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  • sureeyesawakesureeyesawake
    beckysioux said: I think the caption would read: "One small floaty step for Dan and one giant leap for Andy, Damian and Tim."

    LOL, good one, becky.

    DJRose said:

    Some reviews of recent shows with highlight quotes:

    http://www.voxmagazine.com/sto.....blue-note/ 

     "Decked in pink, black and orange suits, this four-man group based out of Chicago kicked off its set with “Invincible” from the 2005 EP, Do What You Want."

    I'm gonna let that ridiculous quote just stand on its own.  LOL!!!!

    LOL!!!!! indeed. That's priceless. So many things wrong with that sentence. Like those old Highlights back pages where you had to find, like, the flower vase with shoes coming out of it, or the stoplight hanging from the ceiling. "Can you find the five things that are wrong with this picture?"

    Andrew, I just read your articles (both of them), and thank you! Good work!

    Rachel, you must be checking your google alerts, too. Lots of articles these days!

    Oh yeah, and the tree/sweater photo: *sigh*


  • sureeyesawakesureeyesawake

    Oh, oh, and I wanted to quote this, too. This is definitely one of the best sentences I've ever read about Damian:

    "…the charms of Kulash. He’s part classically wiry front-man rocker, part Ivy League brainiac whose idea of bringing sexy back is testifying before the House Judiciary Committee on Internet neutrality."

    Hot.


  • squashedbananasquashedbanana

    someone talking about The Colbert Report

    "Can I just say really quickly that Damian Kulash’s pink socks were awesome? Now that we got that out of the way, we can talk about the interview. I loved the honesty of Damien, and and he seemed to be honest without a huge scoop of hipster piousness on top of it. Loved Stephen’s response to videos with groupies. And what a great song!"



    The person spelt Damian's name right...then wrong...you whaa?
  • DJRoseDJRose
    sureeyesawake said:

    Rachel, you must be checking your google alerts, too. Lots of articles these days!

    Oh yeah, and the tree/sweater photo: *sigh*


    Haha, you know it!  I hope you all have survived without me the last few days. :-D

    And here are a few more:

    http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=10549213

    http://www.billboard.com/events/bamboozle-nj-top-10-moments-1004088369.story?tag=hpfeed

    (PS: Drake wasn't that good.  He Pissed a lot of people off.  Just sayin'.)

  • squashedbananasquashedbanana

    If you're a guy (or you're a girl who wants their man to dress like the following) and you ever wanted to dress one of the members of OK Go when they had funky floral/wallpaper/victorian suits going on heres the article telling you what things to get:

    http://www.mademan.com/style-icon-ok-go/

  • nalunasnalunas
    Looooove that article....
  • squashedbananasquashedbanana
    OK Go’s Of the Blue Colour of the Sky

    By Tine Roycroft

    OK Go’s latest album, Of the Blue Colour of the Sky, is so full of sexy and danceable songs that the listener may find him/herself bopping his/her head on crowded trains or shaking his/her thang while waiting for the pedestrian walk light to turn. No song on this CD lets you stop to rest and muse ~ the amazingly mixed vocals and crazy beats just propel you forward. “End Love” and “I Want You So Bad I Can’t Breathe,” for example, almost demand that you pick up the phone and make a booty call and worry about the messy strings later.

    The band ~ Damian Kulash (vocals and guitar), Tim Nordwind (bass guitar and vocals), Dan Konopka (drums and percussion) and Andy Ross (guitar, keyboards and vocals) ~ has been kicking it since 1998. They gained worldwide notoriety in 2007 when they received a Grammy for their video “Here It Goes Again,” which featured the four band members hopping around on treadmills in a complicated movement routine ~ all filmed in one continuous take.

    Andy Ross, 31, joined the band in 2005 and is originally from Worcester. Born at St. Vincent’s and raised in both Spencer and Worcester, Ross was thrown into the music world in junior high when his friend gave him a Led Zeppelin mix tape. Ross literally ran out and bought a guitar that day. Later, he learned to play keyboard while studying electrical engineering at Columbia University. These days, the passionate Pisces is touring for up to 30 months at a time with OK Go and loving it.

    “On the new record, there’s a lot of fun songs for me,” he said. “We have these crazy guitar solos. ‘WTF?’ is fun. ‘White Knuckles’ is fun. But any song where I have to jump back and forth from guitar to keyboard is my least favorite to do.”

    OK Go has run through the talk show circuit, hitting everyone from Colbert to Kimmel ~ and according to Ross, the traveling has taken its toll. Luckily, despite the craziness, Ross is now happily engaged and his dog Penelope is still always by his side.

    Don’t miss OK Go live at the following venues:

    Apr 27, Northampton, MA ~ Pearl Street
    Apr 28, New Haven, CT ~ Toad¹s Place

    May 7, Boston, MA ~ House of Blues (moved from Paradise Rock Club)

    For more info on OK Go, visit http://www.okgo.net.

