In one of many flavorful TV interview excerpts from the band’s prime in Devo, they identify themselves as aliens who have come down to Earth in UFOs with the aim of cultural infiltration. With their red plastic “energy dome” flowerpot helmets and utilitarian uniforms that look like kids’ home-made spacesuits, the group could almost pass for interplanetary messengers, preaching change as an urgent gospel for late 20th century America in rapid regression. As one member says: “We already felt like humans were insane, so for people to be enlightened, something had to happen.”
Anyone familiar with Devo solely through their 1980 monster hit “Whip It,” or even a handful of other heyday bangers like “Beautiful World,” “Working in the Coalmine,” “Girl U Want” or “Freedom of Choice,” will likely find Chris Smith’s propulsive documentary enlightening as well as vigorously entertaining.
At one point after the group’s classic lineup had undergone changes,...
Anyone familiar with Devo solely through their 1980 monster hit “Whip It,” or even a handful of other heyday bangers like “Beautiful World,” “Working in the Coalmine,” “Girl U Want” or “Freedom of Choice,” will likely find Chris Smith’s propulsive documentary enlightening as well as vigorously entertaining.
At one point after the group’s classic lineup had undergone changes,...
- 1/24/2024
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
“This documentary is just to try and get some of the information down on film somewhere, before it’ll scatters away,” admits Devo’s Mark Mothersbaugh of the documentary about the band that premieres at the Sundance Film Festival tonight. “I just like the idea that this information is being collected,” the front man adds.
In a festival full of music documentaries this year on legends like Luther Vandross, Brian Eno and the star studded 1985 recording of “We Are the World,” the Chris Smith directed Devo may hit even a little bit closer to home. After all, the film represents a return to Park City for the band. Back in 1996, Devo was the off-screen closing act of sorts to that year’s Sundance Film Festival. Clad in prison stripes and their trademark Red Energy Dome hats, the “Whip It” band’s performance was even made into a movie of its...
In a festival full of music documentaries this year on legends like Luther Vandross, Brian Eno and the star studded 1985 recording of “We Are the World,” the Chris Smith directed Devo may hit even a little bit closer to home. After all, the film represents a return to Park City for the band. Back in 1996, Devo was the off-screen closing act of sorts to that year’s Sundance Film Festival. Clad in prison stripes and their trademark Red Energy Dome hats, the “Whip It” band’s performance was even made into a movie of its...
- 1/22/2024
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
There has only ever been one Devo — and there will likely never be another. The new wave band best known for their 1980 megahit “Whip It” was born in Akron, Ohio, in 1973, when two sets of brothers — Mark and Bob Mothersbaugh and Gerald and Bob Casale — met at Kent State University and decided to create an art collective.
The name came from the concept of “de-evolution,” a kind of reverse Darwinism that posited, tongue in cheek, that humankind was moving backwards. But then they bore witness to the infamous Kent State Massacre on May 4, 1970, in which Ohio National Guardsmen killed four unarmed student war protesters — pushing Devo into the realm of performances and protest art. Along the way, they created surrealist art videos to accompany their music, including 1976’s short film The Truth About De-Evolution, which became an underground phenomenon, drawing the attention of David Bowie and landing them a record deal at Warner.
The name came from the concept of “de-evolution,” a kind of reverse Darwinism that posited, tongue in cheek, that humankind was moving backwards. But then they bore witness to the infamous Kent State Massacre on May 4, 1970, in which Ohio National Guardsmen killed four unarmed student war protesters — pushing Devo into the realm of performances and protest art. Along the way, they created surrealist art videos to accompany their music, including 1976’s short film The Truth About De-Evolution, which became an underground phenomenon, drawing the attention of David Bowie and landing them a record deal at Warner.
- 1/19/2024
- by Seth Abramovitch
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Before SpongeBob SquarePants and The Fairly OddParents, there was Rugrats.
Alongside fellow “Nicktoons” Doug and The Ren & Stimpy Show, Rugrats premiered Aug. 11, 1991 on Nickelodeon and helped establish an animated storytelling dynasty on the cable network. Created by Arlene Klasky, Gábor Csupó, and Paul Germain, the show was by far the most successful of Nickelodeon’s early offerings and helped set the stage for the Patrick Stars and Timmy Turners to come.
The cartoon followed the daily lives of toddlers Tommy Pickles, Chuckie Finster, and twins Phil and Lil DeVille as they attempted to make sense of the adult world while also indulging in their imaginations for some larger-than-life adventures. Though the children’s parents also featured as secondary characters, Tommy and friends could only communicate with one another in their own unique baby language.
For an audience of a certain age (a.k.a. the geezer writing this), Rugrats...
