OK Go

With a career that includes award-winning videos, New York Times op-eds, collaborations with pioneering dance companies and tech giants, animators and Muppets, and an experiment that encoded their music on actual strands of DNA, OK Go continues to fearlessly dream and build new worlds in a time when creative boundaries have all but dissolved. The band has been recognized for their achievements with 21 Cannes Lions, 12 CLIOs, 3 VMAs, 2 Webbys, The Smithsonian Ingenuity Award, and a Grammy.

OK Go’s accomplishments are broad and extensive, ranging well beyond their Grammy win, the million-plus records they have sold, or the billions of views for their groundbreaking videos. They have penned Op-Eds for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and Rolling Stone.

They have testified before the US Congress on Net Neutrality and played a concert for President Obama’s birthday. OK Go has collaborated with everyone from Google to The Muppets to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab. They have even worked with Microsoft biochemists to encode their music into strands of DNA. The band has earned 21 Cannes Lions, 3 VMA’s, two Webby’s, and The Smithsonian Ingenuity Award.  The four members of OK Go (Damian Kulash, Tim Nordwind, Dan Konopka and Andy Ross) are among Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business 2019. Most recently, the band has founded an educational non-profit, OKGoSandbox.org which provides free resources to teachers. 

Vancouver’s Winona Forever have ridden a wave of musical curiosity and chemistry further than imagined when forming in high school. After spending formative years touring Canada and packing Vancouver’s resilient DIY venues, the band stumbled into an international following with 2017 single Keep Kool. Listeners were quick to tune in to previous releases while waiting for 2019’s Feelgood, a sophomore album that sold out a first vinyl release through Kingfisher Bluez label.

In 2022, Winona Forever started to distribute new singles through Acrophase Records, with an aggressive US touring schedule allowing longtime cross-border listeners to finally come see the real thing. 2023 LP Acrobat offers 9 tracks of pop songwriting and fresh production chops, signaling another chapter in the Winona Forever songbook. The band toured the release across North America, as well as joining label mate Ginger Root on a run of shows in Europe.

In 2024, Winona Forever is set to release singles from fourth LP Sound Argument, a full length record that was tracked live off the floor in BC studios.
Having lived together for many years, Winona Forever’s live show plays as a confident and witty conversation between friends. With milestones such as Pop Montreal, M For Montreal, SXSW, Treefort Fest, Sled Island and an Audiotree live session under their belt, the band continues to push forward towards fresh musical territory and new adventures.