1979

January

 * 3rd: DEVO perform live at The Mary Seaton Room, Kleinhans Music Hall, Buffalo, NY
 * 4th: DEVO perform at The Akron Civic Theatre, Akron, OH
 * 5th: DEVO perform at The Detroit Music Hall, Detroit, MI
 * 6th: DEVO perform at Park West, Chicago, IL
 * 10th: DEVO perform at Paramount Theatre, Portland, OR
 * 11th: DEVO perform at Paramount Northwest Theatre, Seattle, WA
 * 12th: DEVO perform at Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
 * 21st: Direct News - Week Of 1/22 - 1/26/79 is released.

February

 * DEVO continue recording Duty Now For The Future at Chateau Recorders, Hollywood.

March

 * 16th: Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! / Flimsy Wrap is released.

April

 * 20th: Rock 'N' Roll High School is released

May

 * 22nd: Devo perform at The Festival Hall, Osaka, Japan, opening their Duty Now For The Future tour.
 * 23rd: Devo perform at The Ohtemon Hall, Fukuoka, Japan
 * 28th: Devo perform at The Nippon Budokan Hall, Tokyo, Japan. This show is broadcast on Japanese television.

June

 * 2nd: Devo perform at Campus Center Ballroom, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI
 * 21st: Devo perform at Max Bell Arena, Calgary, AB, Canada
 * 22nd: Devo perform at S.U.B. Theatre, University Of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
 * 24th: Devo perform at Pacific National Exhibition Gardens, Vancouver, BC, Canada
 * 25th: Devo perform at The Place Tavern, Seattle, WA
 * 27th: Devo perform at The Warner Theatre, Fresno, CA
 * 28th: Devo perform at Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, Santa Cruz, CA
 * 29th: Devo perform at Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, CA
 * The Secret Agent Man / The Day My Baby Gave Me A Surprize single is released in Japan. The June 1979 Preview Pack is also released.

July

 * 1st: Duty Now For The Future is released. On this same date, Devo perform at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, CA
 * 4th: Devo perform at Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, CA
 * 6th: Devo perform at Rainbow Music Hall, Denver, CO
 * 7th: Devo perform at Lawrence Opera House, Lawrence, KS
 * 8th: Devo perform at The Music Box, Omaha, NE
 * 11th: Devo perform at Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, MN
 * 13th: Devo perform at Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, IL
 * 14th: Devo perform at Masonic Auditorium, Detroit, MI
 * 15th: Devo perform at Shea's Buffalo Theatre, Buffalo, NY
 * 16th: Devo perform at Rex Danforth Theatre, Toronto, ON, Canada
 * 18th: Devo perform at Triangle Theater, Rochester, NY
 * 19th: Devo perform at Walsh Center, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI
 * 20th: Devo perform at Orpheum Theatre, Boston, MA
 * 21st: Devo perform at The Palladium, New York, NY
 * 23rd: Devo perform at Tower Theater, Upper Darby, PA
 * 24th: Devo perform at Washington, DC
 * 25th: Devo perform at The Mosque, Richmond, VA
 * 26th: Devo perform at Aycock Auditorium, University Of North Carolina Greensboro, Greensboro, NC
 * 27th: Devo perform at Agora Ballroom, Atlanta, GA
 * 31st: Devo perform at Texas Opry House, Houston, TX

August

 * 2nd: Devo perform at Armadillo World Headquarters, Austin, TX
 * 3rd: Secret Agent Man / Soo Bawlz is released. Devo perform at The Palladium, Dallas, TX.
 * 4th: Devo perform at The Palladium, Dallas, TX
 * 25th: Devo perform at San Diego State University Open Air Theatre, San Diego, CA
 * 26th: Devo perform at Campbell Hall, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA

September

 * 22nd: Dove The Band of Love debut at the New-No-Now-Wave Festival in Minneapolis, MN.

October

 * 2nd: Devo appear on Don Kirshner's Rock Concert, performing an abridged version of their Duty Now For The Future stage show.
 * 13th: Devo appear on Rockpop, in Unterföhring, Germany, miming to 'The Day My Baby Gave Me a Surprise. '

December

 * What's It All About? is released.
 * 28th: Devo perform at Berkeley Community Theater, Berkeley, CA.
 * 29th: Devo perform at Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, Santa Cruz, CA
 * 31st: Devo perform at Long Beach Arena, Long Beach, CA

Releases

 * Satisfaction (I Can't Get Me No) / Gut Feeling
 * Duty Now For The Future
 * (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction / Secret Agent Man
 * Secret Agent Man / The Day My Baby Gave Me A Surprize
 * Secret Agent Man / Red Eye
 * Secret Agent Man / Soo Bawlz
 * The Day My Baby Gave Me A Surprise / Penetration In The Centrefold
 * The Men Who Make The Music
 * The Day My Baby Gave Me A Surprize EP

Various Artist Compilations

 * Direct News - Week Of 1/22 - 1/26/79
 * Preview Pack June 1979
 * What's It All About?
 * Pumping Vinyl
 * Oversell
 * New Wave (Wer Hat Angst Vor Den 80er Jahren?)

Re-Issues

 * Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
 * Be Stiff / Social Fools
 * ディーヴォ B Stiff = ビー・スティッフ