Devo was first nominated for a Grammy in 1985 for music video "We're All Devo." The new wave band is up again in 2026 in the ...
I will never forget the first time I saw Devo. It was October 14, 1978, and my college roommates and I were watching “Saturday Night Live.” The band, which I had never heard of (I would guess that was ...
In 1981, Devo’s “Whip It” music video — a deliberately offensive and over-the-top send-up of Reagan-esque cowboy machismo, featuring singer Mark Mothersbaugh sadomasochistically whipping a stuntwoman ...
NEW YORK — 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, it ...
With their yellow radiation suits, red “energy dome” hats and manic energy, part playful and part angry, the Akron-born band Devo combined the futuristic glamour of new wave with atomic-age anxieties ...
Devo fans’ hearts have only grown fonder towards the band during its long absence from concert stages. And the Akron, Ohio-formed group gave them plenty of reason to feel that way at a packed Fillmore ...
The film traces the band's music, its videos, its roots in the embers of the counterculture, its freak success, and its big message, which remains prophetic and often misunderstood. To the millions of ...