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OK Go Support Healthcare Workers With Video for New Song “All Together Now”

Lead Singer Damien Kulash Includes Letter Detailing His Family’s Battle With COVID-19

May 14, 2020

“With Los Angeles sheltering to battle the spread of COVID-19, OK Go wrote and recorded a song together alone in their homes,” reads the first frame of the video for OK Go’s new track “All Together Now.” More

Jan 18, 2017

OK Go may be known for their elaborate music videos, but they also haven’t shied away from making political statements and have taken part in most of Under the Radar‘s politically themed special Protest Issues. More

Nov 23, 2016

OK Go are at it again with another crazy and complicated music video, this time for “The One Moment.” Back in February the band shared a video for “Upside Down & Inside Out” that was actually filmed in zero gravity aboard a Russian S7 Airlines plane. More

Under the Radar’s Protest Sign Auction for the American Cancer Society Starts Now

Bid on Protest Signs from our Protest Issue – Tegan and Sara, Amanda Palmer, Best Coast, Thurston Moore, Sharon Jones, and More

Oct 18, 2016

Starting today and continuing for the next seven days, all of the autographed musician-made protest signs featured in Under the Radar‘s 2016 Protest Issue will be auctioned on eBay, with all profits going to the American Cancer Society. The auction includes protest signs made by Tegan and Sara, Amanda Palmer, Best Coast, Sharon Jones, Thurston Moore, Banks & Steelz, Moby, Mew, OK Go, Okkervil River, Metronomy, Wild Beasts, Car Seat Headrest, Lush, Local Natives, Julien Baker, Super Furry Animals, Billy Bragg, Perfect Pussy, Wye Oak, Everything Everything, School of Seven Bells, Deerhoof, Kristin Kontrol, Andrew W.K., Yeasayer, Natalie Prass, Superchunk, The Julie Ruin, Frankie Cosmos, Kevin Morby, LUH, Tacocat, Xiu Xiu, Slow Club, and many others. More

Feb 11, 2016

OK Go are no strangers to crafting incredibly cool music videos, ones that often overshadow the band’s songs, but go viral. Well they may have topped themselves this time. Their new video for “Upside Down & Inside Out” was actually filmed in zero gravity aboard a Russian S7 Airlines plane. More

Jul 18, 2014

On Wednesday, July 16, OK Go brought their confetti-filled show to San Francisco’s The Independent. More

Feb 06, 2012

Always looking for a new way to push the music video medium, OK Go have premiered their latest visual blend of goofiness and art with the video for “Needing/Getting,” a song included off the band’s latest album Of the Blue Colour of the Sky. More

OK Go Play “The Muppet Show Theme” on Leno

Feature Special Guest on Drums

Sep 01, 2011

Continuing to take their contribution to the recently released Muppet-themed cover album Muppets: The Green Album very seriously, OK Go followed up their fun-filled music video with a visit to the Tonight Show with Jay Leno. More

Aug 23, 2011

OK Go and music video are always a good combination, so it comes as little surprise that for the recently released compilation album Muppets: The Green Album, the Chicago quartet were tapped for a little visual fun with their rendition of the “Muppet Show Theme Song.” More

Aug 16, 2011

For those of you who are already stoked about Jason Segel’s return-to-form Muppets movie this fall, NPR has recently begun streaming the entirety of the flick’s tie-in tribute album, Muppets: The Green Album. More

Ok Go Parade Through the Streets Of Los Angeles

Encourage Fans to do the Same

Dec 13, 2010

Ok Go have staged staring contests with Muppets, gotten animated, and—of course—made treadmills hip again. Now the visual happy quartet is spreading the love. We have the new clip. More

OK Go Reveals “Last Leaf” Video

The Band Experiments with Animation, Photography

Nov 10, 2010

We love OK Go for treasuring the nearly obsolete art of music videos. The band’s newest one for acoustic jam “Last Leaf” might be OK Go’s most creative work yet. More

OK Go Challenge The Muppets to a Staring Contest

Ira Glass and Zach Galifianakis Look On

Jun 23, 2010

OK Go, a band know for their outlandish visuals and high energy, has taken their antics to the next level. Last night at the Webby Awards (where they they were bestowed Film & Video Artist of the Year) the band got involved in an unusual contest with Animal (Yes, the Muppet). On hand to cheer them on was Zach Galifianakis and This American Life’s Ira Glass. We have the video. More




Reviews

Jan 07, 2015

OK Go may always be known for their endlessly brilliant and creative music videos, but taken on its own, their music stands as probably our best approximation of the kind of once-prevalent power-pop the radio used to be interested in. More

Mar 04, 2010

Is it possible that certain traits are latent within every musician, rising to manifest themselves openly in some cases while lying dormant in others? If Of the Blue Colour of the Sky is any indication, the four men of OK Go have reemerged in 2010 for an unabashed unveiling of their funky side. More