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Duty Now Spuds - Help Fund The Authorized DEVO Documentary Film on Kickstarter!

Fresh off of DEVO’s Facebook page:

We've been working on a DEVO movie with director Tony Pemberton for years and now it's time to get it edited and into the eyes of spuds world wide. This Kickstarter page is an important step to making this film a reality, comrades!

Here is the kickstarter vid.

 

 

Duty Now Spuds! Go to Kickstarter and lets get this thing off the ground http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1409838010/authorized-devo-documentary-film.

More on DEVO here http://clubdevo.com/.

Mark Mosher
Electronic Musician, Boulder CO
www.ModulateThis.com
www.MarkMosherMusic.com

DEVO's New "What We Do" Interactive Video

DEVO has a released a new interactive video for “What We Do”. There are some marketing lessonsto be learned by watching DEVO work social media.

Jump over to Mashable to check the video out.

Instructions from their web site:

“SPUDS: The wait is over! Here's DEVO's new "What We Do" video! View it repeatedly, explore by moving your viewpoint, and see something new each time.”

Mark Mosher
Electronic Music Artist, Boulder/Denver, CO

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DEVO Tour Postponed, Get Well Bob 1, Mark Mothersbaugh and Gerald Casale Will Still Attend Moogfest

Just saw on DEVO’s blog that DEVO has had to postpone the tour due to the fact that Bob Mothersbuagh is injured. From their site:

DEVO deeply regret that they have had to postpone all of their upcoming live dates for 2010 due to a serious hand injury sustained by guitarist Bob Mothersbaugh. A glass shard sliced Mothersbaugh's right thumb to the bone, severing a tendon. He underwent immediate emergency surgery and is expected to make a full recovery after proper care and therapy. Most of DEVO's upcoming November tour dates, including Solana Beach's Belly Up, , Los Angeles' Club Nokia, and San Francisco's Warfield Theater, will be rescheduled for next spring and the public will be informed once new dates have been confirmed. Mark Mothersbaugh and Gerald Casale will still attend Moogfest on October 29th, in Asheville, NC. As previously announced, DEVO have been awarded the first-ever Moog Innovation Award by Moog Music.

You can mail get well cards for Bob1 to:
AMY HUDSON
SPECTACLE ENTERTAINMENT GROUP
Attn: Get Well Bob1!
1100 Glendon Ave., Ste. 1100
Los Angeles, CA 90024

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Mark Mosher
Electronic Musician, Boulder, CO
www.ModulateThis.com
www.MarkMosherMusic.com

DEVO To Receive MOOG INNOVATION AWARD at Moogfest 2010

Moog Music will present DEVO with a very special synthesizer, details of which will be revealed in the coming weeks. Past recipients of the previously titled Moog Award include Keith Emerson, Herb Deutsch, Gershon Kingsley, Jan Hammer and Bernie Worrell.

Update: Here is a photo from Moog's flickr page showing Mark Mothersbaugh recieving the synth. The synth picture, the Moog Voyager XL is also now available for purchase.

 Read more details on Moog’s site…

Duty now,

Mark Mosher
www.MarkMosherMusic.com
www.ModulateThis.com

DEVO VIDEO - Industry Insight and Awesome Behind-The-Scenes Tour

Shockhound.com just posted two awesome video interviews with DEVO. I’m sharing yet another DEVO related post because I think even if your not a DEVO fan you’ll find their perspective on music and the music industry of interest. In the first video, Jerry also relates a first person account of the Kent State massacre. The second video offers a tour of their studio including a discussion of some of the circuit bent toys used on their new album.

If you are a DEVO fan, you’ll really dig these two videos as you’ll get to see Mark and Jerry portrayed in a more conversational light than many of the DEVO “propaganda” vids (don't get me wrong, I love DEVO propaganda).

Video 1

Video 2

Mark Mosher
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DEVO's New Album "Something For Everybody" Has Relased Along with a new Reality Video Series

Hi Spuds,

DEVO’s first album in 20 years “Something for Everybody” dropped today. I just bought the deluxe edition :^). Checkout the live listening party for 20 cats http://www.ustream.tv/devo?loc=interstitialskip

One of my favorite things about DEVO is how they blend social commentary into their art – and of course their heave use of synths! I’ve really been enjoying their current angle which is commentary on consumerism, big corporations, and mega marketing. I think it’s awesome that they went back to Warner Bros. for this release and got them in on the satire.

