadute.[10] On March 10, 2010, the band announced it had cut ties with EMI and Capitol and formed the independent label Paracadute.[54] The split became official on April 1, 2010. Paracadute then assumed ownership of the album, "Of the Blue Colour of the Sky", though the band's first two albums, "OK Go" and "Oh No" remained catalog items of EMI.[55] That night OK Go performed a single from its newly independent record on Late Night with Jimmy Kimmel.[56] Now charting its own destiny as an independent entity, the band has attempted to plot a new course for itself, as Kulash puts it: "We're trying to be a DIY [do-it-yourself] band in a post-major label world."[57]

The first wholly new release on the band's label Paracadute Recordings was 180/365,[58] a live 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 one year. A stream of the album premiered on the technology website Mashable before its official street date.[59] To celebrate the release, the band printed and sold two hundred signed copies of 180/365: The Book, a limited edition book of tour photographs by Nathaniel Wood which was made available only to purchasers of the album.[60] The album was sold digitally and on CD in six-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 Tin, Hitoshi Sakimoto, and Jonathan Coulton.[62]

The band's most successful example 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 Too Shall Pass" featuring a large Rube Goldberg machine built in a warehouse.[64] Released on March 1, 2010, the video quickly went viral, with 1.4 million YouTube views in the first 48 hours[63] and over 50 million total views as of February 2016.[65] Since the "This Too Shall Pass" Rube Goldberg Machine video, OK Go has employed a similar brand partnership model in projects with Range Rover,[66] Yahoo,[67] Cisco,[68] Samsung,[69] Google Chrome,[70] Jose Cuervo,[71] and Chevrolet.[72]

Hungry Ghosts (2012–2019)

Main article: Hungry Ghosts (album)

In December 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 Be 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 song per month through the band's 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 Go announced on its YouTube channel that the band was in the process of recording its fourth album.[77]

On May 6, 2014, OK Go announced that its fourth studio album, Hungry Ghosts, would be released in October 2014. The album 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, along with a music video that had reached over one million 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 You Down" was released on October 27, 2014. In its first two weeks, the video hit 12 million views on YouTube.[79] The video features a cameo from the J-pop band Perfume (see Other appearances).

The video for "Upside Down & Inside Out" was released on February 11, 2016, where the band perform the song while moving about in microgravity, with the aid of a reduced-gravity aircraft provided by the Russian S7 Airlines.[80][81]

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

On November 24, 2016, OK Go released the music video for "The One 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 Go released the music video for "Obsession." 567 printers were used to create a multicolored backdrop in the video.[84][85]

Recent activity (2020–present)

In early 2020, during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Kulash and his wife fell ill with the 2019 novel coronavirus.[86] After his recovery, while the band members were following stay-at-home orders at their individual homes, they wrote and recorded "All Together Now" and filmed a video for it over two months as 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 2021, the band released an acoustic cover of "This Will Be Our Year" by The Zombies, which they also covered in 2004. The band has also uploaded several alternate music videos for "All Together Now" on YouTube, including various 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 also hinted in an interview that he might do another video in zero gravity for a future song similarly to "Upside Down and Inside Out."[90]

Post lawsuit

In 2022 and early 2023, the band became involved in a legal dispute with Minnesota company Post Consumer Brands, which registered a trademark on the phrase "OK Go!" for a new line of portable breakfast cereals. A lawyer for the band cited a previous collaboration between OK Go and Post as evidence that the "namejacking" was most likely intentional.[91]

Videos

Main article: OK Go videography

OK Go has earned considerable fame for the band's creative and often low-budget music videos, most of which have been promoted through Internet video sharing sites like YouTube.[92] Many of these have become viral videos; the 2006 video for "Here It Goes Again", in which the band performed a complex routine with the aid of motorized treadmills, received over 50 million views on YouTube within four years.[93] The band's video for "Needing/Getting", released February 5, 2012, in partnership with Chevrolet, debuted during Super Bowl XLVI and has over 47 million views on YouTube.[94] 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.[93] Many of the videos also use 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 do their thing with a minimum of filmmaking interference".[95] The success of OK Go's music first won the band the 14th Annual Webby Special Achievement Award for Film and Video Artist of the Year.[96] The video for "This Too Shall Pass" was named both "Video of the Year" and "Best Rock Video" at the 3rd annual UK Music Video Awards.[97] "This Too Shall Pass" won the LA Film Fest's Audience Award for Best Music Video,[98] UK MVA Awards – Music Video of the Year Winner 2010,[99] among others.

