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OK Go - Of the Blue Color of the Sky

OK Go - Of the Blue Color of the SkyIf you don’t recognize this rock group by name, then you’ll certainly know them from their treadmill video for “Here It Goes Again,” which went viral on YouTube and earned the nerdy, waistcoat-sporting Chicago band a 2007 Grammy Award. OK Go’s third album offers more dance workouts, like the Prince-inspired “W.T.F.” and “White Knuckles,” but frontman Damian Kulash also mixes melancholy and hope with slower funk numbers like “Skyscapers” and the undeniably catchy anthem “All Is Not Lost.”

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