Alongside fellow “Nicktoons” Doug and The Ren & Stimpy Show, Rugrats premiered Aug. 11, 1991 on Nickelodeon and helped establish an animated storytelling dynasty on the cable network. Created by Arlene Klasky, Gábor Csupó, and Paul Germain, the show was by far the most successful of Nickelodeon’s early offerings and helped set the stage for the Patrick Stars and Timmy Turners to come.
The cartoon followed the daily lives of toddlers Tommy Pickles, Chuckie Finster, and twins Phil and Lil DeVille as they attempted to make sense of the adult world while also indulging in their imaginations for some larger-than-life adventures. Though the children’s parents also featured as secondary characters, Tommy and friends could only communicate with one another in their own unique baby language.
For an audience of a certain age (a.k.a. the geezer writing this), Rugrats...
- 8/24/2023
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
Devo, the rock band best known for 1980 hit “Whip It,” is getting the documentary treatment.
The project marks the first authorized documentary about the band, which featured the classic lineup of Mark and Bob Mothersbaugh, Gerald and Bob Casales and Alan Myers.
Chris Smith, who directed Netflix’s Fyre, about the troubled Fyre Festival, and Tiger King, will helm the doc.
It comes from BMG, Fremantle Documentaries, and Warner Music Entertainment with Vice Studios and Library Films producing in association with Mutato Entertainment.
The untitled doc, which is currently in production, tells the story of the band that formed in Akron, Ohio in 1973, in the wake of the Kent State massacre.
It will feature a mix of archival footage and interviews from other characters in their orbit.
Producers include Anita Greenspan and Chris Holmes for Mutato Entertainment, exec produers are William Kennedy, Stuart Souter, and Kathy Rivkin Daum for BMG,...
The project marks the first authorized documentary about the band, which featured the classic lineup of Mark and Bob Mothersbaugh, Gerald and Bob Casales and Alan Myers.
Chris Smith, who directed Netflix’s Fyre, about the troubled Fyre Festival, and Tiger King, will helm the doc.
It comes from BMG, Fremantle Documentaries, and Warner Music Entertainment with Vice Studios and Library Films producing in association with Mutato Entertainment.
The untitled doc, which is currently in production, tells the story of the band that formed in Akron, Ohio in 1973, in the wake of the Kent State massacre.
It will feature a mix of archival footage and interviews from other characters in their orbit.
Producers include Anita Greenspan and Chris Holmes for Mutato Entertainment, exec produers are William Kennedy, Stuart Souter, and Kathy Rivkin Daum for BMG,...
- 3/22/2023
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Cartoon Network Asia Pacific has named four Australian-made animation projects that will feature in its regional programming line-up in 2016.
Flying Gherkin's non-verbal claymation comedy adventure Bill & Tony and Ludo Studio's Sketchy Show, a comedy that turns real kids' drawings into animated shorts with a cast of coloured-in characters surrounded by insanity, are short-form series commissioned by Cartoon Network.
Rubber House Studios' action/adventure/comedy Lasso & Comet, the tale of a 13-year-old boy with a magic rope and his best friend, a talking comet, has been accepted by Cartoon Network Studios. international shorts program and a short will soon go into production.
Cartoon Network Australia has greenlit a pilot for Monster Beach: The Series, a story about surfing, scary locals and two kids battling to save their new home, from Bogan Entertainment Solutions.
The telemovie by the same name won a 2015 Astra award and Keith Moore won an Apra award as composer of the soundtrack.
Flying Gherkin's non-verbal claymation comedy adventure Bill & Tony and Ludo Studio's Sketchy Show, a comedy that turns real kids' drawings into animated shorts with a cast of coloured-in characters surrounded by insanity, are short-form series commissioned by Cartoon Network.
Rubber House Studios' action/adventure/comedy Lasso & Comet, the tale of a 13-year-old boy with a magic rope and his best friend, a talking comet, has been accepted by Cartoon Network Studios. international shorts program and a short will soon go into production.
Cartoon Network Australia has greenlit a pilot for Monster Beach: The Series, a story about surfing, scary locals and two kids battling to save their new home, from Bogan Entertainment Solutions.
The telemovie by the same name won a 2015 Astra award and Keith Moore won an Apra award as composer of the soundtrack.
- 11/18/2015
- by Staff writer
- IF.com.au
Bob Casale, a founding member of 1970s and ’80s New Wave pioneers Devo, has died, the band confirmed Tuesday on its Facebook page. Casale was from one of Devo’s two sets of brothers, and was known as “Bob 2,” since he played guitar alongside Bob Mothersbaugh, brother of Devo co-founder Mark Mothersbaugh. The band had a lasting radio hit in 1980 with “Whip It,” and extended their careers by designing sound for countless entertainment properties. See photos: Hollywood’s notable deaths of 2014 Gerald Casale and Mark Mothersbaugh started the New Wave band at Kent State University and kept it going in various.
