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Why Devo isn’t putting out new music

Devo has now gone 16 years since their last proper studio album, 2010’s Something for Everybody. While the new wave pioneers ...
Devo’s sound is so original and identifiable that covering their songs—and doing justice to them— would seem to be a monumentally difficult task. Yet their songs have been covered frequently, with ...
I came of age in a land of dysfunction, a rural place of oddities and hatred and pickup trucks and cursed sports teams. For so much of my childhood, Northeast Ohio—specifically, the 330—had felt like ...
Right from the beginning, DEVO cultivated their own experimental and satirical electronic waves of sound with their 1977 debut single, “Mongoloid,” and B-side “Jocko Homo” in 1977 and the band’s1978 ...
Roy Orbison’s “Oh, Pretty Woman” became one of the most famous classic rock songs of the 1960s. Subsequently, it inspired Devo’s “Whip It,” one of the most famous new wave songs from the 1980s. In ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Think "Devo," and you probably think about the "Whip It" music video with its snapping leather whip and bright red "flower pot" ...
NEW YORK (AP) — You know the band Devo, right? The guys with the funny red plastic hats and jumpsuits? The New Wave musicians behind the silly “Whip It” video? They had that odd, spiky '80s vibe? Well ...
Discover What’s Streaming On: For a great deal of the world at large, DEVO didn’t exist until they released their hit single “Whip It” in 1980, and for almost as large a percentage of the population, ...
In the years Devo has been part of the American lexicon, the iconic band name has taken on multiple meanings. In the late ’70s and early ’80s, if you were called “Devo,” it meant you were into new ...
From ‘Rushmore’ To ‘The Royal Tenenbaums,’ the music of Wes Anderson’s films comes alive in a star-studded tribute at the ...