The band has worked with directors including Francis Lawrence, Olivier Gondry (brother of Michel Gondry), Brian L. Perkins, Scott Keiner, and Todd Sullivan. The videos have been screened and displayed at museums, art galleries, and film festivals around the world including the Guggenheim Museum,[100] the Museum of the Moving Image,[101] the Edinburgh International Film Festival,[102] the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Los Angeles Film Festival,[103][104] and the Saatchi & Saatchi New Director's Showcase.[105]

In 2008, Damian Kulash said that the band had not produced the music videos as part of any 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 wind up in a rock band is you want to make stuff. You want to do creative things for a living."[106] On the release of the band's video for "The Writing's on the Wall" in 2014, Kulash explained to Rolling Stone that the band continued to make such quirky videos following their success after "Here It Goes Again" because the band worried about being considered a one-hit wonder: "We could go in two directions: We could either try to out-cool it – try to out-run it like Radiohead did with 'Creep' – or just embrace it and go, OK, what really worked here."[107]

Other appearances

"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[108][109][110] 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 5 and SSX on Tour; while "Do What You Want" was featured in a back to school television campaign for J. C. Penney and the video games EA Sports NHL 06, Guitar Hero: On Tour, and Burnout Revenge.[111][112][113] "Invincible" was a theme song for ABC's Saturday Night Football for the 2006 season.[113] The band's song "A Million Ways" was featured in Band Hero.[114]

The band contributed a cover of the Zombies "This Will Be Our Year" as the lead track of Future Soundtrack for America, a political benefit album put out by Barsuk Records in the fall of 2004.[115] Lead singer Damian Kulash wrote a how-to-guide entitled "How Your Band Can Fire Bush" for bands hoping to help unseat President George W. Bush.[116][117]

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 still displaced by the 2005 Hurricane Katrina. The EP, entitled You're Not Alone, was released on February 5, 2008.[44][118]

In 2007, OK Go wrote the fight song for a Chicago soccer team, Chicago Fire S.C. The song was offered on the team's official website as a free download. Also in 2007, OK Go covered the Pixies "Gigantic" for American Laundromat Records Dig for Fire: A Tribute to Pixies CD.[119]

The band's song "Do What You Want" could also 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 Rider.[120]

In 2009, the band appeared as the wedding band Tastes Like Chicken in DreamWorks' I Love You, Man starring Paul Rudd and Jason Segel.[121]

In April 2010, OK Go collaborated with Brett Doar of Syyn Labs to build a speciality Rube Goldberg Machine called "The Colbert Machine" for the band's appearance on The Colbert Report.[122] At the end of the episode, the band performed "This Too Shall Pass" with host Stephen Colbert singing lead vocals.[122] Later that year, the OK Go song "Here It Goes Again" was included in the soundtrack for the children's film Ramona and Beezus.[123]

In 2011, OK Go were featured in the meta-documentary The Greatest Movie Ever Sold by Morgan Spurlock with the song "The Greatest Song I Ever Heard". In the film, Damian Kulash says: "Does that mean... Hold on, if we make the theme for The Greatest Movie Ever Sold, does that mean that we're the greatest rock band ever to write a theme song?" whereby Spurlock responds: "Absolutely."[124]

On May 9, 2013, the band, through its label Paracadute,[64] released Say The Same Thing, a collaborative word guessing game app for iOS and Android in which two players attempt to guess the same word, by finding common points between two random starting words.[125] The app, which was created by guitarist Andy Ross during the band's down time, 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.[126] On May 15, 2013, "Say The Same Thing" became the 50 billionth download in Apple's App Store.[126]

OK Go also contributed a song to the 2015 film Hot Tub Time Machine 2 titled, "You're a Fucking Nerd and No One Likes You."[127]

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.[128]

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 appearance at the beginning of OK Go's "I Won't Let You Down".

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

In 2021, the band recorded the theme for the Apple TV+ children's show Hello, Jack!, entitled Try a A Little Act Of Kindness, and appeared as themselves in the last episode of season 1.

Charity work

In 2007, the band released You're Not Alone, a charity EP whose proceeds raised money for musicians displaced by Hurricane Katrina. The successful EP, which helped purchase a home for New Orleans musician Al "Carnival Time" Johnson, was the most public example of the band's increasing interest in politics and social issues, as the campaign included promotional appearances on Late Night with David Letterman as well as charity concerts. Earlier examples of the band's activism include a ten-page PDF titled "How Your Band Can Fire Bush," which was written by Kulash and distributed on the band's website.[129][130] Other efforts have included direct appeals to fans of the band via the band's email newsletter,[131] auctioning themselves off on behalf of Sweet Relief Musician's Fund,[132] and the Burrito Project in which the group 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.[133] The band has played several high-profile political and charity events, including a Super Tuesday Voter Awareness show hosted by Stella in 2008,[134] and a star-studded benefit in Los Angeles led by Frank Black, and including Weird Al, Tenacious D, and others.[135] Lead singer Damian Kulash has written op-eds in The New York Times on digital rights management[136] and net neutrality,[137] an issue he also testified about in front of the House Judiciary Antitrust Task Force about in March 2008,[138] and also discussed with the FCC commissioner. The day after that meeting, it was announced that the Internet would be reclassified under Title 2 of the telecommunications act — one of the band's short-term goals,[139] which the band members nodded to in their five-word Webby acceptance speech: "Fight for Net Neutrality now."[140]

