In the early 1970s, Devo disrupted the music scene with wacky energy domes, robotic struts, and a sound that was anything but traditional. By combining elements of new wave, punk, and social satire, ...

Half a century after Devo began singing about cultural De-Evolution, the visionary new wave band would have preferred to be wrong. By Jon Pareles Devo isn’t overjoyed about being prescient. The band ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Are we not men? We are DEVO! But was DEVO meant to be DEVO? Were they supposed to forge a rock and roll legacy under their red ...

When Devo walks onstage at the Paramount Theatre Nov. 7, it will likely be the band’s final Seattle concert. The tour is billed as Devo’s “Goodbye to 50 years of De-Evolution” farewell, though with ...

When we — most of us, anyway — first saw Devo back in the late 70s, we (most of us, anyway) didn’t know what to make of these guys in their yellow suits, upside-down energy domes and kinetic song ...

In the years Devo has been part of the American lexicon, the iconic band name has taken on multiple meanings. In the late ...

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” ...

More than 50 years after forming, perhaps Akron’s greatest musical export says it’s on its way out. If Sunday’s show is really Devo’s live farewell to Northeast Ohio, the band left on a high note. The ...

"We're fragile old men." That's how Devo frontman Mark Mothersbaugh describes three of the new wave band's original members who recently wrapped the 50 Years of De-Evolution tour and earned their ...

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 ...

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