Devo

DEVO Played Their Tiny Desk Concert Last Week

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14 August 2024

NPR Music is a project of National Public Radio, an American privately and
publicly funded non-profit membership media organization, that was launched
in November 2007 to present public radio music programming and original
editorial content for music discovery.

In 2008 the network started Tiny Desk Concerts which grow slowly but surely
into wide-known-watched, mini events where countless alt artists/bands have
passed the revue.

Post-punk weirdos – for 41 years now – DEVO did their thing in the by now familiar
(for music junkies) small place (4 songs) last week. They don’t like weird any more,
but still have fun, and perform with ardency and satisfaction.

SONGS

“It Takes a Worried Man”
“Blockhead”
“Praying Hands”
“Come Back Jonee”

DEVO: Instagram

SNÕÕPER – Supersonic Nashville Punks Rip DEVO To Shreds In Just 50 Seconds

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Daily noise that works faster than a stream of caffeine

27 May 2024

SNÕÕPER, the 5-piece trash-and-slash pop-punk squad from Nashville, TN
unleashed their unbridled debut LP Super Sn​õ​õ​per last summer. A peppy
blitzkrieg punk record. 14 songs in 22 minutes, like in the good old Ramones
days.

Last March they dropped their first music of 2024 with
riot-gun rant On Line that lasted for only 73 seconds.


Comical track artwork

And they go even shorter on a cover of an unreleased Devo track that they
only played live. It’s called I Think I’m Falling In Luv Again. Snõõper rip it to
shreds in just 50 seconds.

A couple of eye/ear blinks and it’s over.

SNÕÕPER


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ORIGINAL

East Coast Tour

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DEVO – The Groundbreaking Madcaps Celebrate Their 50 Year Career With Deluxe Edition ‘DE-EVOLUTION’ Next Month

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18 September 2023

A deluxe edition, baptized 50 Years Of De-Evolution: 1973-2023 that celebrates
Devo‘s 50-year career lands in various configurations on October 20. The first is
a 4-LP set pressed on clear vinyl that’s limited to 3,000 copies worldwide, available exclusively from Rhino.com.

This deluxe version comes in a slipcase with a 28-page book, a Devo air freshener,
and a foldable paper hat that resembles the band’s iconic red energy domes.

Additionally, a lithograph of the album artwork is included.
A 2-CD version of the 50-song collection will also be available.

Order HERE.

On the same day, a 25-song version of 50 Years Of De-Evolution (1973-2023)
will be released as a 2-LP set on black vinyl, and a 2-LP special edition
featuring blue and red vinyl will be available exclusively at retail.

Gerard Casala (vocalist/guitarist): “In the past this information has been suppressed. But now it can be told. Come celebrate 50 years of De-evolution with a mind-blowing, 50th Anniversary box set from Devo.”

Mark Mothersbaugh (keyboardist/producer): “This box set represents a great cross section of early experiments and later creations. I was looking to create a new sound, a concept in art and music that represented a new way of thinking about life on planet earth. With Devo, I think we did just that. Farewell to the first 50, Let’s get the next 50 started!”

DEVO: Discography – Instagram

‘JOCKO HOMO’ by DEVO – 1978

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23 March 2023

Band: DEVO
Active: 1973–1991, 1996–present
Albums: 9 – with Something For Everybody
as the most recent one (2010).

Track/clip: JOCKO HOMO
From their 1978 debut LP
Q. Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!

The song introduced the call-and-response “Are we not men?” / “We are Devo!” and
took its title from a 1924 anti-evolution tract called Jocko Homo Heavenbound
by Bertram Henry Shadduck, where it is explained as meaning ape-man.

In the video, Devo collaborator  Mark Mothersbaugh plays a professor, lecturing
to a class of students in surgical masks, caps, and 3-D glasses. As the song progresses,
the class begins to riot.

Roll the tape.

DEVO: Bio – Discography – Instagram