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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kate Pierson is probably best known as a founding member of the B-52s. When the band came on the scene in the late 1970s, they embodied a quirky individuality with their outrageous style, sending the ...