- THE ENERGY DOME For increased mental performance.
At Chop Suey’s Devo Cover Night this Friday, December 6, multiple acts will pay tribute to the band known for its vastly weird, squeakily instrumented, discordantly rhythmed, robot-soaked, post-punk musical happenings, whose members dressed in costumes so ridiculous, they looked like sci-fi figurines. TV & the Deevs frontman TV Coahran will wear a factory-issued industrial-gray jumpsuit and clear plastic face-mask ensemble, inspired by the “Secret Agent Man” video. According to a 1995 YouTube interview with Devo founder Gerald Casale, the original outfit’s components were culled from Akron, Ohio’s toy stores and janitorial-supply companies, which only richens the glamour.
Another vivid music-video moment involves a french fry suggestively penetrating a glazed doughnut…