- 2/18/2014
- by Josh Dickey
- The Wrap
Rock icons Blondie and Devo have announced plans for the U.S. co-headlining .Whip It To Shreds. tour - kicking off September 7th and hitting 13 select cities before wrapping September 26th. Debbie Harry, Clem Burke and Chris Stein, along with newer Blondie band members Leigh Foxx, Tommy Kessler and Matt Katz-Bohen, will be playing the acclaimed songs from their most recent album Panic of Girls, as well as the biggest hits from their storied four-decade career. Devo, who released their first studio album in two decades with 2010.s highly praised Something for Everybody and have been touring since, will mix up their set with their newer material and the classics. Original members Mark and Bob Mothersbaugh and Gerald...
- 6/11/2012
- by Patrick Luce
- Monsters and Critics
Everyone can relate to horror stories about bad neighbors. But in 1987, two kids from the Midwest with the punk rock nicknames Eddie Lee Sausage and Mitchell D. did something not everyone would do. Their next door neighbors in a San Francisco apartment complex with paper thin walls were two aging alcoholics named Peter J. Haskett and Raymond Huffman. Peter and Ray liked to stay up all night chugging vodka and beating the crap out of one another, both physically and verbally. After enduring weeks of fights, and trying in vain to beg the men to quiet down, Eddie and Mitchell decided to start recording Peter and Ray surreptitiously, with a microphone they hung on a ski pole and held out their window. Why? They were young, they were bored, and they were curious. Plus, they were compiling useful evidence in case one of these drunks tried to murder one of them or each other.
- 9/14/2011
- by Matt Singer
- ifc.com
Before video and the YouTube viral sensation, there was an audio misadventure. Eddie Lee Sausage and Mitch Deprey explored and created a hilarious and shocking audio commotion.They taped the rambunctious and amusing conversations between their “neighbours”, Raymond and Peter. Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure has now become a video star, this movie has captured the essence of the entertaining audio tapes that inspired a cult following. Check out the trailer below.
Shut Up Little Man!: An Audio Misadventure is directed by Matthew Bate of Closer Productions, and features interviews with Eddie Lee Sausage, Mitchell D, Dan Clowes, Henry Rosenthal, Ivan Brunetti, Mike Mitchell and Bob Mothersbaugh. The film was selected in the World Documentary Films section of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. This American Life featured a lengthy segment in episode 7 from its first season, exploring the topic in the context of quitting.
Synopsis: In 1987, Eddie Lee Sausage and Mitch Deprey,...
Shut Up Little Man!: An Audio Misadventure is directed by Matthew Bate of Closer Productions, and features interviews with Eddie Lee Sausage, Mitchell D, Dan Clowes, Henry Rosenthal, Ivan Brunetti, Mike Mitchell and Bob Mothersbaugh. The film was selected in the World Documentary Films section of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. This American Life featured a lengthy segment in episode 7 from its first season, exploring the topic in the context of quitting.
Synopsis: In 1987, Eddie Lee Sausage and Mitch Deprey,...
- 8/9/2011
- by Kyle Reese
- SoundOnSight
Alternative rock band Devo today announced they will star in the 100th episode of hit animated sci-fi series Futurama.
The episode will see Devo campaign for mutant rights.
The series follows 20th century pizza delivery boy Philip J Fry, who is reawakened in the 31st century and finds work with interplanetary delivery company Planet Express. Other key characters include Leela, the one-eyed captain of a delivery ship, and the eccentric robot Bender.
Leela's parents are second-class, mutant citizens who live underground in the sewers and, in their guest spot, the members of Devo have mutated over the years. Vocalist Mark Mothersbaugh helps Leela's parents with their campaign for equality.
The appearance comes as the band gear up for the their first album in 20 years, Something for Everybody, featuring the single Fresh. It's released by Warner Bros Records on June 14 in the UK (June 15 in the Us).
The long-rumoured album (launched...
The episode will see Devo campaign for mutant rights.
The series follows 20th century pizza delivery boy Philip J Fry, who is reawakened in the 31st century and finds work with interplanetary delivery company Planet Express. Other key characters include Leela, the one-eyed captain of a delivery ship, and the eccentric robot Bender.
Leela's parents are second-class, mutant citizens who live underground in the sewers and, in their guest spot, the members of Devo have mutated over the years. Vocalist Mark Mothersbaugh helps Leela's parents with their campaign for equality.
The appearance comes as the band gear up for the their first album in 20 years, Something for Everybody, featuring the single Fresh. It's released by Warner Bros Records on June 14 in the UK (June 15 in the Us).
The long-rumoured album (launched...
- 6/7/2010
- by David Bentley
- The Geek Files
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