Devo – MRQE

Devo: Live (V)

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The film details an entire live performance from Devo’s 1996 reunion tour with Lollapalooza, opening for Metallica. The band performs a stripped down set consisting of songs from their first three albums. – from Wikipedia Devo Live contains an entire performance from their 1996 reunion tour with Lollapalooza, filmed at Irvine Meadows, California. – also from Wikipedia

Devo: Live 1980 (V)

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

“This lone video artifact offers indisputable evidence that in 1980 Devo had reached a turning point. We were no longer just art monsters, we were mainstream performers too. ” – Gerald V. Casale (from the back of the DVD case) August 17, 1980 Phoenix Theater, Petaluma

Devo: The Men Who Make the Music (V)

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Part concert film, music video collection, and propaganda piece, The Men Who Make the Music was DEVO’s first home video release. Features live footage from the band’s 1978 “Duty Now for the Future” tour.

Devo: Live in the Land of the Rising Sun (V)

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

New wave geniuses who helped define an era with their quirky, futuristic, and revolutionary style are back, entertaining the Japanese crowds who love them as much today as they did 25 years ago. Devo have been through a lot over the years, developing their parody of humankind’s plight of conformity in their theory of devolution after member Gerald Casale witnessed the Kent State killings of student protesters in 1970, but they haven’t wavered in their innovative sounds and pioneering visuals.

Urgh! A Music War

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Urgh! A Music War is a British film released in 1982 featuring performances by punk rock, new wave, and post-punk acts, filmed in 1980. Among the artists featured in the movie are Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD), Magazine, The Go-Go’s, Toyah Willcox, The Fleshtones, Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, X, XTC, Devo, The Cramps, Oingo Boingo, Dead Kennedys, Gary Numan, Klaus Nomi, Wall of Voodoo, Pere Ubu, Steel Pulse, Surf Punks, 999, UB40, Echo & the Bunnymen and The Police. These were many of the most popular groups on the New Wave scene; in keeping with the spirit of the scene, the film also features several less famous acts, and one completely obscure group, Invisible Sex, in what appears to be their only public performance.