OK Go

Chicago natives OK Go played Schubas on April 11th, 2001 supported by Peter Andreadis and Dakota Floyd. The band went on to serve as house band for radio show This American Life's 5th Anniversary Tour. Ira Glass, the show's host, wrote their first official bio, calling them "living catnip" and describing their songs as "part indie rock, part stadium rock, part straight up pop with the occasional whiff of Weezer or The Cars or Elliott Smith." Then their first single, "Get Over It", debuted at #21 on the UK singles chart and was subsequently featured in the EA Sports video games MVP Baseball 2003 and Madden NFL 2003. They have also performed at the MTV Video Music Awards and won a Grammy for Best Short-Form Music Video. The Grammy award was for the "Here It Goes Again" video (the most downloaded music video of all time according to YouTube), which featured the band performing a dance routine while lip-synching along with the song, a schtick the band invented for Chicago's Chic-a-go-go public access television program.