Think “Devo,” and you probably think about the “Whip It” music video with its snapping leather whip and bright red “flower pot” hats. But there’s much more to the Ohio art-rock band than that iconic ...

NEW YORK — You know the band Devo, right? The guys with the funny red plastic hats and jumpsuits? The New Wave musicians behind the silly “Whip It” video? They had that odd, spiky '80s vibe? Well, it ...

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Roy Orbison’s “Oh, Pretty Woman” became one of the most famous classic rock songs of the 1960s. Subsequently, it inspired Devo’s “Whip It,” one of the most famous new wave songs from the 1980s. In ...

Cops in Columbus, Ohio, released a video of a TV being stolen from a women’s apartment, noting that she had been listening to Devo’s 1980 classic “Whip It” so loudly that she hadn’t realized her home ...

NEW YORK (AP) — You know the band Devo, right? The guys with the funny red plastic hats and jumpsuits? The New Wave musicians behind the silly “Whip It” video? They had that odd, spiky ’80s vibe? Well ...