The B-52s are back. The iconic 1980s band best known for the songs “Rock Lobster,” “Planet Claire,” “Roam,” and “Love Shack” will join forces with fellow new wavers Devo for the Cosmic De-Evolution ...

Many years ago, a band of hip bohemians was playing for their friends at a house party in Athens, GA. Nobody thought of telling the band that their quirky song about a rock lobster would become a ...

Thirty-five years ago, Athens eccentrics the B-52s experienced one of the greatest, if most bittersweet, against-all-odds comebacks in pop music history. After the 1985 death of guitarist Ricky Wilson ...

B-52s lead singer Fred Schneider could live anywhere in the world, but he chose to make Long Island his home base. "I’m in a small town out east," he said in a phone interview. "It’s beautiful here." ...

They ended their official “Farewell Tour” in Athens in January 2023, but the oft-described “tacky little dance band from Athens, Georgia” is far from retired. In fact, the B-52s are headed back to ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Following a string of sold-out shows since their Las Vegas residency launched in ...

For a band that announced its farewell tour three years ago, the B-52s are bidding quite the extensive goodbye. The self-proclaimed “world’s greatest party band” recently announced that they will be ...

The B-52s and Devo are hitting the road together! On Monday, June 16, The B-52s — who performed the final date of their farewell tour in January 2023 — announced their joint Cosmic De-Evolution Tour ...

What's the first thing you think of when you hear the words "Tin roof, rusted?" If you answered "Love Shack" by the B-52s, pat yourself on the back. That 1989 single, the biggest hit of the B-52s' ...

The B-52s, who made an epic return to the stage at the SNL 50 concert, will perform 11 dates this fall The B-52s are hitting the road for a joint tour with Devo On Monday, June 16, the bands announced ...