Echoes Podcast: Devo-The Complete Interview

PRX: Echoes Interview Podcast · Oct 18, 2023 · 1h 4m

Devo Turns 50. Hear Their Previously Unreleased 1987 Interview

They haven’t recorded anything new in over a decade, and nothing for twenty years before that. Their most consequential body of work was at the turn of the 1980s where they presaged New Wave music. But Devo remains a singularly unique entity. There is no one like them and their influence has been broad and deep . Their music is laced with irony and social commentary, married to a mechanized music aesthetic and a dadaesque visual aesthetic. Emerging out of Kent State University in Ohio, they found their identity after the massacre…