'Capitalism is dead and we're all going down'

New wave oddballs Devo used to warn that consumerism was crumbling. Now they're back to say we told you so. Pat Long tips his funny hatOf the items on the list of Things That Were Big In The 1980s – apartheid, the very real threat of impending nuclear annihilation, Spandau Ballet – few are really worthy of revival in 2009. One bold exception is Devo, the oddball art-punk nerds distinguished by a too-clever-for-their-own-good sense of humour and herky-jerky songs about sex, mutation...

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