{"id":2120,"date":"2015-03-04T15:48:46","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T21:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/?p=2120"},"modified":"2015-06-10T15:03:46","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T20:03:46","slug":"chicago-artist-ok-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/?p=2120","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Artist : OK GO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>OK Go<\/b>\u00a0is an\u00a0<a title=\"United States\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American<\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Alternative rock\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alternative_rock\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">alternative rock<\/a>\u00a0band originally from\u00a0<a title=\"Chicago\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chicago\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chicago<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Illinois\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Illinois\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Illinois<\/a>, now based in\u00a0<a title=\"Los Angeles\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Los_Angeles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles<\/a>,<a title=\"California\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/California\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California<\/a>. The band is composed of\u00a0<a title=\"Damian Kulash\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Damian_Kulash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Damian Kulash<\/a>\u00a0(<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Lead vocals\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lead_vocals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lead vocals<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Rhythm guitar\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rhythm_guitar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">guitar<\/a>), Tim Nordwind (<a title=\"Bass guitar\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bass_guitar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bass guitar<\/a>\u00a0and<a title=\"Backing vocalist\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Backing_vocalist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vocals<\/a>), Dan Konopka (<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Drumkit\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Drumkit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">drums<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Percussion\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Percussion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">percussion<\/a>) and\u00a0<a title=\"Andy Ross\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Andy_Ross\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andy Ross<\/a>\u00a0(<a title=\"Lead guitar\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lead_guitar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">guitar<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Keyboard instrument\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Keyboard_instrument\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">keyboards<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Backing vocals\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Backing_vocals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vocals<\/a>), who joined them in 2005, replacing\u00a0<a title=\"Andy Duncan (musician)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Andy_Duncan_(musician)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andy Duncan<\/a>. They are known for their often quirky and elaborate music videos.<\/p>\n<p>The original members formed as OK Go in 1998 and released two studio albums before Duncan&#8217;s departure. The band&#8217;s video for &#8220;<a title=\"Here It Goes Again\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Here_It_Goes_Again\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here It Goes Again<\/a>&#8221; won a\u00a0<a title=\"Grammy Award for Best Music Video\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Music_Video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Grammy Award for Best Music Video<\/a>\u00a0in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>(source wikipedia)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK Go\u00a0is an\u00a0American\u00a0alternative rock\u00a0band originally from\u00a0Chicago,\u00a0Illinois, now based in\u00a0Los Angeles,California. The band is composed of\u00a0Damian Kulash\u00a0(lead vocals,\u00a0guitar), Tim Nordwind (bass guitar\u00a0andvocals), Dan Konopka (drums\u00a0and\u00a0percussion) and\u00a0Andy Ross\u00a0(guitar,\u00a0keyboards\u00a0and\u00a0vocals), who joined them in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-loop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}