Devo

New-wave group popular throughout the late 1970s and early 1980s, formed by a group of art students at Kent State University, principally Mark Mothersbaugh and Jerry Casale. Their name comes from the central concept of "de-evolution" - the idea that mankind is devolving instead of evolving. Devo was formed in 1973 as 'Sextet Devo,' a division of the arts collective Art Devo.