{"id":51288,"date":"2015-04-11T08:42:53","date_gmt":"2015-04-11T12:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=51288"},"modified":"2015-02-19T11:44:31","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T15:44:31","slug":"ok-go-concert-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=51288","title":{"rendered":"OK Go Concert in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>04\/11\/2015 8pm<br \/>\nTerminal 5<br \/>\n610 W 56th St, New York, NY, 10019<br \/>\n<!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/79-atlg.jpeg\" rel=\"lightbox[51288]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-51289\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/79-atlg.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nFormed as a quartet in Chicago in 1998 and relocated to Los Angeles three years later, OK Go (Damian Kulash, Tim Nordwind, Dan Konopka, Andy Ross) have spent their career in a steady state of transformation. The four songs of the all-new Upside Out EP represent the first preview of Hungry Ghosts, due out in the fall on the band\u2019s own Paracadute. This is the band\u2019s fourth full-length and the newest addition to a curriculum vitae filled with experimentation in a variety of mediums.<\/p>\n<p>The band worked with longtime producer and friend Dave Fridmann (Flaming Lips, Weezer, MGMT), while also enlisting a new collaborator in Los Angeles, veteran Tony Hoffer, (Beck, Phoenix, Foster the People) to create their most comfortable and far-reaching songs yet. Building on (and deconstructing) 15 years of pop-rock smarts, musical friendship, and band-of-the-future innovations the EP, Upside Out, offers a concise overview of forthcoming Hungry Ghosts\u2019 melancholic fireworks (\u201cThe Writing\u2019s on the Wall\u201d), basement funk parties (\u201cTurn Up The Radio\u201d), IMAX-sized choruses (\u201cThe One Moment\u201d), and space-age dance floor bangers (\u201cI Won\u2019t Let You Down\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>Drawn from the same marching orders issued to big-hearted happiness creators as Queen, T. Rex, The Cars or Cheap Trick, and a lifetime of mixed tapes exchanged by lifelong music fans, Upside Out is a reaffirmation of the sounds and ideas that brought the band together in the first place. The four songs provide an assured kick-off to a new sequence of interconnected performances, videos, dances, and wild, undreamt fun.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the band has evolved over the last 15 years, the creative palette we work with has expanded in so many unexpected and gratifying directions,\u201d says frontman Damian Kulash. \u201cThis record feels like it\u2019s the musical manifestation of that \u2014 like we can speak in a clearer voice when we are playing in a bigger sandbox. Just as the band\u2019s whole project became clearer to us as we learned to find more homes for our creativity \u2014 we triangulated it from more directions. And, I think the music itself has gotten more focused for similar reasons. We went in with fewer preconceptions of who we are or what our sound is, and came out with a record that sounds much more uniquely our own because of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Continuing a career that includes viral videos, New York Times op-eds, a major label split and the establishment of a DIY trans-media mini-empire, collaborations with pioneering dance companies and tech giants, animators and Muppets, OK Go continue to fearlessly dream and build new worlds in a time when creative boundaries have all but dissolved.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please visit<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.terminal5nyc.com\/event\/713595-ok-go-new-york\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.terminal5nyc.com\/event\/713595-ok-go-new-york<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>04\/11\/2015 8pm Terminal 5 610 W 56th St, New York, NY, 10019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stay-connected-to-the-latest-local-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51288"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51311,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51288\/revisions\/51311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}