NOTE: special thanks to Kenny for sending me this press release.Why is Yer Bunche smiling from ear to ear at the moment? I'll just let this one speak for itself:
DEVO ANNOUNCE NEW STUDIO ALBUM TO DEBUT FALL 2009 SXSW PRESS CONFERENCE AND KEYNOTE PANEL CONFIRMED FOR THURSDAY, MARCH 19 AT
DT: MARCH 10, 2009
FR: LIBBY COFFEY-HENRY/MITCH SCHNEIDER
DEVO
ANNOUNCE NEW STUDIO ALBUM TO DEBUT FALL 2009
SXSW PRESS CONFERENCE AND KEYNOTE PANEL CONFIRMED FOR THURSDAY MARCH 19 AT
ONE-NIGHT-ONLY
SXSW PERFORMANCE
SET FOR FRIDAY, MARCH 20 AT
De-evolution has finally arrived...and who better to guide us through the mess than DEVO.
What the iconic new wave, art punk pioneers cautioned us about almost 30 years ago is no longer a humorous theory. It's pretty much fact--we now live in a devolved world that’s getting wackier each and every day.
The fall of 2009 will bring a new DEVO studio album, their first one since 1990’s Smooth Noodle Maps. It’ll mark their first new music since the strong fan reaction that greeted the 2007 single “Watch Us Work It,” their first new song in 18 years and one that was produced by
The five-piece--featuring co-founders and songwriters MARK MOTHERSBAUGH (lead vocals, synthesizer innovations) and GERALD CASALE (lead vocal, bass) and rounded out by BOB CASALE (guitarist), BOB MOTHERSBAUGH (guitars/vocals) and JOSH FREESE (drums)--are set make a special U.S. appearance at SXSW this year including a press conference (4:00pm) and keynote panel (5:00pm)--moderated by radio veteran Nic Harcourt--set for Thursday, March 19 at the Austin Convention Center (500 East Cesar Chavez St.). They’ll follow that up with a Friday, March 20 one-night-only SXSW concert at the
In May, DEVO will head to the
Formed in 1972 in
Expect more news regarding DEVO soon and catch up with them at:
Current DEVO tour dates are as follows:
DATE CITY VENUE
Wed 3/18
SXSW (one-night-only)
Fri 3/20
Wed 5/6
All Tomorrow’s Parties
Fri 5/8
DEVO full-length album discography:
Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! (1978 Warner Bros.)
Duty Now for the Future (1979 Warner Bros.)
Freedom of Choice (1980 Warner Bros.)
New Traditionalists (1981 Warner Bros.)
Oh, No! It's Devo (1982 Warner Bros.)
Shout (1984 Warner Bros.)
E-Z Listening Disc (1987 Rykodisc)
Total Devo (1988 Enigma)
Now It Can Be Told (Devo at the Palace 12/9/88) (Live album, 1989 Enigma)
Smooth Noodle Maps (1990 Enigma)
For DEVO publicity, contact MSO:
Libby Coffey-Henry
818-380-0400 ext. 224
7 comments:
So, I wonder where this leaves their erstwhile kiddie spin-off group Devo 2.0. ;)
Seriously, cool. It took me a while to get into Devo, but time has certainly been on their side - gods help us all!
As far as I'm aware Devo 2.0 came and went. One album and then nothing.
Say Kids!
Maybe if we all get together and start a letter writing campaign to Disney Records, Devo 2.0 will re-form and bring joy and hope to a strife filled world!
Gee! Wouldnt that be swell?
If you ask me, the artistic point of Devo 2.0 was almost sound, namely taking the whole "de-evolution" thing and mordant humor as something modular that could be handed on to new musicians and guided by the original Devo — specifically Gerry Casale and mark Mothersbaugh — once the real deal got too old, but trying to turn them into viable competition for the likes of Hannah Montana, the Jonas Brothers and the HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL gang was ridiculous. Part of the band's strength was its lyrics and "adult" take on things, so the self-censoring of their songs neutered their mojo. For example taking Gerry's anti-George W. Bush tune "If the Shoe Fits" and completely rewriting its profane vitriol into the innocuous would-be inspirational "The Winner" is downright disingenuous. I keep the album solely as a Devo-related curiosity, although it did get me through some of the worst days at the barbecue joint by virtue of being oddball covers of my favorite band. Come to think of it, I haven't listened to it since, and I left the place two years ago.
And before you go searching your Devo albums for an anti-George Bush tune on albums that came out almost twenty years ago or more, "If the Shoe Fits" can be found on Gerry's solo album, Jihad Gerry and the Evildoers' "MIne Is Not A Holy War." To the best of my knowledge, Devo proper never performed it, but it was definitely heard over the sound system between the opening acts and the main attraction at a Devo show I saw a few years back.
I just found the whole thing absurd... which, of course, it was SUPPOSED to be, at least on Mothersbaugh's end. The idea of some tweenie pop chick singing "Whip It" - on a Disney album, no less - struck me as pretty funny, but not funny enough to buy the album. And no big surprise they changed the title of "Jocko Homo," either! :)
Hey, I just realized, wasn't "Whip It" written in support of Jimmy Carter? Telling a Democratic president to ignore the haytas and show some balls. So right now is the perfect time for that song to come back!
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