Devo frontman Mark Mothersbaugh spent 18 days at L.A.’s Cedar-Sinai hospital battling Covid-19 in June, he revealed in a harrowing interview with the Los Angeles Times. Mothersbaugh thinks he may have contracted the virus in late May while working near strangers at Mutato, his music production company. He dismissed early …
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This year’s best music books offers a mix of fascinating memoir, adventurous criticism and rich historical investigation. Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968,Ryan H. Walsh Van Morrison‘s1968 LP Astral Weeks was a landmark fusion of jazz, folk, rock and meditative soul. But its creation is as mysterious as the …
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By the time Devo rubbed their sweaty mitts all over the Rolling Stones’ “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction,” it had already been covered by everyone from soul singer Otis Redding to the singing eyeballs in the Residents. Devo‘s take on the song was rigid, mechanical and otherworldly – perhaps less …
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