Q: Are We Not Overdue? A: We Are DEVO

DEVO, a band that quirked as much as they cranked, have been around. A long time. Lately in the news for protecting their trademark flower pot headpiece energy domes ( no, really) and lead singer Mark Mothersbaugh’s art world exploits, the band has again decided music would be the way to go to get famous. Something for Everybody released last week offers 12 new . The vinyl version will be released July 20.

Or something. This is 20 years after their last album of new music and 30 years (OK, 32 to be exact) after their seminal release, Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are DEVO

A three-song EP released in April, Song Study got fans juicy again for the idea of “DEVO” and “new.” Songs, “Fresh,” “What We Do” and “Song Study” (this one not on the new CD) offer the same clinical crunch and strive for soullessness – with a touch of humor, increased primarily by those energy domes to be honest. Listen freely to “Fresh” in its entirety at ClubDevo – and some of the band’s greatest hits, too.

DEVO also continues to tour, with the latest waltz around the country continuing at Hollywood Park** in Inglewood, Calif. They’re even going to hit Arizona’s Fall Frenzy three-day concert in September (along with Blue October, Dirty Heads, Primus, Sublime, Weezer, and others).

The band – archetypes and marketeers of the societal de-volution concept, have always strained the concept of music, eliciting extreme reactions to their music, their facade and their dour approach to the herd mentality of societies.

The big question, of course, Q: Has their music evolved or regressed somehow into better? A: ______?

** A strange – of course – place to play. Hollywood Park is a racetrack and they’ll play immediately following the conclusion of the day’s racing.