{"id":3001,"date":"2011-08-03T13:08:30","date_gmt":"2011-08-03T20:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=3001"},"modified":"2011-08-03T13:11:57","modified_gmt":"2011-08-03T20:11:57","slug":"devo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/08\/devo\/","title":{"rendered":"DEVO"},"content":{"rendered":"

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DEVO<\/strong><\/h1>\n

De-evolution is real and the future is now <\/strong><\/h2>\n

Devo\u2019s Mark Mothersbaugh\u00a0used to be frustrated that the band was so frequently misunderstood. Today, many of the concepts the group put forth 30 years ago are all too familiar. \u201cWe talked about de-evolution, and people thought we were crazy,\u201d Mothersbaugh says. \u201cWe predicted one day there would be something called Music Television, and our record companies and our managers said, \u2018Why are you wasting money making films of your songs?\u2019 But those things happened. Now if you ask someone if they believe in de-evolution, a large percentage of people will agree with that possibility\u2014or that reality.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though two decades have passed since Devo last made an album, the band\u2019s new disc, Something for Everybody<\/em>, sounds as if the group has never been away. Rife with robotic beats, brittle guitars and squiggly synth lines, the songs are of a piece with the band\u2019s classic 1970s and \u201980s work. Yet the trademark Devo style remains just as contemporary as it was when \u201cWhip It\u201d first hit radio. \u201cEach of us had different ideas about what a new Devo album should sound like,\u201d says Mothersbaugh, referring to fellow members Gerald Casale, Bob Casale, Josh Freese and Mothersbaugh\u2019s brother, Bob. \u201cWe ended up picking the best from both worlds\u2014the old and the new.\u201d<\/p>\n

Until now, Devo had been protective of its music to the point of straining its relationships with producers. \u201cWe felt like none of them understood what we were doing,\u201d says Mothersbaugh. \u201cWe were always reluctant to let them have their way with our music.\u201d For Something for Everybody<\/em>, however, not only did the band let its fans choose the track listing, it also turned the tracks over to several preeminent artists and producers for remixing. \u201cThat idea\u00a0came from the song \u2018Watch Us Work It,\u2019\u00a0which we originally wrote for a Dell commercial,\u201d Mothersbaugh explains.\u00a0\u201cDell\u2019s ad agency asked if we minded if [Swedish band] the Teddybears remixed it, and we told them to go ahead. When we heard the results, we thought, \u2018Wow, the Teddybears made the song sound better than we did.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Devo finally feels it is of its time rather than ahead of its time. Perhaps for that reason, the odds are good the group\u00a0won\u2019t allow 20 years to elapse before\u00a0the next release. \u201cMaking this album has been an enjoyable process, for the most part,\u201d he says. \u201cI could see us repeating\u00a0it soon.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013Russell Hall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DEVO De-evolution is real and the future is now Devo\u2019s Mark Mothersbaugh\u00a0used to be frustrated that the band was so frequently misunderstood. Today, many of the concepts the group put forth 30 years ago are all too familiar. \u201cWe talked about de-evolution, and people thought we were crazy,\u201d Mothersbaugh says. \u201cWe predicted one day there […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[2272,80,10156],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3001"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3001"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3008,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3001\/revisions\/3008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}