The Devo documentary that earned rave reviews at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival will finally get a wide release on Netflix later this summer. It was revealed that the streaming service had acquired the film — succinctly titled Devo — last month, and now a release date has been set …
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Two titans of New Wave, the B-52’s and Devo, will team up this fall for the co-headlining Cosmic De-Evolution Tour. Although the B-52’s embarked on a farewell tour three years ago — they’ve since confined themselves to a Las Vegas residency — the idea of joining the “Whip It” troupe …
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, PJ Harvey and Devo are among the artists who have contributed unreleased recordings to a new compilation for Los Angeles wildfire relief. Jarvis Cocker, Primal Scream, Gary Numan, U.S. Girls, Cave’s side project Grinderman and a one-off supergroup led by Flea …
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In the earliest days of MTV, few songs were more inescapable than Devo’s fractured New Wave classic “Whip It.” With hardly any bands making music videos when MTV launched in 1981, the fledgling network, desperate for content, played the song nearly every hour, turning “Whip It” into one of the …
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David Byrne and Devo have unearthed their decades-old collaboration “Empire” for a new compilation of unreleased songs to benefit abortion access. Noise for Now Vol. 2, due out June 21 to mark the two-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision tooverturnRoe v. Wade, features unreleased songs, demos, and live recordings …
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Faye Webster, the War on Drugs, and David Byrne and Devo have contributed tracks to the second Noise for Now benefit compilation, which will raise money for independent abortion providers across the country via the Keep Our Clinics campaign. The album announcement pointedly coincides with the return of abortion rights …
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There were red flowerpot hats on each of the seats. The “Energy Domes,” as they used to call them, were Devo‘s headgear of choice during the early 1980s, back when the band went from extremely bizarre, unclassifiable group to extremely bizarre, slightly more classifiable (postpunk, New Wave, geek rock) group …
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Sting, Incubus, Devo, and My Morning Jacket will shake the sands of Redondo Beach, California’s waterfront, this spring at the fifth installment of the BeachLife Festival. Other performers include Seal, Dirty Heads, Local Natives, Santigold, Trey Anastasio, Fleet Foxes, ZZ Top, and Courtney Barnett. Tickets for the three-day fest, which …
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Sundance Film Festival 2024 has its bases covered. The 40th edition of the film festival will feature the premiere of Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun‘s post-apocalyptic romance Love Me; Michael John Warren’s evolutionary documentary Lolla: The Story of Lollapalooza; Steven Soderbergh‘s haunted house thriller Presence; and 88 additional films, documentaries, …
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For Foo Fighters‘ ninth time as musical guest on Saturday Night Live, Dave Grohl and company harkened back to what’s now their most viral SNL appearance as Christopher Walken – making his first SNL cameo in 15 years – introduced the band. Walken’s presence was significant as, in a now-viral …
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