The band has also used the massive popularity of its videos to further 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.[141] A marching band costume from "This Too Shall Pass" was auctioned off to feed the homeless[142] and eleven of the signed Gretsch guitars and amplifiers used in "Needing/Getting" were sold to benefit the Fender Music Foundation, which provides instruments to music education programs.[143][144]

OK Go has also allowed its music on benefit albums, most notably Dear New Orleans, a 31-song online compilation that benefits a variety 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 just how deeply the members of OK Go waded into the local gestalt."[145] 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 Be Our Year" by The Zombies.[146]

On January 18, 2017, two days before Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States, OK Go 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 support. Fans of the band had mixed reactions, prompting this status update on OK GO's Facebook page: "Morrissey Official wrote this song almost 30 years ago but it seems truer to us now than ever. The comments we’ve gotten over the past day are fascinating. We especially applaud those who disagree with us without abandoning civility or respect. You give us hope."[147]

In recent years, OK Go 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

From 2002 to 2005, OK Go toured across North 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.[148]

On October 20, 2005, OK Go appeared on Good Morning America to teach and perform the dance from the "A Million Ways" video.[149]

On December 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's Eve Celebration.[150]

In May 2006, OK Go toured with Panic! at the Disco; in September the band toured the U.K. supporting Motion City Soundtrack before returning to the United States to tour with Death Cab for Cutie in late 2006 and Snow Patrol in Spring 2007. In Summer 2007, OK Go opened for the Fray on its North American tour.[148]

On February 4, 2008, OK Go headlined a fundraiser for the Barack Obama presidential campaign at Bowery Ballroom in New York City on the night before the Super Tuesday elections.[151] The event was hosted by singer/songwriter Craig Wedren and the comedy group Stella.[151]

On February 23, 2008, the band 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.[152] Lead singer Damian Kulash contributed an essay for the collection entitled "A Dog Is Not A Reason To Stay Together."[153] Comedians Stephen Colbert, Will Forte, Andy Richter, Dan Savage, and Patton Oswalt also contributed essays to the collection.[154]

From 2009 to 2011, OK Go headlined an extensive tour across North America, Europe, South America, and Asia in support of Of the Blue Colour of the Sky, including festival appearances at Kanrocksas Music Festival (Kansas City, U.S.A.), Festival Cultura Quente (Caldas de Reis, Spain), and Positivus Festival (Salacgrīva, Latvia).[148]

 
OK Go at 2010 WWDC Bash wearing conference jackets

On May 6, 2010, The Baltimore Sun reported that OK Go was selling USB flash drives with recordings of each show on the Spring 2010 U.S. Tour[155]

On May 23, 2010, the band performed live underwater on stage at Maker Faire in San Mateo California.[156] The band members' heads were each submerged in water bubbles attached to breathing apparatuses for the duration of the performance, with lead singer Damian Kulash completely submerged in a tank of water.[156]

On June 10, 2010, the band was the surprise musical guest at Apple Inc.'s 2010 World Wide Developers Conference.[157]

In October 2010, OK Go performed acoustic versions of "White Knuckles", "Here It Goes Again", and "This Too Shall Pass", along with a handbell version of "Return", at the Poptech! Conference in Camden, ME.[158]

On November 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 stop motion video set to "White Knuckles." In the video, the hosts were enclosed in glass containers filled with brightly colored ping pong balls.[159]

On November 27, 2010, OK Go joined the Yo Gabba Gabba! Party In My City tour for a special guest performance at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles.[160]

On June 23, 2011, the band gave a free concert at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, to celebrate the 14th anniversary of the Millennium Stage. During the show, the band performed "Return" on handbells.[161] In advance of the performance, the Kennedy Center invited 15 Twitter followers and guests to film the show, in order to produce the organization's first crowd-sourced concert video.[162]

On August 3, 2011, OK Go performed at Barack Obama's 50th birthday party, along with musicians Jennifer Hudson and Herbie Hancock at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago.[163][164]

On August 10, 2011, the band did a live television performance of the dance the members created with Pilobolus for their All Is Not Lost interactive video on the NBC show America's Got Talent[165]

