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Ok go concert dates added to tour

StubHub has posted new concert tour dates to the Ok go tour 2006, and has Ok go concert tickets for sale.
Ok go’s indy-rock style combines a super-energetic pace with hooks any pop group would kill for—they don’t shy away in the least from addictive lines and riffs (try not catching yourself mumbling “get get get get get over it… hey!” after hearing the song once)—and have no patience for the self-indulgence inherent in the emo scene (again, “get over it”).

But what’s really made this band a smash hit—there are so many people out there who can play guitar and sing—is their willingness to experiment with their entire band image, to remain on all fronts an ’indy’ operation, as it were by constantly making fun of themselves and refusing to take their growing fame too seriously. Their guitarist writes the OK go blog “the will to rock,” (which is really something else: very well constructed, great content, and a polished sense of humor) and their music videos, produced in-house on mostly low-budget equipment, are some of the more entertaining and popular videos on the internet. If you haven’t seen the OK go “Here it Goes Again” treadmill movie yet, I strongly strongly recommend you do. It’s the one that really blew the band up on the national scene, and with good reason. Many, many takes were involved in the shooting.

Interesting fact: the band’s founding members originally hail from the small town of Gilmanton Ironworks, which is an incorporated sub-entity of Gilmanton, NH, which is the unbelievably low-population-density town I grew up in, a real Currier-and-Ives New England town. Then again, it might just be the lead singer’s sister who’s from Gilmanton Ironworks… there’s a connection, I swear, and I think that’s probably the biggest news from the town since Grace Metalious wrote Peyton Place about its inhabitants. See my town hall below:

Crazy, eh?

But enough about New Hampshire and its tenuous connections to Ok go. You, too, can have a brush with fame. OK go is touring over the country through December 12th. Extra dates have been added, and StubHub.com has the listings for Ok go concert tickets online, give a peek and see when they’ll be coming near you.