When you hear the words “band app,” what comes to mind? Likely a sad shell of a digital offering, serving up a sparse smattering of tour dates, song samples, photos and videos. Not so with OK Go’s new app, Say The Same Thing — a band-branded social game that expands OK Go’s circle of artistic offerings without being explicitly about their music.
The East Coast is slowly piecing itself together after Hurricane Sandy ripped through at the beginning of the week and, in the aftermath, we had to wonder: How did bands weather the storm? Luckily, Instagram was around to document all the binge drinking and foolhardy storm-chasing the hurricane hath wrought.
Every December, musicians are beset by a case of anxiety — an anxiety that they subsequently push down into the bottoms of their stomachs with the help of a healthy douse of aloofness. And from whence does that anxiety spring? The ubiquitous glut of “Best of 2011″ lists, of course. Well, this year we decided to turn the tables, allowing musicians to play critic and choose their favorite music and tech innovations of 2011. Antacids sold separately.