When we — most of us, anyway — first saw Devo back in the late 70s, we (most of us, anyway) didn’t know what to make of these guys in their yellow suits, upside-down energy domes and kinetic song arrangements. And we certainly didn’t expect to be talking about the band five decades later.

Well, guess what…

Devo — hailing from Akron, Ohio — remains a revered and still-relevant rock outfit, its music considered arty and forward-thinking and its once confusing socio-political message of societal de-evolution strangely prescient, especially now. Songs such as “Whip It,” “Girl U Want,” “Jocko Homo,” “Freedom of Choice and its jagged cover of the Rolling Stones’ “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” sound as fresh and provocative now as they did decades ago. And its theatricality only adds to the in

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