Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Forty years ago this month, American art-rock band Devo released their breakthrough record, “Freedom Of Choice.” The album not ...

At the dawn of 1980, Devo found itself facing an uncertain future. Although they had developed a rabid cult following for their radical reinvention of rock and roll on their first two albums, they ...

During their late-’70s and early ’80s heyday, Devo managed to be both extreme and mainstream: The Akron, Ohio quintet’s 1978 debut LP Q: Are We Not Men? We Are Devo remains one of the most lyrically ...

The newest volume in Bloomsbury’s 33 1/3 series of books about important albums is on Devo‘s 1980 mainstream breakthrough Freedom of Choice, written by Evie Nagy, a staff writer at Fast Company. While ...

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In an excerpt from her new book, Evie Nagy describes how the new wave pioneers fought corporate control with Freedom of Choice. If, in the coming battle with mechanical corporate authoritarianism, ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – In a world perpetually gone mad, DEVO always made perfect sense. With their herky-jerky rhythms, dystopian humor and matching energy dome helmets, the Akron art-punks reprogrammed ...

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 ...

Forty years ago this month, American art-rock band Devo released their breakthrough record, “Freedom Of Choice.” The album not only spawned the new wave smash “Whip It,” but the full-length still ...