    Awww, I didn't know Andy had a dog....awwww

  • Unknown

    I love how they call him a passionate Pisces.  Could they not find another detail, or atleast less silly adjective, to describe our aross? Pulse Magazine, you make me giggle.

  • squashedbananasquashedbanana

    Interview with Tim:

    http://www.boston.com/ae/music....._watching/

    Edit:

    also an interview with Damian and his mum:

    http://blog.limewire.com/posts/41494-mothers-day-love-from-ok-gos-damian-and-his-mom/

  • DJRoseDJRose
    Oh, Jade, you beat me to it  I LOVE that interview with Damian and his mom!
  • PinkMuffinPinkMuffin

    From OK Go Twitter :

    RT @robharalson: #FiveQsOnTech

    sits down with Damian Kulash and Tim Nordwind of @okgo.

    Watch the interview. http://bit.ly/bwuf47

  • DJRoseDJRose

    Ummm, I OFFERED to pick up Ben's Chili Bowl for Mike.  I totally would've gotten Ben's Chili Bowl for the boys too.  All they had to do was ask.  Yo, Kulash, Don't bitch at us for waiting by the bus and preventing you from getting to the Chili Bowl, because my ass was down there and offering to bring some back. Pfffft.

    Apparently now that Damian knows my name I have this newfound courage to bitch at him... over the internet... and not to his face.... 

  • squashedbananasquashedbanana

    http://www.spin.com/articles/green-room-interview-ok-go

    Wooo! going green! awesome-sauce!

  • squashedbananasquashedbanana

    This is sort of a blooper from an interview, during an interview with Damian he spots a light going out and he lends a hand :D that's pretty awesome:

    http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2010/05/ok-gos-damian-kulash-lends-percussive-maintenance.html

  • PinkMuffinPinkMuffin

    According to a poll conducted on MySpace.com OK Go's music video "Here It Goes Again" has been voted to the 2nd most influential promo in the history of pop music after Michael Jackson's "Thriller" !!!

    Top Ten list :

    1. Thriller – Michael Jackson
    2. Here It Goes Again – OK Go
    3. …Baby One More Time – Britney Spears
    4. Take On Me – A-Ha
    5. Hurt – Johnny Cash
    6. Bohemian Rhapsody – Queen
    7. Around the World – Daft Punk
    8. Weapon of Choice – Fatboy Slim
    9. Sledgehammer – Peter Gabriel
    10. Sabotage – Beastie Boys.






    http://www.imusicdaily.com/music-news/tag/ok-go/
  • squashedbananasquashedbanana

    Yay an interview with Dan!

    http://twincities.metromix.com/music/article/quickie-q-and-a/1867326/content

    I laughed at this:

    I understand you recently challenged fans to play against you in “Rock Band 2.” Are you guys any good?
    This is a funny subject. I was at a party and some friends were playing RB. They put me up to the challenge of playing “Here It Goes Again” on drums…I failed. Bad. It was awful. That was about a year ago and since then I've played a few more times. I think I have a handle on it now. (As long as it's set on “medium.”)

  • DJRoseDJRose

    Aaaannnnddd the Bunny-Sized Guitar (and Debbie) get a mention in an interview.  Holy Schnikeys.

    http://blogs.sfweekly.com/shookdown/2010/05/in_what_will_be_the.php

    When I spend six months making a music video, I can be fairly certain that people are going to see it and it is going to be as good as I want it to be. But a lot of the time our fans will spend weeks making things for us. A woman just gave us a miniaturized version of one of our laser guitars. It was a perfect scale model of a wooden guitar covered in leather, with fur and lasers. She just wanted to say, 'You just inspired me to be creative.' She wasn't trying to make a pay check or boost our ego. She was just inspired to do it.

  • violetchaos364violetchaos364

    OK, did not see this link anywhere, and I looked! Link from the Netherlands. Five sections, total of about 25 minutes. It's nice to see them interviewed NOT at a breakneck, here's one second to answer, speed. Go!

    http://www.faceculture.com/artist.php?id=814

    "Video interview with singer Damian Kulash and bassist Tim Nordwind from American rock band OK Go. FaceCulture spoke with them about playing ping pong, meeting in art camp, picking up girls, being in college bands, getting back together, holding auditions for a new guitarist, the video This Too Shall Pass, making one take video clips, 'that band from the treadmill video,' music labels, the new album Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky, hope in hopeless times, and more"

    (The spell check on here just marked "Ok" as wrong, but "OK" as correct. Hmm!)

  • squashedbananasquashedbanana

    IGN interview Tim:

    http://uk.music.ign.com/articles/107/1075158p1.html

    IGN: Can you give us any hints about what's coming up?

    Nordwind:     We're making a video for the song "End Love," and then one for "White Knuckles." ... They're gonna be good

    White knuckles?! We're making one for that haha

  • squashedbananasquashedbanana

    Oooooo…you almost never get to hear from these guys hehe

    It's an interview with Andy and Dan at the Sasquatch Festival!!!

    http://sasquatch.ubyssey.ca/?p=58

    Edit: Aaaaaand extra goodness google found!









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