Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Akron band Devo, from left, Mark Mothersbaugh, Bob Mothersbaugh, kneeling, Jerry Casale, Bob Casale and Alan Myers, pose for a ...

New wave legends Devo have been a force since 1973. Several original members are still performing with the group today. A Netflix documentary about the band is now streaming. In the early 1970s, Devo ...

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 ...

Filmmaker Chris Smith's look back at the New Wave band is a mix of commentary, irony, kitschy collages, and oddball optimism — in other words, it's maximum Devo When Casale, Mothersbaugh and his ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - The 48th International Cleveland Film Festival wraps up on Saturday and the whole shebang is bookended, more or less, by two films about famous music bands from Akron. “This is A ...

The film, though thoroughly detailed in its chronology, doesn’t touch on nearly all the Devo members who came and went over the years, but its factual accuracy pales in comparison to the chaotic ...

I came of age in a land of dysfunction, a rural place of oddities and hatred and pickup trucks and cursed sports teams. For so much of my childhood, Northeast Ohio—specifically, the 330—had felt like ...

Together, Devo and Brian Eno created one of the most influential albums in new wave history — yet the pairing was far from ...