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Name: OkGo

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http://okgo.net http://myspace.com/okgoOK Go is:Damian Kulash: Vocals, GuitarTim Nordwind: BassDan Konopka: DrumsAndy Ross: Guitar, KeyboardsIt's winter in Malmö, the Swedish industrial town where OK Go has come to record their second album for Capitol Records. The band is excited but wary. They've just spent two exhausting years touring the globe, and another six months back home, writing and rejecting more than sixty new songs. The writing process was grueling, but fruitful: OK Go came up with a collection of demos so strong they grabbed the attention of super-producer Tore Johansson, the hugely sought-after man behind Franz Ferdinand's debut album and the Cardigans' hits.Tore's first words are gruff. "When you are finished with a take," he tells them in his half-menacing, half-hilarious Swedish accent," I will not come running into the studio smiling and waving my arms like some American producer. If I say something is OK, it is perfect. If I say nothing, you will do it again until I tell you stop." Tore spends ten minutes deriding the cookie-cutter slickness of America, home of editing systems smarter than the people who use them. It will be much simpler here, Tore assures them. "You will go into a room together and you will rock."And rock they did. The result is Oh No, an album that absolutely explodes out of the speakers. Where other bands bomb out or bloat up on their second albums, OK Go has tightened the screws and trimmed the fat, delivering a stripped-down, revved-up forty-two minutes of wild, propulsive rock and roll. It's a worthy follow-up to their 2002 debut, which established OK Go as expert craftsmen of intelligent, ultra-catchy rock songs. If that album was the mischievous class president-smart and popular and sexy, and not as innocent as he seems - then Oh No is the same kid after he's spent a lurid summer in bedrooms and bar fights all over town.There's a rougher grit to Oh No. From the chaotic torrent of crashing guitars that launches "Invincible," the anthemic lead track, to the acidic chorus of "The House Wins," the album's stinging final song ("You don't have to be alone to be lonely.. you might as well give in"), the album surges with electricity. It's in the center-stage cowbell and cocky classic-rock riff of "Do What You Want," and the feverish, new wave rush of "Here It Goes Again."But that energy doesn't obscure the wit, melody, and unabashed joy that brought the band this far. "A Good Idea at the Time" delivers a swaggering, line-for-line response to the Stones classic, "Sympathy for the Devil," transforming those famous "ooh-oohs" into tortured little taunts. Right on its heels is "Oh Lately It's So Quiet," a beautifully delicate - and unstoppably sexy - ghost story. Just a few songs later, we're taken somewhere else, slinking across the dance floor to the sleazy disco-era Clash beat of "A Million Ways."Anyone who has witnessed the exhilaration of the band's live show will recognize the frenetic drive at the heart of Oh No. "We wanted to make an album that sounds like our band, and not a heady, self-conscious studio project," says lead singer Damian Kulash. "Everyone tells us rock and roll is a shadow of itself - a sad old milk cow smiling at the farmer every morning. We still see a bucking bull smashing around the stable."The band's energy doesn't stop at the edge of the stage or the end of the disc. From the influential how-to guide they published for bands hoping to unseat President Bush (you should have seen the avalanche of hate mail that won them), to the monthly column they wrote for a Japanese rock magazine, to their tour of America as house band for public radio program This American Life, OK Go always seems to find a new corner of the world to explore and make their own. With Oh No, they're coming after yours.

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Germany, Meet YouTube. YouTube, Meet Germany.

Germany, Meet YouTube.  YouTube, Meet Germany.
  • Length: 0:53
  • Rating Average: 4.79 from 153 people
  • View Count: 18169
  • Author: OkGo

Tags: damian  fingers  germany  go  hereitgoesagain  kulash  nordwind  ok  okgo  puppets  tim  treadmills  youtube 

OK Go was invited to perform at the big launch party for YouTube Germany. The boys couldn't make it, so they sent this video instead.

OK Go - Do What You Want (Wallpaper Version)

OK Go - Do What You Want (Wallpaper Version)
  • Length: 3:6
  • Rating Average: 4.80 from 5762 people
  • View Count: 1878453
  • Author: OkGo

Tags: dance  do  dwyw  go  music  no  oh  ohno  ok  okgo  rock  video  wallpaper  want  what  you 

The second video for Do What You Want was directed by OK Go and Blip Boutique and stars a large contingent of LA's most talented weirdos. Also: wallpaper.Buy the album at iTunes:http://doiop.com/ohno/itunesVisit OK Go:http://okgo.nethttp://myspace.com/okgo

The OK Go Dances With You(Tube) Contest Winners

The OK Go Dances With You(Tube) Contest Winners
  • Length: 2:16
  • Rating Average: 4.69 from 561 people
  • View Count: 294124
  • Author: OkGo

Tags: amillionways  amw  contest  dance  go  million  ok  okgo  ways  youtube 

Thanks for entering the OK Go Dance Contest. All of the entries are awesome, and we were proud that so many of them were show on TV, including The Colbert Report, The Early Show, and CBS News. You all deserve a huge ovation. Thanks for entering and for making this contest so much fun.Check out...

Mr. OK Go Head Gets Real Annoying

Mr. OK Go Head Gets Real Annoying
  • Length: 0:50
  • Rating Average: 4.52 from 128 people
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  • Author: OkGo

Tags: costumes  disaster  go  logo  of  ok  okgo  okgohead  sadness  the  unbearable 

Oh, Mr. OK Go Head. This time you've gone too far.

Favorites (12)

OK Go - Prove My Love (Violent Femmes) / Do What You Want

OK Go - Prove My Love (Violent Femmes) / Do What You Want
  • Length: 7:57
  • Rating Average: 4.93 from 15 people
  • View Count: 5914' favoriteCount='23
  • Author: RWS24

Tags: australia  bar  cover  do  femmes  fi  go  hi  hifi  live  love  melbourne  my  ok  prove  victoria  violent  want  what  you 

OK Go @ Hi Fi Bar, Melbourne(4th Aug 2007)Encore Set

Spider Pig Treadmill Dance

Spider Pig Treadmill Dance
  • Length: 0:14
  • Rating Average: 4.15 from 279 people
  • View Count: 37988' favoriteCount='434
  • Author: MinuteMile

Tags: again  dancing  go  goes  harry  here  homer  it  movie  ok  okgo  pig  plopper  simpsons  spider  spiderpig  treadmills 

Spider Pig on Treadmills, Dancing.the Simpsons Movieonly in theaters July 27,2007

Ok Go-Dance

Ok Go-Dance
  • Length: 4:51
  • Rating Average: 4.46 from 160 people
  • View Count: 15817' favoriteCount='45
  • Author: xLaRivalita

Tags: amphitheater  city  cleveland  concert  damian  dance  dancing  go  kulash  live  ohio  ok  tower 

Ok Go dance. Also four girls dressed like them doing the dance. Tower City Amphitheater. Cleveland, OH. 6-18-07.

OK Go - Do What You Want (Wallpaper Version)

OK Go - Do What You Want (Wallpaper Version)
  • Length: 3:6
  • Rating Average: 4.80 from 5762 people
  • View Count: 1878453' favoriteCount='13096
  • Author: OkGo

Tags: dance  do  dwyw  go  music  no  oh  ohno  ok  okgo  rock  video  wallpaper  want  what  you 

The second video for Do What You Want was directed by OK Go and Blip Boutique and stars a large contingent of LA's most talented weirdos. Also: wallpaper.Buy the album at iTunes:http://doiop.com/ohno/itunesVisit OK Go:http://okgo.nethttp://myspace.com/okgo