Here is a brand new video and Episode 1 of of a 5 episode tongue-in-cheek we reality series they just kicked off today - DEVO Makes Something For Everybody - Episode 1. They’ll post new episodes on upcoming Tuesdays.

They’ll also be appearing on the Colbert Report on June 16th.

Lastly, DEVO is starting a big tour to spread the word about devolution.

Duty Now Spuds!

More on DEVO at http://www.clubdevo.com.

Mark Mosher
www.MarkMosherMusic.com
www.ModulateThis.com

Mark Mothersbaugh Interviewed at the 2010 BMI Film/TV Music Awards

Watch embedded video

Mark Mothersbaugh on recent Film, TV, and DEVO projects with a BMI plug at the end.

Enjoy,

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Devo Gearing up for 2010 - Playing Awards Ceremonies at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Whistler, BC February 22nd...

2009 was a pretty big year for DEVO. They re-issued of 'Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!' and  'Freedom Of Choice' and went out on tour to perform both albums in their entirety.

2010 looks to be even bigger. They are wrapping up work on a new album, have a deal with Warner, are poised for a tour in 2010 with Josh Freese (NIN) on drums, will be performing with a “rumored” new look, and have kicked off some fun de-evolution and social commentary.

Upcoming shows include:

• A one hour plus Devo live concert covered by NBC TV at the awards ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Whistler, BC February 22nd. Checkout this Billboard interview with Mark Mothersbaugh on this show.
• Cochella Saturay, April 17th
• A full tour is planned

On Warner Brothers and Corporate Marketing
Is DEVO holding back on their rhetoric now that they are back with Warner Brothers? Thankfully no as evidenced by the blog post by bassist Gerald Casale:

“Spudboys and Spudgirls, what goes around comes around! 30 years of De-evolution finds Devo back together with the label that unleashed them upon the land - Warner Brothers Records! Why now, why WB? Because the hour is getting late. It's now or never and you know it's true. De-evolution is real! It's time for Devo to reclaim their territory now that the world has turned and vindicated their original vision. What better way to celebrate than with the devil you know? As Booji Boy said "We're All Devo"!”

They also are posting some new tongue-in-cheek “Devo Inc.” videos. Here is one on focus group testing.

View embedded video:

DEVO definitely have not lost their sense of humor and it looks like the spud boys are coming back in a big way. I’m looking forward to their electronic music and social commentary mischief!

Links:

• Official Site - http://www.clubdevo.com
• Videos - http://www.youtube.com/devovision
• Devo Tour Reports - http://www.clubdevo.com/tourreports
• Tour - http://www.clubdevo.com/tour
• Devo Obsesso - http://www.devo-obsesso.com/

Mark Mosher
Electronic Music Artist, Composer, Sound Designer
Louisville/Denver/Boulder

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Synth Pioneers DEVO New Song "Watch Us Work It" in Dell Commercial

According to a recent Devo fan clup newsletter:

"DEVO wrote a new song called "Watch Us Work It" and recorded at Mutato Muzika in Los Angeles, CA, and produced by Sweden's famous Teddy Bears. DELL heard it because Paul Malmstrom and Linus Karlsson at the Mother agency in NYC played it for them as a possibility for a song for their TV campaign featuring a newly developed, high-end laptop computer. DELL liked it, and now you can hear this brand new DEVO song when you watch the commercial currently running on nationwide TV.
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The song is now available on iTunes! Download it here.
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See recent article regarding "Watch Us Work It"on Adweek.com "

More info and for links to different versions of this video.

Polysics - For Young Electric Pop Video

I've been getting more and more into the Japanese band Polysics lately. If you are not familiar with them, they are synth driven band that is heavily influenced by DEVO. I've found some pretty great videos of them online. Here is one of them playing live. Their web site is here http://www.polysics.com/. I'll follow up with another post of one of their rock videos.

If you have trouble with the video plug-in, just use this link - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weuUN017rfI