DEVO-Hardcore Vol 1 LP Chicago stomping their way through a

stomping their way through a sea of pretenders

Kansas in 1978 and along with a handful of other Midwestern bands

and vocalist Brannon Greene splitting time between Predator and his other projects

John Henry on the low end

It’s not very often I leave my cave these days and let the sun touch my decrepit form

DEVO-Hardcore Vol 1 LP Chicago stomping their way through aDEVOs Hardcore documents the groups beginning as pre punk outcasts in the fertile Akron, Ohio, underground rock scene. Spawned at the nearby college of Kent State, site of the infamous May 4 Massacre, DEVO formed as a conceptual art project armed with the radical philosophy of de evolution. Brothers Mothersbaugh (Mark, Bob and Jim) and Brothers Casale (Jerry and Bob) along with drummer Alan Myers soon whipped up an otherworldly brand of devolved blues