When Devo's debut album arrived in late August 1978, nothing else sounded quite like it. Even by the standards of the late '70s – the era of punk rock, new wave and futuristic-sounding electronic ...

Devo frontman Mark Mothersbaugh spent 18 days at L.A.’s Cedar-Sinai hospital battling Covid-19 in June, he revealed in a harrowing interview with the Los Angeles Times. Mothersbaugh thinks he may have ...

One afternoon in 1978, Mark Mothersbaugh and Gerald Casale—the two prime architects of the band Devo—were fidgeting in Peter Rudge’s office, near the Warwick Hotel, in Manhattan, with Mick Jagger.

Devo is headed to Sundance, not just for the festival premiere of the Chris Smith-directed documentary film that share’s the band’s name, but a Jan. 21 performance by the group at the just-opened ...

Bust out the energy domes and crack those whips: An upcoming authorized documentary will attempt to tell the story of art-rock weirdos Devo. Titled simply Devo — a little unimaginative given the ...

MTV's ubiquitous video series has become a huge earner for the musician, all thanks to the Devo song used as its theme. By Tyler Jenke When Devo opened their 1978 album Q. Are We Not Men? A: We Are ...

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 ...

Devo has now gone 16 years since their last proper studio album, 2010's Something for Everybody. While the new wave pioneers remain extremely active with a number of projects, it seems new music isn't ...

Founders Mark Mothersbaugh and Gerald Casale reminisce about everything from male groupies to the time Richard Branson tried to add the Sex Pistols' Johnny Rotten to their lineup. By Seth Abramovitch ...

Everything was art. And their confrontational satire was cloaked as music. Functioning more like a multimedia art project than a band, there was nothing normal about Devo. Their pastiche was a mix of ...

Chris Smith offers a welcome corrective to the misconception that the band from industrial Ohio were one-hit wonders or that their eccentricities didn’t have philosophical foundations. By David Rooney ...