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http://okgo.net http://myspace.com/okgo OK Go is: Damian Kulash: Vocals, Guitar Tim Nordwind: Bass Dan Konopka: Drums Andy Ross: Guitar, Keyboards It'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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A Sleepless Night With OK Go

A Sleepless Night With OK Go
  • Length: 2:40
  • Rating Average: 4.77 from 97 people
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  • Author: OkGo

Tags: "andy  "damian  "dan  "new  "ok  "tim  edition"  go"  konopka"  kulash"  nordwind"  okgo  ross"  shazam  sleep 

OK Go's Tim Nordwind doesn't like having fun, apparently.

Blazin' Fredonia

Blazin' Fredonia
  • Length: 2:19
  • Rating Average: 5.00 from 23 people
  • View Count: 1790
  • Author: OkGo

Tags: "andy  "damian  "dan  "holiday  "ok  "tim  blazin  fredonia  fridmann  go"  konopka"  kulash"  nordwind"  okgo  recital"  ross" 

OK Go attends the holiday school recital of producer Dave Fridmann's son, Johnny. It's blazin.

The Recording of KAT

The Recording of KAT
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  • Author: OkGo

Tags: andy  damian  dan  dave  fridmann  go  konopka  kulash  nordwind  ok  okgo  recording  rock  ross  studio  tim 

OK Go in upstate New York, recording a track from their forthcoming album. That's producer Dave Fridmann at the console. http://okgo.net http://myspace.com/okgo

You Gotta Have Standards

You Gotta Have Standards
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  • Rating Average: 4.83 from 23 people
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  • Author: OkGo

Tags: damian  dave  fridmann  Go  hamburger  kulash  OK  okgo  rock  standards 

OK Go's Damian Kulash explains his hamburger making philosophy to record producer Dave Fridmann. http://okgo.net http://myspace.com/okgo

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University of Notre Dame: Here It Goes Again

University of Notre Dame: Here It Goes Again
  • Length: 1:41
  • Rating Average: 4.90 from 67 people
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  • Author: travelvalenti

Tags: Again  Dame  Go  Goes  halftime  Here  It  Notre  of  OK  rivalry  University  USC 

During the 2008 USC vs Notre Dame halftime (11/29/08), the ND marching band performed OK Go's "Here It Goes Again" using the treadmill music video made popular on Youtube. The game wasn't as epic as initially marketed, but ND's marching band made up for it.

OK GO Want You to Register and Vote

OK GO Want You to Register and Vote
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  • Rating Average: 4.82 from 487 people
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  • Author: BarackObamadotcom

Tags: Barack  GO  Obama  OK 

Damian Kulash and Tim Nordwind of OK GO met Barack Obama and are excited to remind all their fans and friends in Pennsylvania to register Democrat by March 24th to be eligible to vote for Barack in the April 22nd Democratic Primary.

Secret Dakota Ring - The Fade to Black

Secret Dakota Ring - The Fade to Black
  • Length: 4:40
  • Rating Average: 4.72 from 124 people
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  • Author: secretdakotaring

Tags: andy  black  dakota  fade  ring  ross  sdr  secret  to 

Official video for "The Fade to Black" by Secret Dakota Ring. Directed by Eric Lane. "The Fade to Black" is on SDR's second release 'Cantarell' which comes out November 11, 2008 on Serious Business Records. PRE-ORDER CANTARELL:...

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

OK Go - Prove My Love (Violent Femmes) / Do What You Want
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  • Rating Average: 4.95 from 20 people
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  • 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