On January 31, 2012, OK Go appeared on the children's television show Sesame Street in a video called "3 Primary Colors" meant to teach the young audience about red, yellow, blue, and the colors made when you mix them.[166] "3 Primary Colors" was simultaneously released as a game on the Sesame Street website.[166]

On May 10, 2012, OK Go was the featured band on This American Life Live!, a special performance of the show telecast live to movie theaters across the US and Canada.[167] 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".[168]

Musical style

OK Go's music style has generally been regarded as alternative rock,[169][170][171][172] power pop,[173][174] pop rock,[175][176][177] indie rock,[178][179] and indie pop.[174][180]

Members

Current

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

Former

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

Timeline

Discography

Main article: OK Go discography

Awards and nominations

Main article: List of awards and nominations received by OK Go

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External links

  • Official website  
  • OK Go's channel on YouTube
  • WaveCat Playlist
  • Band Blog
  • OK Go at IMDb

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this, article, about, band, band, eponymous, debut, album, album, american, rock, band, originally, from, chicago, illinois, based, angeles, california, band, composed, damian, kulash, lead, vocals, guitar, nordwind, bass, guitar, vocals, konopka, drums, percu. This article is about the band For the band s eponymous debut album see OK Go album OK Go is an American rock band originally from Chicago Illinois now 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 quirky and elaborate music videos which are often filmed in one take OK GoOK Go performing in 2012 From left Tim Norwind Damian Kulash Dan Konopka Andy RossBackground informationOriginChicago Illinois U S GenresAlternative rock power pop pop rock indie rock indie popYears active1998 presentLabelsParacadute Capitol EMI BMGMembersDamian Kulash Tim Nordwind Dan Konopka Andy RossPast membersAndy DuncanWebsiteokgo wbr netThe 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 Contents 1 History 1 1 Formation and early years 1998 2000 1 2 OK Go 2001 2004 1 3 Oh No and You re Not Alone 2005 2008 1 4 Of the Blue Colour of the Sky 2008 2012 1 5 Hungry Ghosts 2012 2019 1 6 Recent activity 2020 present 1 6 1 Post lawsuit 2 Videos 3 Other appearances 4 Charity work 5 Special appearances and tours 6 Musical style 7 Members 7 1 Timeline 8 Discography 9 Awards and nominations 10 References 11 External linksHistory EditExternal video OK Go Wikipedia Fact or Fiction 15 52 Diffuser fm 1 Formation and early years 1998 2000 Edit The band s lead singer Damian Kulash met bassist Tim Nordwind at Interlochen Arts Camp near Traverse City Michigan when they were 11 2 The band name comes from an inside joke developed at Interlochen they had an often high art teacher who would repeatedly say OK Go while they were drawing 3 They kept in touch after camp often exchanging mixtapes which influenced each others musical tastes and the band 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 s Joyful Noise 5 After graduating from Brown University Kulash moved to Chicago 5 The quartet formed OK Go with the name being an obvious choice for us according to Nordwind 3 The band marketed themselves aggressively putting up posters all around Chicago and touring heavily 5 Within a year the group had shared the stage with international artists such as Elliott Smith the Promise 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 house band for live performances of This American Life 5 Glass also helped the band creatively after asking Kulash the question Do you see yourselves as being earnest or clever 5 Kulash struggled with the question before deciding that the answer was earnest I wanted to write a full on rock song one that made me feel like Queen songs made me feel after which he wrote Get Over It 5 The band self released two EPs titled 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 6 citation needed The demos did not land the band a label deal citation needed but got them the attention of booking agent Frank Riley who offered them shows with They Might Be Giants a relationship that led to OK Go opening for the band numerous times during this period 5 OK Go was introduced to the band s manager by Giants singer John Flansburgh who had initially wanted to co manage the group himself 7 In 2001 the group moved to Los Angeles 8 although they considered their Chicago roots important even a decade later 9 OK Go 2001 2004 Edit OK Go at the Albany Tulip Festival May 2006 Main article OK Go album Though the band had offers from bigger labels they signed to Capitol Records in April 2001 5 believing that as the first signing by newly hired label president Andy Slater 10 they would get more 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 5 The album was recorded at the Capitol Studios in Los Angeles and though the original plan was to do minor tweaks to the original demos the band ended up rerecording everything and adding five new songs including the first single Get Over It 5 which later appeared in Triple Play Baseball Madden NFL 2003 and Guitar Hero 5 video games 12 To promote the release the label sent out miniature ping pong tables to press outlets 7 a reference to the Get Over It video directed by Francis Lawrence In support of the album the band toured with a diverse group of acts including the Vines Phantom Planet Superdrag the Donnas Fountains of Wayne and Mew 5 13 14 15 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 18 19 20 21 22 In the United States the album reached 1 on the Billboard Heatseekers Chart and 107 on the Billboard 200 Chart 23 24 In the United Kingdom the first single Get Over It