OK Go

Why you should listen

With a career that includes award-winning videos, a major label split and the establishment of a DIY trans-media mini-empire (Paracadute), collaborations with pioneering dance companies, tech giants, animators and Muppets, OK Go is a band at the intersection of music, visual art, technology and science. Their videos have been encoded on strands of DNA, and they were President Obama's selection to perform at his 50th birthday party. They've penned New York Times op-eds and testified before the US Congress.

Formed 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 and continue to add to a curriculum vitae filled with experimentation in a variety of mediums. Most recently, they have partnered with the Playful Learning Lab at the University of St. Thomas to create OK Go Sandbox, an educational nonprofit that provides free resources to teachers that use OK Go's videos as starting points to teach STEAM concepts. They have been recognized for their achievements with 21 Cannes Lions, 12 CLIOs, three VMAs, two Webbys, The Smithsonian Ingenuity Award and one Grammy.