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Philadelphia, United States
JEFF WINNER is a music & film producer, historian, and researcher. He has written for the Oxford University Press "GROVE DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN MUSIC," the MIT Press anthology "SOUND UNBOUND" (with Chuck D of Public Enemy, Moby, Scanner, and Steve Reich), features in "ELECTRONIC MUSICIAN" magazine, and liner notes for the DVD/CD series "OHM: THE EARLY GURUS OF ELECTRONIC MUSIC" (with Sonic Youth, Bob Moog, John Cage, and Brian Eno). Mr. Winner is also editor/interviewer for "WE ARE DEVO," the band's first biographical book (Firefly Press), and is the Consulting Producer of the forthcoming official Devo documentary film. • Details here: http://JeffWinner.com

Monday, May 4, 2015

45 years ago today, the tragic Kent State shootings took place — watch this exclusive early-edit preview video-clip focusing on DEVO's mysterious origins during the incident on May 4th, 1970: https://vimeo.com/11056614
Here is a rough clip promoting up coming documentary on the band Devo
including the NPR interview.


Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Thursday, August 7, 2014

Rare photo from the archives

Rare shot from the archives, circa 1976. [PHOTO: Bobby Bobbie Watson Whitaker]