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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mark Mothersbaugh cracking a whip in the ‘Whip It’ video. (Courtesy of Netflix) Somewhere deep in the archives of the lime-green, ...

Early on in “Devo,” director Chris Smith’s documentary about the titular iconic band, we are given some background about their origin. Specifically, as the members of the group have said before, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

PARK CITY, Utah, Jan. 23 (UPI) --The documentary Devo, which screened Monday at the Sundance Film Festival, tells the story of the band's formation and success. Along the way, it explains the band's ...

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History is written by the winners, as the quote goes, but what happens when the losers out to be right? The music world will find out when the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame announces its Class of 2022, and ...

Somewhere deep in the archives of the lime-green, forum-shaped headquarters of Mutato Muzika, Mark Mothersbaugh is digging up the distant past. The building houses his music production company on the ...

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 ...

A counterculture legacy Rock has always needed bands like Devo, a corrective to the corporate machine. You can see an echo of Devo when M.I.A. raised her middle finger during the Super Bowl halftime ...