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- ounce0libra August 2005
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- The End Has No Jen August 2005
- vinyl_days August 2005
- year3air August 2005
Magazine Scans
My stupid photobucket account made these so small.. (if you want to see bigger versions, they're here: Rolling Stone, Teen Vogue, Lolla)
Rolling Stone (Aug. 25th issue):
Teen Vogue:
Text: Front man Damian Kulash (far left, above) says OK Go's second album was inspired by disaster, which is evident in the title, Oh No (Capitol Records). A more rocking, grown-up sound doesn't stop Kulash from experimenting from a much sexier delivery and mixing things up with playful lyrics--plus fun, bratty "na-na" and "hey-hey" choruses.
Lollapalooza Festival Guide:
Text: There are hundreds of bands these days engaging in massive fits of style over substance. Chicago's homegrown OK Go though, is not a part of this group. Sure, they occasionally end their sets with a lip-synched choreographed dance number (no, seriously), but these guys will shake your thoughts as much as they shake their drill team-toned rears. Frontman Damian Kulash and bassist Tim Nordwind met at summer camp during their pre-teen years, eventually reconvening as adults with guitarist Andy Duncan and sticksman Dan Konopka, officially forming the pop-rock combo in 1998. In between their two major-label efforts for Capitol Records, the band hooked up with public radio show This American Life, (based out of Chicago's WBEZ), which won them a host of young, middle- and geriatric-aged fans. While we can't promise you that their Laker Girl-style dance jam will close out their Lollapalooza set, we can promise you it will be one hell of a show.
Rolling Stone (Aug. 25th issue):
Teen Vogue:
Text: Front man Damian Kulash (far left, above) says OK Go's second album was inspired by disaster, which is evident in the title, Oh No (Capitol Records). A more rocking, grown-up sound doesn't stop Kulash from experimenting from a much sexier delivery and mixing things up with playful lyrics--plus fun, bratty "na-na" and "hey-hey" choruses.
Lollapalooza Festival Guide:
Text: There are hundreds of bands these days engaging in massive fits of style over substance. Chicago's homegrown OK Go though, is not a part of this group. Sure, they occasionally end their sets with a lip-synched choreographed dance number (no, seriously), but these guys will shake your thoughts as much as they shake their drill team-toned rears. Frontman Damian Kulash and bassist Tim Nordwind met at summer camp during their pre-teen years, eventually reconvening as adults with guitarist Andy Duncan and sticksman Dan Konopka, officially forming the pop-rock combo in 1998. In between their two major-label efforts for Capitol Records, the band hooked up with public radio show This American Life, (based out of Chicago's WBEZ), which won them a host of young, middle- and geriatric-aged fans. While we can't promise you that their Laker Girl-style dance jam will close out their Lollapalooza set, we can promise you it will be one hell of a show.
Comments
ooh! I know that I am certainly interested in that. You know, if you get around to it.
I couldn't have said it better myself.
I, personally, have never much cared for Rolling Stone. So I tend to just ignore anything and everything that they have to say.
Besides, their rating was higher than most in that issue.. I like that they don't proclaim every album to be the next classic.
ok i feel beter.some what....
i wonder what NME will say about it. hmmmm
i wonder what NME will say about it. hmmmm
haha so true...
and NME is so much better than rolling stone
I dont understand the whole gay-bad reference, amd I getting old and taking this too seriously??? BTW, I agree that rolling stones sucks ass.....
Rolling STONE... please excuse the plural.... Im sleepy
i never really respected rolling stone...
and sorry if i offended you falk by saying "gay" as an insult to the rolling stone
and sorry if i offended you falk by saying "gay" as an insult to the rolling stone
No worries, didnt offend me, just wondering if its just used with no harm intended, Im just old and gay, and I get confused easy
PSS pretty sick about the Brittany Spears thing, but thats RS for ya, they also hated Led Zepplin II if that makes anyone feel better.....
Ok Go
Oh No
(Capitol)
Release Date: 8/30/2005
A cheap trick for brainy power-pop bands: Embrace your goofiness
Reviewed by Laura Sinagra
With their ambitious power-pop crunch and spelling bee vocabulary, it makes sense that the smarty-pants rockers OK Go would seek out Franz Ferdinand’s precision-tuned Swedish producer Tore Johansson. But the Chicago band’s sophomore album rocks most amiably when wordy frontman Damian Kulash loosens up. On two songs about supernatural ex-girlfriends, his whimsy works for him. The pop-metal “Invincible” insists an old flame’s destructive powers might help save Earth from alien attack. And on the blue-eyed soul “Oh Lately It’s So Quiet” Kulash muses, “If you’re not here hauntin’ me/I’m wondering, whose house you hauntin’ tonight?” These loopy detours prove that it’s OK to just go, but letting go is even better.