Though the set doesn’t include Funplex (released in 2008 on Astralwerks), it still provides new fans with a chance to own all the essential B-52s albums in one place. The vinyl version, limited to ...

The brilliant career of New Wave icons the B-52’s will be chronicled in a lavish new box set, The Warner and Reprise Years, which will bring together the nine albums they recorded for the label from ...

As the B-52s embark on what could be their final tour this September, Pete Crighton reflects on the impact the group had on ...

In an exclusive extract from his new book for Bloomsbury’s 33 1/3, author Pete Crighton explores the backdrop to the making of the Athens, Georgia band’s mainstream breakthrough ...

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 ...

Just now getting into The B-52s? This new wave dance-rock outfit hit the airwaves back in the latter half of the 1970s and has been delivering oddball, danceable, and campy tunes ever since. Even ...

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' ...

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 ...

Two titans of New Wave, the B-52’s and Devo, will team up this fall for the co-headlining Cosmic De-Evolution Tour. Although the B-52’s embarked on a farewell tour three years ago — they’ve since ...