debuted at no 27 25 in the UK singles chart on March 16 2003 and the band performed it on that week s edition of Top of the Pops Also that week the single s video was named video of the week by Q magazine 26 Oh No and You re Not Alone 2005 2008 Edit Main article Oh No OK Go album The band s second album Oh No was recorded in Malmo Sweden in the fall of 2004 and was produced by Tore Johansson the Cardigans Franz Ferdinand and mixed by Dave Sardy Nine Inch Nails Jet System 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 ended with each candidate being asked about his or her willingness to do a choreographed dance on stage 28 Ross introduced himself to the band s fans by writing a blog entitled The Will To Rock in which he detailed life on the road beginning with his first show with the band on February 18 2005 29 The album was released in August 2005 Oh No gained popularity for its first single 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 it with their friends in exchange for free downloads from the iTunes music store 30 The video for A Million Ways featured the band in a backyard performing a dance choreographed by lead singer Kulash s sister Trish Sie By August 2006 the video had become the most downloaded music video ever with over 9 million downloads 31 The band performed the dance live on British TV show Soccer AM as well as on the late night American comedy show Mad TV The US version of the album includes 9027 km a 35 minute track of lead singer Damian Kulash s girlfriend sleeping that is not listed on the album art 32 Fans speculated that the track s name is derived from the distance between Los Angeles California and Malmo Sweden where the album was recorded and that the track was included to prevent the band s label from using the extra space for digital rights management DRM software 32 On December 6 2005 Kulash published an op ed piece in The New York Times advocating against record labels use of DRM software 33 In support of Oh No the band toured extensively sharing dates with bands such as Death 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 free shows on New Year s Eve in New York City s Times Square and in the parking lot before the University of Michigan vs Michigan State University football game 37 and festivals such as the Edinburgh Fringe Festival Bennicassim in Spain Formoz Festival in Taiwan Summer Sonic in Japan and Incheon Pentaport in South Korea 38 39 40 41 42 On November 7 2006 after the success of the Here It Goes 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 band s appearance on Chic a Go Go a super cut of the hundreds of fan versions of the A Million Ways dance a behind the scenes video of the making of the Here It Goes Again rehearsals for the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards an acoustic performance of What to Do a video for There s A Fire featuring video game characters a dance booth version of Don t Ask Me and live versions of Do What You Want and You re So Damn Hot 32 After visiting New Orleans in 2007 the band returned to record an EP with New Orleans funk rock band Bonerama and producer Mark Nevers 43 to raise money for musicians who were still displaced by the 2005 Hurricane Katrina The EP entitled You re Not Alone was released on Mardi Gras February 5 2008 44 The title is taken from a line in David Bowie s Rock n Roll Suicide a cover of which appears on the EP along with renditions of Bob Dylan s I Shall Be Released and three songs from Oh No 43 The EP was sold exclusively through iTunes and raised over 40 000 which helped buy 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 song on the EP moved into his new home in December 2008 45 In support of the EP OK Go and Bonearama played two benefit shows one on January 11 2008 at Tipitina s in New Orleans and the other on February 2 2008 at the 9 30 Club in Washington DC which was streamed live by NPR and featured on a subsequent NPR podcast 43 46 Of the Blue Colour of the Sky 2008 2012 Edit Main article Of the Blue Colour of the Sky On October 12 2008 OK Go announced 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 third 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 6 2009 at the TLA Theatre The name of the album comes from a pseudo scientific book written by Augustus Pleasonton in 1876 entitled The Influence of the Blue Ray of the Sunlight and of the Blue Colour of the Sky 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 funky dance prone yet 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 November 17 2009 On January 8 2010 OK Go appeared on The Tonight Show with Conan O Brien and performed a song from the album This Too Shall Pass Of the Blue Colour of the Sky was released on January 12 2010 49 After the first two videos for Of the Blue Colour of the Sky were posted to YouTube in 2009 the band was quickly met with complaints from fans who were only able to view them on YouTube In response Kulash posted a long letter on the band s website explaining the record label s policies The letter itself went viral 50 after being reprinted in Gizmodo 51 cited as required reading on BoingBoing 52 and excerpted on many other websites At the end of the letter Kulash included embed codes for the band s most recent video in direct opposition to the desires of the label On February 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 Go Announces new label in which Kulash accompanied by two dogs in neckties announces the creation of Paracadute 10 On March 10 2010 the band announced it had cut ties with EMI and Capitol and formed the independent label Paracadute 54 The split became official on April 1 2010 Paracadute then assumed ownership of the album Of the Blue Colour of the Sky though the band s first two albums OK Go and Oh No remained catalog items of EMI 55 That night OK Go performed a single from its newly independent