Monday, October 18, 2010

Video of the Week: 'White Knuckles" by OK Go



The guys that made dancing on treadmills look super easy has done it again in this Video of the Week. OK Go's new video for their song "White Knuckles" once again shows their creativity as well as their talented musicianship by using dogs and has had more than 5 million hits to date on their YouTube channel.
  
Their most popular video, "Here It Goes Again" currently has over 52 million hits on their YouTube channel and was a Grammy winner for Best Short Form Music Video in 2007. They also won the YouTube Video Award for Most Creative Video in 2006. 

The band's lead singer, Damian Kulash, met bassist Tim Nordwind at Interlochen Arts Camp when they were 11. Kulash was in for graphic design, Nordwind for music. The band name comes from their art teacher, saying "OK...Go!" while they were drawing. They kept in touch after camp, often exchanging mixtapes which influenced each other's musical taste and their future sound. They met the band's former guitarist and keyboardist Andy Duncan in high school, and drummer Dan Konopka in college. OK Go was formed in 1998. 

If you are the charitable type, you can go to okgo.net and purchase the "White Knuckles" video, and portion of the proceeds will benefit the ASPCA, specifically in support of animal rescue. They have shows in the coming weeks in Oct 20 Portland, ME; Oct 22,Camden, ME; Oct 26, Syracuse, NY; Oct 27, Clifton Park, NY; Oct 28, Hartford, CT.

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