record on Late Night with Jimmy Kimmel 56 Now charting its own destiny as an independent entity the band has attempted to plot a new course for itself as Kulash puts it We re trying to be a DIY do it yourself band in a post major label world 57 The first wholly new release on the band s label Paracadute Recordings was 180 365 58 a live 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 one year A stream of the album premiered on the technology website Mashable before its official street date 59 To celebrate the release the band printed and sold two hundred signed copies of 180 365 The Book a limited edition book of tour photographs by Nathaniel Wood which was made available only to purchasers of the album 60 The album was sold digitally and on CD in six 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 Tin Hitoshi Sakimoto and Jonathan Coulton 62 The band s most successful example 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 Too Shall Pass featuring a large Rube Goldberg machine built in a warehouse 64 Released on March 1 2010 the video quickly went viral with 1 4 million YouTube views in the first 48 hours 63 and over 50 million total views as of February 2016 update 65 Since the This Too Shall Pass Rube Goldberg Machine video OK Go has employed a similar brand partnership model in projects with Range Rover 66 Yahoo 67 Cisco 68 Samsung 69 Google Chrome 70 Jose Cuervo 71 and Chevrolet 72 Hungry Ghosts 2012 2019 Edit Main article Hungry Ghosts album In December 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 Be 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 song per month through the band s 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 amp Saatchi for The Saatchi amp Saatchi Music Video Challenge 76 On April 3 2013 OK Go announced on its YouTube channel that the band was in the process of recording its fourth album 77 On May 6 2014 OK Go announced that its fourth studio album Hungry Ghosts would be released in October 2014 The album 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 along with a music video that had reached over one million 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 You Down was released on October 27 2014 In its first two weeks the video hit 12 million views on YouTube 79 The video features a cameo from the J pop band Perfume see Other appearances The video for Upside Down amp Inside Out was released on February 11 2016 where the band perform the song while moving about in microgravity with the aid of a reduced gravity aircraft provided by the Russian S7 Airlines 80 81 On July 20 2016 OK Go released I Don t Understand You a stand alone single that was a collaboration with Perfume On November 24 2016 OK Go released the music video for The One 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 Go released the music video for Obsession 567 printers were used to create a multicolored backdrop in the video 84 85 Recent activity 2020 present Edit In early 2020 during the beginning of the COVID 19 pandemic Kulash and his wife fell ill with the 2019 novel coronavirus 86 After his recovery while the band members were following stay at home orders at their individual homes they wrote and recorded All Together Now and filmed a video for it over two months as 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 2021 the band released an acoustic cover of This Will Be Our Year by The Zombies which they also covered in 2004 The band has also uploaded several alternate music videos for All Together Now on YouTube including various 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 also hinted in an interview that he might do another video in zero gravity for a future song similarly to Upside Down and Inside Out 90 Post lawsuit Edit In 2022 and early 2023 the band became involved in a legal dispute with Minnesota company Post Consumer Brands which registered a trademark on the phrase OK Go for a new line of portable breakfast cereals A lawyer for the band cited a previous collaboration between OK Go and Post as evidence that the namejacking was most likely intentional 91 Videos EditMain article OK Go videography OK Go has earned considerable fame for the band s creative and often low budget music videos most of which have been promoted through Internet video sharing sites like YouTube 92 Many of these have become viral videos the 2006 video for Here It Goes Again in which the band performed a complex routine with the aid of motorized treadmills received over 50 million views on YouTube within four years 93 The band s video for Needing Getting released February 5 2012 in partnership with Chevrolet debuted during Super Bowl XLVI and has over 47 million views on YouTube 94 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 93 Many of the videos also use 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 do their thing with a minimum of filmmaking interference 95 The success of OK Go s music first won the band the 14th Annual Webby Special Achievement Award for Film and Video Artist of the Year 96 The video for This Too Shall Pass was named both Video of the Year and Best Rock Video at the 3rd annual UK Music Video Awards 97 This Too Shall Pass won the LA Film Fest s Audience Award for Best Music Video 98 UK MVA Awards Music Video of the Year Winner 2010 99 among others The band has worked with directors including Francis Lawrence Olivier Gondry brother of Michel Gondry Brian L Perkins Scott Keiner and Todd Sullivan The videos have been screened and displayed at museums art galleries and film festivals around the world including the Guggenheim Museum 100 the Museum of the Moving Image 101 the Edinburgh International Film Festival 102 the Los Angeles County Museum of Art the Los Angeles Film Festival 103 104 and the Saatchi amp Saatchi New Director s Showcase 105 In 2008 Damian Kulash said that the band had not produced the music videos as part of any 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 wind up in a rock band is you want to make stuff You want to do creative things for a living 106 On the release of the band s video for The Writing s on the Wall in 2014 Kulash explained to Rolling Stone that the band continued to make such quirky videos following their success after Here It Goes Again because the band worried about being considered a one hit wonder We could go in two directions We could either try to out cool it try to out run it like Radiohead did with Creep or just embrace it and go OK what really worked here 107 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 108 109 110 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 5 and SSX on Tour while Do What You Want was featured in a back to school television campaign for J C Penney and the video games EA Sports NHL 06 Guitar Hero On Tour and Burnout Revenge 111 112 113 Invincible was a theme song for ABC s Saturday Night Football for the 2006 season 113 The band s song A Million Ways was featured in Band Hero 114 The band contributed a cover of the Zombies This Will Be Our Year as the lead track of Future Soundtrack for America a political benefit album put out by Barsuk Records in the fall of 2004 115 Lead singer Damian Kulash wrote a how to guide entitled How Your Band Can Fire Bush for bands hoping to help unseat President George W Bush 116 117 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 still displaced by the 2005 Hurricane Katrina The EP entitled You re Not Alone was released on February 5 2008 44 118 In 2007 OK Go wrote the fight song for a Chicago soccer team Chicago Fire S C The song was offered on the team s official website as a free download Also in 2007 OK Go covered the Pixies Gigantic for American Laundromat Records Dig for Fire A Tribute to Pixies CD 119 The band s song Do What You Want could also 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 Rider 120 In 2009 the band appeared as the wedding band Tastes Like Chicken in DreamWorks I Love You Man starring Paul Rudd and Jason Segel 121 In April 2010 OK Go collaborated with Brett Doar of Syyn Labs to build a speciality Rube Goldberg Machine called The Colbert Machine for the band s appearance on The Colbert Report 122 At the end of the episode the band performed This Too Shall Pass with host Stephen Colbert singing lead vocals 122 Later that year the OK Go song Here It Goes Again was included in the soundtrack for the children s film Ramona and Beezus 123 In 2011 OK Go were featured in the meta documentary The Greatest Movie Ever Sold by Morgan Spurlock with the song The Greatest Song I Ever Heard In the film Damian Kulash says Does that mean Hold on if we make the theme for The Greatest Movie Ever Sold does that mean that we re the greatest rock band ever to write a theme song whereby Spurlock responds Absolutely 124 On May 9 2013 the band through its label Paracadute 64 released Say The Same Thing a collaborative word guessing game app for iOS and Android in which two players attempt to guess the same word by finding common points between two random starting words 125 The app which was created by guitarist Andy Ross during the band s down time 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 126 On May 15 2013 Say The Same Thing became the 50 billionth download in Apple s App Store 126 OK Go also contributed a song to the 2015 film Hot Tub Time Machine 2 titled You re a Fucking Nerd and No One Likes You 127 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 128 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 appearance at the beginning of OK Go s I Won t Let You Down In June 2019 the band was featured in the Ripley s Believe It or Not television program on the Travel Channel showing the making of the music video for their song The One Moment In 2021 the band recorded the theme for the Apple TV children s show Hello Jack entitled Try a A Little Act Of Kindness and appeared as themselves in the last episode of season 1 Charity work EditIn 2007 the band released You re Not Alone a charity EP whose proceeds raised money for musicians displaced by Hurricane Katrina The successful EP which helped purchase a home for New Orleans musician Al Carnival Time Johnson was the most public example of the band s increasing interest in politics and social issues as the campaign included promotional appearances on Late Night with David Letterman as well as charity concerts Earlier examples of the band s activism include a ten page PDF titled How Your Band Can Fire Bush which was written by Kulash and distributed on the band s website 129 130 Other efforts have included direct appeals to fans of the band via the band s email newsletter 131 auctioning themselves off on behalf of Sweet Relief Musician s Fund 132 and the Burrito Project in which the group 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 133 The band has played several high profile political and charity events including a Super Tuesday Voter Awareness show hosted by Stella in 2008 134 and a star studded benefit in Los Angeles led by Frank Black and including Weird Al Tenacious D and others 135 Lead singer Damian Kulash has written op eds in The New York Times on digital rights management 136 and net neutrality 137 an issue he also testified about in front of the House Judiciary Antitrust Task Force about in March 2008 138 and also discussed with the FCC commissioner The day after that meeting it was announced that the Internet would be reclassified under Title 2 of the telecommunications act one of the band s short term goals 139 which the band members nodded to in their five word Webby acceptance speech Fight for Net Neutrality now 140 The band has also used the massive popularity of its videos to further 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 141 A marching band costume from This Too Shall Pass was auctioned off to feed the homeless 142 and eleven of the signed Gretsch guitars and amplifiers used in Needing Getting were sold to benefit the Fender Music Foundation which provides instruments to music education programs 143 144 OK Go has also allowed its music on benefit albums most notably Dear New Orleans a 31 song online compilation that benefits a variety 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 just how deeply the members of OK Go waded into the local gestalt 145 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 Be Our Year by The Zombies 146 On January 18 2017 two days before Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States OK Go 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 support Fans of the band had mixed reactions prompting this status update on OK GO s Facebook page Morrissey Official wrote this song almost 30 years ago but it seems truer to us now than ever The comments we ve gotten over the past day are fascinating We especially applaud those who disagree with us without abandoning civility or respect You give us hope 147 In recent years OK Go 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 EditFrom 2002 to 2005 OK Go toured across North 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 148 On October 20 2005 OK Go appeared on Good Morning America to teach and perform the dance from the A Million Ways video 149 On December 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 s Eve Celebration 150 In May 2006 OK Go toured with Panic at the Disco in September the band toured the U K supporting Motion City Soundtrack before returning to the United States to tour with Death Cab for Cutie in late 2006 and Snow Patrol in Spring 2007 In Summer 2007 OK Go opened for the Fray on its North American tour 148 On February 4 2008 OK Go headlined a fundraiser for the Barack Obama presidential campaign at Bowery Ballroom in New York City on the night before the Super Tuesday elections 151 The event was hosted by singer songwriter Craig Wedren and the comedy group Stella 151 On February 23 2008 the band 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 152 Lead singer Damian Kulash contributed an essay for the collection entitled A Dog Is Not A Reason To Stay Together 153 Comedians Stephen Colbert Will Forte Andy Richter Dan Savage and Patton Oswalt also contributed essays to the collection 154 From 2009 to 2011 OK Go headlined an extensive tour across North America Europe South America and Asia in support of Of the Blue Colour of the Sky including festival appearances at Kanrocksas Music Festival Kansas City U S A Festival Cultura Quente Caldas de Reis Spain and Positivus Festival Salacgriva Latvia 148 OK Go at 2010 WWDC Bash wearing conference jackets On May 6 2010 The Baltimore Sun reported that OK Go was selling USB flash drives with recordings of each show on the Spring 2010 U S Tour 155 On May 23 2010 the band performed live underwater on stage at Maker Faire in San Mateo California 156 The band members heads were each submerged in water bubbles attached to breathing apparatuses for the duration of the performance with lead singer Damian Kulash completely submerged in a tank of water 156 On June 10 2010 the band was the surprise musical guest at Apple Inc s 2010 World Wide Developers Conference 157 In October 2010 OK Go performed acoustic versions of White Knuckles Here It Goes Again and This Too Shall Pass along with a handbell version of Return at the Poptech Conference in Camden ME 158 On November 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 stop motion video set to White Knuckles In the video the hosts were enclosed in glass containers filled with brightly colored ping pong balls 159 On November 27 2010 OK Go joined the Yo Gabba Gabba Party In My City tour for a special guest performance at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles 160 On June 23 2011 the band gave a free concert at the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to celebrate the 14th anniversary of the Millennium Stage During the show the band performed Return on handbells 161 In advance of the performance the Kennedy Center invited 15 Twitter followers and guests to film the show in order to produce the organization s first crowd sourced concert video 162 On August 3 2011 OK Go performed at Barack Obama s 50th birthday party along with musicians Jennifer Hudson and Herbie Hancock at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago 163 164 On August 10 2011 the band did a live television performance of the dance the members created with Pilobolus for their All Is Not Lost interactive video on the NBC show America s Got Talent 165 On January 31 2012 OK Go appeared on the children s television show Sesame Street in a video called 3 Primary Colors meant to teach the young audience about red yellow blue and the colors made when you mix them 166 3 Primary Colors was simultaneously released as a game on the Sesame Street website 166 On May 10 2012 OK Go was the featured band on This American Life Live a special performance of the show telecast live to movie theaters across the US and Canada 167 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 168 Musical style EditOK Go s music style has generally been regarded as alternative rock 169 170 171 172 power pop 173 174 pop rock 175 176 177 indie rock 178 179 and indie pop 174 180 Members EditCurrent Damian Kulash lead vocals rhythm guitar keyboards programming 1998 present Tim Nordwind bass guitar keyboards backing vocals 1998 present Dan Konopka drums percussion 1998 present Andy Ross lead guitar keyboards piano backing vocals 2005 present Former Andy Duncan lead guitar keyboards backing vocals 1998 2005 Timeline EditDiscography EditMain article OK Go 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